林中斌 部落格 / Blog Chong-Pin Lin

An interesting form of incense flower appeared which I don't remember ever seeing after reading the Huayan Sutra and praying to Vajrisatva for cleaning my soul while reminding myself to be on guard against my ego from which greed, pride, desire, arrogance, and jealousy stem. Chong-Pin Lin March 15,2015.

恭讀華嚴經後祈求金剛心菩薩清業障並提醒看住自我，因為那是貪、瞋、癡、驕、忌的來源。

林中斌 2015年3月15日

久違了，楊柳枝香花! 請見2014年12月31日恭念神咒迴給印尼海嘯亡靈所出現的一群香花。以及1986年6月26-28日在華府恭念觀音菩薩經咒迴向給他人所現的香花。

    今早，恭讀華嚴經並完成80卷中之第二卷。

    恭唸經咒迴向時所持快樂的念頭是：面臨網路中負面的匿名反應時，可用寬恕、謙卑、善意的言詞回答。高興的把握這練習寬恕的機會。因為發出負面的言詞反映他/她內心自我仇恨的外向化，也反映發信人活在仇恨惡劣的環境中，得不到溫暖、慈愛。如果我們能藉此機會讓他/她有不同的、舒適的、人性善良的感受，或許對他/她有些幫助。

    何樂而不為。

                  林中斌，2015年3月8日 (先父33周年忌日)

       Long time no see, willow branch incense flowers! One appeared on December 31, 2004 when I prayed for the tsunami victims. Many of them came on June 26-28 in Washngton DC when I prayed for others with Guanyin (Kuanyin) Bodhisatva sutras and mantras.

    This morning, I finished reading the second of the 80 books on the Huanyan Sutra before I began reciting sutras and mantras in my daily practice with a happy thought about positively responding to negative anonymous internet messages.

    "Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. “Where there is hatred, let me sow love."(Saint Francis' Prayer) The rationale is this： those who send out negative internet massages anonymously in fact project outward their internal despair/hatred/conflict, as they live in such an environment devoid of kindness, warmth, and gentleness. If we could respond with courtesy, humility, and respect, they might have a glimpse of the light from heaven while sufffering in hell on earth.

       Why not seize upon such an opportunity to make the day more worthwhile? 

Chong-Pin Lin March 8, 2015

 

 

• Why is a white woman whose jaw was shattered by the bullet from the gun of a black boy 24 years ago trying to free him from prison where he is doomed to stay all his life? From the darkest corner of human existence beams the brightest light of human spirit.

• Chong-Pin Lin  a week before Christmas Eve, 2014

• 為何一位白種婦女-- 她的下巴24年前被子彈擊碎-- 現在全力營救當時槍擊她而被判終身監禁的黑男孩？ 從人類最黑暗的角落閃出靈性的光輝!!!!

• 林中斌 2014年12月17日 聖誕夜前一周

他曾任瑞典國防部長、財政部長。有許多發明。曾設法把戰艦從陸地上運送5英里到另一海域，以奇襲打敗丹麥海軍。中晚年通靈，稱去過天堂見到許多非洲黑人因為上帝喜歡它們的純樸善良。不容於瑞典教會，流亡英國，逝於異鄉。1908年，瑞典國王請戰艦自英國迎其屍骨回瑞典，隆重國葬。是他提到人類未來美好的"新紀元" (the New Age)。此文作者廣樹成老師有哈佛大學碩士學位，藏有史威登堡全部31本著作，為國內權威。

林中斌    2014年10月17日

阿拉曼是十世紀西班牙柯多巴地區的國王，統治50年後， 回憶說： “這輩子，我享盡權力榮華。當我細數真正快樂地日子後，算出共有14天。”

2004年，兩位經濟學家對16,000位美國成年男女做私密問卷調查：請問過去一年您有多少位性伴侶，您覺得快樂嗎？” 兩位學者統計後發現：最快樂的伴侶數目是一。

此篇作者是美國華府中央偏右智庫“美國企業研究所”總裁，原芝加哥大學研究慈善事業的教授Arthur Brooks。該所中央偏右(保守)，曾是資本主義、新保守主義的重鎮，一向支持台灣。我曾於1987-1995任該所專任學者/亞洲研究部副主任。

                                            林中斌  2004年7月25日

ABD AL-RAHMAN III was an emir and caliph of Córdoba in 10th-century Spain. He was an absolute ruler who lived in complete luxury. Here’s how he assessed his life: “I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: They amount to 14.”

In 2004, two economists looked into whether more sexual variety led to greater well-being. They looked at data from about 16,000 adult Americans who were asked confidentially how many sex partners they had had in the preceding year, and about their happiness. Across men and women alike, the data show that the optimal number of partners is one.

This excellent article was written by the president of American Enterprise Institute, a center-right think tank in Washington D.C., one time a bastion of capitalism and neo-conservatism. Arthur Brooks was previously a Chicago University professor doing research on philanthropy. I served as resident scholar and associate director of the Asian Studies Program at AEI between 1987 and 1995.

                                                                                    Chong-Pin Lin, July 25, 2014