I recently discovered "Cold Mountain" (寒山), a hermit-poet in old China.
Here are three works of his:
1.
人生一百年
佛說十二部
慈悲如野鹿
瞋怒似家狗
家狗趕不去
野鹿常好走
欲伏獼猴心
須聽獅子吼
2.
常聞釋迦佛
先受燃燈記
燃燈與釋迦
只論前後智
前後體非殊
異中無有異
一佛一切佛
心是如來地
3.
我見利智人
觀著便知意
不假尋文字
直入如來地
心不逐諸緣
意根不妄起
心意不生時
內外無餘事
Friday, February 24, 2012
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
TIME Magazine Nutrition Recommendations
時代雜誌建議十大營養食品：
番茄：含有lycopene素，維他命C，預防攝護腺癌。
菠菜：含有鐵質、維他命B，預防血管疾病、盲眼症。
花生、杏仁等堅果：預防心臟病，但要適量，多吃反而有害。
花椰菜：簡單烹調，預防乳癌、胃癌、直腸癌。
燕麥：富纖維，可減肥、降血壓、膽固醇。
鮭魚：富OMEGA-3S成份，防止腦部老化、罹患老人癡呆症。
藍苺：富抗氧化劑預防老化、心臟病及癌症。
大蒜：清血、降低膽固醇、防治心臟病。
綠茶：降低罹患胃癌、肝癌、食道癌、心臟病的機率。
紅酒：有助抗氧化，適量飲用有助預防心臟病。
TIME magazine top 10 nutrition recommendations:
Tomatoes: contain lycopene (an antioxidant), vitamin C, to prevent prostate cancer.
Spinach: contains iron, vitamin B, prevention of vascular disease, blindness disease.
Nuts (peanuts, almonds, etc.): prevention of heart disease if eaten moderately, excess is harmful.
Cauliflower: simple cooking, prevention of breast cancer, stomach cancer, rectal cancer.
Oats: Rich fiber, weight loss, lowering blood pressure, cholesterol.
Salmon: contains the rich OMEGA-3S to prevent brain aging, suffering from Alzheimer disease.
Blueberry: is antioxidant-rich to prevent aging, heart disease and cancer.
Garlic: cleans blood, lowers cholesterol, prevents heart disease.
Green Tea: reduces the risk of gastric cancer, liver cancer, esophageal cancer, heart disease.
Red wine: helps anti-oxidation, moderates drinking helps prevent heart disease.
番茄：含有lycopene素，維他命C，預防攝護腺癌。
菠菜：含有鐵質、維他命B，預防血管疾病、盲眼症。
花生、杏仁等堅果：預防心臟病，但要適量，多吃反而有害。
花椰菜：簡單烹調，預防乳癌、胃癌、直腸癌。
燕麥：富纖維，可減肥、降血壓、膽固醇。
鮭魚：富OMEGA-3S成份，防止腦部老化、罹患老人癡呆症。
藍苺：富抗氧化劑預防老化、心臟病及癌症。
大蒜：清血、降低膽固醇、防治心臟病。
綠茶：降低罹患胃癌、肝癌、食道癌、心臟病的機率。
紅酒：有助抗氧化，適量飲用有助預防心臟病。
TIME magazine top 10 nutrition recommendations:
Tomatoes: contain lycopene (an antioxidant), vitamin C, to prevent prostate cancer.
Spinach: contains iron, vitamin B, prevention of vascular disease, blindness disease.
Nuts (peanuts, almonds, etc.): prevention of heart disease if eaten moderately, excess is harmful.
Cauliflower: simple cooking, prevention of breast cancer, stomach cancer, rectal cancer.
Oats: Rich fiber, weight loss, lowering blood pressure, cholesterol.
Salmon: contains the rich OMEGA-3S to prevent brain aging, suffering from Alzheimer disease.
Blueberry: is antioxidant-rich to prevent aging, heart disease and cancer.
Garlic: cleans blood, lowers cholesterol, prevents heart disease.
Green Tea: reduces the risk of gastric cancer, liver cancer, esophageal cancer, heart disease.
Red wine: helps anti-oxidation, moderates drinking helps prevent heart disease.
Franny and Zooey...and Mahayana Buddhism
Franny and Zooey depicts a precocious young woman undergoing a spirituality-induced nervous breakdown. In the first part of the book, Franny is venting her frustrations about ego and ambition to her non-comprehending, average-Joe boyfriend. She states that she is “sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody,” which her boyfriend, Lane, interprets along with her recent retreat from theater performance as her wanting to drop out of the rat-race. Franny becomes somewhat obsessed with the Jesus Prayer, practicing this prayer as a japa mantra that supposedly may lead to “enlightenment” and entering the “so-called reality of things.”
At the height of her breakdown and misery, the Fat Lady in Franny and Zooey provides relief to Franny by representing the earthly, commonplace, even boring aspect of the real world. In being so filled with myriad philosophies as a child, and then embarking on this quest for enlightenment and peace via the Jesus Prayer, Franny was starting to lose touch with reality. This image of the Fat Lady, sitting in an “awful wicker chair,” “swatting flies,” and even having “cancer,” immediately brings Franny down to earth, so to speak. The Fat Lady is pathetic, normal, freakish to the point of being laughable, but in a way, she encapsulates the mundane level of existence away from high-falutin’ philosophy and esoteric concepts. Eventually it is stated that “there isn’t anyone out there who isn’t Seymour’s Fat Lady,” including the pretentious professors that Franny was so antagonistic about.
“It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society,” Krishnamurti once wrote. Perhaps Franny’s misery is due to her – and her brother, Zooey – simply knowing too many philosophical concepts, most of which the common person on the street has no access to or even interest in. For example, Zooey even has the habit of reciting the Four Great Vows before he eats. He thinks his older brothers converted him and Franny into freaks by unleashing too much of this seemingly unconventional knowledge upon him and his sister.
Both of them seem to disregard their mother, Bessie, though she views Franny as merely a “run-down, overwrought little college girl that’s been reading too many religious books.” But Bessie, who can be seen as a symbol of the Fat Lady in their lives, has a point – “I don’t know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn’t make you happy,” she says. By being full of head knowledge, Franny and Zooey have become almost snobbish, or at least very critical, opinionated, and readily picking on others. During Franny’s breakdown, she yearns for true knowledge that leads to wisdom, and frets over her motives for reciting the Jesus Prayer, worrying whether she is just being greedy for spiritual treasure and Enlightenment. She is so caught up in the reeling of her mind, that she misses what is right in front of her – Bessie bringing her chicken soup, Bessie worrying about her, Bessie caring about her. In seeking desperately for otherworldly peace and chasing after an “experience” of enlightenment, Franny needed be grounded again with the here-and-now, the realm of the Fat Lady.
At the height of her breakdown and misery, the Fat Lady in Franny and Zooey provides relief to Franny by representing the earthly, commonplace, even boring aspect of the real world. In being so filled with myriad philosophies as a child, and then embarking on this quest for enlightenment and peace via the Jesus Prayer, Franny was starting to lose touch with reality. This image of the Fat Lady, sitting in an “awful wicker chair,” “swatting flies,” and even having “cancer,” immediately brings Franny down to earth, so to speak. The Fat Lady is pathetic, normal, freakish to the point of being laughable, but in a way, she encapsulates the mundane level of existence away from high-falutin’ philosophy and esoteric concepts. Eventually it is stated that “there isn’t anyone out there who isn’t Seymour’s Fat Lady,” including the pretentious professors that Franny was so antagonistic about.
“It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society,” Krishnamurti once wrote. Perhaps Franny’s misery is due to her – and her brother, Zooey – simply knowing too many philosophical concepts, most of which the common person on the street has no access to or even interest in. For example, Zooey even has the habit of reciting the Four Great Vows before he eats. He thinks his older brothers converted him and Franny into freaks by unleashing too much of this seemingly unconventional knowledge upon him and his sister.
Both of them seem to disregard their mother, Bessie, though she views Franny as merely a “run-down, overwrought little college girl that’s been reading too many religious books.” But Bessie, who can be seen as a symbol of the Fat Lady in their lives, has a point – “I don’t know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn’t make you happy,” she says. By being full of head knowledge, Franny and Zooey have become almost snobbish, or at least very critical, opinionated, and readily picking on others. During Franny’s breakdown, she yearns for true knowledge that leads to wisdom, and frets over her motives for reciting the Jesus Prayer, worrying whether she is just being greedy for spiritual treasure and Enlightenment. She is so caught up in the reeling of her mind, that she misses what is right in front of her – Bessie bringing her chicken soup, Bessie worrying about her, Bessie caring about her. In seeking desperately for otherworldly peace and chasing after an “experience” of enlightenment, Franny needed be grounded again with the here-and-now, the realm of the Fat Lady.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Vimalakirti Sutra
In the Vimalakirti Sutra, Sariputra was changed by a goddess into the form of a woman. 在維摩經裡, 舍利弗被女神變成女身.
A modern day photo collection that depicts this switcheroo.
A modern day photo collection that depicts this switcheroo.
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