Monday, March 30, 2015

分享有意思的quote

网上读到这些一篇关于这些有意思的quote:


1) “However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”

2) “The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.”

3) “A jug fills drop by drop.”

4) “Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.”

5) “To understand everything is to forgive everything”

6) “Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.”

7) “Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.”

8) “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”

9) “In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.”

10) “In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.”

11) “Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.”
12) “Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.”

13) “There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.”
14) “It is easy to see the faults of others, but difficult to see once own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in the wind, but one conceals one’s own faults as a cunning gambler conceals his dice.”

15) “I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.”

16) “The mind is everything. What you think you become.”

17) “Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.”

18) “We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”
19) “Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.”

20) “Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.”

21) “You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself”

22) “You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”

23) “To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others”

24) “Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”

25) “Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.”

Saturday, March 14, 2015

静坐常思己过,闲谈莫论人非

在四众佛子共勉语,圣严法师说过:“慈悲没有敌人,智慧不起烦恼。”

我不够慈悲,所以有时感觉到有些人有敌意,不够智慧,所以心生烦恼。

在静思语中,证严上人说过:“看别人不顺眼,是自己修养不够。欣赏别人就是庄严自己。以佛心看人,则遍地都是佛。以鬼心看人,则处处是狰狞的恶鬼。心美看什么都顺眼。”

我修养不够,所以有时无法做到把每个人都当作是好人。
会觉得有些人喜欢讲别人的是非,像嗜血的鲨鱼,闻到别人“受伤流血”,就会落井下石。
面对那些人,我无法以平等心对待,内心筑有高高的防堤。
修行不够,所以自己还是一个容易被别人言语伤害的人。

最近看了一部挺有意思的电影《The Imitation Game》,故事主人翁是Alan Turing。
Alan Turing在第二次世界大战成功解破了德军的Enigma coding, 让战争缩短了几年,减少了很多伤亡。

里面有挺多有趣的quote:

“Do you know why people like violence? 
It is because it feels good. 
Humans find violence deeply satisfying. 
But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes... hollow.”

觉得讲是非也是一样,remove the satisfaction, the act becomes hollow

“When people talk to each other, they never say what they mean. 
They say something else and you're expected to just know what they mean.”

觉得以上这句话是经典。可惜自己不善于了解别人的话中话。

虽然个性孤僻,Alan Turing对于Artificial Intelligence 有很大的贡献。他的概念Universal Turing Machine,现代人称为电脑。世界大战结束后,他曾经在曼彻斯特大学当过教授,也造就了后来Tom Kilburn和Freddie William在曼彻斯特大学1948年制造了the world's first stored program computer。曼彻斯特大学的School of Mathematics建筑物也被命名为Alan Turing Building。

Imitation Game里面有一句挺热血的一句话:

"Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of 
who do the things no one can imagine"

就像静思语中的“不要小看自己,因为人有无限的可能。”

要相信就算不善于拉拢关系,老实人也可以有自己的成就!



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