http://www.sgforums.com/forums/1728/posts en-US 60 <p>菩提是觉悟的意思，於烦恼生起时，面对烦恼，予以认识，於中有所发现； 通常说是 [ 知道了] 一些什么，这所谓知道的就是发现，它的名字便叫做菩提。</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>~ 白云禅师</p> Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:45:06 +0800 www.sgforums.com:1728:122948:8732577 cycle http://www.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/122948 <blockquote> <div class="quote_from">Originally posted by Display Name:</div> <div class="quote_body"> <p>Don't know why, but many vegetarian stall in singapore sell only fake meat, and at most one vege. If you want to eat vegetables, it is easier to find them in a non-vege 杂菜饭 stall. haha<br /> There are so many type of vegetables at least 40, but only 2-3 kind of meat that people normally eat.</p> </div> </blockquote> <p><br /> Unfortunately for me , the vegetarian stalls that i encounter , the dishes doesnt taste good , fake meat are made from flour and they have high sodium content.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Haiz......</p> Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:24:55 +0800 www.sgforums.com:1728:342555:8732528 knightlll http://www.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/342555 <blockquote> <div class="quote_from">Originally posted by Augustrush23:</div> <div class="quote_body"> <p>Hi all,</p> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; do u know which temple can I go to if I want to take the 5 precepts?Many thanks :)</p> </div> </blockquote> <p><br /> There will ba a Refuge &amp; 5 Precepts Ceremony in Amitabha Buddhist Centre on 18th Jan ( Sun ) 7.30pm. Call to check if registration is required. The master will be Lama Zopa Rinpoche.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>You have the option of taking all 5 or some selected precepts which you desired , based on what you feel you can observe in your daily lives. On a more "technical" side , the karma would be heavier for those who have gone through such or&nbsp;other number of&nbsp;precepts. However , there are also&nbsp;ways to "regenerate" the vows.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Do a little research on any master before going such ceremony. The master who hold the precept ceremony for you will be your lifelong teacher if i am not wrong.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Check &amp; check again , i could be wrong . :)</p> <p>Correct me if i am wrong people.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>44 Lorong 25A Geylang Road</p> <p>Tel: 6745 8547</p> <p><a href="http://www.fpmtabc.org" rel= "nofollow">www.fpmtabc.org</a></p> Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:18:59 +0800 www.sgforums.com:1728:343406:8732518 knightlll http://www.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/343406 <blockquote> <div class="quote_from">Originally posted by disappear:</div> <div class="quote_body"> <p>are there any sutras where the buddha mentioned about mental problems and illnesses. needless to say its all about karma but it'd be nice if there's some detailed and wise explanation about it. thanks in advance</p> </div> </blockquote> <p>Even if it is mental illness caused by biological/brain damage or whatever, it will still trace back to the karma.<br /> One of the reasons/karma is that in the past the person disturbed people who was doing meditation or disturb their concentration of doing auspicious things especially those related to dharma.</p> Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:12:49 +0800 www.sgforums.com:1728:343305:8732126 Display Name http://www.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/343305 <blockquote> <div class="quote_from">Originally posted by Augustrush23:</div> <div class="quote_body"> <p>Hi all,</p> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; do u know which temple can I go to if I want to take the 5 precepts?Many thanks :)</p> </div> </blockquote> <p>Actually all temples in fact any place that has sangha/monk, can let you take precepts. It is normally given together in the refuge taking ceremony.<br /> When you go into the temple, just request to have a chat with the monk, then you can request for precepts if you want.</p> Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:50:35 +0800 www.sgforums.com:1728:343406:8732075 Display Name http://www.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/343406 <p>Don't know why, but many vegetarian stall in singapore sell only fake meat, and at most one vege. If you want to eat vegetables, it is easier to find them in a non-vege 杂菜饭 stall. haha<br /> There are so many type of vegetables at least 40, but only 2-3 kind of meat that people normally eat.</p> Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:34:25 +0800 www.sgforums.com:1728:342555:8732022 Display Name http://www.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/342555 <p>Plenty, can i ask if you want to take it in the Chinese tradition or Theravadin tradition(s)?</p> <p>In addition, you can check this website for activities by temples and groups in Singapore:</p> <p>http://www.4ui.com/indexeng.htm</p> <p>Gassho</p> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:54:52 +0800 www.sgforums.com:1728:343406:8730319 sanath http://www.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/343406 <p>Hi all,</p> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; do u know which temple can I go to if I want to take the 5 precepts?Many thanks :)</p> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:50:28 +0800 www.sgforums.com:1728:343406:8730298 Augustrush23 http://www.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/343406 <p>面对烦恼，从中获取觉悟，是转变。</p> <p>综合所知，籍以圆满智慧，是增上。</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>~ 白云禅师</p> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:03:49 +0800 www.sgforums.com:1728:122948:8729530 cycle http://www.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/122948 <p>学佛的本身，就是培养智慧。</p> <p>依于佛法的内容来看，有戒，有定，有慧；说施，说忍，说勤； 在在都是要我们从学习中培养智慧，从修养中得到觉悟。</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>~ 白云禅师</p> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:58:43 +0800 www.sgforums.com:1728:122948:8729517 cycle http://www.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/122948 <p>thanks for the reply. im more interested about mental illnesses which are not caused by spirit interferences, i.e. those which are due to biological/brain chemistry/genetic etc. thanks</p> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:48:14 +0800 www.sgforums.com:1728:343305:8729201 disappear http://www.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/343305 <blockquote> <div class="quote_from">Originally posted by Thusness:</div> <div class="quote_body"> <p>Indeed a precious experience but not expressed as it is. :P</p> <p>You may want to ask yourself the following questions:</p> <p>1.&nbsp; Any idea why u r experiencing it this way this time? (The condition that give rise to this sensation)?</p> <p>2.&nbsp; If it is as described, is there 'an awareness' here realising that there is 'your body coughing spontaneously by its own'?</p> <p>3&nbsp; How was the feeling like?</p> <p>Happy exploring!</p> </div> </blockquote> <p>I don't know how that experienced happened.. but maybe instead of being identified with the body or as the controller of the body, I just switched into 'just watching' the body movement and simply letting it act on itself.</p> <p>So I did experience 'an awareness here' that simply sees the body coughing spontaneously. Like I'm in a space that is simply aware and watching. But it is seen there is no entity or self controlling the body, the body just acts spontaneously on its own, automatically, and it is not me or mine. Maybe this is what you call 'dissociation'?</p> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:41:30 +0800 www.sgforums.com:1728:336357:8728728 An Eternal Now http://www.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/336357 <p>I'm not too sure if there are any specific sutras talking about this subject. But some (not all) mental illnesses are caused by spirit interferences.</p> <p>As the Admin of another buddhist forum (e-sangha), who also happens to be a doctor of tibetan medicine, wrote:</p> <p><a href= "http://www.lioncity.net/buddhism/index.php?showtopic=80865&amp;amp;st=0" rel= "nofollow">http://www.lioncity.net/buddhism/index.php?showtopic=80865&amp;st=0</a><em><br /> <br /> Not in English, unfortunately. Different types of non-humans cause different types of symptoms, such as those afflicted by bhramas for example like to wear white, speak in religious language, like mantras, and so on.<br /> <br /> N</em><br /> &lt;!--QuoteEnd--&gt;&lt;!--QuoteEEnd--&gt;-----<em><br /> <br /> If they are Buddhists, they should accept the fact that non-human beings can cause mental illness in human beings. Many kinds of mental illness are completely treatable through Buddhist medicine.<br /> <br /> Pretas, Nagas, etc., can all negatively affect both the physical and mental health of human beings.<br /> <br /> There are also the research based theories of Aryas-- but their findings are not available to those without the divine eye.<br /> <br /> N</em></p> <p>-----</p> <p><em><br /> As someone who is going to graduate with a degree in Indo-Tibetan medicine in 2009, treating bhuta illnesses is time consuming and complicated. I concur that specialized skills are needed for such treatments, and sadly, such people are often drugged with psyche meds putting them beyond the capacity to helped by traditional Indo-Tibetan medical methods. On the other hand, for most people, the alternative is worse, in some instances, the kind of treatment people receive for severe mental illnesses we would typify as being afflicted by bhutas could not find treatment for there problem simply do to the lack of practitioners of traditional Buddhist medicine.<br /> <br /> N</em></p> <p>-----</p> <p><em><br /> Severe psychosis of various kinds, depression (which is often kapha affecting the heart) and so on, diagnosed through observation of behavior, pulse diagnosis and urine.<br /> <br /> Thailand once had a system of medicine more or less the same as Indian Ayurveda and Tibetan Medicine (with some cultural differences of course) which the Thais, like the Tibetans, trace back to Jivak Kumara, the Buddha's physician. Unfortunately, the systems of Ayurveda as practiced in Southeast Asia was destroyed by European Colonialism.<br /> <br /> The only remnant of the Thai system of Medicine remaining is Thai Massage.<br /> <br /> Treatments for mental illnesses are a combination of herbs, diet, massage and bloodletting, as well as rituals. They are extremely effective and my teacher has a great deal of experience completely curing patients in Tibet who would wind up on severe psych meds here like Haldol and so on if they lived in this country.<br /> <br /> Frankly, bhuta possession explains many chronic mental illnesses for which patients only receive palliative care in the West.<br /> <br /> Generally in our diagnostic protocol, we treat first through diet, then medicine, then therapies such as moxabustion, bloodletting and acupuncture, and if these methods are found not to be effective, or of limited effect, we begin to search for bhuta involvement in an illness.<br /> <br /> But we think that a large number of severe mental illnesses are left untreated because western medicine is unable to cope with bhuta possession.<br /> <br /> Non-human beings cause many kinds of illnesses, not only mental illness. Many skin diseases that seem difficult to cure are caused by Naga attacks, for example.<br /> <br /> N<br /> <br /> N</em></p> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:19:36 +0800 www.sgforums.com:1728:343305:8728632 An Eternal Now http://www.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/343305 <p>are there any sutras where the buddha mentioned about mental problems and illnesses. needless to say its all about karma but it'd be nice if there's some detailed and wise explanation about it. thanks in advance</p> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:21:51 +0800 www.sgforums.com:1728:343305:8728134 disappear http://www.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/343305 <blockquote> <div class="quote_from">Originally posted by An Eternal Now:</div> <div class="quote_body"> <p>Just a sharing.</p> <p>Yesterday I was woken up by my coughing.... and when I woke up I noticed my body is coughing spontaneously by its own, automatically, without control! It feels a bit weird and disorientating when I first noticed it. But since then I have noticed it several times. It has always been so.</p> <p>It's not 'I' or 'me' that have been been coughing all the while.... that is just an assumption. In reality it is more like the the universe is coughing my body... and there is no identification of the body as 'me' or 'mine'.</p> <p>Similarly am I breathing or am I being breathed? I guess the truth is more like 'the entire universe is breathing'.</p> </div> </blockquote> <p>Indeed a precious experience but not expressed as it is. :P</p> <p>You may want to ask yourself the following questions:</p> <p>1.&nbsp; Any idea why u r experiencing it this way this time? (The condition that give rise to this sensation)?</p> <p>2.&nbsp; If it is as described, is there 'an awareness' here realising that there is 'your body coughing spontaneously by its own'?</p> <p>3&nbsp; How was the feeling like?</p> <p>Happy exploring!</p> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:42:47 +0800 www.sgforums.com:1728:336357:8728092 Thusness http://www.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/336357 <p>I am not a full vegetarian and&nbsp;&nbsp;have tried&nbsp;not to eat meat for continual 6 days. I plan to to do so in specific days now. I eat meat , the meat of the mother sentient beings , my previous mothers in many previous lives. Quite disturbing to know this , on one side you are learning dharma , on the other side , you are commiting bad karma by eating meat.&nbsp;Both do not tally with each other. And then , there will be&nbsp;reasoning that meat-eaters also can go to western purelands.</p> <p>You force yourself to be a vegetarian&nbsp;, vegetarian cookings are bad in the stalls that i encounter and it is rather hard to find one sometimes. In the end , give up the idea of being a full vegetarian and reason that karma is heavy &amp; wisdom is limited, in the current state , it is best not to force on yourself , and let it affect your daily life and learning dharma.</p> <p>What an irony but i manage to live with it. Anyone face such problem or at such crossroad before ?</p> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:15:34 +0800 www.sgforums.com:1728:342555:8727916 knightlll http://www.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/342555 <p>During the so-called 'Seventh Month' in 2008 , my colleagues asked me if i wanted to join them to burn hellnotes &amp; incense. I declined , saying it will be better to chant and dedicate to the working area spirits if there is any. One of them said , the ghost would need money to spend and etc. I lol , maybe they do need money to spend.</p> <p>When we talk about what is life after death in religious context , i talked about 6 realms and about asura , a being who is half-god and half-monster , they looked suprised and lol. I also lol.</p> <p>I attend&nbsp;buddhist lessons , my mother asked me why i become so superstitious. I told her&nbsp;but you are offering jose sticks and fruits to guan yin. lol</p> <p>When one day , i manage to muster all my courage and explain that heavenly beings will die one day&nbsp; , i think whole world&nbsp; would stare me with big eyes.</p> <p>It is prettty fun &amp;&nbsp;interesting to hold such conversations in daily life.</p> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:08:48 +0800 www.sgforums.com:1728:342822:8727902 knightlll http://www.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/342822 <p>福报大,却缺少慈悲和智慧是多么可怕的一见事.</p> <p>杀一个人,果报就足以下地狱了.<br /> 一些国家领导人一场战争杀了百万条命,下场有够掺了.</p> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:58:36 +0800 www.sgforums.com:1728:343160:8726805 justdoit77 http://www.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/343160 <p><em>"Mind is like space, because it has no limitation. When there are no clouds, when it is completely clear, space is like our 'ordinary' state of mind. Then, all of a sudden, clouds come from nowhere. Our emotional problems and mental chaos are like the clouds. When they take over, we can't see space any more, we only see the clouds! However space never goes anywhere, it's always there. It's just our mind getting into darkness so that, for us, the clouds become our only reality. It means we give more solidity to our emotional upheavals, to all the things going on in our mind, so that they become more real for us than the true essence of our mind."<br /> <br /> <br /> "In the same way as clouds come from nowhere, our emotions and all the chaos we go through also somehow appear from nowhere and disappear into nowhere. Understanding this process, we should give it less value. Even if we've been under the clouds for seven days, we should always remember that space is there!"<br /> <br /> <br /> "We can never find a solution to our investigation by just listening to teachings or reading books. The only way we can get closer to the nature of mind is through direct experience, and that is through meditation."<br /></em><br /> <br /> (Extracts from Living Dharma - Ven. Lama Yeshe Losal)</p> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:42:27 +0800 www.sgforums.com:1728:342958:8726759 An Eternal Now http://www.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/342958 <p><em>Where exactly is our buddha nature? It is in the skylike nature of our mind. Utterly open, free and limitless, it is fundamentally so simple and so natural that it can never be complicated, corrupted, or stained, so pure that it is beyond even the concept of purity and impurity.<br /> <br /> To talk of this nature of mind as skylike is, of course, only a metaphor that helps us to begin to imagine its all-embracing boundlessness; for the buddha nature has a quality the sky cannot have, that of the radiant clarity of awareness.<br /> <br /> It is said: "It is simply your flawless present awareness, cognizant and empty, naked and awake."</em></p> <p>~ Sogyal Rinpoche</p> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:40:24 +0800 www.sgforums.com:1728:342958:8726750 An Eternal Now http://www.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/342958 <blockquote> <div class="quote_from">Originally posted by An Eternal Now:</div> <div class="quote_body"> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>"u must also&nbsp;be able to that whereever it is, it's&nbsp;home."</p> <p>You mean 'see'?</p> </div> </blockquote> <p><span style="font-size: x-small;">Yes typo. :P</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: x-small;">It means u must also be able to see it from the angle of "whereever we are, it's home."<br /></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: x-small;">&nbsp;</span></p> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:57:52 +0800 www.sgforums.com:1728:340010:8725279 Thusness http://www.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/340010 <p>I see... thanks again.. :)</p> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:48:51 +0800 www.sgforums.com:1728:340010:8725256 An Eternal Now http://www.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/340010 <blockquote> <div class="quote_from">Originally posted by An Eternal Now:</div> <div class="quote_body"> <p>I see... thanks :)</p> </div> </blockquote> <p><br /> We&nbsp;cannot just understand non-abiding as not resting the mind anywere, u must also&nbsp;be able to that whereever it is, it's&nbsp;home.</p> <p>Similarly&nbsp;after Form is&nbsp;Emptiness, you must see the fabric and texture of&nbsp;Emptiness.</p> <p>:)</p> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:18:37 +0800 www.sgforums.com:1728:340010:8725177 Thusness http://www.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/340010 <p>I see... thanks :)</p> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:49:45 +0800 www.sgforums.com:1728:340010:8725066 An Eternal Now http://www.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/340010 <p>From http://hi.baidu.com/atuonashi/blog</p> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:54:09 +0800 www.sgforums.com:1728:343160:8724595 JitKiat http://www.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/343160