環境之所以能夠影響你,是因為你願意受它影響!★對於每一個想要創造豐足生命的人來說,《所有境遇都有福報》都是極為推薦的書,因為詹姆斯•艾倫提醒了我們喜悅、豐足、成功與幸福的最重要本質。★影響日本「經營之聖」稻盛和夫一輩子的人生哲學之父★美國前總統歐巴馬、美國前國務卿萊斯、英國前首相卡梅倫都是詹姆斯.艾倫的忠實讀者★戴爾•卡內基、拿破崙•希爾等成功學大師的引路人★20世紀文壇最具神祕色彩的心靈撫慰作家,影響逾1000萬人,其作品已翻譯逾43種語言「詹姆斯.艾倫教導我,人類『心靈的管理』是多麼的重要!」──稻盛和夫最難的勝利是戰勝自我,但戰勝自我能使你在生活各方面都得勝。人類文壇上最閃亮的鑽石之一、人生哲學之父──詹姆斯.艾倫在《所有境遇都有福報》裡向我們揭示:苦與樂、天堂與地獄,都是我們內心的狀態,取決於我們完善自己的程度。所以,絕對不要讓競爭、惡果動搖你對正直、慷慨、仁愛的堅持,並相信宇宙間那隨時可能出手的神聖力量,如此,現階段的損失才會變成收獲、降臨身上的災厄才能化為福報。逆境是自我創造的一時陰影,為的是讓你有機會變得更好!「災厄之所以降臨在你的身上,是因為那是你應得的,也是你所需要的。」人生中難免不順心,有的甚至讓人對生命感到無能為力,但這些壞事並非真的來自外在,它是存在你內心的一個經驗,只要耐心檢視並匡正你的心,就能夠發現──這些不如意源自你對「事物的本質和關係」的無知,換句換說,你會遭遇到這些事,是為了要讓你學習。你或許會因而悲傷、痛苦和不幸,但你要意識到這是暫時的,這些事件和感受都是為了讓你得到教訓,你若有接受磨練的準備、若能抱持學習的心,就能從中學到自己的生命功課並得到智慧,進而有能力將壞事轉為好事──這是創造豐足生命必不可少的能力。一切唯心造,你的內在狀態才是最重要的!「人生命中所發生的各種事件──無論好壞,都是被他思想的品質和力量吸引而來的。」如果你快樂,是因為你懷著快樂的想法;如果你過得不幸,是因為你懷著沮喪、頹廢的想法──你內心所隱藏的想法是什麼樣子,你的真我就是什麼樣子,你周遭的世界也都會表現出你的思想所塑造成的模樣。當然,你是有可能受到外境的影響,但那是因為你相信外在的事物有力量讓你的生活變好或變壞,這種想法會讓你屈服於外在事物,並賦予外在事物它們原本沒有的力量。每一個境遇都是你自己造成的,征服自己就可以征服宇宙!「不要老是覺得別人在傷害你或欺壓你……真正傷害你的,只不過是你內心的想法。」所有令你痛苦的逆境,都是因為你違反正義、和諧與愛的宇宙法則──我們是強大或軟弱、所有的幸與不幸,都源自我們的內心。逆境是我們愈來愈好所必經的鍛鍊,認識到這點,你就不會老是發愁和抱怨,而是努力讓自己配得上更好的環境和機會!所謂的壞事,那個「壞」其實存在於你心中。不過,就算你過去有些錯誤的想法和作為有待解決與彌補,沒有關係,因為你人生中的每一時刻都會有一些新想法和新作為,而你有能力決定其好壞。因此,就算因為自己所造之惡業而遭逢逆境、不幸,也絕對不要因而喪失你對真理的堅持,因為它們將是你重獲財富、力量與幸福的憑藉。人若能充分駕馭自己,便能得著世界所有智慧!「唯有安詳平靜的心靈才能把事情看得清楚,也才能做出正確的判斷。」一個人只要心情平靜、意念集中,再大的困難都可以解決。你會對外境感到害怕、憂慮、懷疑,是因為你並未真正相信永恆的正義、全能的善和無盡的愛,也沒有真正意識到思想的強大力量,這樣的心理狀態會瓦解正向的思維和情緒,那是很要命的!因此,每天至少花一個鐘頭好好靜下來,冥想讓你愉悅、幸福的事或生命、宇宙的真理,這不只能解決負面心理狀態,還能喚醒你的內在之光──直覺,讓你的判斷力和洞察力大大增強,使你處於安穩、沉著和充滿力量的狀態,篤定且有信心地在光明中前進。你會開始體會到戰勝自我的喜悅和力量,並且發現──宇宙間的所有力量都在協助、保護著你。只要你能充分的駕馭好自己,學到境遇的生命功課,宇宙間的所有力量都會保護你!
作者介紹
作者簡介詹姆斯•艾倫 James Allen(1864.11.28~1912.01.24)詹姆斯.艾倫是一位哲學思想家、神祕傳奇作家,是英國新時代運動思潮的先驅之一,也是一位失落的覺悟者。他很喜歡莎士比亞、約翰.彌爾頓、拉爾夫.沃爾多.愛默生、《聖經》、佛陀、華特.惠特曼和老子等人的作品,並奉托爾斯泰為其心靈導師。詹姆斯.艾倫的文字優美而睿智,乍看淺白易懂,細細體會卻充滿著智慧,他最著名的作品《你的思想決定業力》自1903年出版以來,鼓舞啟發了數千萬人,成為歷久不衰的暢銷書籍。
Taiwan went through an intense period of social change in 1949. The island's politics, economy, ethnicity …… had undergone considerable change. In response this period of tumultuous change, Master Dong Chu founded the "Humanity" magazine to help people cope.
Seventy years later, "Humanity" had weathered being shelved, relaunched and redesigned. It still continues to publish topics that help people cope with the changes in today's world monthly. As "Humanity" approaches its 70th anniversary, it is encountering a different kind of changing world. 27 June 2018, with the aim of sharing the diversity of spiritual practices, we invited dharma masters from different traditions to share the compassion and wisdom of Buddhadharma. The full texts of the keynote speeches and panels are included in this special issue of " Awakening in the Global Buddhist Village".
"Humanity's" guiding teacher, Master Sheng Yen, dedicated his life to bringing Chinese Chan Buddhism to the West. Many Westerners who became his students twenty to thirty years ago continue to follow his footsteps, engage in self cultivation and teaching, establish centers and transmit the lineage. How did they discover Chan Buddhism and how did they find their teacher, Master Sheng Yen? These stories of the teacher and the student are very inspirational.
In the twenty first century, on this 70th anniversary of "Humanity" magazine, Buddhism has spread around the world resembling a global Buddhist village. From the United States of America, Bhikkhu Bodhi described his process of transformation from a traditional monastic to that of a social advocator because he witnessed the oppression of human beings caused by the current social systems; to Italy's Bhikkhun? Dhammadinn? who shared about her journey of how she went from learning dancing to engaging in Buddhist research and ultimately to becoming a female monastic.
Contributing to the world in our capacity of Chinese Chan Buddhism, "Humanity"70 along with the Buddhist Dharma family all over the world and our friends on the same path, let us "Awaken in the Global Buddhist Village"!
About the Humanity magazine
Founded in 1949, Humanity magazine was the first Buddhist magazine published and released in Taiwan. Founded by Ven. Dong Chu and later continued by his disciple Master Sheng Yen, it has been one of the most influential magazines in Taiwan’s Buddhist circles.
Humanity magazine concerns itself about contemporary development of Buddhism, and puts an emphasis on the uplifting of people’s minds and spiritual lives. Each month’s topic not only touches upon various social phenomena, but also explores from Buddhist concepts to worldly studies, to encourage readers to search their inner beings and incorporate Buddhist practice into their daily lives. For cover and layout design, the magazine has invited outstanding illustrators to help render an elegant yet fun style, thus through pages allowing readers to slow down and find a space for spiritual relaxation, self-transformation, and the enjoyment of purity and freedom by applying the Dharma in life.
The magazine had been discontinued for a while due to Master Sheng Yen’s solitary retreat practice. When it was reissued in 1982, as an encouragement, he wrote:
Seek progress in the ordinary life and see the glory of life in hardship.
Seek development in harmony and see the hope in the hard work.
Seek abundance in peace and calm and see the solemness in the training.
Seek wisdom in silence and see the compassionate aspiration in the proactive commitment.
In the future, the Humanity magazine will continue to uphold Master Sheng Yen’s encouragements and expectations, to keep on sharing Buddhist wisdom and compassion, to help bring brightness and hope to the world.
這是一本適合初學者、著重閱讀的巴利語語法入門教材。讀本選自巴利上座部經藏,包含長行和偈頌。內容包含十二課,每課包含三部分:一、基礎讀本與字彙,二、文法解釋,三、進階閱讀。讀本的安排,由易而難,各自獨立且饒富深義與趣味,配合相關的文法解釋,不僅提供循序漸進的語法教學,同時傳達巴利語佛典所蘊含的早期佛教思想,實是進入巴利佛典的語言與思想世界,不可多得的入門好書。自出版以來,廣受巴利語學習者好評,已為許多巴利語文法課程的入門教材。
●作者簡介:
James W. Gair
美國康乃爾大學(Cornell University)語言學系榮譽退休教授。W.S. Karunatillake,斯里蘭卡凱拉尼亞大學(Kelaniya University)語言學系教授。兩人自1965年便共同合作研究錫蘭語和南亞語言,直到2012年Karunatillake教授去世為止。
●譯者簡介:
溫宗堃
澳洲昆士蘭大學(The University of Queensland)宗教研究博士,現任法鼓文理學院助理教授暨語言與翻譯中心主任。研究興趣為巴利佛教、初期佛教、正念的理論與應用。譯有多本上座部內觀禪修與正念應用之書籍。
Chan is not necessarily any one thing, nor does Chan affirm or deny anything. However, whatever you need, Chan gives to you.
For regular meditators, this book provides basic sitting meditation techniques. Exceptionally busy people are advised to try and use the Chan cultivation methods in this book to harmonize themselves, and dissolve their attachment to "self." From relaxing the body and mind for as little as three minutes to attending to body and mind throughout daily life, these methods show the simplicity and practicality of expedient Chan methods.--Master Sheng Yen
●作者簡介:
Master Sheng Yen (1930-2009)
聖嚴法師1930年生於江蘇南通,1943年於狼山出家,後因戰亂投身軍旅,十年後再次披剃出家。曾於高雄美濃閉關六年,隨後留學日本,獲立正大學文學博士學位。1975年應邀赴美弘法。1989年創建法鼓山,並於2005年開創繼起漢傳禪佛教的「中華禪法鼓宗」。
聖嚴法師是一位思想家、作家暨國際知名禪師,曾獲臺灣《天下》雜誌遴選為「四百年來臺灣最具影響力的五十位人士」之一。著作豐富,中、英、日文著作達百餘種,先後獲頒中山文藝獎、中山學術獎、總統文化獎及社會各界的諸多獎項。
聖嚴法師提出「提昇人的品質,建設人間淨土」的理念,主張以大學院、大普化、大關懷三大教育推動全面教育,相繼創辦中華佛學研究所、法鼓佛教學院、僧伽大學、法鼓大學等院校,也以豐富的禪修經驗、正信的佛法觀念和方法指導東、西方人士修行。
法師著重以現代人的語言和觀點普傳佛法,陸續提出「心靈環保」、「四種環保」、「心五四運動」、「心六倫」等社會運動,並積極推展國際弘化工作,參與國際性會談,促進宗教交流,提倡建立全球性倫理,致力世界和平。其寬闊胸襟與國際化視野,深獲海內外肯定。
Master Sheng Yen was born in 1930 and became a monk in 1943. He conducted a six-year solitary retreat, after which he went to Japan for further study and obtained a doctorate in Buddhist literature at Rissho University. In 1975, he began sharing the Dharma in the US, and in 1989, founded the Dharma Drum Lineage of Chan Buddhism.
He authored more than 100 publications in Chinese, English, and Japanese, and received the Sun Yat-sen Art and Literary Award, the Sun Yat-sen Academic Award, and the Presidential Cultural Award, among other honorary awards.
He proposed the vision of “uplifting the character of humanity and building a pure land on earth,” founded the Chung Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies, Dharma Drum Buddhist College, Dharma Drum Sangha University, and Dharma Drum University. Experienced in Chan using correct approaches, he guided practice in both the West and East. Popularizing the Dharma in modern language, the Master initiated movements including Protecting the Spiritual Environment, Four Kinds of Environmentalism, the Fivefold Spiritual Renaissance Campaign, and the Six Ethics of the Mind. He shared the Dharma globally with a broadminded perspective, winning him worldwide recognition.