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From the Plum Village dharma talk given on March 20, 2014

Four Qualities of Happiness using Pebble Meditation

Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, known as Guan Yin to the Japanese and Chinese, and Shadakshari to the Tibetans, is the bodhisattva who most embodies compassion. The name Avalokitesvara has its root meaning as "he who observes the sounds of the world". The great vow of Avalokitesvara is to listen to the supplications, and cries for help from those in difficulty in the world and to provide them with aid. He takes many different forms....male, female, four-armed, thousand-armed, human, non-human, teacher, student...whatever expedient means are needed to help people most effectively. 

Great Compassion Mantra can relieve living beings of all their sufferings and difficulties. Because it relieves suffering and bestows happiness, it is called the Great Compassion Mantra.

Ten Small Mantras are usually chanted at Morning Recitation.  

A foundational text of Mahayana Buddhism, the Heart Sutra is one of the shortest versions of a series of sutras.  The Heart Sutra is said to teach the core, the essence, the heart, of the Buddha's teachings and is recited by the majority of Buddhists around the world almost every morning.   

The Heart Sutra is not a document that you read one time and expect to understand it. It is not a short, concise, summary of the teachings in the sense of Cliff Notes. Rather, it is a summary of how to look at the core teachings you learn in other documents from the point of view of Emptiness. That point of view is so contrary to our normal way of looking at the world.  The Heart Sutra is pointing out that in the absolute view of reality, the view from the mountaintop of Emptiness, things are not as they appear in our everyday conventional view of reality.

Once the sutra deconstructs our normal view of reality, it finishes by telling us how Bodhisattvas and Buddhas see it. It tells us that the way to nirvana, a correct understanding of reality, is to get rid of the obstructions in our mind; to eliminate the negative mental factors that corrupt our perceptions of everything we see, hear, smell, taste, touch, and think. 

By eliminating these obstructions, we see that everything is impermanent and non-self existent; including ourselves.  We are actually and simply just a pure awareness; pure, unobstructed, unmanifested, undefined, infinite awareness. 

Hongfa Temple is arguably the only major Buddhist temple in Shenzhen. Shenzhen Hongfa Temple is built on a series of terraces. 
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《大悲咒》是觀世音萻薩的大慈悲心，無上菩提心，以及濟世渡人。據《大悲心陀羅尼經》經文的記載：此咒系由過去九十九億恆河沙諸佛所宣說，後於千光王靜住如來的淨土時，千光王靜住如來為觀世音菩薩傳授「廣大圓滿無礙大悲陀羅尼」，並且對他說：「善男子汝當持此心咒，普為未來惡世一切眾生作大利樂。」。當時觀世音菩薩聽了此咒之後，即由初地菩薩，升至第八地－不動地菩薩果位。於是心生歡喜發出誓願說：「設我當來之世能利樂一切眾生者，令我即時身生千手千眼具足。」如此發願後，果真頓時身生千手千眼，並且十方大地都為之震動，十方諸佛亦都放出無量光明，遍照十方無邊世界。

佛教的十小咒主要由釋迦摩尼佛、觀世音菩薩、藥師佛等佛菩薩所說。咒語凝聚了十方三世眾佛菩薩的很多功德能量。

《心經》，具稱《般若波羅密多心經》，是佛教經論中文字最為簡煉，而內容又極為豐富的一部典藉。它和《金剛經》一樣，在社會上廣泛流傳，影響極大。

《心經》在佛教中屬於般若系經典，指出了苦、無常、無我，空。心（梵hrdaya ），指心臟，含有精要、心髓等意。本經係將內容龐大之般若經濃縮，成為表現'般若皆空'精神之簡潔經典。全經舉出五蘊、三科、十二因緣、四諦等法以總述諸法皆空之理。“色即是空，空即是色”一語，即是出自本經。
般若。智慧也。波羅蜜。到彼岸也。多。定也。經。徑也。言此經乃定心之徑路也。

弘法寺位於中國廣東省深圳市羅湖區仙湖植物園內，背靠梧桐山。弘法寺選址所在地被稱之為“深圳綠色心肺”，1985年7月1日動土起造，是中華人 民共和國建立以來國內興建的首座寺院，現任方丈為印順大和尚。

Hongfa Temple - Great Compassion Mantra, Ten Small Mantras, Heart Sutra / 弘法寺 - 大悲咒, 十小咒, 心經

https://www.liberationinmind.com/guided-meditations/letting-go-10-minutes/  I hope you enjoy using this 10 minute guided meditation for “letting go”.

If you have listened to the intro once, you can skip it the next time by starting the session at 2:16.﻿ 

The aim of this guided meditation is letting go of any thoughts that might be going around in your mind. For example, letting go of what has happened during your day, or worries about the future, or any difficulties there might be with other people, or whatever thoughts you would like to let go of.

It is about letting go, and being free of those thoughts, so you can be more relaxed and calm, and be able to be in this present moment, and enjoy it, just as it is.

Also, try using this 10 minute guided meditation at times when you are stressed or tired or there are negative thoughts going around in your mind, and hopefully after listening to it, you will feel better and be more relaxed and calm and focused in a pleasant way.
So this guided meditation can help to reduce stress and anxiety, and to help you to feel more calm and relaxed and focused.
In general, the more you use this guided meditation, the more benefit you will receive from it.

There is also a sleep version of this guided meditation for letting go. It is available here on soundcloud or on the website at:
https://www.liberationinmind.com/guided-meditations/letting-go-sleep/

I hope this 10 minute guided meditation for letting go works well for you. If it does, I would be very grateful if you could share it with someone else who may also benefit from it.

Thank you.

Paul

https://www.liberationinmind.com/guided-meditations/letting-go-10-minutes/

LETTING GO - 10 minute Guided Meditation

Letting Go 10 minute guided meditation – Let go of stress & anxiety & be more calm and focused

Taken from the Old Thundridge Records' CD release Rib007 'The Romantics: The Poetry of Coleridge'.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Kubla Khan - Ralph Richardson

Taken from the Old Thundridge Records' CD release Rib025 'Nothing but memories: The Collected Poetry of W. B. Yeats - Volume One'.

W.B. Yeats - Crazy Jane On The Mountain - Siobhan McKenna

An excerpt from the dharma talk given on Thursday, December 13, 2012 from New Hamlet, Plum Village, France

Loneliness is the Ill Being of our Time

it's not uncommon for physical illnesses, especially ones causing chronic pain, to lead to mental suffering. In this visulisation meditation, you are guided to downsize your pain through various exercises. You will be asked to rate the pain and see it as a shape and colour, and by altering your image of the pain, you will be able to reduce your pain levels.

www.buddhismguide.org

Downsizing Pain

Forgiveness doesn’t mean being passive or not taking action. It doesn’t mean standing down when we need to protect ourselves or someone else from harm. You practice forgiveness for your own sake, so you are not locked in bitterness, sadness and resentment. These just harden your emotions, narrow your options in responding to life, cloud your judgment and shift your attention from those who matter to you to those whom you dislike. This guided meditation helps you to give forgiveness to yourself and others.

Finding Forgiveness

Karma Yeshe Rabgye is a Western Monk in the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Originally from England, he now teaches Buddhism, mindfulness and meditation to people all over the world.

Downsizing Pain

Buddhism Guide Meditations