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Những yếu tố mang đến một không gian nhà đẹp

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Với nhu cầu sống của con người hiện nay, thì việc tư vấn  thi công xây dựng nhà đẹp  với đầy đủ các phòng chức năng, tiện nghi là điều được mọi người ưa chuộng. Nhà ở phải có những phòng đáp ứng được những nội dung sinh hoạt khác nhau. Trong nhà phải đảm bảo được những điều kiện kỹ thuật, vệ sinh con người, phải có những không gian riêng như bếp, phòng ngủ, ban công,… – Mặt tiền nhà đẹp Không cần vào trong nhà, bạn cũng có thể biết được ngôi nhà đẹp hay không là nhờ vào mặt tiền. Tùy vào phong cách gia chủ mà kiến trúc mặt tiền nhà phố theo lối hiện đại hay cổ điển.  Kiến trúc mặt tiền phải xuất phát từ việc bố trí mặt bằng và hình khối ngôi nhà. Đa phần những ngôi nhà phố có chiều ngang hẹp, nên phải thiết kế như thế nào sao cho hợp lý. Các chi tiết trang trí như ban công, bồn hoa,… sẽ tạo điểm nhấn kiến trúc và nâng tầm vẻ đẹp đồng thơ...

Hwadu: Swimming Upstream to the Source-World

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Hwadu: Swimming upstream  to the source world Hwadu Origin Stories In Korean Seon, close cousin to Japanese Zen, monks are often assigned a single hwadu to work with for their entire lives. Hwadu can be translated as "word head" -- the source of all language. Hwadu are questions at the heart of a koan that point through words and phrases to the source-world. Historically, one of the first Buddhist recommendations to practice with hwadu is from the Pali Papañcasudani, which claims that the difference between simple walking and walking meditation is that a meditator keeps in mind the question: "Who goes? Who is this going?" (Analayo ). Another example of this essential spiritual question is the Mumonkon's Case 23, in which Eno, the Sixth Chinese Ancestor, was pursued by Monk Emyo, who wished to steal Eno's robe of transmission. Eno, seeing Emyo coming, laid the robe and the bowl on a rock, and said to him, "This robe represents the faith. Is it to be foug...

What Happens if we Don't Turn Away?

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I woke at 4 AM, and darkness took hold of me. With dawn still hours away and my wife breathing softly next to me, it struck me that I had been with her for nearly six years.  As a child, six years was a lifetime! Why was time slipping away so quickly now? I wondered if perhaps I was no longer cataloguing memories in the same way as I did as a child. Then, each day included firsts -- a first touch of snow on the tongue, a first bash of my head into a cabinet -- whatever it was, it struck me with awe and wonder.  Do memories no longer generate a narrative in the same way? Is that why time seems to disappear? Then, from those mystical waters between waking and dreaming, a vague sense of dread arose as I peered into the dark. An unrecognized thought circled in murky water till it rose and took shape in whispered words.  Could this be the early stage of Alzheimer's, when time no longer forms a story?  This must be what my mother felt as her mind slipped with the rainwater...

Who Lives, Who Dies?

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I sit on the deck behind my house this early spring day. A distant bird's chirp sounds like drops of water falling into a pool. The whoosh of distant traffic travels through the space of my heart. The adjacent fir tree's branches lift and dive in the wind, needles whispering, then settle into stillness. "Who, who?" asks the mourning dove in a nearby maple tree. Though its branches are bare, I cannot find the source of this descending note. The sun illuminates streaming gray clouds, turning them silver, warms my face, then tucks behind a bank of dark clouds.  A dog's bright bark cuts through everything. Somehow each element is distinct, yet vanishes into this edgeless world where beginnings and endings no longer matter.  Who lives, who dies, in this eternal vastness?  "Who? Who?" https://canvas.instructure.com/eportfolios/2065891/Home/Good_Marketing_Is_Like_A_Bad_Habit | https://blevins-klit.technetbloggers.de/three-ways-to-put-fresh-spins-on-old-market...

Priest and Teacher Training in Living Vow Zen

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Most practitioners of Zen are lay, but every so often, one might feel a deep call to service. Ordination, becoming a Zen priest, represents a heartfelt commitment to sangha service, the liturgical forms, Buddhist ethics, and a life of practice. Ordination vows are seen as life vows and should be approached with respect and some hesitation.  In Living Vow Zen, there are some prerequisites to priest candidacy and an expectation that one will acquire certain competencies prior to ordination. Most essentially, the priesthood represents a commitment to live by the  precepts , serve the sangha, and embody our tradition for the benefit of all beings. Living Vow Zen's priest lineage has its roots in the Japanese Soto tradition through  Peggy Houn Jiyu-Kennett , roshi, the first woman to be authorized to teach by the Soto school in Japan. There are two levels of ordination, unsui (clouds and water) and osho (senior). In Living Vow Zen, to be initially ordained, unsui candidates mu...

Meditating with Feng-hsueh

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Let's play with a koan.  Case 24 in the  Gateless Barrier   reads: A monk asked Feng-hsueh: "Speech and silence are concerned with equality and differentiation. How can I transcend equality and differentiation?" Feng-hsueh replied: "I always think of Chiang-nan in March. Partridges chirp among the many fragrant flowers." Upon first reading such a koan, one might find it quite impenetrable. How do we even engage? How do we enter this conversation?  To begin, it helps to have a sense of what the monk is asking.  What matters here is not some historical question about the monk's intentions. What matters is what comes alive for you as you ponder his question.  With that, here are some possibilities....  The monk seems encumbered by the way speech and silence are concerned with equality and differentiation.  What exactly does this monk hope to transcend? Equality  here may refer to the oneness of all things, as "all things by nature are ...

Transforming the Three Poisons through our Bodhisattva Vow

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Our children's future is at risk due to climate change, but in the United States, we seem to lack the political and personal will to address this very real threat. Why? And how can we address this intransigence? Buddha's teachings offers three reasons why we are not taking action: greed, ignorance, and aversion. The dharma also offers a path to transform these three poisons into generosity, wisdom, and loving care. This path begins with our bodhisattva vow.  Though we cannot know whether we will ultimately be successful, we can take responsibility for our own actions and live a life with integrity. It just might be contagious. And it just might save our planet for generations to come.  The Three Poisons Plastics fill the bellies of whales . Run-off from factory farms pollutes our waters . And most harmfully, the burning of fossil fuels harms our health (especially for those who can't afford to live further from power plants) and releases CO2 which blankets the atmosphere, t...