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Ready, RESET, Go - Mental Training with Ajahn Brahm

Event Ready, RESET, Go:
Mental Training with Ajahn Brahm
Date 23 March 2023 (Thursday)
Time 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Speaker Ajahn Brahm
Venue Learning Garden & MakerSpace,
LG/F University Library, CUHK


Map
You may take shuttle bus Route No. 1A, 1B, 2,
and N and get off at Sir Run Run Shaw Hall.

Workshop Description

In this talk, Ajahn Brahm, a world renowned theoretical physicist, Buddhist monk and Pāli scholar, will use anecdotes seasoned with humour, and strategies proven by time, to speak on how to respond to uncertainties in life with a positive mindset. There will also be a Q&A session afterwards.

Speaker's Bio

Born in London in 1951 and graduated from Cambridge University with First Class Honours in Theoretical Physics, Ajahn Brahm is the Abbot of Bodhinyana Monastery in Australia. A disciple of the late meditation master Ajahn Chah who has been a Theravada monk for over 40 years, he is an invited speaker at Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and the United Nations, among many other leading organisations. He also is the author of numerous international bestsellers which have been translated into many different languages including: Opening the Door of your Heart; Mindfulness, Bliss and Beyond; The Art of Disappearing; Good? Bad? Who Knows?; Kindfulness; and Bear Awareness.

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Inspirations

  • 「外物之味,久則可厭;讀書之味,愈久愈深。」

    ——(宋)程頤

  • 「書就是風。讀了很多書,大風就來了。你像風箏,順勢而起,便往天空遠處飛去,讀越多,風越大;飛得越高,看得越遠。」

    ——台灣資深編輯傅月庵

  • 「書山有路勤為徑,學海無涯苦作舟。」

  • 「立身以立學為先,立學以讀書為本。」

    ——(宋)朱熹

  • 「善讀者日攻、日掃。攻則直透重圍,掃則了無一物。 」

    ——(清)鄭燮

  • 「(任何一個人,都必須養成自學的習慣,即使是今天在學校的學生,也要養成自學的習慣,因為遲早總要離開學校的!)自學,就是一種獨立學習,獨立思考的能力。行路,還是要靠行路人自己。」

    ——數學家華羅庚

  • 「敏而好學,不恥下問 。」

    ——《論語

  • 「喜愛讀書,就等於把生活中寂寞無聊的時光換成巨大享受的時刻。」

    ——孟德斯鳩

  • 「讀書應自己思索,自己做主。」

    ——魯迅

  • 「善學者盡其理,善行者究其難。 」

    ——荀子

  • 「人若志趣不遠,心不在焉,雖學無成。 」

    ——(宋)張載

  • 「不要把學問看做是用來裝飾的王冠,也不要把學問看做是用來擠奶的奶牛。」

    ——托爾斯泰

  • 「遠行要假良朋,數數清於耳目;住止必須擇伴,時時聞於未聞。故雲:「生我者父母,成我者朋友。」親附善者,如霧露中行,雖不濕衣,時時有潤。」

    ——《溈山大圓禪師警策》

  • 「寫作可以使一天中,工作的二、三小時,化為更有意味的二、三小時。」

    ——王文興

  • 「寫作,最終是一連串允許你以某些特定方式來表達自己的過程。去創造。去跳躍。去飛翔。去掉落。去發現你自己獨樹一格的敘述方式和堅持;也就是讓你找到內在的自由。」

    ——Susan Sontag

  • 「有時候我想,天堂一定是一場永不疲倦的閱讀。」

    ——Virginia Woolf