這是我家，每個來到這間書房的人都說
這是總裁的辦公室！^+++++^
當初在規劃這間房的時候
就有特別想把它打造得具有專業感
以灰色牆面和黑白家具擺設呈現冷調
Welcome to my Girlboss office!

時常在家工作的我需要的居家辦公室
最近終於增添了一名想要已久的生力軍
那就是功能全備的威力印輕連供商用事務機
可傳真，可掃描，可雙面列印，可無線傳輸
重點是小小一台外型超時尚美型
真是居家辦公人士非常必備的夥伴唷！

我大學科系是服裝設計系
記得大一時爸爸帶我去百貨公司
選了一台日本Brother牌縫紉機
Brother是1908年在名古屋成立的百年老牌
大學四年來無論多操它都不曾故障甚至到現在
讓我愛上這個品牌的原因
除了功能性和介面友善簡單好操作
還有它總是能兼具好收納的體積和美型外觀
Brother的印表機和縫紉機都是明星商品
這台型號MFC-J4340DW的雙面無線傳真事務機
果然也擁有我需要的所有特點

✔️ 輕巧時尚美型
✔️ 中文彩色螢幕顯示+印量智慧預測系統
✔️ 防水墨水，印文件不怕弄濕弄髒
✔️ 極大化節省成本，單張只要0.25元
✔️ 可快速方便從手機或筆電操作，無線傳輸列印出文件和圖片
✔️ 同級速度最快，最高可達6,000張大印量

MFC-J4340DW由黑嘉嘉擔任代言人
我對它很滿意，也非常好上手
推薦給在尋找印表機的人唷！

#Brother
#MFCJ4340DW
#威力印輕連供
#小白印表機
#居家辦公
#WFH儀式感
#四色防水
#手機列印
#印表機

Enlightened by Brother Taiwan - 台灣兄弟國際行銷

【解開人生謎題的寶書】(English writing below)

「師姐，簽書號已經發完了耶！」

地點：台灣雷藏寺的大燈文化攤位。

我一手抓著根本上師聖尊蓮生活佛的新書《我所知道的佛陀：如是我聞》，一手拿著錢要付款。

「沒關係，師兄，沒有師尊的簽名，我還是想買這本書。」我微笑著回答，感謝他的熱心提醒。

我喜歡紙本書。家裡整堵牆的書架，都是師尊的書。

我甚少在雷藏寺買師尊的書。一般來說，師尊推出新書時，我都會在新加坡的紀伊國屋書店購買，希望藉此能推廣師尊的文集在寺廟以外的地方。用錢買書，也是我出點微薄之力，代表我對作者付出的支持。

有師尊簽書固然是錦上添花，但能不能開悟，還是需要自己的努力。

初聽師尊宣布這書名《我所知道的佛陀：如是我聞》時，我頓時倍感親切。

每個人信佛的起點都不一樣。有的人是因爲篤信觀世音菩薩，而皈依佛門，我則是因爲「南無本師釋迦牟尼佛」。

在大學佛學會時，我常去本地的一間斯里蘭卡佛寺參拜佛陀，繞菩提樹。好幾年的時間，我在那兒，向佛陀述說了很多、很多我的苦楚，我的煩惱，有時候邊說，邊繞菩提樹，繞了無數圈，就連第一次失戀，也在臥佛前哭了兩個小時。

那時，我不明白為什麼人家做人，我也做人，但我無論怎麼努力，卻特別的苦。我一直求佛陀告訴我：我爲什麼要活著？我爲什麼要來到人間？我要怎麼改命？

當然，在壇城上的佛陀怎麼會開口跟這「怨女」說話呢？

我把打工的錢存起來，買一尊佛像，拿去開光，安在書房內。後來媽媽因爲某事生我氣，趁我不在時，把佛像仍掉。我畢業就職後，又請了一尊。傻傻的我以為那兩尊都是釋迦牟尼佛，其實祂們都是「大日如來」。

我想，這應該是我五年後皈依師尊的因緣之一。

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2013年，西雅圖雷藏寺開創一個新聞單元《如是我聞》，報導師尊的日常法教。小女子我自告奮勇拉著我師兄一起爲官網，把幾篇《如是我聞》翻譯成英文，回饋師尊的無私奉獻與教導。

從台灣飛回新加坡的航班上，我閱讀了師尊新書《我所知道的佛陀：如是我聞》兩個小時。

我忽然恍然大悟，十九年前，常跑到釋迦牟尼佛跟前訴苦的那個少女，原來佛陀真的聽到了她的哀求，沒有讓它落空。

理科班的我，從小就對這世界很好奇。家裡的百科全書，十年來，我從頭到尾都讀了至少百遍，但總覺得人要懂的知識，不該只有這些。

皈依師尊前，我曾讀過、聽過很多有名出家人的法語開示，無論是講中文或英文的。他們都講得很好，但是，唯有蓮生活佛的開示和文集，徹底的解除我自幼對於人生和宇宙的迷惑。

尤其是這本書。

原來在科學之外，還有這樣一個空間、一種能量和宇宙能力場存在著。

皈依學佛，就是學佛陀的教義，目的就是要成佛。

可怎樣的佛弟子，才是釋迦牟尼佛認可的弟子？

我們人要如何離苦得樂？如何去馴服自己狂野的心？如何從凡夫身回歸本來的面目？什麼又是原本的自己？

那天，師父問一位少女：「妳想學佛，那妳知道佛教教主是誰嗎？」

她已閱讀完師父在臉書2013年至2019年的文章，卻一個字都說不出。

切勿把佛法當成普通的人間知識來看待，更不要以學佛爲名，利用其知識賺錢做生意爲實。販賣如來，可是下地獄吞熾熱鐵丸、喝滾燙鐵汁之罪啊！

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我去台灣前，師父交代過要我到台北101拍照，於是我就抱著師尊的書去。

玳瑚師父教過，台北101是現代版的文昌塔。

古時候，文昌已甚被重視，因爲利於讀書、功名和事業。在沒有某種形式的山脈時，就會建文昌塔（又稱文峰塔）來催旺文人輩出。

古代有文昌塔，現代有台北101。

古代有佛陀初傳四聖諦，現代有蓮生法王繼續的轉法輪。

而人呢？從古至今，仍然在醉生夢死中。

一般人要文昌，因爲追求功名。但我對人間的智慧，已意興闌珊。我要文昌，因爲希望早日開竅，拜託，不要那麽笨 ～～

無論你是剛接觸佛法，還是皈依許久的老弟子，如果你和我一樣追求生命的實相，這本書裡的般若智慧必會讓你大開眼界、讚歎連連。

你到底有多認識佛陀呢？

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我大力推薦此書，可到以下書局網購，或到真佛般若藏免費閱讀電子書或聆聽有聲書：

1) 新加坡紀伊書店 - https://singapore.kinokuniya.com/bw/9789573052654

2) 台灣金石堂 - https://www.kingstone.com.tw/basics/basics.asp?kmcode=2012000022409&lid=common-index-billboard-all&actid=bookindex

3) 真佛般若藏 - https://www.tbboyeh.org/cht#/store

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"Dharma Sister, the numbers for book signing have all been given out!"

Venue: Daden Culture book stall at Taiwan Lei Tsang Temple

I was holding on to "The Buddha I Know: Thus Have I Heard", the latest book by my Root Guru, His Holiness Living Buddha Lian Sheng, with my other hand grasping onto the cash, wanting to pay for the book.

"No problem, Dharma Brother. Without the autograph of Grandmaster, I would still wish to buy this book." I smiled in reply, thanking him for his friendly reminder.

I prefer reading from an actual book over an ebook. Back at home, I have one full wall of my Grandmaster's books on my bookshelves.

I rarely buy my Grandmaster's books from Lei Tsang temples. Usually, for His latest release, I would buy from Singapore Kinokuniya book store. It is my hope that this little gesture would help to boost sales at external bookstores, so that my Grandmaster's books can continue to be sold beyond the temples. To pay for it is my small token of appreciation and support for the author's effort.

To have my Grandmaster's autograph on the book is, of course, covetable, but whether the I can attain enlightenment is still dependant on my hard work.

When I first heard my Grandmaster announcing the book title "The Buddha I Know: Thus Have I Heard", I immediately felt a sense of closeness.

Everybody has a different starting point for believing in the Buddha. There are some people who are devoted to Guan Shi Yin Bodhisattva, and hence take refuge. For me, it was because of Shakyamuni Buddha.

During my NUS Buddhist Society days, I often visited a Sri Lanka Buddhist temple in Singapore. I would pay homage to Buddha and circumambulate the Bodhi tree. For many years, I would be at the temple regurgitating my troubles and sufferings to Buddha. Sometimes, I would circumambulate endless rounds around the Bodhi tree while being troubled. When my first relationship failed, I cried in front of the Sleeping Buddha for 2 hours.

At that time, I didn't understand why my life was tougher than other people, no matter how much effort I poured in. I kept pleading to Buddha for an answer. For what am I alive for? Why do I have to come to this mortal world? What can I do to improve my life?

Naturally, how could the Buddha that sat on the altar literally speak to this resentful girl?

With the money I scrimped and saved working part-time during my uni days, I bought a Buddha statue and after having it consecrated, I enshrined the statue in my study room. Once, when my mum was angry with me over some issue, she threw away the Buddha statue while I was out.

Upon graduation, I bought another Buddha statue. The silly me assumed that both statues are of Shakyamuni Buddha when in fact, they were of Mahāvairocana Buddha.

I guess this must be one affinity why I took refuge in my Grandmaster 5 years later.

In 2013, Seattle Lei Tsang Temple started a new column "Thus Have I Heard", reporting on the daily Dharma teachings of Grandmaster. Dragging the husband along, we volunteered to translate a few of the reports into English for the official website. It was our little way to repay Grandmaster for his selfless contributions and teachings.

Now you know why I took a liking to the book title almost immediately.

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On the flight back from Taiwan, I read the book for about 2 hours.

I suddenly had a realisation. The young lady that cried and bemoaned her fate in front of Shakyamuni Buddha 19 years ago had her prayers answered after all. Buddha did hear her pleas and did not let her prayers go unfulfilled.

I was a Science student and since young, I was full of curiosity for this world. The encyclopaedia I had at home had been read at least 100 times over 10 years. But I had always felt that the knowledge humans need to know should be more than that.

Before taking refuge in Grandmaster, I had read, watched and listened to many Dharma discourses expounded by many famous Venerables, both in English and Chinese. They all explained the teachings of Buddha very well.

However, only Living Buddha Lian-Sheng could thoroughly answer my conundrums about life and this universe, through His Dharma discourses and books.
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Especially in this book.

Apart from the science that we know, there is indeed another dimension of existence, another field of energy from the Universe.

When we take refuge to learn the Dharma, we are essentially learning what the Buddha had taught. The sole purpose is to eventually attain Buddhahood.

But do you know, just what kind of Buddhists are recognised by Shakyamuni Buddha as true disciples?

And how can we humans break free from sufferings and achieve bliss? How can we tame the wild minds in us? How do we return to our true self from this mortal body?

Just what actually is our true nature?

That day, Shifu asked a young lady, "You say you wish to learn the Dharma. Then do you know who is the founder of Buddhism?"

She had read all of Shifu's FB articles from 2013-2019, but was unable to reply.

Do not treat the Buddhadharma as ordinary mortal knowledge, let alone masquerade under the name of learning the Dharma, but in reality, using the knowledge to make more money and build a business. Peddling the Buddha for self-profit is a sin that would have you swallowing red hot iron balls and drinking boiling hot liquid iron in Hell!

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Before my trip to Taiwan, Shifu told me to take a photo with Taipei 101. So I went there with my Grandmaster's book.

Master Dai Hu had taught me, Taipei 101 is the modern-day version of Wen Chang Pagoda.

In ancient times, Wen Chang is highly valued, because it favours the academics, scholarly achievements and career. When a certain mountain form is lacking in certain geographical locations, a Wen Chang Pagoda ( also known as Wen Feng Pagoda) would be constructed to activate and encourage the birth of more scholarly people.

So in the old days, there is the Wen Chang Pagoda, and now we have the Taipei 101.

In the past, there is Buddha who first expounded on the Four Noble Truths. And now, we have His Holiness, Dharma King Lian Sheng, to continue turning the Wheel of Dharma.

What about humans? Throughout history, humans have lived a befuddled existence. Even till now.

Most people want Wen Chang because they pursue fame and recognition. I covet Wen Chang, because I hope to get enlightened sooner. Oh please, let me be less stupid...

Whether you are new to the teachings of Buddha, or a Buddhist disciple for years, if you are pursuing the ultimate truth of Life like me, this book will open up your eyes and have you singing in praises.

Just how well do you know Buddha?

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I strongly recommend this book and you can purchase it online at the links below, or hop over to True Buddha Prajna Treasury to read the ebook or listen to the audiobook for free.

1) Kinokuniya Singapore - https://singapore.kinokuniya.com/bw/9789573052654

2) Kingstone Taiwan - https://www.kingstone.com.tw/basics/basics.asp?kmcode=2012000022409&lid=common-index-billboard-all&actid=bookindex

3) 真佛般若藏 True Buddha Prajna Treasury - https://www.tbboyeh.org/cht#/store

成日有女仔inbox Serrini的page分享長篇成長煩惱/擔心/迷失故事，每個都好introspective。這尤其在我有日無聊玩「紫薯MaMa」persona 之後出現。

我的存在對於這群年輕女生有什麼意義？我想就是面對世俗洪流都開心笑and跳舞繼續看書和勇敢向前走的一種「自若」，這種「自若」大概是她們也想達到的境界。私底下我蠻「自虐」tho，成日self-batter，burrow everything like a mole 🤓（我覺得自己蠻poetic的所以我允許自己這樣）。現在的「自虐」是收放自如的，以前覺得自己做不好的話（always係學業）會捏自己even打自己（like real slaps），又時候會看著鏡子裡自己哭著問「你做咩咁蠢？？」這樣其實not so good。

我好鍾意睇一個叫mitú既latino media page（像buzzfeed的東東），因為佢好多vid都很empowering（同好笑），保持幽默感和輕鬆is so important。

Gurl，我覺得我自己是很多朋友顧著走過來的，而當我open my heart（to友情）的時候是有回報的，我發現其實很多人都需要一些empathy同鼓勵，有時候可以是「哇你做mud咁靚」or「頂你篇文寫得超好」or「gurl u r my die蚊」，一切都好，一切都安好，有時候就是需要借出耳朵和真誠看著對方雙眼就ok了。

說到overcompensate，我自小可能就有這個habit，什麼都要贏、什麼都要最好，我嘗試psychoanalyze自己（well看看childhood之類的nth fancy），我覺得可能是爸爸一個星期只見一個weekend，所以每個weekend我都會主動做accomplishment匯報爸爸然後讓他覺得「唔，這女兒好乖wor！」的東西。其實現在也有這種心態，每個星期要做些東西出來。心底裡可能很想有人告訴我「Serruria你唔使咁fill up自己都ok架，你慢落黎都ok架，你唔講嘢都ok架，你唔deliver都ok架」之類，這所以我那麼喜歡看poetry，濃縮的句子裡那麼多可能性讓我想太多，而慢慢理解萬般metaphors和emotions的時候其實也是一場自我對話或slow time。閱讀對於我來說其實是救贖，我不想mansplain人要點要點orpostureas傑出青年（like those"role models")，我更想是坦露自己軟弱和不足，讓更多後來者覺得要開始面對自己or和自己對話（reading可以read很多東西，not just 「看書」，我覺得read可以是「洞察」前的step），我希望我這種non chalance不是「精神暴力」or帶給人壓力，而是身教how free mind不是什麼過分艱難的事情。

進了中文大學英文系（I love it)後enlightened，慢慢發現做human的意義，這種意義慢慢展現自己的歌裡，然後吸引一群similar energy的人來一起，community building，這很warm warm的。😌。

有朋友說我的歌可能很簡單無聊on9，但是突然有一兩句突然打臉很「educated」，我覺得「有教養」is too basic，我想要transcendance🌲這個東東，你去再聽一萬次《放棄治療》看英文字幕看看。多喝水、多看著別人眼睛、多體諒、保持柔軟的心、說「我不知道自己幹嘛但是這is ok」和對著鏡子自己講"you is fine, you is intelligent, you is smarrrrrrt, you is worth it"(最近好喜歡YOU IS ME IS這樣） 一切可安好呢❤️。#Serrini寫幾句