相約在禪修 最美不過夕陽紅
騰福 騰禧 加拿大溫哥華 圖文由加拿大溫哥華藥師禪院提供他們是一對年邁的老夫婦，一年前因為74歲的妻子騰福患上抑鬱症，80歲的丈夫騰禧陪同她一起走進菩提。走進菩提後，夫婦倆紛紛收穫著身心的健康和快樂，並將這份收穫傳遞給了更多的有緣人。在絢麗的夕陽裡，他們就這樣一起詮釋著感恩的真諦，執手共剪一段幸福的時光……
2013年3月份，騰禧的太太騰福患上了嚴重的抑鬱症，那段時間裡她終日夜不能寐，心情抑鬱痛苦，大腦裡總是無法控制地像放電影般一幕幕地出現負面的景象。不僅如此她還常覺得全身無力，走路時兩腿像棉花一樣軟綿綿的，坐立難安，茶飯不香。看過醫生吃了6個月的藥以後，也沒見一絲好轉。那時候面對每日飽受著病苦折磨的太太，騰禧是看在眼裡疼在心上，除了整天在身邊照顧她之外，也只是束手無策，唯有默默地嘆息…… 然而天無絕人之路，一個偶然的機會，騰禧在超市拿到了一本《禪修與健康》雜誌，這本雜誌深深地吸引了他。抱著一線希望，回到家後他說服了太太去試一試禪修。就這樣2013年8月底，他陪着太太一起來到禪堂參加了菩提禪修的能量調理。緊接著又參加了9月份的菩提禪修健身班。沒想到才初次體驗禪修，他的太太就驚喜地發現自己的身體竟然漸漸地輕鬆了很多，胃口變得好起來, 睡眠也有了改善！為了繼續康復身體，他們又繼續參加了多個健身班和念佛班。兩個月後，太太已從嚴重憂鬱症中完全解脫了出來！過去她每晚只能睡1個小時，而現在每天卻能睡 6小時，飯也吃得香，不僅如此她的心情變得快樂開朗了許多，經常與旁人有說又有笑。看著太太一天天的變化，騰禧也開心不已！ 在太太生病時，騰禧把注意力都放在了她身上，也從來沒有心思顧及自己的健康。然而沒想到來陪太太禪修這一年多，除了太太的抑鬱症得到康復，通過「大光明」及走「八卦」，他的身體狀況竟然也得到了改善。十多年來，由於血液不通暢，騰禧一直都有手冰凍的毛病，尤其是在冬天經常生凍瘡。不僅如此，他的鼻子過敏超過十年，經常打噴嚏流鼻水。禪修後，他發現自己過去手冰凍和鼻子的過敏竟然全部都好了！更神奇的是原先他有一頭的銀白髮，自從禪修後竟然開始漸生出黑髮來！現在的他每天的禪修時間都在2－3個小時之間，精力也越來越充沛。 對於他們夫婦而言，菩提禪修就好像是一道溫暖的陽光照進他們的世界裡。它不僅讓太太騰福從嚴重抑鬱症的痛苦中解脫出來，不再飽受病苦的折磨，而且也讓騰禧品嚐到健康的喜悅。他們的生活因禪修的出現再次回歸到幸福快樂的彼岸。為此，他們內心對金菩提宗師充滿了深深的感恩！ 除了帶給他們健康，禪修也讓他們的晚年生活充滿了無限的幸福。怀揣一份感恩之心，如今騰禧與太太騰福每天都來到禪堂做義工。在做義工的過程裡他們受益良多，感受到一種前所未有的充實和快樂。在這裡，他們希望自己可以永遠成為感恩的傳遞者，將宗師給予他們的健康和快樂，傳遞給與更多的有緣人！
Red-Carpet Meditators
By Patrick Miller
Seeking a red-carpet guru? No longer exclusive to yak-herding nomads and emperors of the Orient, meditation practices have gone mainstream. Transcendental Meditation (TM), Yoga and Buddhism-based techniques are all being applauded for their health-giving powers.
Offering liberation from emotional baggage, meditation also provides relief from physical pain. Historically, it has had a powerful appeal to the poor and destitute; however, even the most affluent and celebrated have also taken notice. After achieving great success and fame, high-profile celebrities are often noted as saying that they still struggle with loneliness and misery. As such, it isn’t surprising that the arts of self-cultivation would attract the sparkle of celebrated eyes! Check out the list below!
Hugh Jackman
(actor)
Hugh Jackman knows firsthand that meditation can help quell anxiety. It helped him heal his obsessive-compulsive tendencies, and he considers the practice to be life-transforming.
George Harrison
(musician)
This quiet member of the iconic Beatles was an avid meditator, and introduced the practice to his fellow bandmates. He considered meditation a method that enabled one to “obtain God perception.”
Christy Turlington
(supermodel)
Christy Turlington is an extremely devoted practitioner of yoga and yoga-based meditation. Meditation, mantras (sacred sound chanting) and mudras (hand gestures) are all part of her personal practice.
In Shape Magazine, Christy was quoted as saying: “Once you make time to do whatever it is that you want to do – breathing, meditation, exercise – it becomes second nature. The key is practice.”
David Lynch
(film director)
Since the 1970s, David Lynch has practiced meditation and been an active advocate of Transcendental Meditation, the movement founded in 1957 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Maharishi is the same controversial yogi with whom both The Beatles and The Beach Boys studied meditation. David Lynch advocates the teaching of TM techniques in schools as part of the standard curriculum.
Deepak Chopra
(inspirational speaker, author, New Age health guru, M.D.)
Perhaps America’s best known advocate of alternative medicine, Deepak Chopra has not only discussed his daily meditation practice in numerous interviews, but many of the thirty-five or so books he has authored provide meditation instruction. Several of those have been simultaneous bestsellers.
High-profile and ubiquitous, Chopra now has over a hundred audio, video and CD-ROM programs on the market. He has been published around the world and translated into twelve languages. With regard to his English writings alone, close to ten million copies of his books have been sold (double that when other-language sales are taken into account). He has also produced programs with PBS. What’s more, Dr. Chopra is a member of the American College of Physicians and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists.
Gwyneth Paltrow
(actor)
In an interview with journalist and ET correspondent Jann Carl, Gwyneth Paltrow offered profound words regarding what she had learned about yoga: “Well, the primary thing is you can’t look to get anything out of it. You just have to go and humbly do your practice every day. You don’t do it so you can have a good body. The whole reason that you do it is to be able to sit in meditation for three hours…”
About meditation specifically, she said: “…it’s a process of learning to detach from the way you perceive yourself. And by doing that, you start to detach from all the things that make you suffer in life.”
Adrien Brody
(actor)
To prepare for a film role, Adrien Brody secluded himself in a jungle hut and studied meditation techniques.
Howard Stern
(radio personality)
After beginning his TM practice close to forty years ago, Howard quit smoking almost instantaneously.
Julia Roberts
(actor)
Actor Julia Roberts is reported to use meditation to refresh and energize herself. She is rumored to have benefited from its effects most after the birth of her twins, Phinnaeus and Hazel. Exhausted by her mothering and professional responsibilities, Julia has said that meditation is her salvation, providing her with energy and calmness.
Herbie Hancock
(jazz musician)
Musician Herbie Hancock is a practitioner of a style of meditation that places strong emphasis on chanting. One of the greats of modern jazz, Mr. Hancock was inspired to try meditation after witnessing its effect on the performing abilities of fellow jazz players. A cornerstone of his artistic development, meditation facilitates his courage to try new things.
Kate Hudson
(actor)
Kate, Goldie Hawn’s daughter, picked up meditation techniques from her mother, whom she describes as a “Ju-Bu,” or “Jewish Buddhist.”
Keanu Reeves
(actor)
Keanu Reeves does not claim spiritual adherence to any one path. But he was introduced to Buddhism during the making of the movie Little Buddha, in which he played Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha). Through that experience, he developed an interest in meditation. Though publicly low-key about his spirituality, Reeves also narrated the introduction for a video series on Buddhism called Discovering Buddhism.
Kirsan llyumzhinov
(President of FIDE and Former President of the Republic of Kalmykia, Russia)
Definitely a different kind of celebrity, Kirsan IIyumzhinov is President of FIDE (World Chess Federation) and formerly President of the Republic of Kalmykia, an autonomous Russian republic. Located in southern Russia on the shores of the Caspian Sea, Kalmykia is Europe’s only Buddhist republic. Forty-six percent of the population is Buddhist, a figure that corresponds almost exactly with the number of ethnic Kalmyks.
Madonna
(musician, actor)
Madonna is a practitioner of Ashtanga, a form of flowing and physically demanding yoga. She also chants, meditates and reads sutras. There have been various media reports of Madonna requesting a sound-proof meditation area be prepared for her before concerts.
Meg Ryan
(actor)
Meg considers herself a “seeker”; it is that facet of her personality that has led her to explore traditional Eastern thought.
In US Weekly, she commented: “I’ve had meditation experiences that were kind of outrageous and fun. Enough to whet my appetite… Basically, it’s the experience of oneness, a visceral rather than intellectual experience. And the deep knowing that everything is OK. Everything matters. And there’s no separation between anything. But this kind of stuff all sounds weird when you read someone else talking about it.”
Russell Simmons
(entrepreneur/impresario/author)
Russell has been meditating for approximately fifteen years, and credits the practice with bearing the gifts of joy and success. “It has given me energy, strength, health, wisdom, and access to my own inner stillness, inner silence, inner bliss. It is my connection to myself; it is my connection to the Universe.”
Orlando Bloom
(actor)
Meditation and its accompanying philosophies have helped the star of such films as Pirates of the Caribbean and Lord of the Rings avoid the self-destructive path common to those who find success in Hollywood. Orlando has found greater strength and peace by incorporating meditation into his daily life in a practical, workable way.
Ricky Martin
(musician)
Ricky Martin no longer lives his life hiding behind his bodyguards; he feels that his practices of yoga and meditation provide him with all he needs to live securely and at peace. He has been quoted as saying that he works diligently for internal peace through his self-cultivation practices. During a visit to India, this non-smoking, non-drinking vegetarian even shaved his head as part of his learning process.
Ricky has said that he is inspired by Gandhi’s writings and has discussed his spiritual pursuits extensively with the media.
Steven Seagal
(actor)
Ever since moving to Japan at the age of seventeen to study Zen, acupuncture and martial arts, Steven Seagal has been a devotee of meditation.
Sharon Stone
(actor)
Sharon Stone has been involved with a number of Buddhist projects. She narrated an eighty-three-minute DVD on Buddhism, as well as an acclaimed documentary titled Jews and Buddhism.
Peter Hata quoted Sharon as saying: “My practice is Buddhism, but I believe in God… I don’t believe in Buddha as my God… I believe in the practical ways of Buddhism as a way to live.”
Sting
(musician, actor)
Sting and his wife are deeply taken with the practice of yoga. He views it as a spiritual practice, and spirituality is a concept he claims to be gradually growing more in touch with. In an interview with Ganga White for Yoga Journal, Sting is quoted as saying that the breathing aspects of yoga bring it very close to meditation.
Tina Turner
(musician)
Tina Turner may very well be the Western world’s best-known female Buddhist (a facet of her life that was little recognized until the release of the movie What’s Love Got to Do with It). She credits Buddhist-style meditation with life-affecting change.
So look to “the stars” for inspiration to walk the path of meditation, a path increasingly populated by diverse luminaries. From enhancing creativity to reducing stress and connecting with inner bliss, the famous effects of meditative practice are clearly valued by many of the famous among us.
相約在禪修 最美不過夕陽紅
騰福 騰禧 加拿大溫哥華 圖文由加拿大溫哥華藥師禪院提供他們是一對年邁的老夫婦，一年前因為74歲的妻子騰福患上抑鬱症，80歲的丈夫騰禧陪同她一起走進菩提。走進菩提後，夫婦倆紛紛收穫著身心的健康和快樂，並將這份收穫傳遞給了更多的有緣人。在絢麗的夕陽裡，他們就這樣一起詮釋著感恩的真諦，執手共剪一段幸福的時光……
2013年3月份，騰禧的太太騰福患上了嚴重的抑鬱症，那段時間裡她終日夜不能寐，心情抑鬱痛苦，大腦裡總是無法控制地像放電影般一幕幕地出現負面的景象。不僅如此她還常覺得全身無力，走路時兩腿像棉花一樣軟綿綿的，坐立難安，茶飯不香。看過醫生吃了6個月的藥以後，也沒見一絲好轉。那時候面對每日飽受著病苦折磨的太太，騰禧是看在眼裡疼在心上，除了整天在身邊照顧她之外，也只是束手無策，唯有默默地嘆息…… 然而天無絕人之路，一個偶然的機會，騰禧在超市拿到了一本《禪修與健康》雜誌，這本雜誌深深地吸引了他。抱著一線希望，回到家後他說服了太太去試一試禪修。就這樣2013年8月底，他陪着太太一起來到禪堂參加了菩提禪修的能量調理。緊接著又參加了9月份的菩提禪修健身班。沒想到才初次體驗禪修，他的太太就驚喜地發現自己的身體竟然漸漸地輕鬆了很多，胃口變得好起來, 睡眠也有了改善！為了繼續康復身體，他們又繼續參加了多個健身班和念佛班。兩個月後，太太已從嚴重憂鬱症中完全解脫了出來！過去她每晚只能睡1個小時，而現在每天卻能睡 6小時，飯也吃得香，不僅如此她的心情變得快樂開朗了許多，經常與旁人有說又有笑。看著太太一天天的變化，騰禧也開心不已！ 在太太生病時，騰禧把注意力都放在了她身上，也從來沒有心思顧及自己的健康。然而沒想到來陪太太禪修這一年多，除了太太的抑鬱症得到康復，通過「大光明」及走「八卦」，他的身體狀況竟然也得到了改善。十多年來，由於血液不通暢，騰禧一直都有手冰凍的毛病，尤其是在冬天經常生凍瘡。不僅如此，他的鼻子過敏超過十年，經常打噴嚏流鼻水。禪修後，他發現自己過去手冰凍和鼻子的過敏竟然全部都好了！更神奇的是原先他有一頭的銀白髮，自從禪修後竟然開始漸生出黑髮來！現在的他每天的禪修時間都在2－3個小時之間，精力也越來越充沛。 對於他們夫婦而言，菩提禪修就好像是一道溫暖的陽光照進他們的世界裡。它不僅讓太太騰福從嚴重抑鬱症的痛苦中解脫出來，不再飽受病苦的折磨，而且也讓騰禧品嚐到健康的喜悅。他們的生活因禪修的出現再次回歸到幸福快樂的彼岸。為此，他們內心對金菩提宗師充滿了深深的感恩！ 除了帶給他們健康，禪修也讓他們的晚年生活充滿了無限的幸福。怀揣一份感恩之心，如今騰禧與太太騰福每天都來到禪堂做義工。在做義工的過程裡他們受益良多，感受到一種前所未有的充實和快樂。在這裡，他們希望自己可以永遠成為感恩的傳遞者，將宗師給予他們的健康和快樂，傳遞給與更多的有緣人！
