Saturday 29 October 2011

亦说佛法

人,总是充满了欲求好奇的心理,其中之最大莫过于探寻天、地、人、我生命之根源,更想超越世间而掌握宇宙之功能。

世间一切学问,大至宇宙,细至无间,都是为了解决身心性命的问题,都是为了研究“人生”。离开人生、身心性命的研讨,便不会有其他学问的存在而芸芸众生,茫茫世界,无论入世或出世的。一切宗教,哲学,乃至科学等,其最高目的,都是为了追求人生和宇宙的真理。但真理必是绝对的,真实不虚的,并且是可以由智慧而寻思求证得到的。因此世人才去探寻宗教的义理,追求哲学的睿思

佛法既不是宗教的迷信,也不是哲学的思想,更不是科学的囿于现实的有限知识。但是却可因之而对于宗教哲学和科学获得较深刻的认识,由此也许可以得到一些较大的启示。


佛教虽然也可归类为宗教,但祂却更是一种具有高深的哲学理论和科学实验的宗教。它的哲学理论常常超乎宗教范畴以外,所以也有人说佛教是一种哲学思想,而不是宗教。佛教 具有科学的实证方法,但是因为它是从人生本位去证验宇宙,所以人们会忽略它的科学基础,而仍然将它归之于宗教。可是事实上,佛教确实有科学的证验,及哲学的论据。它的哲学,是以科学为基础,去否定狭义的宗教:它的科学,是用哲学的论据,去为宗教做证明。


在机缘巧合下读起《楞严经》探讨生死涅槃,宇宙真妄令我恍然那“见、闻、觉”纠缠的启示,感恩之极。

Monday 24 October 2011

Are we only, ...Holograms ?

The idea of a holographic universe isn’t new. It has been postulated by U.S. physicist Leonard Susskind and Dutch Nobel Prize physicist Gerard Hooft that the same principle that makes a two-dimensional image on a flat surface look three-dimensional could be applied to our entire universe...............!

Interestingly, why do our senses perceive reality in such a distinct way if we appear to be no more than shadows on a flat screen? The problem could be that our human eyes and our powerful "telescope lenses" conform to the reality of such a hologram of the rest of the universe.

The second point to consider is that our organic brain can also be found in the illusion, never being able to interpret a universe with a greater or fewer number of dimensions than can be perceived.
 
Karl Pribram, founder of the Center of Cerebral Research at the University of Radford in Virginia, thinks that our brains are holograms interpreting the hologram universe, mathematically constructing a reality interpreting frequencies that come from another dimension—a domain of significant reality that transcends time and space.

Nevertheless, the theory of a holographic universe of only two special dimensions conflicts with multi-dimensional theories arising from the roots of the superchord theory. Before this mark of a disparate hypothesis, many scientists already suspected that the universe is a hologram or illusion created by particles in the emptiness. However, all of the scientific efforts to comprehend the truth amid the mirage have become trapped in a frustrating array of unprovable theories.

Many vanguard theorists think that the disturbing breach in the field of quantum physics and relativity could explain historically argued phenomena in the scientific field, like those in which the mind doesn’t seem to be associated to the brain—such as near-death experiences, remote vision, and precognition.

Or, are we nuts in such a bewildered world of self-taught imagination just because we know far too much ?



Saturday 22 October 2011

天地人三才之人类与人生‘道’理

【浩瀚天地,何谓世界?】
人类对于宇宙世界与人生的来源,无论古今中外,都具有好奇、疑惑,想寻求答案的要求,于是乎世界人类的文化,便有了宗教、哲学的建立,对于这些疑案,各自构成一套理论的体系。然而在大体上,不外是神造论,自然说,物理自然论等几个原则。再由这几个大原则,产生一元论、二元论、多元论,更加上有神论、有因无因、唯心唯物等等许多支高差别的理论。这些属于后世所谓宗教或哲学的学说,现在正在自然科学的祭坛上斗法。。。嘿,“欲知后事如何,且听将来分解”。。。



【无极生太极,何谓无极?】
道家对于原始宇宙世界的学术思想,也便是原来中国自己的文化思想;在周、秦以前,不用宇宙的名称,只有‘天地’的观 念,便足以代表后来宇宙的含义。道家的思想,认为天地未开以前,只是一种混沌的状态,既不管有主宰无主宰的事,也不问是前因或后果。这个混沌,既不能叫 它为物,亦不能叫它为精神,正如老子所说:无状之状,无名之名。在《易经》学系,原始理论科学的阴阳家们,认为这个混沌,便是阴阳未分,混合状态的现 象,后来根据八卦的法则,叫他为一画未生以前,六爻未动之初。



【太极图中一炁旋,两仪四象五行全?】
儒、道未分家的理念上,叫它为天地未判之先,在老子,便叫它为有物混成,先天地。老子所谓的混成,并不是纯粹的物理作用,只是说物的作用,正在孕盲含混在其当中,经过相当时期,这个混沌便分开阴阳,就有天地的开始了。旧式文学中有一本书《幼学琼林》,劈头一句,便说:混沌初开,乾坤始奠。等到混沌初开,形成乾坤的天地以后,这个地与天 的情形,便好比鸡蛋一样而存在,地球像鸡蛋的蛋黄,地球的大气层与太虚,像鸡蛋的蛋清,天在这个地球的鸡蛋外壳以外。

早在三千年以前道家的思想,始终认为地球和天体一样,都是有生命的机体,正如我们生命的扩大情形是一样的,因此,便形成后世道家神仙家的学说,认为人身便是一个小宇宙。有了天地的开辟,东西南北,春夏秋冬,人与万物,就自然产生了,可是欲懂道家与道教对于天地生成以后的思想理论,才再来继续明述其他种种。道家与道教对于人类来源,与万物生成的观念,属于道家思想的,便是天地开辟以后,最初的人种,是由天神下降而开始的。既不属于另一力量所创造,也不是生物的进化而来,至于天神又从何来?它是到此止步,再也不加追究。后来神人之间的变化,是因天上下降的‘天神’,忘记了来源,贪恋世间的快乐,愈来与天的距离愈远,便形成人世间的现状了。当开天辟地之初,原始的人类,是与天神之间,随时互通往来,地与天,也是随时接近在一起的,从此时代愈降,人类愈加堕落,因为人类的堕落,地与天也相隔愈远了。


人类的轨道已失衡?天晓得!



Wednesday 19 October 2011

Are we "fools" enough ?

Long is the night to one who is awake.
Long is ten miles to one who is tired.
Long is the cycle of birth and death
to the fool who does not know the true fact.
If a life traveler does not meet with one who is better or equal,
let one firmly travel alone;
there is no companionship with a fool without a fact.

The fool who knows one's own folly,
is wise at least to that extent;
but the fool who thinks oneself wise is really a fool.
If a fool is associated with a wise person all one's life,
the fool will not perceive the truth,
any more than a spoon will taste the soup.
If an intelligent person is associated with a wise person
for only one minute, one will soon perceive the truth,
just as the tongue does the taste of soup.

Sunday 16 October 2011

一个高人的回赠

小哥文中所述固为佛法中的“哲”理,然其不尽然则为一些“小”误解务需说明。。。
 

佛教说实并不是有些人所认为的是为哲学,哲学如说是种食物不能充饥的,佛教则是利人自利而是有证验的。哲学是用“分别心”得到的遍计所执性,佛学是用“无分别智”得到的圆觉真实性 的。
譬如《金刚经》中有许多语句,不是常人所能了解的,例如“所谓佛法者,即非佛法,是名佛法。” 在佛教中第一句叫做【假观】;第二句“即非佛法”,叫做【空观】;第三句“是名佛法”,叫做【中观】。
常听到‘色即是空,空即是色’就能以 ‘质和能’互相变化来比喻。

佛教很明显指出人不是孤立的,人与人和万物之间的关系是因缘密切地互相联系着。就再从物质方面来看,人的构成首先是由于父母的精血,以后的成长是依靠于外界吸收长成。人的思想和行为,是息息相关地影响到整个宇宙的有情众生和无情物质。

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