Autumn

Autumn...

the year's last, loveliest smile.

 

-William Cullen Bryant

Water Primrose

Diamond Sutra

一切有为法
如梦幻泡影
如露亦如电
应作如是观

All conditioned things
Are like dreams, illusions, bubbles, shadows;
Like dew and also like lightning.
Thus should they be contemplated.

Funny Sentences

For what Jenner charged for his deprogramming services, he could afford the best plastic surgeons in the world, but his face had that startled, deer-caught-in-the-headlights expression so common with inferior cosmetic work.

It was an incongruity of little importance, but Max was still surprised by it.


-from a thriller novel
-摘自一部惊险小说

Sūtra of the Heart of Prajñā-Pāramitā

Sūtra of the Heart of Prajñā-Pāramitā

Translated from Sanskrit into Chinese in the Tang Dynasty
by
The Tripiṭaka Master Xuanzang from China

As Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva went deep into prajñā-pāramitā, he saw in his illumination the emptiness of the five aggregates, [the realization of] which delivers one from all suffering and tribulations.
    “Śāriputra, form is no different from emptiness; emptiness is no different from form. In effect, form is emptiness and emptiness is form. The same is true for sensory reception, perception, mental processing, and consciousness. Śāriputra, dharmas, with empty appearances, have neither birth nor death, neither impurity nor purity, neither increase nor decrease.
    “Therefore, in emptiness there is no form, nor sensory reception, perception, mental processing, or consciousness; no eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, or mental faculty, nor sights, sounds, scents, flavors, tactile sensations, or mental objects; no spheres, from eye sphere to mental consciousness sphere. There is neither ignorance nor ending of ignorance, neither old age and death nor ending of old age and death. There is no suffering, accumulation [of afflictions], cessation [of suffering], or the path. There is neither wisdom-knowledge nor attainment because there is nothing to attain.
    “Bodhisattvas, because they rely on prajñā-pāramitā, have no hindrances in their minds. Without hindrance, they have no fear. Staying far from inverted dreaming and thinking, they will ultimately attain nirvāṇa. Buddhas of the past, present, and future, because they rely on prajñā-pāramitā, all attain anuttara-samyak-saṁbodhi.
    “Hence, we know that the Prajñā-Pāramitā [Mantra] is the great spiritual mantra, the great illumination mantra, the unsurpassed mantra, the unequaled mantra, which can remove all suffering. It is true, not false. Hence the Prajñā-Pāramitā Mantra is pronounced. Then the mantra goes:

    gate gate pāragate pāra-saṁgate bodhi svāhā ||”

—Sūtra of the Heart of Prajñā-Pāramitā
Translated from the digital Chinese Canon (T08n0251)

http://www.sutrasmantras.info/sutra16.html 

玄幻小说之以武入道
高术通神--我随国术高手们修行的那些年
 由于奇遇高手,男主少年时期开始习武.之后种种机遇功夫各种小成大成,足迹遍布全国秘境及世界各地,卷入种种恶斗争端.大学专业为物理,后赴美深造并解决江湖纠纷,同时自身修为进入更高境界.
回国后继续在高术江湖中厮杀.....
阅读链接: http://yi-see.com/art_22015_838.html

无心法师-读后感

从民国开始叙述的玄幻+言 情小说. 无心法师不老不死-永远二十几岁, 且颜值高. 与常人一样会感觉痛饿冷热,自愈力惊人-半个脑袋被削仍能长回, 身体被打剩下一只手还可以重新长出一个身体.百毒不侵,百鬼不伤,他的血对鬼有如同镪水般的杀伤力.可谓金刚不坏.
唯一的遗憾是无法向人解释自己为何不会衰老而被视为异类,自杀无法成功,而且无法繁殖后代. 渴望人的陪伴.理想状态是与了解他底细的一男加一女共同生活.女的自然是做他妻子.第一次男的是30岁的顾大人,第二次是妻子的双胞胎弟弟.
这样奇特的生理机能无法用科学解释.基因必有过人之处-不老加再生必是各大研究机构梦寐以求之物.
一人不老不死似乎也有悲凉之意, 未照见五蕴皆空, 所以仍会感受各种身心痛苦.

般若波罗蜜多心经 The Heart Sutra

 般若波罗蜜多心经
玄奘译本
孔睿（Edward Conze） 

观自在菩萨，
Avalokita, the Holy Lord and Bodhisattva,
行深般若波罗蜜多时，
was moving in the deep course of the Wisdom which has gone beyond,
 照见五蕴皆空，度一切苦厄。
He looked down from on high, He beheld but five heaps, and He saw that in their own-being they were empty. (One crossed beyond all suffering and tribulations)
舍利子，
Here, O Sariputra,
色不异空，空不异色，
form is emptiness and the very emptiness is form,
 色即是空，空即是色，
emptiness does not differ from form, form does not differ from emptiness, whatever is emptiness, that is form,
受想行识，亦复如是。
the same is true of feelings, perceptions, impulses, and consciousness.
舍利子，
 Here, O Sariputra,
是诸法空相，
all dharmas are marked with emptiness ;
不生不灭， 不垢不净，不增不减。
 they are not produced or stopped, not defiled or immaculate, not deficient or complete.
是故空中无色，无受想行识，
 Therefore, O Sariputra,
in emptiness there is no form nor feeling, nor perception, nor impulse, nor consciousness ;
无眼耳鼻舌身意，无色声香味触法，
 No eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind ; No forms, sounds, smells, tastes, touchables or objects of mind ;
无眼界，乃至无意识界。无无明，亦无无明尽，乃至无老死，亦无老死尽。 无苦集灭道，无智亦无得。
 No sight-organ element, and so forth, until we come to :
No mind-consciousness element ; There is no ignorance, no extinction of ignorance, and so forth, until we come to : There is no decay and death, no extinction of decay and death. There is no suffering, no origination, no stopping, no path.
There is no cognition, no attainment and no non-attainment.
以无所得故，菩提萨埵，依般若波罗蜜多故，心无挂碍，无挂碍故，无有恐怖，远离颠倒梦想，究竟涅槃。
Therefore, O Sariputra,
it is because of his non-attainmentness that a Bodhisattva, through having relied on the Perfection of Wisdom, dwells without thought-coverings. In the absence of thought-coverings he has not been made to tremble,
he has overcome what can upset, and in the end he attains to Nirvana.
三世诸佛，依般若波罗蜜多 故，得阿耨多罗三藐三菩提。
All those who appear as Buddhas in the three periods of time fully awake to the utmost, right and perfect Enlightenment because they have relied on the Perfection of Wisdom.
故知般若波罗蜜多，是大神咒，是大明咒，是无上咒，是无等等咒，能除一切苦，真实不虚。
Therefore one should know the prajnaparamita as the great spell, the spell of great knowledge, the utmost spell, the unequalled spell, allayer of all suffering, in truth -- for what could go wrong ?
故说般若波罗蜜多咒，即说咒曰：揭谛揭 谛，波罗揭谛，波罗僧揭谛，菩提萨婆诃。
By the prajnaparamita has this spell been delivered. It runs like this :
gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha.
( Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone altogether beyond, O what an awakening, all-hail ! -- )
This completes the Heart of perfect Wisdom.