雖然眼、耳、鼻、舌、身等五根，易與塵境相合而造惡業；但五根也有增上力量，善加運用，就能為自我生命創造出價值。
一名年輕比丘跟隨師父修行，常問師父：人生的價值為何？一日，師父拿出一顆石頭，要他拿到市集讓人出價。
某甲出價兩元，某乙看見說可做秤錘，出價十元；翌日比丘再到市集，多人圍觀讚歎石頭很美，當場有人出一千元高價，旁邊的人馬上出更高價錢競爭……最後，竟然喊到十萬元！
比丘不解，回去向師父報告。師父藉此機緣開示：「任何東西都有價值，包括石頭在內，端看如何運用。人生價值的高低，也不在於外在眼光，而在於我們給自己的評價——要具備珠寶商的眼光，發現自身寶藏，創造人生價值。」
多年前，一位居士送一顆方形的蛇紋石來花蓮；因精舍簡陋無處置放，就擱在大殿外的草坪。一位泰國法師來到精舍參訪，看到這塊「軟玉」，讚歎好美！遂以此致贈法師，他十分歡喜，說要帶回泰國雕成一尊玉佛。
人生的價值在於自我創造，這塊「軟玉」若一直閒置，永遠只是一塊石頭；雕成佛像讓人敬奉，價值就能發揮。
若根塵和意識糾纏、貪戀，模糊了判斷，會糟蹋自己內在最有價值的佛性。生命的價值可以擴大、可以加深，端看自我能否時時多用心！
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喜歡這一句：要具備珠寶商的眼光，發現自身寶藏，創造人生價值。
上人有句靜思語：不要小看自己，因爲人有無限可能。也許東方人的教育關係，我發現，當我們問一個人他有什麽長處時，普遍上，大家都比較容易說出自己的很多缺點，而數不出自己的優點。謙虛、縮小自己是美德，但是，往往在這樣的教育下，我們忘了自己的價值而沒有好好發揮良能。
願人人都是自身珠寶商，發現自己的寶藏，發揮無限的良能，服務和奉獻人群。
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Monday, June 21, 2010
Noni Fruit Juice - Is it really good for us?
I accidentally came across some articles and comments about noni juice last week and 2 days later, I received an email from a well-hearted friend sharing an article on the benefit of drinking noni fruits. It leads me to writing this...
Below are some of the websites that talked about Noni and commented that it is not as good as it claimed...
http://www.fredericpatenaude.com/blog/?p=52
http://www.livescience.com/health/061017_bad_juice.html
http://noni.worldwidewarning.net/index.php
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art4883.asp
It seems that the actual 'real' noni juice is very horrible tasting and the Tahitian only eat it for medical purposes. The juice is prepared by putting these weird-smelling noni fruits in a jar and let them ferment for several days before collecting the fermented juice. The smell is equalized to the smell of liquid that formed at the bottom of a trash container!! However, it is made palatable by adding a lot of sugar and unknown stuffs and sell it with very high price with claims of great values to justify for the price.
I have heard of noni juice since many years ago from friends and relatives. However, I was never paying any attention to it and never have a taste on it before. Anyhow, with so many claims that it is good for health, for years, I thought it is a good product for health until recently. Learning nutrition and in the path of looking for a natural way to achieve healthy living, this leads me to open my eyes to many products selling in the market to distinguish the bad from the bundles.
I personally do not have any experience with Noni Juice. Just would like to provide more information for everyone as reference. With so many scam and false information out there, we really need to choose carefully and wisely before spending our hard-earned money on things that might not benefit us, or could even cause harm to us.
Below are some of the websites that talked about Noni and commented that it is not as good as it claimed...
http://www.fredericpatenaude.com/blog/?p=52
http://www.livescience.com/health/061017_bad_juice.html
http://noni.worldwidewarning.net/index.php
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art4883.asp
It seems that the actual 'real' noni juice is very horrible tasting and the Tahitian only eat it for medical purposes. The juice is prepared by putting these weird-smelling noni fruits in a jar and let them ferment for several days before collecting the fermented juice. The smell is equalized to the smell of liquid that formed at the bottom of a trash container!! However, it is made palatable by adding a lot of sugar and unknown stuffs and sell it with very high price with claims of great values to justify for the price.
I have heard of noni juice since many years ago from friends and relatives. However, I was never paying any attention to it and never have a taste on it before. Anyhow, with so many claims that it is good for health, for years, I thought it is a good product for health until recently. Learning nutrition and in the path of looking for a natural way to achieve healthy living, this leads me to open my eyes to many products selling in the market to distinguish the bad from the bundles.
I personally do not have any experience with Noni Juice. Just would like to provide more information for everyone as reference. With so many scam and false information out there, we really need to choose carefully and wisely before spending our hard-earned money on things that might not benefit us, or could even cause harm to us.
Friday, June 18, 2010
How does MSG and Aspartame Affect our Health
MSG (monosodium glutamate) is a common name that most people familiar of. It is known that adding some MSG in the food during cooking can make the dish so much more delicious, and I suspect almost all foods that we buy from any restaurants and hawker stalls are MSG-added. The advertisements said it enhances the taste of the dishes while providing us amino acids that are needed by our body. Is it really so? Is it really harmless to our health?
Monosodium Glutamate is a sodium salt naturally occurring from non-essential amino acid, glutamic acid. However, the sodium salt is nothing but natural to our body when it is ingested in this form.
Aspartame is an artificial sweetener that many uses as substitute of sugar in health products and diet foods. I have even seen many candies in the market that are using aspartame now a days instead of sugar, which is happily ingested by kids in daily basis, and 3-in-1 coffee that is very commonly consumed by working class and students.
I was reading the interview of Dr. Blaylock with Mike Adams [2] on the topics about MSG and Aspartame and I think many might be interested in the information revealed by him. Below are the extract from his sharing:
MSG:
1. When cancer cells were exposed to MSG, they become more mobile and that enhances metastasis or spread --> started moving through tissues
2. If a person has low level magnesium in his body, ingesting MSG will cause the level of glutamate in the blood rise as high as 20 to 40-fold and he is prone to sudden cardiac death. Other milder effects are diarrhea, upset stomach, irritable bowel or reflux.
3. Many food manufacturers substitute MSG with hydrolyzed protein and caseinate, soy extracts, soy broth, that are actually also source of glutamate. Some were even found in infant and toddlers foods.
4. Glutamate destroys nervous system
5. Early observation with exitotoxicity of glutamate is obesity. MSG-exposed animals is found to prefer carbohydrates and sugar-rich foods.
6. Yeast extracts, soy extracts and soy protein isolates, which are found in lots of vegetarian health foods, contain high levels of glutamate.
7. In a 25-year study done, people who consumed the most soy products were followed for 25 years and did serial CT scans of their brain. It is found that the people who consumed the most soybean products had the greatest incidence of dementia (癡呆） and brain atrophy (shrinking brain that might bring to decrease in functionally of the brain).
8. In natural food (such as tomatoes), all types of glutamate are bound in amino acids grouping and we absorb it slowly as combined amino acids that is broken down in the liver where it's released in very low concentrations that the body can deal with.
9. When we hydrolyze these proteins or use yeast extract/enzymes to break down these proteins into free released amino acids, they are no longer natural. When they enter our GI tract, they are absorbed as free amino acids and cause the glutamate level in the blood goes up significantly. Our body and blood brain barrier is not constructed to handle such high levels of glutamate.
10. Magnesium can block glutamate receptor and naturally reduces toxicity. Antioxidant is powerful at inhibiting excitotoxicity. Combination of B vitamins also block excitotoxicity.
11. Usually restaurants buy their sauces in bulk with no ingredients listed. "Free of MSG" means they didn't put in there themselves.
12. Infant formula: concern about fluoride level, manganese level and the glutamate levels in the soy infant formulas.
13. we are all exposed to toxins in the modern living -- mercury, aluminum, pesticides, herbicides that produce brain damage through an excitotoxic mechanism. When we add MSG to the foods, we tremendously accelerate this toxicity. That's why we see this explosion in neurodegenerative diseases; Alzheimer's and autism and Parkinson's.
Aspartame:
1. When animals being fed with aspartame throughout their lives and let them die a natural death, a dramatic and statistically significant increase in the related cancers of lymphoma and leukemia is found. This is the same effect as exposure to the same doses of formaldehyde (classified by WHO in June 1994 as a known human carcinogen associated with nasal sinus cancer and nasopharyngeal cancer, and possibly with leukemia [1])
2. If you just drink a single diet cola today or sweeten something with NutraSweet (a brand of aspartame), you are accumulating damage everyday. Eventually you are going to produce this necessary pattern of DNA damage to initiate the cancer. Then the aspartic acid component of aspartame will make the cancer grow very rapidly. --> Aspartame causes cancer, and making the cancer multiply very rapidly.
Advice from Dr. Blaylock:
We need to abstain from all these things. Aspartame is not a necessary nutrient and neither is MSG. If you want to avoid obesity, metabolic syndrome, neurodegenerative diseases and cancer, and if you don't want to make your cancer more aggressive, then you need to stay away from these products. The damage affects pregnant women, unborn babies and newborns. It can produce changes in the brain that are irreversible, depending on when it is stopped. It is found it reprograms the wiring of the brain, particularly the hypothalamus, so it doesn't function normally. These children are abnormal for the rest of their lives in terms of their physiological function.
References:
[1]Wikipedia - formaldehyde
[2] The Truth About Aspartame, MSG and Excitotoxins, An Interview with Dr. Russell Blaylock with Mike Adams, Truth Publishing.
Monosodium Glutamate is a sodium salt naturally occurring from non-essential amino acid, glutamic acid. However, the sodium salt is nothing but natural to our body when it is ingested in this form.
Aspartame is an artificial sweetener that many uses as substitute of sugar in health products and diet foods. I have even seen many candies in the market that are using aspartame now a days instead of sugar, which is happily ingested by kids in daily basis, and 3-in-1 coffee that is very commonly consumed by working class and students.
I was reading the interview of Dr. Blaylock with Mike Adams [2] on the topics about MSG and Aspartame and I think many might be interested in the information revealed by him. Below are the extract from his sharing:
MSG:
1. When cancer cells were exposed to MSG, they become more mobile and that enhances metastasis or spread --> started moving through tissues
2. If a person has low level magnesium in his body, ingesting MSG will cause the level of glutamate in the blood rise as high as 20 to 40-fold and he is prone to sudden cardiac death. Other milder effects are diarrhea, upset stomach, irritable bowel or reflux.
3. Many food manufacturers substitute MSG with hydrolyzed protein and caseinate, soy extracts, soy broth, that are actually also source of glutamate. Some were even found in infant and toddlers foods.
4. Glutamate destroys nervous system
5. Early observation with exitotoxicity of glutamate is obesity. MSG-exposed animals is found to prefer carbohydrates and sugar-rich foods.
6. Yeast extracts, soy extracts and soy protein isolates, which are found in lots of vegetarian health foods, contain high levels of glutamate.
7. In a 25-year study done, people who consumed the most soy products were followed for 25 years and did serial CT scans of their brain. It is found that the people who consumed the most soybean products had the greatest incidence of dementia (癡呆） and brain atrophy (shrinking brain that might bring to decrease in functionally of the brain).
8. In natural food (such as tomatoes), all types of glutamate are bound in amino acids grouping and we absorb it slowly as combined amino acids that is broken down in the liver where it's released in very low concentrations that the body can deal with.
9. When we hydrolyze these proteins or use yeast extract/enzymes to break down these proteins into free released amino acids, they are no longer natural. When they enter our GI tract, they are absorbed as free amino acids and cause the glutamate level in the blood goes up significantly. Our body and blood brain barrier is not constructed to handle such high levels of glutamate.
10. Magnesium can block glutamate receptor and naturally reduces toxicity. Antioxidant is powerful at inhibiting excitotoxicity. Combination of B vitamins also block excitotoxicity.
11. Usually restaurants buy their sauces in bulk with no ingredients listed. "Free of MSG" means they didn't put in there themselves.
12. Infant formula: concern about fluoride level, manganese level and the glutamate levels in the soy infant formulas.
13. we are all exposed to toxins in the modern living -- mercury, aluminum, pesticides, herbicides that produce brain damage through an excitotoxic mechanism. When we add MSG to the foods, we tremendously accelerate this toxicity. That's why we see this explosion in neurodegenerative diseases; Alzheimer's and autism and Parkinson's.
Aspartame:
1. When animals being fed with aspartame throughout their lives and let them die a natural death, a dramatic and statistically significant increase in the related cancers of lymphoma and leukemia is found. This is the same effect as exposure to the same doses of formaldehyde (classified by WHO in June 1994 as a known human carcinogen associated with nasal sinus cancer and nasopharyngeal cancer, and possibly with leukemia [1])
2. If you just drink a single diet cola today or sweeten something with NutraSweet (a brand of aspartame), you are accumulating damage everyday. Eventually you are going to produce this necessary pattern of DNA damage to initiate the cancer. Then the aspartic acid component of aspartame will make the cancer grow very rapidly. --> Aspartame causes cancer, and making the cancer multiply very rapidly.
Advice from Dr. Blaylock:
We need to abstain from all these things. Aspartame is not a necessary nutrient and neither is MSG. If you want to avoid obesity, metabolic syndrome, neurodegenerative diseases and cancer, and if you don't want to make your cancer more aggressive, then you need to stay away from these products. The damage affects pregnant women, unborn babies and newborns. It can produce changes in the brain that are irreversible, depending on when it is stopped. It is found it reprograms the wiring of the brain, particularly the hypothalamus, so it doesn't function normally. These children are abnormal for the rest of their lives in terms of their physiological function.
References:
[1]Wikipedia - formaldehyde
[2] The Truth About Aspartame, MSG and Excitotoxins, An Interview with Dr. Russell Blaylock with Mike Adams, Truth Publishing.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Five Ways You Can Gain Health and Vitality for Free (or Nearly Free)
(NaturalNews) They say the best things in life are free, and when it comes to your health it couldn't be more true. Sure, anyone can spend a fortune on superfoods, detox treatments and natural cleaning products. And while all of these can be beneficial, sometimes it's more than our budgets can handle. We have to prioritize and do what we can to live a healthy lifestyle in whatever place we are in life. Fortunately, good health doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg. Here are five ways anyone can boost their health and vitality without spending a dime (or maybe just a few dimes):
1. Sunlight
Thank goodness Uncle Sam hasn't figured out how to patent and tax the health benefits of a daily dose of sun. Spending 10-20 minutes in direct sunlight every day is the perfect way to boost your vitamin D and serotonin supply. It can help regulate your circadian rhythm as well. Your physical health and your mental well-being will thank you.
2. Dry Skin Brushing
One of the most effective - and inexpensive - detox treatments imaginable is dry skin brushing. All you need is a simple natural-hair brush and a few minutes before you hop into the shower each morning. Dry skin brushing stimulates detoxification through lymphatic circulation. It also gently exfoliates, leaving skin soft and supple. Read more about dry brushing here:
http://www.naturalnews.com/025240.html
3. Hot Baths
Right up there with dry skin brushing, a comfortably hot bath is a simple and inexpensive way to detox. Not to mention 20 minutes in the tub is a perfect way to relax and unwind after a hectic day. And why not light a few candles and put on your favorite music while you're at it? Add apple cider vinegar, baking soda, sea salt or epsom salt to your bath to really facilitate detoxification.
4. Warm Water and Lemon in the Morning
Breakfast may be called the most important meal of the day, but before chowing down, try this: have at least 8 ounces of warm water with a slice of lemon or just some lemon juice shortly after waking in the morning. This rehydrates the body after a long night and supports the kidneys as well as the digestive system. Then have breakfast a half hour later. Now that's the way to start the day.
5. Mother Nature
Similar to the first suggestion but not quite the same, spend some time in nature as much as possible. A few minutes a day can work wonders. People weren't meant to spend life indoors under fluorescent lights and in front of computer screens. Escape to a park, a garden or your own backyard. Even houseplants can help. The presence of natural water, such as a lake, stream or ocean, is especially soothing and revitalizing. If this is something you can't do every day, then try to make a block of time for nature on a weekly basis instead.
1. Sunlight
Thank goodness Uncle Sam hasn't figured out how to patent and tax the health benefits of a daily dose of sun. Spending 10-20 minutes in direct sunlight every day is the perfect way to boost your vitamin D and serotonin supply. It can help regulate your circadian rhythm as well. Your physical health and your mental well-being will thank you.
2. Dry Skin Brushing
One of the most effective - and inexpensive - detox treatments imaginable is dry skin brushing. All you need is a simple natural-hair brush and a few minutes before you hop into the shower each morning. Dry skin brushing stimulates detoxification through lymphatic circulation. It also gently exfoliates, leaving skin soft and supple. Read more about dry brushing here:
http://www.naturalnews.com/025240.html
3. Hot Baths
Right up there with dry skin brushing, a comfortably hot bath is a simple and inexpensive way to detox. Not to mention 20 minutes in the tub is a perfect way to relax and unwind after a hectic day. And why not light a few candles and put on your favorite music while you're at it? Add apple cider vinegar, baking soda, sea salt or epsom salt to your bath to really facilitate detoxification.
4. Warm Water and Lemon in the Morning
Breakfast may be called the most important meal of the day, but before chowing down, try this: have at least 8 ounces of warm water with a slice of lemon or just some lemon juice shortly after waking in the morning. This rehydrates the body after a long night and supports the kidneys as well as the digestive system. Then have breakfast a half hour later. Now that's the way to start the day.
5. Mother Nature
Similar to the first suggestion but not quite the same, spend some time in nature as much as possible. A few minutes a day can work wonders. People weren't meant to spend life indoors under fluorescent lights and in front of computer screens. Escape to a park, a garden or your own backyard. Even houseplants can help. The presence of natural water, such as a lake, stream or ocean, is especially soothing and revitalizing. If this is something you can't do every day, then try to make a block of time for nature on a weekly basis instead.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
生機飲食是健康的重要因素之一
http://www.naturalnews.com/023401.html
從這個實驗，我們真得可以看到，正確的飲食方法的確可以讓我們的身體自我康復，還於我們健康年輕的身體，清晰的思路還有雀躍的心情。
隨著社會的繁榮和進步，人人的生活逐漸富裕，健康卻漸走下坡。最近發現，這一兩年來，越來越多的人開始尋找健康之道，更開始可以接受健康從改變飲食開始的看法。而生機飲食，是一個已經被證實可以帶給人們健康的飲食方式。
由於傳統中醫的影響，對於華人來説，生吃似乎是不平衡的飲食方式，所以很難被接受。在這樣的情形下，我想，尋找一個平衡點是一個不錯的方法。對於華人，完全生吃好象是不可能的事，因爲中醫常說生吃會寒。但是,食物中有些属寒,也有些是属温性的,只要吃得均衡就不会有问题。更重要的事，我们不能每天都吃着同样的几样菜而已，而是应该轮流将所有菜的种类都加入我们的食谱中，吃得均衡，吃得多姿多彩，也吃得更健康。
從這個實驗，我們真得可以看到，正確的飲食方法的確可以讓我們的身體自我康復，還於我們健康年輕的身體，清晰的思路還有雀躍的心情。
隨著社會的繁榮和進步，人人的生活逐漸富裕，健康卻漸走下坡。最近發現，這一兩年來，越來越多的人開始尋找健康之道，更開始可以接受健康從改變飲食開始的看法。而生機飲食，是一個已經被證實可以帶給人們健康的飲食方式。
由於傳統中醫的影響，對於華人來説，生吃似乎是不平衡的飲食方式，所以很難被接受。在這樣的情形下，我想，尋找一個平衡點是一個不錯的方法。對於華人，完全生吃好象是不可能的事，因爲中醫常說生吃會寒。但是,食物中有些属寒,也有些是属温性的,只要吃得均衡就不会有问题。更重要的事，我们不能每天都吃着同样的几样菜而已，而是应该轮流将所有菜的种类都加入我们的食谱中，吃得均衡，吃得多姿多彩，也吃得更健康。
Monday, May 17, 2010
對食物充滿好奇的十三個月
寶寶已經超過十三個月大了。現在的他，忽然對我們的盤中的食物很有興趣。只要是我們放進嘴巴吃的，他都會一直念“mum mum"，看著盤裏的食物，要求我們給他吃。如果我們沒有理他，他就會開始大聲抗議。他饞嘴的樣子真的好可愛！
但是，我這個推動生機飲食的媽媽就開始頭疼了。因爲我們家裏的大人，都還不能完全生機飲食，這樣就無法給寶寶一個很好的榜樣，那該如何是好？
之前，我還可以事先在家準備好他的食物，帶在身邊，當我們外出用餐時，寶寶也有他自己的一份餐點可以吃。但是，現在的他好聰明，只選擇我們吃的東西，我們沒有吃的他都不要。
唯一的辦法，就是盡量讓自己吃的都是適合寶寶吃的食物，那就可以減少讓他進食低能量、沒有營養的食物。比如，外出晚餐，我就要一份生菜做的三明治、或是水果、蔬菜沙拉、果汁或酸乳酪果汁等，這樣我邊吃，還可以邊喂他，這樣的晚餐寶寶會很滿意，大人也會很吃得很安心、開心。
在馬來西亞，其實我們可以很方便的買得到好多健康的食物，比如椰子、榴蓮、芒果、木瓜等。。。這些都是可以在街邊、巴刹買得到的很普遍的食物。對於小孩，甚至剛開始吃固體的小寶寶，都是很好的選擇和營養來源。只要媽媽們稍微用點兒心思，寶寶也可以吃得很健康。更重要的是，大人們要做孩子的好榜樣，千萬不要在寶寶面前吃垃圾零食（如果真的非吃不可，可以不在寶寶的視線範圍内吃），因爲這樣的榜樣也會養成寶寶將來吃零食的習慣。假如真得要吃零食，可以自己在家準備健康的零食，比如葡萄乾、乾果、葵花子、水果、小番茄、黃瓜（切便）等。大人和小孩都可以隨手拿來吃，那樣就可以減少吃垃圾零食的機會了。
但是，我這個推動生機飲食的媽媽就開始頭疼了。因爲我們家裏的大人，都還不能完全生機飲食，這樣就無法給寶寶一個很好的榜樣，那該如何是好？
之前，我還可以事先在家準備好他的食物，帶在身邊，當我們外出用餐時，寶寶也有他自己的一份餐點可以吃。但是，現在的他好聰明，只選擇我們吃的東西，我們沒有吃的他都不要。
唯一的辦法，就是盡量讓自己吃的都是適合寶寶吃的食物，那就可以減少讓他進食低能量、沒有營養的食物。比如，外出晚餐，我就要一份生菜做的三明治、或是水果、蔬菜沙拉、果汁或酸乳酪果汁等，這樣我邊吃，還可以邊喂他，這樣的晚餐寶寶會很滿意，大人也會很吃得很安心、開心。
在馬來西亞，其實我們可以很方便的買得到好多健康的食物，比如椰子、榴蓮、芒果、木瓜等。。。這些都是可以在街邊、巴刹買得到的很普遍的食物。對於小孩，甚至剛開始吃固體的小寶寶，都是很好的選擇和營養來源。只要媽媽們稍微用點兒心思，寶寶也可以吃得很健康。更重要的是，大人們要做孩子的好榜樣，千萬不要在寶寶面前吃垃圾零食（如果真的非吃不可，可以不在寶寶的視線範圍内吃），因爲這樣的榜樣也會養成寶寶將來吃零食的習慣。假如真得要吃零食，可以自己在家準備健康的零食，比如葡萄乾、乾果、葵花子、水果、小番茄、黃瓜（切便）等。大人和小孩都可以隨手拿來吃，那樣就可以減少吃垃圾零食的機會了。
每週證嚴法師說故事 - 公平分配財產
每週證嚴法師說故事 - 公平分配財產
在百喻經中有一則很有趣的短文──有一位父親，年老多病，但是他很有錢、財產很多。老人有兩個兒子，當他病重時很掛慮那些財產，於是說：「將來我要把財產分給這兩個兒子，不過，一定要分得很公平。」到底要怎麼分法？他說：「請我們族裡年齡最長的長輩來做公平的見證人。」交代之後老人就過世了。
他的兒子想，父親交代過財產要好好公平分配，必須趕快請長輩來做公證人，看如何能公平分配。老人來了就說：「要把任何事都處理得很公平，唯有一個方法，就是把每樣財產（物品）都分成兩半。」這聽起來似乎很有道理。於是就請人來幫忙，把每樣東西都分兩半──衣服撕成一半一半的，碗、盤也都切分成兩半，傢俱也分兩半，一切都分成兩半。
這雖是一則短文，但是意義深遠。世間物究竟要怎麼才能分毫不差而且完整又公平呢？實在是不可得啊！世上無法做到這樣的程度，若一定要如此，那一切都要被破壞，不得完整啊！人與人之間多方計較，有什麼能保持完整呢？
心能知足，一切就會公平；心能知足，會覺得一切都很富有，所以一切唯心啊！學佛就是要學這一點──心中覺得一切都很富有、很滿足，不管是增或減，都應該很歡喜地接受。
今生能聚在一起，是累積過去生的那份緣與情，未來還有很長的路要走，所以，大家要很珍惜現在的這份緣，彼此之間要互相關懷、互相敬愛，常常自我警惕！不要計較，計較就是吃虧，愈是計較，所得的愈不完整，計較到後來，什麼都得不到！
後記 小小心得：
總覺得只有生活得不計較，才能輕安自在。
小時候，自從我有自己的一閒睡房開始，記得自己總是很計較有沒有人進過我的房間、動過我的東西。每天放學回來，縂要先看看房間有沒有不一樣，就是害怕姐妹會進來亂動我的東西。對於‘我的’都很執著。這樣的情形一直維持到我上大學后，由於長時間不在家，很多東西放著沒用，而且也顧不到了以後，忽然才對這‘屬於我的’的觀念放開了。到後來，甚至把房間讓給了小妹用。那個時候，由於來回家裏和讀書的地方，慢慢地覺悟很多事情都不是恒常的，也不專屬自己的，我們只能發揮我們的使用權。所以心胸也就開闊了很多。
現在，我們家的生活當中已經少了這一分的計較，更重要的是讓物品發揮它的良能，大家都懂得惜物惜福，生活真得輕鬆自在許多。
在百喻經中有一則很有趣的短文──有一位父親，年老多病，但是他很有錢、財產很多。老人有兩個兒子，當他病重時很掛慮那些財產，於是說：「將來我要把財產分給這兩個兒子，不過，一定要分得很公平。」到底要怎麼分法？他說：「請我們族裡年齡最長的長輩來做公平的見證人。」交代之後老人就過世了。
他的兒子想，父親交代過財產要好好公平分配，必須趕快請長輩來做公證人，看如何能公平分配。老人來了就說：「要把任何事都處理得很公平，唯有一個方法，就是把每樣財產（物品）都分成兩半。」這聽起來似乎很有道理。於是就請人來幫忙，把每樣東西都分兩半──衣服撕成一半一半的，碗、盤也都切分成兩半，傢俱也分兩半，一切都分成兩半。
這雖是一則短文，但是意義深遠。世間物究竟要怎麼才能分毫不差而且完整又公平呢？實在是不可得啊！世上無法做到這樣的程度，若一定要如此，那一切都要被破壞，不得完整啊！人與人之間多方計較，有什麼能保持完整呢？
心能知足，一切就會公平；心能知足，會覺得一切都很富有，所以一切唯心啊！學佛就是要學這一點──心中覺得一切都很富有、很滿足，不管是增或減，都應該很歡喜地接受。
今生能聚在一起，是累積過去生的那份緣與情，未來還有很長的路要走，所以，大家要很珍惜現在的這份緣，彼此之間要互相關懷、互相敬愛，常常自我警惕！不要計較，計較就是吃虧，愈是計較，所得的愈不完整，計較到後來，什麼都得不到！
後記 小小心得：
總覺得只有生活得不計較，才能輕安自在。
小時候，自從我有自己的一閒睡房開始，記得自己總是很計較有沒有人進過我的房間、動過我的東西。每天放學回來，縂要先看看房間有沒有不一樣，就是害怕姐妹會進來亂動我的東西。對於‘我的’都很執著。這樣的情形一直維持到我上大學后，由於長時間不在家，很多東西放著沒用，而且也顧不到了以後，忽然才對這‘屬於我的’的觀念放開了。到後來，甚至把房間讓給了小妹用。那個時候，由於來回家裏和讀書的地方，慢慢地覺悟很多事情都不是恒常的，也不專屬自己的，我們只能發揮我們的使用權。所以心胸也就開闊了很多。
現在，我們家的生活當中已經少了這一分的計較，更重要的是讓物品發揮它的良能，大家都懂得惜物惜福，生活真得輕鬆自在許多。
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