"The highest happiness cannot be won by yielding to the longings of the heart but only by subduing them."
From In the Buddha's Words, edited by Bhikkhu Bodhi.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Enough
At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history. Heller responds, "Yes, but I have something he will never have . . . enough."
From the book Enough by John C. Bogle published 2009.
From the book Enough by John C. Bogle published 2009.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Recent Reading
千年一嘆
余秋雨從 1999 年年底開始實施歷時 4 個月的「千禧之旅」 -- 與鳳凰電視台一行於 1999 年 9 月 27 日啟程，尋訪世界的古老文明。旅程由希臘為起點，探訪雅典、邁錫尼等古城；其次來到埃及，憑弔金字塔和法老王；接著，往以色列、巴勒斯坦、約旦、伊拉克、伊朗等中東地區而去，這些神祕 的國家，人民常年飽受戰爭摧殘；再來，去到人口爆炸的印度，一探菩提樹與洞窟；最後，抵達終點尼泊爾，從此地回到中國。
這是一份真實的考察日記以完成古老的中國文明對世界其他四大文明的世紀拜會。整個活動行程有 3 萬多公里，幾乎囊括了世界所有的古老大河文明，包括了伊斯蘭教、基督教、猶太教、印度教、佛教……等各國宗教文化。
余秋雨從 1999 年年底開始實施歷時 4 個月的「千禧之旅」 -- 與鳳凰電視台一行於 1999 年 9 月 27 日啟程，尋訪世界的古老文明。旅程由希臘為起點，探訪雅典、邁錫尼等古城；其次來到埃及，憑弔金字塔和法老王；接著，往以色列、巴勒斯坦、約旦、伊拉克、伊朗等中東地區而去，這些神祕 的國家，人民常年飽受戰爭摧殘；再來，去到人口爆炸的印度，一探菩提樹與洞窟；最後，抵達終點尼泊爾，從此地回到中國。
這是一份真實的考察日記以完成古老的中國文明對世界其他四大文明的世紀拜會。整個活動行程有 3 萬多公里，幾乎囊括了世界所有的古老大河文明，包括了伊斯蘭教、基督教、猶太教、印度教、佛教……等各國宗教文化。
Monday, June 8, 2009
I Had to Go and See the Turquoise Myself
This presentation features more than sixty exceptional objects that large embassies, diplomatic missions, and trade delegations from Ottoman Turkey and Safavid Iran offered to the tsars of Russia. Ranging in date from the early sixteenth to the late seventeenth century, these lavish gifts and tributes include rarely seen arms and armor and jeweled ceremonial vessels and regalia intended for the Russian court or the Orthodox church. Some of the finest pieces are equestrian in nature: stirrups with pearls, golden bridles with turquoises and rubies, and saddles covered with velvet and silk.
"The Tsars And The East: Gifts From Turkey and Iran in the Moscow Kremlin," Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Recent Reading
The Buddha's Apprentice -- More Voices of Young Buddhists
"I was absent-minded partly because I was young, but I also realized that the cause of absent-mindedness was self-centeredness. Knowing this, I trained myself to always try to put others before myself. Whenever I met another person, I would think, 'what can I offer this person?' For me, the 'letting go ' of the self, in practice, became offering myself. I combined this with advice from Shifu to 'use the body like a rag; use your mind like a mirror.'"
"I was absent-minded partly because I was young, but I also realized that the cause of absent-mindedness was self-centeredness. Knowing this, I trained myself to always try to put others before myself. Whenever I met another person, I would think, 'what can I offer this person?' For me, the 'letting go ' of the self, in practice, became offering myself. I combined this with advice from Shifu to 'use the body like a rag; use your mind like a mirror.'"
From the chapter Clouds and Water - by Jimmy Yu
"I had plenty of questions and doubts about which rules, vows, precepts, and worldviews -- like beliefs in reincarnation, other worlds, invisible beings, the lower realms -- made sense and were worth adopting. The Dalai Lama encouraged me to ask these questions and explore Buddhism. He said that Buddhism would reveal itself."
From the chapter The Long and Winding Road - by Lama Surya Das
Friday, March 27, 2009
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