佛光山的学习感想

在机缘巧合中，我参加了佛光山2012年8月的短期出家。有人说，“出家” 就是把心带 回家。当时，我根本不懂它的意思，只想体验僧团的平静生活。其实僧团生活是过得很充实的，就是懂得活得简单，活在当下。一点也不浪费宝贵的生命，时间。

很多人打了一辈子工，每天忙忙碌碌，也不知道为了什么。糊里糊涂就这样过了一生。在被社会的一把尺，以富裕来衡量时，我看见富裕的人不一定快乐，贫穷的人也不一定不会可怜。在佛的面前，人人平等，没有所谓的贵贱，没有分别心，每个人都可以成佛。从佛法里，了解快乐的定意在于懂得知足，取舍。

我开始问我自己的生命价值在哪里？让我再一次领悟到生命的价值不在于我到底富不富有，而是我的生命价值观。

我很感恩能接近善知识，因为它让我清楚的知道我的生命价值观到底是否正确。有多位的师父的引导，我的心也踏实了很多。有一位师父问，“你有每天观自己的心吗?” 这才让我庞然大悟！以前我把习惯当作理所当然，原来好的习惯是让我建立基本功夫。有了好习惯，做事情也顺心了许多。原来要改坏习惯，还真要，每天自己的叮咛，才可以慢慢的把坏习惯改掉。有心要改，一定行！

虽然只见星云大师一面，他的智慧让我受益。在短期出家的开式中，他和我们分享我们要学习 “无的生活”。他说无的空间很大，无里又富有。我一直在思考，领悟到因为没有才有更多创造空间。就联想到像佛光山一样从无到有，现在的伟大成果，也是因为星云大师和师父们一点一滴慢慢累积成的。这是多么有智慧的一句话啊！

另一句话，他说，“做自己的贵人”。我想每个人都有自己的明灯照亮自己的路，只要靠自己的努力，信心，多看，多听，多学，多问，有正知正见一定能做出成绩来的。我要用我的心来感受世界，我要用我的智慧来帮助，关怀身边的人。

不只是跟星云大师学习，佛光山的师父都是我学习的好榜样。导师再怎么好，心净还是要靠自己。每天与佛相应，这次真的把心带回家了。谢谢这一路来的教导，真的获益良多。祝福大家，感恩！

Connection with Vegetarism

Last Thursday, I attend my dharma teacher's talk about Vegetarism. There are some gluesome scenes shown on now the animals are badly treated and slaughtered. I wrote some feedback to my teacher and he asked me if I ever see animals that are not killed in a brutely way for food consumption? I was speechless.

Everyday I have been praying for the well beings of all beings. How can all beings be truly happy when I am eating some of them? It does sets me to think that perhaps we are doing more harm than good by being a meat eater.

I went to the website of the Vegan Society, it is the websites that promote Vegetarism. I love the clips of the videos shows how Vegan can be living more healthy and be more compassion as know that no animals are being killed for them. I can start a Vegan Day for myself every week.

There are some of the thoughts by the Vegans. I think it is really inspiring.



All the videos are found here for viewing.

Present Moment

This morning I recieved a very wise quote from a friend. Although she is non Buddhist, she gave me a quote said by the Buddha. Was very thankful for my friend to send me this quote. Perhaps the Buddha knows that I am having some emotional feeling yesterday and gave this quote to my friend to forward it to me. Haha :D

Somehow or rather, I felt much better after recieving this quote. It reminds me of to seriously moving on and stop dwelling on the past as it is history. The past no longer comes back. Every sec will become a history sec by sec. Every future sec will become every present sec. Thus, each moment is very important and precious.

The future will only happen when I am able to take action on the present moment. It is no longer important what will be in the future. Every future is the present. It is important and precious about what is going on in this present moment.

I feel consoled and warmed after understand the meaning of this quote. It really helps and I slowly learn to love myself, my loving parents, my dear sis, my dear friends. As I progress spiritually, I do hope that my loving kindness can radiate to more people in my life so that more people are benefit to this loving kindness. I guess I will need to practise more diligently so that more people can benefit from it. I also do hope that one day I will be able to meet the Amitaba Buddha because I have a lot of questions to ask him.

May I be well and happy and may others be well and happy.

爱情真心的领悟

啊，多么痛得领悟，你曾是我的全部！



这歌词是来自辛晓琪的这首歌的领悟。曾经抱着重重的爱情包袱，今天我终于觉得自己已经放下来了。扛了１０多年的包袱也该是时候放下了。回想起来我到低在执著着什么？

我想应该是我根本都放不下。明知道很痛，已经是过去事了，却不肯放手，还在根根于怀。就不知不觉地把伤痛给了另一段感情。就这样，每一段感情都不可能有幸福的一天，因为我根本都不想放下第一段感情。

就算再好的男生在我面前，我一直在惩罚我自己，我还是一直觉得不会有好的结果。因为我已经判爱情死刑了，怎么会有好的结果呢？

幸好老师今天让我领悟到一个道理。每一颗感情都有始有终。不需要太直著，只要真心地对待他，就算有一天会离开，也不需要太伤心。因为我曾经真心真意的爱过他，也就足够了。

今天想祝福我曾经爱的人和爱我的人。大家就为自己眼前的幸福，好好的经营吧，祝福你们幸福和快乐。:)

别再为爱受苦！