振明《楞严新粹》pg120-141 - 心得报告

Shurangama Sutra Session 8

1. My greed and delusion have not reduced over the years but now more aware of my hard disk storage (8^th consciousness) functioning in it as my habit. It is not easy to dissolve them at the moment.

2. Now I understand one of the reason that when I felt sleepy during meditation is due to some blockage in certain part of my body. I will need to experiment which part is blocking other than tired body. It is difficult for me to be calm, clear and peaceful during meditation. Hopefully I can be aware of my sleepiness during meditation every time and stand up or adjust my posture to a refreshing one to continue meditate.

3. Another new understanding is the importance of meditation to focus and get my qi alignment during meditation to have a clearer and peaceful mind before can attain enlightenment. Hence, need to incorporate some meditation in my daily schedule as practice before can have a clear and peaceful mind in daily life.

Ching Meng Hapchang

【给自己多一些决心，不但只是希望在禅修的时候，而是时时都能护着觉察的心！】

振明《楞严新粹》pg99-120 - 心得报告

 Shurangama Sutra Session 7

1. Three levels of 8^th consciousness is difficult to comprehend especially the highest where the universe is 8^th consciousness. This also means we and universe are one. No wonder zen master always said you and universe become one.

2. If I and universe is one then everything and everyone and I are directly related. I and whatever happens in my life is caused by me. People cheat me and people scam me are also caused by me. No wonder we need to repent for all the negative things happens in my life.

3. But this does not mean I just accept and let others treat me badly even though can see from the facts it is their wrong doing. I still have to self protect wherever possible.

4. The difficult part is having a clear mind to be aware of the intention behind their wrong doing at the point of contact before we become affected. I guess the only way is to do my due diligence and homework to find out the true facts about the person before trusting anyone.

5. Normally, is due to my laziness and convenience or lack of time and energy then choose to just believe the other person based on what they said and presented without verifying the true facts. With the current society, there are many liars, scammers and unethical salesman / sales talk who trying their best in every possible ways to cheat or lie for money.

6. My conclusion, when making a decision or dealing with anyone always consider the worst case that can happen, the best case that can happen and the most probable scenario it may happen. Cannot be for convenience and without true verified facts. Otherwise just no deal with the person. This includes stranger, friend and family unless I can accept the worst case scenario which is to help the other person if things don’t turn out well.

Ching Meng Hapchang

【随然说有智慧的判断事项很不容易，但修行就是在待人处事把慈悲心和清明心（智慧）提起，这样不但能保护自己，更能帮助他人，也更符合菩萨精神。祝福你！】

振明《楞严新粹》p76-98 - 心得报告

 Shurangama Sutra Session 6

1. I have been thinking the truth about greed, hatred and delusion for some time. My conclusion is that I have wrongly understood about self. The common thing or truth about it is there is no self and my wrong understanding on all the suffering is entangled to the truth about self.

2. In actual facts Sakyamuni Buddha had taught the truth that we no need the leaves in the whole forest and we only need a handful of leaves we can grasp in our hand. Fundamentally, they are impermanent, no self, nirvana, 4 noble truth and noble eightfold path.

3. There are too many forms and situations happening in the world and things around which can be confusing if I attached to any forms. I have to see the truth behind and the working principles behind. So far I see the truth is none other than impermanent, no self and nirvana which can help me to put my greed and hatred attachments down slowly.

4. I like the teaching that knowing is not count, able to do only counts. This have a deeper meaning now for me even though I hear this in year 2000 in China during my consulting job. Applying and experience is the true learnings. On top of it I have to reflect on what I applied vs what I know in theory cause there is gap to make the learning more complete before my skill and mind grow. This applies in all learnings. One of the conclusion I had recently is CLARG to achieve the true learning which is

a. Clarity of what needed to learn about the topic, the underlying working principles and key points

b. Learn what is in a.

c. Apply what is in a.

d. Reflect what is learn and applied to make conclusion until all are clear and adjust accordingly theory vs the real result until everything is workable by repeating c. and d.

e. Grow to the next level of skill, performance and mindset and internalized by concluding what were learnt and applied on the topic and can be applied in various / different situations / conditions.

5. Another insight is that I have to be applying the Theravada way in daily dealings with others for the moment and not the Mahayana way for a start to self protect before I got drag into other people’s problems and situations because I have not reach enlightenment. The first vow of the 4 great vows to safe all beings have to be limited to those that I met and within my capability and resources of time and money otherwise I may get into trouble and short changed on my life and family. Got to get the relationship priority right. Even though it is said have equality mind for all sentient beings. For example, if I have RM1000 to pay for my child monthly expenses I cannot afford to donate RM500 to an acquaintance in need because both are sentient being in equality. If I do that then I will short changed my child and get my life into suffering. Whatever charity or help after I offer should make my life happier and not more suffering which will become an obstruction to my practice. If I get into unhappiness or suffering after helping others means I don’t have the wisdom to make the right decision and function correctly. I must know my boundaries and limitations in my current situations in everything I do.

Ching Meng Hapchang

【布施不一定在数额多少，量力而为，随分随力。重要的是布施的心和行动。除了财布施还有法布施和无畏布施，如鼓励他人修善，给与安慰和鼓励。安排家庭生活的所需也是我们的修行，让家人（众生）可以一起修行。】

振明《楞严新粹》p55-76 - 心得报告

Shurangama Sutra Session 5

1. Everything is mind made. Because of our ignorance and wrong understanding about the truth / true buddha nature. This leads to my greed, hatred and delusion with the wrong understanding of existence of a self that I hold so strong to it.

2.Similar to the perception of material value that we see as expensive or cheap. All these depends on our experience, exposure and capability. For example, a wealthy man says a million dollar house is cheap whereas an normal person says it is expensive. In the olden days of barter system, the value of a packet of paddy is easy to get by a paddy farmer vs a cattle owner and vice versa.

3.Life value is anther perception we were exposed and taught since young. All these are mind made programmed to us. The truth taught by Sakyamuni Buddha on impermanence, no-self, nirvana, 4 noble truth and noble eightfold paths are the truth in nature that will not change over time or and where. The key is how do I apply all these in my daily life to function correctly is the challenge.

4.When emotionally charged and got entangled with the look of things cause me cannot see the truth and how the underlying working principles of things. Hence, I need to start to look at pattern and draw conclusions in how things works by understanding the underlying working principles then I would be able to see things clearly an not confuse by the looks and situations. For example money is just a tool for the value exchange and to evaluate the value of things. I need to understand the raw material cost and manufacturing cost which give a clear picture of how much an item really cost. The price difference will be the profit, rental, logistics etc cost. A glass of coke may cost only 10 cents which consist of the water, sugar and syrup. The other costs will be the packaging, logistic etc. The same coke may cost RM2 in a coffee shop but RM20 in a pub. Understanding how the society works may allow me to see things and situation clearer.

Ching Meng Hapchang

【社会的运转和法则是一种相。自己经历和观念也是相。心随著相而分別取捨就是妄识。放下吧！才会看见你的真心。】

雪丽《楞严新粹》pg 01-11-心得报告

 转眼又上完解心课程也有一段时间了，助教也很鼓励我们大家继续上下个课程，当时自己也不知道要怎样，一直托到新年后还是决定不要再上了。

感恩几个月前当我和道和法师聊起这个课程时，师父就问起我为什么没有继续再上课。我也诚实的把我的想法告诉了师父，哎呀！讲来讲去的问题都是太执着的我，很多借口，就好像这一集里所讲的”真空跟妙有”所有的烦恼升起就是因为有我们要，有的我们不要，有分别心。我就是很怕跟不上，很peiseh，心里总是认为再读下去的课程一定是很难明白的，心里祇有”我已为这、我已为那” 这六个字在脑里转来转去！同时另一方面我也发觉到没有在上课那段期间里，当在生活里我遇上了什么问题或发生，自己总是不清楚自己的反应和处理方式对或错，比较容易起烦恼。当时心里会想到如果还在上课的话多好，可以听听行者们的意见和看法。总觉的这里是一个非常棒的平台可以让我们一起分享和进步。考虑后自己也决定再也来一个挑战。

读完了第一集后都很多完全不明白，但是还是要继续读下去，应该也可以学到一点吧！就好像道和法师跟我说：就是你不会所以才要去学，如果你停在那边不学的话那你就在那里了，永远不会进步和成长了！就是一句话提醒了我拿起行动继续去修正自己的心。

【多看，多闻，多问和多实践，通过共修的力量，进步指日可待，让我们一起加油吧！祝福你。】

振明《楞严新粹》pg41-54 - 心得报告

1.I decided to revise Ching Meng 1.0 to version 2.0. There are a lot of delusions and greed to be transformed into daily life wisdom for my own self-protection and foundation for success. I was nearly got cheated again by seller during my China holiday trip.

2.Fear of missing out (FOMO) is another form of greed. This is often use by seller to force me to buy NOW cause the offer is only for today or now. Large amount of discount is also a way to trick buyer who are greedy to buy by mark-up the the price and sell at large discount price e.g. Renminbi 68,000 discount to Ringgit Malaysia 4,000. Better do a proper evaluation of the deal from the price and value validity perspective before making the decision to buy. It is OK to miss out a good deal than to overspend or buy a low value product (worse still a fake product) vs the selling price. Do a rough self estimation from experience or check in shoppee etc of the product cost and profit they are making to determine a fair price then decide if it is a good deal to buy or pass the deal and move on. Sellers and scammers are now too sophisticated attending psychology training and work in a team environment holding different positions to engage to build trust and convince buyers with a well-designed script, selling process and environment because human are emotional. Once emotion is in the situation the logic mind is out of control. Buyer are like a piglet walking into the tiger (seller) cage without knowing the danger and play with the tiger.

3.It is not necessary to take anything that is free from the seller because this is their sales techniques and they already calculated the cost into the sales promotion to make huge profit overall. Giving free gift is a way to bring in leads and customers to buy. Sellers are playing the psychology game of bringing down the buyer’s self protection layer to trust them and the theory of reciprocity where receiver will feel obliged to return a favour / buy something from them. This is also a form of greed for free and got trap into the selling cycle. Same thing has to evaluate the value of the product / service versus my needs / wants and considering my cash /budget availability to spend (suitability to my conditions and situations).

4.Compassion to beggars and sales personnel in any form to cultivate habit of self protection. Many times buy out of pitiful to the young and old seller or just give them a ringgit donating without buying. Will reject all in future. Only donate to reliable source that I know. Not buying because I don’t need and save my money for future and family.

5.All judgement and decision made needs to have facts from reliable source with own risks vs benefits, situation and relationship relevancy evaluation. Whatever others said take it with a pinch of salt and verify the validity of it. Not to make any rush decision and regret with the long-term negative consequence in future.

6.Similarly, what others said that are good to hear or unhappy to hear need a process to verify the validity is good or bad for me for self-protection and self-improvement by putting down my I, mine, me mind.

Ching Meng Hapchang

【很好！因为平时有修，方能内摄，看到自己贪折扣的习性。继续修行，将外延的咨询和方法上觉下化，落实在日常生活，让生命有所不同！祝福你！】

思碧《楞严新粹》pg 42-54_心得报告：

本来清净，即是佛教的圆教，既圆满又圆融。圆满是一切现象都能包容。圆融是一切现象都无碍。

公司有一位技术员工，天天都黑着脸来上班，也因经常旷工而迟迟没得到转为正实员工而不满。。

Raya puasa前一个星期，我叫主管安排他到我家维修2 架空调。这员工做到一半，和我先生说他不要做！我先生气急了，因为隔天有亲戚要远道而来我们家住几天。急忙打电话给我。当我接到我先生的电话时，我发现到我的心情浮动-烦人的事又来了，心里急了，我该如何处理。那一刹那，忽然想起师父的话，回到腹部呼吸，做了几次后，告诉自己，情绪不能解决问题！我放空思维的和那技术员工通电话。问他什么问题，

他说：这维修是属于私人的工作，他不做！当时我先生在旁边听他这么说，就很生气的骂！

当时的我却还可以心平气和的要求他完成任务，他都不肯。问到最后，他才说公司没让他“转正”所以他不做！明白了原因后，我再次要求他完成任务后回公司来面对面谈。他答应了！

完成任务后，他来我办工室也带着一副不爽的样子来谈判。我俩沉默一阵的对望。我对他说：身为他的上司，我可以马上把你开除，但我不做这选择。告知他公司不转正他的原因是因为他常旷工，我了解他一定有他的原因而旷工。于是，我拿出RM200给他, 告诉他这是给他的duit raya 预支，如他能从那天起到月尾不旷工，RM200 就是他的奖励金。但如有旷工，我要回那RM200. 也保证他诺接下来的一个月也没旷工，公司会给他转为正式员工。结果，他做到了，也顺利转正了。上班的态度也不一样了。

从这件事，真正体会到，有佛法就有办法。

【恭喜你这次能把方法用上，让自己有所不同； 并圆满地处理这件事，自利利他。请继续！】