Sunday 23 November 2014

稳稳的幸福

陳奕迅 

穩穩的幸福

有一天 我發現自憐資格都已沒有
只剩下不知疲倦的肩膀
擔負著簡單的滿足

有一天 開始從平淡日子感受快樂
看到了明明白白的遠方
我要的幸福

我要穩穩的幸福
能抵擋末日的殘酷
在不安的深夜
能有個歸宿

我要穩穩的幸福
能用雙手去碰觸
每次伸手入懷中
有你的溫度

我要穩穩的幸福
能抵擋失落的痛楚
一個人的路途
也不會孤獨

我要穩穩的幸福
能用生命做長度
無論我身在何處
都不會迷途

我要穩穩的幸福
這是我想要的幸福

Saturday 8 November 2014

Stages of death according to buddhism

Following death, according to Tibetan Buddhism, the spirit of the departed goes through a process lasting forty-nine days that is divided into three stages called "bardos." At the conclusion of the bardo, the person either enters nirvana or returns to Earth for rebirth.

 

It is imperative that the dying individual remain fully aware for as long as possible because the thoughts one has while passing over into death heavily influence the nature of both the after-death experience and, if one fails to achieve nirvana, the state of one's next incarnation.

 

Stage one of the Bardo (called the "Chikai" Bardo), the bardo of dying, begins at death and extends from half a day to four days. This is the period of time necessary for the departed to realize that they have dropped the body. The consciousness of the departed has an ecstatic experience of the primary "Clear White Light" at the death moment. Everyone gets at least a fleeting glimpse of the light. The more spiritually developed see it longer, and are able to go beyond it to a higher level of reality. The average person, however, drops into the lesser state of the secondary "clear light."

 

In stage two (called the "Chonyid" Bardo), the bardo of Luminous Mind, the departed encounters the hallucinations resulting from the karma created during life. Unless highly developed, the individual will feel that they are still in the body. The departed then encounters various apparitions, the "peaceful" and "wrathful" deities, that are actually personifications of human feelings and that, to successfully achieve nirvana, the deceased must encounter unflinchingly. Only the most evolved individuals can skip the bardo experience altogether and transit directly into a paradise realm. Stage three (called the "Sidpa" Bardo), the bardo of rebirth, is the process of reincarnation.