Showing posts with label Wisdom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wisdom. Show all posts

Friday, August 23, 2013

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.


When we practice loving kindness and
compassion we are the first ones to profit.
Rumi ♥

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.


Don't grieve.
Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Friday, September 18, 2009

The high priest and the goat


From the movie 'Little Buddha' from 1993. One of my favorite movies I've ever seen. This story is from the opening sequence, its a lama teaching the tibetan children about the principles of reincarnation via ancient buddhist parables.

Kalama Sutra

"Rely not on the teacher/person, but on the teaching.

Rely not on the words of the teaching, but on the spirit of the words.

Rely not on theory, but on experience.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.

Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.

Do not believe anything because it is spoken and rumored by many.

Do not believe in anything because it is written in your religious books.

Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.

But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and the benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."

- the Buddha

Friday, August 7, 2009

人类过强

人类过强

(2009-08-07)

● 吴启基


正反合

人类失去自制能力的过强生态暴力,导致目前各种各样多姿多彩的动物、植物、微生物迅速濒临灭绝和衰亡。

目前有人在提到种种物种灭绝时,敢于面对现实,把最大的罪名包揽在自己的身上,有人甚至还说,动物、植物、微生物界的乱象,导因于人类过强的暴力行为。

之所以有上面的说法,也许要回到在1924年发现动物、植物、微生物存在有食物链(Food Chain)和食物网(Food Wed)的英国生物学家艾尔顿(Elton)身上,是此君在上个世纪20年代发现,世间万物,除了人外,还有各种各样多姿多彩的动物、植物、微生物。这些 人类之外的“各种物”,存在许多我们肉眼看不到和了解不到的玄机。

研究这些玄机的结果,艾尔顿发现:每一物种的存在,并非是巍然独立,而是“我中有你,你中有我”,最后得出的结论是:每一棵树是另一棵树的亲戚,每一只昆虫和另一只昆虫是姐妹,它们之中的一个单位,可能关系到另外上百、上千个单位的存在和生死。其状如链也如网。

这就是为什么,一棵树的死亡是一片森林的死亡。为什么一种动物的死亡,是其他植物的死亡。艾尔顿的发现,引导大家对生命的了解,有了一种宏观全新认识和认知。  

人类在过去很长的时间中,已经利用自己的聪明才智,成功驯化和培养了各种可以满足我们温饱的动物、植物、微生物,最后也没有忘记,深入蛮荒和沙漠寻找更多、更广的食物链和食物网。

据一项环境报告说,单以我们每天上桌的植物瓜果,已经多达500多种;动物、微生物也有至少720种。那么,可以肯定地说,如果其中有一种或某几种已经被人吃光,它的危害范围,根据艾尔顿的食物链和食物网去追查,可能会发现到许多“屠宰场”。

这个“屠宰场”,肉眼无法看见,但一场杀人不见血的事件正在发生、已经发生,我们叫它“无声杀手”。研究也说,多数食物链和食物网的线路可以追查到10 到30多种,如此丰富的“粮仓”,供应的是人类所不能缺少的食物、温饱来源。此外,它们还是人类药物、工业、制造业原料的供应源。难怪有人说,人类非常幸 运地拥有一个如此富裕、多元的宝库。情况是,我们和我们的地球,“蜜月期”还有多久?

“蜜月期”的长短,完全取决于“万物灵长”的人类。有人会问:如果世间万物是互相为食、互相为用才能生存、活命,那么,其他动物、植物、微生物在目前互相残杀、互相食用时,是否可以完全置身度外?

问得好!刚好不久前读到一点新知,说的是:人类、动物、植物、微生物界在造物者的巧妙设计下,竟然每个单元中都有已经设计完善的“自律系统”;这个系统,等于是汽车的刹车器,要快要慢,可以自行管理。

但有一点是,必须遵守安全和善意的交通守则和秩序,务必要考虑到其他物种的存在因素。因此,我们放眼看到的自然界植物、瓜果,才不会那么乱生、乱长,以致不知法也不守法的结果,危害到其他物种的生存和生命。

现在我们再看看人类的作为,由于人口的增加,经济的发展,早已经把食物链和食物网互相关联的科学真理,抛诸脑后。他们中多数人是在毫无刹车器的情况下危 险“驾车”,甚至还不惜以牺牲同类的代价来达到个人自私的商业或金钱目的。如此作为,肯定为地球庞大的食物链和食物网中的其他成员所不齿。

人类过强所造成的生态环境,人类失去自制能力的过强生态暴力,导致目前各种各样多姿多彩的动物、植物、微生物迅速濒临灭绝和衰亡。

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Man...is a tame or civilized animal

"Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures."
Plato

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Living in a Grateful World

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Be grateful to those who have hurt or harmed you,
for they have reinforced your determination.

Be grateful to those who have deceived you,
for they have deepened your insight.

Be grateful to those who have hit you,
for they have reduced your karmic obstacles.

Be grateful to those who have abandoned you,
for they have taught you to be independent.

Be grateful to those who have made you stumble,
for they have strengthened your ability.

Be grateful to those who have denounced you,
for they have increased your wisdom and concentration.

Be grateful to those who have made you
firm and resolute
and helped in your achievements.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008