Living in a Grateful World
--- Be grateful to those who have hurt or harmed you,
for
they have enforced 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 achievement
From
Ven. Master Chin Kung
Professor Lewis
Lancaster from
U.C, Berkeley, Has given a brilliant lecture,
"Buddhism in a Global Age of
Technology".
It is well worth
watching.
Please CLICK HERE
to
view it.
2010 - Year of the Tiger
2010 is the Year of
the Tiger and most tigers will be happy, except perhaps for Tiger
Woods. Tiger Woods is a Buddhist (His mother is Thai) but, in the light
of recent media reports, he, perhaps, should change his name to Cheetah
Woods. This episode in the life of the world's greatest golfer has
created much controversy in the USA with one Fox Commentator, Brit
Hume, suggesting that he should become a Christian so that he can
receive redemption. WATCH
THIS
FOX
PROGRAMME
HERE. A Comment on this controversy can be found
HERE
and HERE
For a more light-hearted look SEE
THIS A HAPPY NEW YEAR
OF THE TIGER TO ALL
The individual
feels
the nothingness of human desires and aims and the sublimity and
marvellous
order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of
thought. He
looks upon individual existence as a sort of prison and wants to
experience the
universe as a single significant whole, the beginnings of cosmic
religious
feeling already appear in early stages of development - e.g. in many of
the
Psalms of David and in some of the Prophets. Buddhism, as we
have
learnt from the wonderful writings of Schopenhauer especially, contains
much
stronger elements of it. The religion of the future will he a cosmic
religion.
It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology.
Covering both
the natural and the spiritual, it should he based on a religious sense
arising
from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual and a
meaningful
unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that
would
cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism.
One of Einstein's great insights was to
realize
that matter and energy are really different forms of the same thing.
Matter can
be turned into energy, and energy into matter.
E=
mc2
E=energy m=mass c=speed of light
The big bang was when energy became matter.
Consider the Heart
Sutra- Form is Emptiness -
Emptiness is Form
Think about this in the light of
Einstein's
Theory of Relativity
