The book is comprised of four chapters including Mountain, Ocean, Space and People. Mountain corresponds to The Holy Mountain of Avatamsaka. From the sacred mountain of Huayan, entering the realm of reality; conventional truth is spoken in the realm of individual phenomena. Ocean refers to The Ocean of Vairocana Buddha Nature. Returning to the essence through the sea of Vairocana; Buddha is the realm of nonobstruction between principle and phenomena. Space represents The Space of Awareness. The universal Dharmakaya is ineffable; in the realm of the one principle the essential nature is emptiness itself. People will go for A Person with A Vow to Action. The vows of Samantabhadra span the three times; the realm of nonobstruction between phenomena—this is the Bodhisattva practice. Readers entering the four realms are expected to practice the universal compassionate action of Samantabhadra Bodhisattva.

本書特色：

1.收錄近年靈鷲山無生道場大量風景圖，照片涵括靈山娉婷的花草樹木與總本山巍峨殊勝的建築物，讓讀者親近本書時，能啟迪智慧、淨化心靈，圖文搭配的排版，在筆墨的牽引下，開展心靈智慧之修行旅程；忙碌工作之餘，開卷即是修行與修性，是一本上選的智慧心靈寶庫。
2.全新修訂、中英對照，方便讀者閱讀。

作者簡介

心道法師
上心下道法師，靈鷲山無生道場開山和尚、世界宗教博物館創辦人。發願效法觀世音菩薩的精神，歷經獨修、塚間修到閉關斷食，觀照世間的虛妄無常，證悟宇宙諸法的真相與智慧。
心道法師一生致力於推廣愛與和平，陸續成立靈鷲山般若文教基金會、靈鷲山護法會、世界宗教博物館基金會、靈鷲山慈善基金會等，積極投入生命的關懷照護。二○○一年成立全球首座世界宗教博物館，以「尊重每一個信仰、包容每一個族群、博愛每一個生命」為創館宗旨。二○○二年創立國際性非營利機構─ GFLP（愛與和平地球家，Global Family for Love & Peace），推動跨宗教合作，從事保護聖蹟、國際救援等工作。
靈鷲山的宗風即「慈悲與禪」，在心道法師的引領下，實踐「生命服務生命，生命奉獻生命」的理念，成就華嚴淨土。

自序 Preface
前言 Foreword
山之章　華嚴聖山 The Holy Mountain of Avatamsaka
業流 The Flow of Karma
眾生 Sentient Beings
存在 Existence
生命 Life
轉生 Rebirth
當下 In the Moment
意識 Consciousness
護生 Protecting Life
身體 The Body
因果 Cause and Effect
海之章　毗盧性海 The Vairocana Ocean of Reality
放鬆 Relaxation
心源 The Origin of Mind
安心 Mind at Ease
三寶 The Three Jewels
禪味 The Flavour of Chan
空性 Emptiness
聆聽 Listening
覺性 Nature of Awareness
無我 Non-self
休息 Resting
天之章　覺性天空 The Space of Awareness
心即是禪 The Mind is Chan
本來面目 The Original Face
核心能量 The Core Energy
永恆歸宿 Eternal Home
安住持明 Abiding in Illumination
離相真如 Abandon Forms, True Suchness
真心如日 True Mind Like the Sun
清淨覺悟 Pure Awakening
明心見性 Understanding the Mind, Seeing the True Nature
法界一心 Dharma Realm, One Mind
人之章　行願之人 A Person with a Vow to Action
自性懺悔 Repentance to the Self Nature
大慈悲心 Great Compassion Mind
分享證悟 Sharing Awakening
靈覺生活 Awakened Spiritual Life
空中妙有 Wonderful Existence in Emptiness
成就淨土 Perfection of the Pure Land
常隨佛轉 Always Follow the Buddha and Revolve in the Dharma
三身起用 The Application of the Three Bodies
地藏與我 Ksitigarbha and I
頂戴佛陀 Putting Buddha on Your Head

書摘/試閱

存在
什麼是寂靜呢？
就是安靜的聲音。

什麼是安靜的聲音呢？
就是沒有聲音。

身心就像流水一樣川流不息，
流在生生死死的大海，
每一個念頭、每一個想法都是流動的，
死亡與出生都是流動的，
一切的流動都是生滅的，
都是無常的，
沒有一個念頭是真實的。

放鬆每一個念頭，
靜靜地聽、安靜地聽，
聽寂靜──無聲之聲。

Existence
What is silence?
It's the sound of stillness.

What is the sound of stillness?
It is no sound at all.

Body and mind flow nonstop like running water,
Flowing in the ocean of death and rebirth.
All thoughts, all concepts are flowing
Death and rebirth are flowing
All that flows is subject to arising and ceasing,
Impermanent,
There is no one thought that is real.

Relax your every thought,
Listen silently, listen quietly,
Listen to the silence, the sound of no sound.

放鬆
修行，
就是讓你的心，
在任何起煩惱的地方放鬆，
放鬆就是止、休歇，就是歇息啊！

什麼是修行呢？
當你執著的時候，
這時也就是你放鬆的時候。
放鬆的時候就是大修行。

在生活裡面，
起了執著心，
起了貪心、瞋心、癡心的時候，
學會放鬆，
放鬆就是一種離相。

Relaxation

Dharma practice,
Is to let your mind,
Relax in any place where afflictions arise;
Relaxation is to stop and take a break, just to be still and rest!

What is Dharma practice?
When you are attached,
It is the time when you should relax.
The great Dharma practice is when you are relaxed.

In our life,
When attachments arise,
When desire, hatred and ignorance arise,
Learn to relax,
Relaxation is the detachment from forms

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