Pema Sky

有時在我們這個半球看不見月蝕，而在地球的另一面可以看到，但看到與否並無大礙，只要在出現日蝕或月蝕的日子裡，無論是念經、放生或作任何善行，都會有非常大的功德，這是特殊的積累資糧的方法。(大堪布慈誠羅珠仁波切)

日蝕日期：2008年2月7日(大年初一)
日蝕種類：環蝕
可觀測的區域：南極洲

月蝕日期：2008年2月21日
月蝕種類：全蝕
可觀測的區域：太平洋、美洲、歐洲、非洲

2/20/2008第一次月蝕
美國東部地區晚上10:01pm–10:51pm

@ 凡遇日月蝕，應特別盡力行善──禮懺、供養、持戒、茹素、戒殺、放生、誦經、持咒、觀修慈悲心、菩提心等，因為所行的任一善法，功德都會增長億萬倍。大家千萬不要錯過這些大好時機。

2008年日食、月食日期以及2月7日開始的神變月功德介紹

2月5日是華嚴菩薩聖誕，

2月7日是大年初一也是彌勒菩薩聖誕，同時也是神變月第一天，那一天還會發生日環食。

2月10日是晉美彭措法王聖誕，

2月12日是定光佛聖誕。

2月20日為密勒日巴尊者圓寂日，

2月21日是月全食。

2月27日為蔣揚欽哲旺波仁波切圓寂日。

今年神變月期間有兩次日月食，依照佛教密續，這是最好的修行時機，在此期間的任何善業惡業將會呈億萬倍增上，西曆二月七日是是日環食，二月二十一是月全食。

2008年的另外兩次日月食分別是八月一日和八月十七日。

2008年日食、月食具體時間如下：

2月7日日環食，15：53食始，21：21食終。
2月21日月全食，9：42初虧，13：08複圓。
8月1日日全食，18：43初虧，19：04食終。
8月17日月偏食，2：23食始，7：57食終。

從大年初一起的一個月為神變月

所謂神變月也就是吾等本師釋迦牟尼佛降伏外道六本師、大力顯揚佛法聖教的殊妙吉祥佳日，眾多佛教經論中都曾提到過神變月的殊勝功德，在此期間（尤其是在上弦月內），每做一件善事，其功德都會比平日行相同善法所得功德增上億倍。因此，若能在神變月期間精勤行善，不僅功不唐捐，更可借此機會迅猛地消除宿業、培植福報資糧。在此期間多做放生以及供燈事業或其他善事將非常殊勝。行惡也加倍哦。

@ 各地區日、月蝕時間有所不同，請自行上網查核正確時間。

資料來源:

http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/jw!hftqBpGRGgIZY66v4g2Sqw--/article?mid=98587

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為雪災災民送上溫暖和關心

pemasky | 5th Feb 2008 | 一般 | (381 Reads)

中國遭遇五十年以來最嚴重的雪災，全國過半省份受災，偏遠地區的特困農戶受影響至深，很多只能身披薄衣，在嚴寒下度歲。現時，災民急需禦寒物品以度嚴冬。

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ABC News: All Ice Gone from Arctic Ocean in Four More Years

pemasky | 23rd Jan 2008 | 一般 | (369 Reads)

An already relentless melting of the Arctic greatly accelerated this summer, a warning sign that some scientists worry could mean global warming has passed an ominous tipping point. One even speculated that summer sea ice would be gone in five years.

Greenland's ice sheet melted nearly 19 billion tons more than the previous high mark, and the volume of Arctic sea ice at summer's end was half what it was just four years earlier, according to new NASA satellite data obtained by The Associated Press.

"The Arctic is screaming," said Mark Serreze, senior scientist at the government's snow and ice data center in Boulder, Colo.

Just last year, two top scientists surprised their colleagues by projecting that the Arctic sea ice was melting so rapidly that it could disappear entirely by the summer of 2040.

This week, after reviewing his own new data, NASA climate scientist Jay Zwally said: "At this rate, the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012, much faster than previous predictions."

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=3991705

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La Marioneta ．The Puppet

pemasky | 18th Jan 2008 | 一般 | (304 Reads)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

If for a moment God would forget that I am a rag doll and give me a scrap of life, possibly would not say everything that I think, but I would definitely think everything that I say.

I would value things not for how much they are worth but rather for what they mean.

I would sleep little, dream more. I know that for each minute that we close our eyes we lose sixty seconds of light.

I would walk when the others loiter; I would awaken when the others sleep.

I would listen when the others speak, and how I would enjoy a good chocolate ice cream.

If God would bestow on me a scrap of life, I would dress simply,
I would throw myself flat under the sun, exposing not only my body but also my soul.

My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hatred on ice and wait for the sun to come out. With a dream of Van Gogh I would paint on the stars a poem by Benedetti, and a song by Serrat would be my serenade to the moon.

With my tears I would water the roses, to feel the pain of their thorns and the incarnated kiss of their petals...My God, if I only had a scrap of life...

I wouldn't let a single day go by without saying to people I love, that I love them.

I would convince each woman or man that they are my favourites and I would live in love with love.

I would prove to the men how mistaken they are in thinking that they no longer fall in love when they grow old--not knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love. To a child I would give wings, but I would let him learn how to fly by himself. To the old I would teach that death comes not with old age but with forgetting. I have learned so much from you men....

I have learned that everybody wants to live at the top of the mountain without realizing that true happiness lies in the way we climb the slope.

I have learned that when a newborn first squeezes his father's finger in his tiny fist, he has caught him forever.

I have learned that a man only has the right to look down on another man when it is to help him to stand up. I have learned so many things from you, but in the end most of it will be no use because when they put me inside that suitcase, unfortunately I will be dying.

Translated by Matthew Taylor and Rosa Arelis Taylor

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/marquez.html

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地球大合唱 1987

pemasky | 10th Jan 2008 | 一般 | (709 Reads)

在 you tube看見這首地球大合唱, 曲詞俱絕佳, 唱的更是絕配. 這晚來來回回看了很多次, 每次都認出不同的歌星, 羅文, 張國榮, 徐小鳳, 許冠傑, 葉麗儀, 看看現在已為人父的張學友, 那時和呂方一起都是年青伙子, 陳百強認真嚴謹地唱, 黃耀明站在後排, 還有小妹妹模樣的陳慧嫻, 陳松伶, 劉美君, 令人唏噓的張國榮, 還有還有....

不知當年是為什麼有這一首經典的歌曲呢, 沒有多少印象了, 幸好有互聯網, 在 wiki 找到了下面的資料 :

《地球大合唱》是一首香港無線電視為慶祝20週年（面世時間為1987年 7月初），動用全個電視台的歌手，而特別製作的慈善籌款歌曲，發行的唱片公司名為「黑白唱片有限公司」。

這首歌一度因為絕版而瀕臨失傳，但因為短片網站YouTube，這首歌的真跡才得以重現。幕後的資料如下：

作曲/編曲：顧家煇
填詞：林振強

全首歌的佈局有如一部小說，有所謂「起承轉合」，每一位歌手因應他們聲線的特性和風格（更重要的是他們當時在電視台的「地位」），編排出場的先後次序，有一部份「地位」較高的歌手，每人也有兩句獨唱的歌詞；其餘的一半，就只能參與「合」的部份，即最後的大合唱。

http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9C%B0%E7%90%83%E5%A4%A7%E5%90%88%E5%94%B1

再找到了歌詞, 值得細看啊 :

主唱︰徐小鳳,梅艷芳,羅文,葉蒨文,張學友,林憶蓮,
         呂方,張國榮,鄺美雲,譚詠麟,陳潔靈,鍾鎮濤,
         甄妮,許冠傑,葉麗儀,林子祥,關正傑,陳百強

   徐小鳳：人心　關起會細小如塵
           不可以載起旁人　麻木閉塞一生
   關正傑：人海　內有億萬人
           其實都可拉近　如人類不自困
   梅艷芳：人心　張開會有光無窮
           張開有暖火熊熊　紅日那般高溫
     羅文：如可　讓每顆心聯盟
           無論遇多少的厄困　也可衝出迷陣

   葉麗儀：齊心喚醒心中那火太陽
           去將四海黑暗變明亮
   張學友／鄺美雲：齊心用愛做艷陽投射去
                   使苦痛之軀再獲能量
   葉麗儀／許冠傑：如肯喚醒心中那火太陽
   許冠傑︰世間有天總會更明亮
   呂方／林憶蓮︰如肯為建造未來齊奉獻
                 始終有一天　這地球會合唱

   譚詠麟：人心　關起會細小如塵
           不可以載起旁人　麻木閉塞一生
   陳潔靈：人海　內有億萬人
           其實都可拉近　如人類不自困
   林子祥／葉蒨文：人心　張開會有光無窮
                   張開有暖火熊熊　紅日那般高溫
   張國榮：如可　讓每顆心聯盟
           無論遇多少的厄困　也可衝出迷陣

   鐘鎮濤：齊心喚醒心中那火太陽
           去將四海黑暗變明亮
   陳百強：齊心用愛做艷陽投射去
           使苦痛之軀再獲能量
   林子祥／葉蒨文：如肯喚醒心中那火太陽
   林子祥︰世間有天總會更明亮
     甄妮：如肯為建造未來齊奉獻
           始終有一天　這地球會合唱

   合：若你我他　喚醒心中那火太陽
       世間有天會更明亮
       攜手為建造未來齊奉獻
       始終有一天　這地球會合唱

   女：齊心喚醒心中那火太陽
       去將四海黑暗變明亮
   男：齊心用愛做艷陽投射去
   合︰使苦痛之軀再獲能量

   合：攜手喚醒心中那火太陽
       世間有天總會更明亮
       攜手為建造未來齊奉獻
       始終有一天　這地球會合唱

   合︰齊心喚醒心中那火太陽
       愛可過山越洋除邊疆
       攜手為建造未來齊奉獻
       始終有一天　這地球會合唱

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觀音心經 The Heart Sutra

pemasky | 8th Jan 2008 | 一般 | (505 Reads)

《心經》全港紅星主唱發起人/監制/作曲：林敏驄梅艷芳譚詠麟郭富城劉德華張學友王菲葉蒨文關淑怡彭羚劉美君鍾鎮濤吳國敬李樂詩陳潔靈李國祥草蜢劉小慧蘇永康張智霖許志安劉嘉玲趙學宜 ...

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Bill Moyers: On Faith & Reason - Pema Chödrön | PBS

pemasky | 8th Jan 2008 | 一般 | (335 Reads)

Bill Moyers: On Faith & Reason - Pema Chödrön | PBS

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西貢佛光寺

pemasky | 6th Jan 2008 | 一般 | (711 Reads)

從"溫暖人間" 得知, 西貢白沙灣大涌口 佛光寺 經數十年的風雨侵蝕, 除瓦頂出現滲漏, 政府勘察危險斜坡時, 發現寺內四周圍牆, 欄杆, 護土牆, 多處出現崩裂, 隨時有倒塌陷危機, 遂頒令修葺. 而全部工程費龐大, 遠超過寺方負擔能力, 現展開眾願維修佛光寺 , 祈願十方信眾, 同來護持.

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Year 2008 Horoscopes ~ Aquarius

pemasky | 31st Dec 2007 | 一般 | (367 Reads)

Overview

You enjoy having a large audience to express your passion for the arts and philanthropic activities and taking your visionary attitudes to the world to support your personal integrity. You feel very blessed by the wonderful connections you are making to express your concepts. You will find you can relate well to others and enjoy spreading your wings more to be with others in the community. Your attitude of enjoying life to its fullest carries over and makes you popular in your professional life.

The kindness you have been able to give to others will come back to you tenfold. People will appreciate your consideration and friendliness. With your need to concentrate and be independent, you prefer working in your own business and behind the scenes rather than with other people. You thrive on wanting to be different, and you will have lots of new resources to help you for achieve a greater good in life. You'll have lots of energy and won't overlook all the details you seem to need to take care of. You will definitely be working hard to manifest your greater visions in life. You have such an amazing flair for an unusual and unique sense of design.

Expressing your individual creative inspiration will be a strong motivation to you to make changes in your physical environment this year. You may even want to redecorate your house or start over from scratch. Mysticism and the arts are very attractive and you benefit from paying attention to your inner voice, and learning to follow its guidance, rather than depending on the changing reflections of those around you. You are fascinated by the unknowable mysteries of your own inner world and might want to express the inspiration you are tuning into through music and writing.

Career

Since this is a year for being ready to venture on your own, you will push to create your vision of a bigger expression of yourself. You are feeling pretty high minded and enjoy your insights. Your faith in your aspirations and abilities will help to continually remold you in doing the best you can and will bring a new kind of sensitivity into your demeanor. Your identity will hinge on the sense you have of yourself.

An attitude of reflecting good intentions, and being in tune with the true needs of others in society, makes you to want to extend yourself in a global way. You will be thrilled to focus on and express yourself with your unique individuality through your own business. Your good perception, open mindedness and strong mentality gives you an ability to do well in your work as you possess a keen, alert and expressive mind and can be versatile with your different skills.

You may need to avoid getting too caught up into the details and focus on the larger picture. By the end of the year, you will feel big transformations through sharing your beautiful work with the world. You will receive the recognition you deserve and your whole life will take on new meaning. You will take on new financial ventures this year as your business expands and you learn new ways of putting your integrity into action where others will greatly benefit from your pursuits. You may find that you will be working with many people and your focus will expand to new markets.

Love

You enjoy spending time searching the depths of your awareness of where you stand on certain issues. This yields positive results in terms of effectively communicating in partnership. You appreciate a person that is not hung up on mundane reality. You feel a strong connection between one's inner awareness and the deep and nebulous realms of magical inner worlds. The closeness in your personal relationship will be very comfortable this year as you are able to give of yourself in a more intimate way and be able to get through some of the fears you may have had about being in a love relationship.

You are feeling very passionate and are very energized by having such a wonderful relationship. You notice your urges for personal security and surprise yourself with how spontaneous you are in communicating your love to another. You will be able to bring your relationship to a higher level this year, and by this summer, you will seek more of a commitment. It's very helpful to maintain your idealistic picture of how you want your relationship to manifest. You will be amazed at the sense of healing in your relationship the year, and how much you are able to help others by your example of overcoming any fears from the past.