Live a life of ease and freedom, on the basis of peace and solidity, with the principle of being less agitated and affected.
Many masters in the history of Chinese Chan Buddhism emphasized practice as daily living. Whether monastic or lay, a follower uses the concepts and methods of Chan in daily life. By doing so, one experiences calmness and ease while being spontaneous and lively amidst mundane reality. Chan is not a religion, not a philosophy, and surely not mysterious or weird sorcery. It is the wisdom of living, the cultivation of body and mind, and a principle and guideline for spiritual development. It is also the best method for influencing and purifying the environment.--Master Sheng Yen
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Master Sheng Yen (1930-2009)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 Mountain organization. In 2005, he established the Dharma Drum Lineage of Chan Buddhism, as an effort to reinvent Chinese 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 Institute of Liberal Arts, and Dharma Drum Sangha 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.
.2014年「靈性與修練」(Spirituality & Practice)網站評選最佳靈性書籍!.亞馬遜網站4.5顆星評價!.《好走:臨終時刻的心靈轉化》作者凱思林‧辛另一當頭棒喝力作!
在《好走》中,作者凱思林‧辛深深撼動於「生命走到盡頭之際,人終究能夠朝向靈性發展而去」的事實,但長期鑽研臨終轉化的她不禁想問:為什麼靈性覺醒不能提早發生?我們能否在老化的階段,就讓靈性轉化所伴隨的幸福感充盈生命?
這本書,為每一個希望早點轉化覺醒、享受喜樂晚年的你而寫。作者凱思林‧辛認為,覺醒的渴望一直在每個人心中,只是我們都太汲汲營營於世俗生活而忽略了這份渴望。因此,當容貌、體力、成就都從中年顛峰衰退之際,正是我們轉向內在生命的絕佳時機。在步入老年時投入靈性修持,可以幫助我們因應衰弱、病痛與失落,進而增長愛與智慧。
結合深刻的臨床觀察與深厚的佛學素養,作者以最淺白的語彙,提出了每個人、不分宗教派別、隨時隨地都可以操練的修持方法。本書邀請你我踏上聖道,我們將發現,相較於過去所拚命追求、守護的外在事物,內在生命才是世上最可靠的庇護,能讓我們超脫我執,不再受苦,沐浴於歲月的恩寵中。
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凱思林.辛 Kathleen Dowling Singh接受超個體心理學的學術訓練,擔任心理治療師、深度靈性成長導師,從事安寧照護工作,並積極巡迴全美各地,就臨終關懷、靈性轉化、冥想修持等主題的作演講、教學,並參與相關推廣運動。
長期陪伴臨終病患的過程中,凱思林‧辛遇見難以言喻的美麗境界,經歷了生命的轉化。她的著作《好走:臨終時刻的心靈轉化》(The Grace in Dying:how we are transformed spiritually as we die,心靈工坊出版),曾獲亞馬遜網站評選為1998年度靈性領域的十大好書,被視為是該領域的里程碑之作。凱思林‧辛也鑽研佛學,是佛門弟子,也是佛法導師,致力於以一般人易於吸收的淺白語彙,宣揚佛法精髓及其對臨終超脫、生命轉化的助益。
凱思林‧辛現居美國佛州,與四個孩子、七個孫子相伴,年紀已老到有資格領醫療保險。近期致力於撰寫新書《朝聖之旅:覺醒視野下的人生》(Pilgrimage: Our Lives Through the Lens of Awakening,暫名)。
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傅馨芳美國伊利諾大學教育心理哲學博士,國立高雄師範大學英語系退休副教授。譯作有《快樂女人從自主開始》、《走出宮殿的女科學家》(再版:《情緒分子的奇幻世界》)、《信念的力量:新生物學給我們的啟示》、《存乎一心》、《星星的孩子:自閉天才的圖像思考》、《生命如此美麗:在逆境中安頓身心》等。