Recitation Event At Singapore Expo

• Dawnfirstlight

  9 Oct 11, 21:54

  There will be a grand event from 31 Dec. 2011 to 2 Jan. 2012 at Singapore Expo, organise by Amitabha Buddhist Society ( Master Chin Kong). Please read the link below.

  http://www.amtb.org.sg/amtb/images/amtb_images/Dec2011Poster.jpg

   

• sinweiy

  11 Oct 11, 08:41

  there's another.

  

• Dawnfirstlight

  11 Oct 11, 16:50

  Originally posted by sinweiy:

  there's another.

  

  Great! Thanks for sharing. I think I'll go for both. I shall share with my friends this info. Did you take the photo of this banner with your hp?

• Rooney9

  11 Oct 11, 16:55

  Master Chin Kong is here?

  hmm... will go to expo and see him for the first time in person.

• sinweiy

  11 Oct 11, 17:22

  Originally posted by Dawnfirstlight:

  Great! Thanks for sharing. I think I'll go for both. I shall share with my friends this info. Did you take the photo of this banner with your hp?

  
  yes. pass by.

• gorgorlokaychyong

  11 Oct 11, 17:25

  What is the difference between chanting and reciting?

• sinweiy

  11 Oct 11, 17:43

  from the dictionary, chanting got melodious rhythm, while reciting is just repeating.

  http://www.yourdictionary.com/chant

  http://www.yourdictionary.com/recite

  Pali cannon got sutta that say don't use rhythm.

  Critique of melodious chanting

  In the Ghitassara Sutta, the Buddha teaches:

  Bhikkhus, there are five dangers of reciting the Dhamma with a musical intonation. What five?

  Oneself gets attached to the sound, others get attached to the sound, householders are annoyed, saying, “Just as we sing, these sons of the Sakyan sing”, the concentration of those who do not like the sound is destroyed, and later generations copy it.

  These, monks, are the five dangers of reciting the Dhamma with a musical intonation.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_chant

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• sinweiy

  12 Oct 11, 08:43

  ch'an talk:

  

• sinweiy

  12 Oct 11, 08:44

  recitation retreat:

  

• sinweiy

  27 Oct 11, 09:01

  Originally posted by sinweiy:

  recitation retreat:

  

  
  

  yesterday, went to see the touching life documentry of Garchen Rinpoche, my brother, sister-in-law's guru at Suntec theater. http://www.forthebenefitofallbeings.com/about.html
  i learned three things, 1) loving kindness, compassion can help... one understand emptiness faster. 2) his father taught him to look focus at a far away object when walking toward it and it help in his single pointness. 3) a secret/special meditation: meditate that your mind and other's minds are one. sort of that say think put yourself on other's people's shoe. we are all deeping connected like a net. how i wish we have more of Brahma Net Sutra, as most of it was lost. it's as inconcievable as those One vehicle Sutras, like Hua Yen, Lotus, MahaNirvana Sutra.

  "The only cause of happiness is love. The only cause of suffering is self grasping."

  - Garchen Rinpoche
• sinweiy

  27 Oct 11, 09:56

  saw Garchen Rinpoche in person, very cheerful... eventhough, he went in prison for 20yrs. reminded of one more thing, suffering is needed in the path.

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• Dawnfirstlight

  29 Oct 11, 08:45

  Originally posted by sinweiy:

  saw Garchen Rinpoche in person, very cheerful... eventhough, he went in prison for 20yrs. reminded of one more thing, suffering is needed in the path.

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  There's a Buddhist saying "以苦为良师". Let sufferings be our teacher.