關於 samsara buddhism ，我們在網路上蒐集到這些相關的討論、資訊與評價

#Congratulations! Director Hsin-Chien Huang's latest VR works, Samsara and The Starry Sand Beach, were nominated for the 78th Venice International Film Festival!

The 78th Venice International Film Festival (VIFF) announced the shortlisted nominees for the category of VR Film. Taiwanese new media artist, Distinguished Professor of NTNU, Hsin-Chien Huang, winner of the BEST VR Experience in 2017 with his work La Camera Insabbiata, will again contest for the Leone d’oro this year with two of his latest, sci-fi inspired works, Samsara and The Starry Sand Beach. While the Taiwanese athletes are striving for the Gold Medals at the Tokyo Olympics as we speak, director Hsin-Chien Huang dazzles the jury of VIFF with his visually-stunning and thought-provoking works — bringing cutting-edge Taiwanese VR films onto the international stage and letting world-wide audience sees Taiwan!

Before being selected for the 78th Venice International Film Festival, Samsara episode 1. has already grabbed the Jury Award at SXSW and Best VR Story at the Cannes XR Competition. This futuristic VR experience teleports the audience onto a journey that spans millions of years. Samsara is a Sanskrit word meaning “ the world ”. In Buddhism, it means what we perceive as the world is actually an endless cycle of karma (cause and effect), a cycle of life, death and rebirth in the six realms of existence. In this fascinating VR work, the audience is reincarnated into the bodies of different persons and creatures, experiencing the universe in their new bodies and in search for the ultimate spiritual transcendence.

Samsara depicts an apocalyptical story in the near future where human greed has depleted the earth’s resource. Catastrophic wars to fight for resource resulted in global destruction. Finally, the remaining humans had to leave the Earth and go on a search in space for a new place to live.

Nevertheless, their desperate, long quest for a new homeland… could it be just a loop in space and time? The cycle of greedy domination and total destruction that then necessitates the search for a new home…. may have hopelessly repeated itself over and over again? The constant evolutionary process and so-called progress, without transformation in consciousness and spiritual advancement, is nothing more than a Möbius strip that leads nowhere, perhaps…?

Samsara is an experiment based on the theory of Embodied Cognition. Through interactivity and VR, the audience gets to live inside the bodies of different persons and creatures, experiencing their feelings from within. Perhaps It is when we can perceive the world in different bodies that we may truly appreciate the thoughts of others and empathize with them. An experience that will also help us better comprehend our own existence and learn to live in harmony with all.

Samsara explores a complex of deeply interconnected issues of ecology, technology, natural resource and war, etc. It's a story about a journey humans are forced to take on, after having destroyed the earth with nuclear disasters. The survivors seek a new planet, in the boundless, interstellar space, to carry on their lives. Gradually they evolve into a new life form artificially. Yet, many years passed and they’ve come to realize that they would never make it to the new planet they’ve been dreaming of. In fact, they have simply been returning to the Earth, in different life forms, time after time.

Director Huang applies the concepts of embodied cognition, offering a unique way to contemplate about the nature of life. As the audience are transported into different bodies each time, they gain a brand new perspective to experience the world views presented in Samsara.

Samsara was produced under the guidance of Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) and Kaohsiung Film Archive VR(VR FILM LAB), it’s a sate-of-the-art VR production made 100% in Taiwan. In the VR experience, viewers are transformed into various kinds of animals to interact with the scenes, including species unique and indigenous to Taiwan, such as Taiwan Blue Magpie and Formosan Black Bear.

Samsara Ep.1 features the latest somatosensory technology, including 4D views shooting techniques by the Industrial Technology Research Institute and TAICCA. A digital shooting system comprised of a high-sensitivity 4 million-pixel, full-color CCD sensor and 48 4DV-EX-Z cameras made it possible for Samsara Ep.1 to be taken from an omnidirectional view and shot without any blind spots, creating the ultimate immersive experience.

THE STARRY SAND BEACH, directed by Hsin-Chien Huang and produced in cooperation with Lucid Reality (France) and Oready 瑞意創科 Oready Innovation Lab (Taiwan), is a scientific fairy tale about a unique ecological wonder in Taiwan and Japan, the shiny starry sand beaches. Foraminifera, from the Latin word “foramen” meaning hole, is a single-celled organism that builds a shell with multiple chambers which intercommunicate with one another through holes. On the Qimei Island, Taiwan and the Yaeyama Islands, Japan, beaches have been formed by a specific species of foraminifera with star-shaped shells made of calcium carbonate. Like the real stars in the legends, grains of the starry sand have also been preserving the earth’s memories for millions of years.

THE STARRY SAND BEACH is a real-time 3D interactive VR adventure into the natural and mythological landscape of the starry sand beaches on Qimei Island in Penghu Archipelago, Xing Sha Wan in Kenting National Park and Taketomi Island in the far south of Japan. The experience is full of aesthetically-amazing elements and enriched with cultural and religious significance like Shintoism in Japan. A beautiful, haunting legend tells the story of the starry sand…

The final winners will be presented at the award ceremony held on Sep11. With great anticipation and hopes, Hsin-Chien Huang is expected to bring home again the grand prize for Taiwan!

https://www.labiennale.org/en/news/selection-complete-works-venice-vr-expanded-0

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[I Kuan Tao: Agama ‘Buddha’ Baru]

I Kuan Tao atau Yiguandao adalah sebuah agama baru yang bermula dari China dan sekarang berkembang pesat di Taiwan, Korea Selatan dan Jepun. Malah mereka juga sudah bertapak di Malaysia dan Indonesia. Dari sudut populasi mereka juga ada peningkatan dari saban dekat.

Perkataan I Kuan Tao memberi maksud Kesatuan Jalan Ketuhanan. Aliran dan konsep kepercayaan agama ini, dibina oleh Guru Wang Jueyi (1821-1884) di China. Ia dikenali sebagai aliran Maitreya. Mereka mendakwa Buddha akhir zaman (Maitreya) itu muncul di dalam aliran dan kepercayaan mereka ini.

Di Indonesia mereka mengaku sebagai penganut Buddha kerana itu salah satu cara mereka untuk dapat mengamalkan agama mereka. Walaupun terdapat krisis dan perdebatan yang besar di kalangan Buddhis sendiri.

Sejarah

I Kuan Tao adalah sebuah agama baru yang diasaskan oleh beberapa tokoh keagamaan antaranya adalah Wang Jueyi, Lu Chong, dan Chang Tianran. Di dalam kepercayaan I Kuan Tao mereka beriman kepada adanya Dewi Ibu yang dikenali sebagai Lao Mu. Lao Mu dikatakan telah mengutuskan 10 orang Buddha ke dunia ini untuk menyelamatkan manusia. Tujuh orang Buddha yang terawal telah diutuskan sejak bermulanya tamadun manusia, manakala tiga Buddha terakhir pula diutuskan untuk tugas penyelamatan.

Mereka membahagikan tiga zaman untuk tiga Buddha terakhir ini iaitu : Zaman cahaya Hijau, cahaya Merah, dan cahaya Putih. Pada Zaman cahaya Hijau, Dewi Lao Mu telah mengutuskan Buddha Dipankara iaitu dianggar sekitar 3000 SM. Buddha Dipankara adalah Buddha kuno yang datang membawa ajaran untuk menyelamatkan manusia dari sengsara dan duka. Setelah Buddha Dipankara, lahirnya pula Buddha seterusnya yang bernama Siddharta Gautama pada tahun 567 SM. Siddharta Gautama adalah Buddha yang paling terkenal yang diikuti sampai sekarang. Ia dikenali sebagai zaman cahaya Merah, zaman cahaya Merah ini akan berakhir sehingga zaman lahirnya Buddha Maitreya. Pada zaman Buddha Maitreya inilah ia dikenali sebagai zaman cahaya Putih atau zaman terakhir. [1]

Buddha Maitreya dikatakan Buddha akhir zaman. Ia disebut di dalam kitab suci Buddha iaitu dalam Sutta Pitaka, bahagian Digha Nikaya V, buku Cakkavati Sihanada Sutta.[2] I Kuan Tao mempercayai Buddha Maitreya itu sudah diutuskan ke dunia ini, iaitu pemimpin mereka bernama Lu Zhong I yang lahir pada tahun 1849 M.

Akan tetapi ajaran I Kuan Tao sudah diasaskan sebelum beliau lagi iaitu dimulakan oleh Guru Wang Jueyi (1821-1884) dan beliau mengasaskan I Kuan Tao pada tahun 1877 M. Setelah Wang Jueyi mengasaskan agama ini lalu ia digantikan oleh Lu Zhong I dan pada tahun 1905 dan beliau mendakwa beliau adalah Buddha Maitreya yang diutuskan pada akhir zaman. Dari sinilah doktrin yang dikatakan “Jalan Buddha Terakhir” atau cahaya Putih itu mula mula disusun dan dikembangkan secara meluas oleh pemimpin I Kuan Tao yang seterusnya yang bernama Zhang Tianran (1889-1947).

Zhang Tianran dilahirkan di kawasan Shandong, China. Beliau sangat terkenal dan individu yang menggembangkan ajaran I Kuan Tao ke beberapa buah negara. Beliau dikenali sebagai jelmaan semula (inkarnasi) Jigong yang dikenali sebagai Crazy Monk yang merupakan salah seorang sami besar pada suatu ketika dahulu.

Kepercayaan

Agama I Kuan Tao juga merupakan sinkretisme (campuran) dari fahaman Konfusianisme, Taoisme, Xiantiandao, Buddhisme dan agama traditional Cina. Asas kepada sumber doktrin agama mereka tidak jauh beza dengan bentuk-bentuk kepercayaan cina khusus gabungan dari ajaran Buddhisme, Taoisme dan Konfusianisme. Akan tetapi mereka mendakwa mengikut ajaran I Kuan Tao dengan penambahan doktrin baru iaitu mempercayai Lu Zhong I adalah Buddha Maitreya yang lahir akhir zaman.

Selain ibu dewi Lou Mu, mereka juga menyembah dewa-dew dalam Daoisme dan juga mengangkat beberapa individu selain Buddha seperti Lao Tze, Kong Fu Tze, Jesus, dan nabi Muhammad. Mereka juga memiliki doktrin seperti agama Buddha iaitu lingkaran hidup (samsara) dan juga nirvana.

Mereka juga memiliki ibadat mereka tersendiri dengan memiliki beberapa kod rahsia di bahagian tangan. Malah terkenal ibadat rahsia yang mereka lakukan di dalam sebuah bilik gelap dan dipasang lilin, mereka akan berbicara soal agama dan membaca ajaran mereka disusuli dengan syarat yang ketat iaitu setelah lilin itu terpadam, apa yang dibicarakan di dalam bilik itu tidak boleh dibawa keluar atau disampaikan kepada orang lain.

Kesimpulan

I Kuan Tao mendakwa mereka adalah aliran pengikut Buddha Maitreya yang diramalkan oleh Siddharta Gautama Buddha dahulu.

Hasil dari kepercayaan kewujudan Buddha akhir zaman inilah lahirnya ramai orang yang mendakwa diri mereka adalah Buddha Maitreya. Selain dari Lu Zhong I masih terdapat ramai orang yang mengaku sebagai Buddha Maitreya terutama di China. Antara yang terkenal adalah seorang perempuan yang bernama Wu Zetian.[3] Masing-masing akan membawa pengaruh yang tersendiri. Akan tetapi hal ini dibantah keras oleh penganut Buddha yang lain. Ini kerana mereka percaya Buddha Maitreya belum lagi datang manakala orang yang telah mengaku sebagai Buddha Maitreya sebelum ini dituduh sebagai pendusta.

Walaubagaimanapun, ajaran ini begitu cepat berkembang. Antara faktornya adalan, pertama ajaran ini memperkenalkan secara mendalam mengenai penciptaan alam semesta yang tidak dibincangkan di dalam agama cina yang lain. Kedua, mereka sinkretis (mencampurkan ajaran dan budaya) agama cina yang lain ke dalam agama mereka sehingga memiliki pakej yang dilihat lengkap. Ketiga, ajarannya sangat traditional dan sangat serasi dengan idea orang cina.[4] Antara faktor inilah mereka melebarkan sayap penyebaran ajaran mereka ke seluruh Asia.

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[1] Lihat- (2004). Encylopedia of New Religons, jurnalis Edward Irons, A Lion Book, England, hlm 245-246
[2] Lihat Sutta Pitaka, bahagian Digha Nikaya V, buku Cakkavati Sihanada Sutta, ayat 25
[3] Lihat Tansen Sen. Buddhism, (2016). Diplomacy, and Trade: The Realignment of India–China Relations 600-1400, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, USA, hlm 93-96
[4] Lihat Aleksey A. Maslov (). Xiantiandao and Yiguandao Sects, National Research University Higher School of Economics- https://es.coursera.org/learn/religions-society-china/lecture/xefE5/xiantiandao-and-yiguandao-sects

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【别把孩子當笨蛋】

I don't like crowds.

It would take a lot for me to squeeze into the busy Mustafa on a Friday night.

While queuing to pay, an Indian gentleman turned to ask my Husband and I if it was a set of CDs we were purchasing.

I told him it was a series of DVDs, of 50 over episodes.

He smiled and said,

"Parents should teach their children about their religion. It's a pity when they don't. If they really know, the children wouldn't look elsewhere and convert to another religion."

He talked about how he taught his three children Sanskrit and discovered that they have great memory powers because of that.

Did I just bump into my soulmate at a random cashier queue in Mustafa?

I nodded and replied, "Yes, there would be no reason to look elsewhere."

The gentleman agreed heartily.

I remembered a recent incident and added,

"Unless the parents do not know it themselves."

A Dharma sister of mine sends her 6-year-old son to a weekly Buddhism class.

She engages him in nightly chanting sessions at home.

One day, the son wanted to stop his Buddhism class because of a particular classmate.

I asked her if she had told him the purpose of attending Buddhism class.

She said no.

Later on, I learnt that she did not teach her son many required steps in Buddhist practice.

She felt that it would be too difficult for him. #ownselfthink #ownselfbelieve

It dawned on me that my Dharma sister doesn't have a clear reason for becoming a Buddhist.

Neither did she read the books written by our Root Guru, Living Buddha Lian Sheng, to understand the Dharma better.

How do you teach something to your loved one, if you don't know it or believe in it yourself?

But what if it is the most valuable subject you can ever teach your child?

I looked at her son. He didn't look dumb or a slow learner to me.

Having taught over a hundred students his age, I am highly aware of their ability to absorb knowledge.

I am a staunch believer of every child's potential, regardless of his background or intellect at birth.

However.

An ignorant and impatient parent can kill the brightest bulb in a child.

I asked if she heard of Thomas Edison's story.

She never did.

Thomas Edison was a dyslexic child with hearing problems. His teacher viewed him as an "addled" student. He only received formal education for 3 months before he was taken out. He was later homeschooled by his mother.

In his biography, the man who invented light bulbs and batteries, and had 1093 patents to his name wrote:

"My mother was the making of me. She was so true, so sure of me, and I felt I had something to live for, someone I must not disappoint.”

Sometimes parents impose their limiting beliefs onto their children.

Over time, the child will start to believe his parents' limits define his potential.

If the child has a weak Bazi, he does not have the physical and mental stamina to break out of his parents' suffocating definition. He would go on to live a mediocre life, feeling unfulfilled yet unable to say why.

Usually such Bazi are very reliant on their mothers, even after they become adults.

While the mum may feel good about being needed, it does nothing to improve the child's confidence and prosperity in life.

The Buddha believes in the potential of every man.

While He has imparted great teachings at length to some of His smartest disciples, He was a very patient teacher who also taught simple yet profound teachings in one-liners to the less bright ones.

They too went on to achieve Arahant (阿羅漢) through diligent cultivation. That means they have freed themselves from the clutches of desires and would not no longer have to undergo reincarnation into this world of sufferings.

My Shifu believes in my potential.

During my early days of discipleship, I was like a Thomas Edison kid with ADHD. I had one million and one questions every time Shifu taught us disciples. We learnt mainly in a group setting.

We disciples came from all walks of life. Not everyone envision themselves to be a mini Shifu next time. Neither did I.

But Shifu taught each and every one of us with amazing dedication. Never once did he lose his temper with the dimmer ones nor did he ever give up on anyone.

I don't fit in well with the other disciples. Other than the Dharma and Chinese Metaphysics, nothing else in life interests me much. I rarely talk unless spoken to. Girls' talk bore me very much.

If it wasn't for Shifu's conviction in me, there would not be Ji Qian, the Feng Shui practitioner.

This is why I would never take on Shifu's clients, or any client that he disapproves of.

Some clients paid for Shifu's consultations and behind his back, they asked me more questions because of easier access to me (I reply to online messages while Shifu only takes calls.)

Don't know, just ask Shifu again. His skills are so divine. Why drag me in and settle for ikan bilis?

When you have only paid one fee, you can't be expecting two practitioners to serve you. #門都沒有

Shifu took refuge in our Root Guru on the 15th day of the 8th Lunar Month. He said he was reborn ever since he became a Buddhist. The full moon on that day was a indication of his future, beautiful and accomplished.

Life before that, he laughed, was a blur of mistakes and misses.

It's very hard to get a "birthday gift" for a great teacher who has almost everything.

I watched snippets of this series on Facebook videos shared.

While it may not be fully historic, I think the unfaltering spirit and indomitable love of Buddha portrayed in this series makes a good gift to a Buddhist. #fingerscrossed

I am especially smitten with this year's Deepavali light up. I adore elephants not just because I revere Lord Ganesha, a God of Wealth and also a Dharma protector in Tibetean Buddhism. (He had blessed me greatly during my days of poverty.) But also for their symbolism of great wisdom and strength.

I hope this is a sign of me growing in wisdom and mental strength.

For believing in me more than I believe in myself,

For never believing the naysayers when they disagree with you,

For showing me the Way out of this Samsara,

While I often act like one, thank you for never treating me like a dumbo, 玳瑚師父 Master Dai Hu . 🙏

(And thank you to the Husband who braved the Friday madness with me. #notlikeyouhaveachoice #alsoyourShifu #haha)

業不重，不生娑婆。除非你是乘願再來的佛菩薩，要不然，只要是來做人的，都是來還債和受苦的。

業分很多種，我個人經歷最煎熬痛苦的業，就是病業。

一個感冒發燒，就足以讓我們失去身體的自主。病業輕的，當然很容易就能醫好。病業重的，簡直生不如死。

有種病業，醫生醫不好，我們稱為因果病。因果病從何來？要怎麼根治，才能痊癒呢？
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If one does not have heavy karma, one will not be born in this Samsara world. Unless you are a Buddha & Bodhisattva returning here because of a vow you made, any human born here is bound to suffer and repay karmic debts.

There are many different types of karma. In my personal experience, the most unbearable kind will be the suffering of illness. A mere cold and high fever is enough for us to lose control over our bodies.

If your sickness karma is light, it is easy for you to recover. But for those with severe sickness karma, it is pure living hell.

There is a certain illness that doctors have no idea how to treat. We term it as karmic illness. How does karmic illness arise? How can it be treated for full recovery?

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阿彌陀佛，你好！我是李季謙，來自新加坡的風水命理師。我將我的一生貢獻於弘揚佛法和中華玄學。這過程曲折離奇，卻也充滿了許多人生的領悟。

通過我的影音與寫作，我希望能與你分享，盼你也能夠突破自己命運的束縛，真正活得精彩：我命在我，不在天。

人生長短無所謂，最重要的是活得有價值，有貢獻。

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Hi, I am Lee Ji Qian, a Chinese Metaphysics practitioner from Singapore. This journey in propagating Buddhism and Chinese Metaphysics has been full of hard knocks and exciting discoveries.

Through my videos and online writing, I hope to share my journey with you. So that you too can break free from the limits of your destiny and truly live a life you can call exciting. My destiny is in my own hands, not Heaven. So is yours.

It does not matter whether we can live a long or short life.
What matters most is living a life of value and contribution.

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