61 - 谛听与爱语 - The art of Communicating

谛听与爱语
dì tīng yǔ ài yǔ
Attentive listening and speaking with love

Components:

谛
dì
-careful
-attentive

听
tīng
-to hear

与
yǔ
-and

爱
ài
-love

语
yǔ
-language

42 - 佛陀 - Fó tuó - Buddha

佛陀
Fó tuó
· Buddha
· transliteration of Sanskrit
· the all-enlightened one

Components:

佛
Fó
· Buddha
· Buddhism

陀
tuó
· (phonetic)
· declivity
· steep bank

41 - 解脱 - jiětuō - to free oneself

解脱
jiětuō
- relief; to free oneself; to break away from; to extricate oneself; to relieve; to liberate; to emancipate; free; relieved

解脱祈请文

 Liberating prayer

Components:

祈请

qí qǐng

- prayer

文 

- text 
解
jiě
- to divide; to break up; to split; to separate; to dissolve; to solve; to melt; to remove; to untie; to loosen; to open; to emancipate; to explain; to understand; to know; a solution; a dissection

脱
tuō
- to shed; to take off; to escape; to get away from

40 - 慈悲 - cí bēi - Compassion

慈悲 
cí bēi
- Compassion (Buddhism)

Components:

慈
cí 
- compassionate; gentle; merciful; kind; humane

悲
bēi
- sad; sadness; sorrow; grief

35 - 努力 - nǔlì - great effort; to strive; to try hard

努力
nǔ lì
great effort; to strive; to try hard

Components:

努
nǔ
to exert; to strive

力
lì
power;
force;
strength;
ability;
strenuously;
(Chinese surname)

32 - 孙悟空 - Sūn Wù kōng - Monkey King

孙悟空 
Sūn Wù kōng
· Monkey King
· Sun Wukong (name of a monkey with supernatural powers in the novel Journey to the West  西遊記 | 西游记)

Components:

孙
Sūn
· grandson
· descendant
· surname Sun
==> Family name of Sun because in the past people called monkeys as Sun.


悟
Wù
· comprehend
==> Here it means he knows emptiness.

空
 kōng
· air
· sky
· empty
· free time
· in vain
==> Studying the Buddhist teachings, he has reached some understanding of 'Emptiness'.

25 - 愤怒 - Anger

愤怒会把平日魅力十足的人，变成丑陋， 满脸通红的恶魔。

Fènnù huì bǎ píngrì mèilì shízú de rén, biàn chéng chǒulòu, mǎn liǎn tōnghóng de èmó.

Anger transforms even a normally attractive person into an ugly red-faced demon.

Components:

愤怒
Fènnù· angry
· indignant

愤
Fèn· indignant
· anger
· resentment

怒
nù
· indignant

平日
píngrì
· an ordinary day

平
píng
· flat

魅力
mèilì
· charm
· fascination
· glamor
· charisma 

十足的人
shízú de rén
· ample
· complete
· hundred percent
· a pure shade (of some color)

变成
biàn chéng 
· to change into
· to turn into

丑陋
chǒulòu
· ugly

满
mǎn 
· Manchurian
· to fill
· to fulfill
· filled
· packed

脸
liǎn  
· face

通
tōng
· go through
· know well
· to connect
· to communicate
· open 

红
hóng
· bonus
· popular
· red
· revolutionary

恶魔
è mó
· demon
· fiend 

恶
è 
· evil

魔
mó
· devil

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8 - 经历 - jīng1 lì4 - experience / 轮回 - lún2 huí2 - samsara

• 轮回     lún2 huí2  samsara

• 经历     jīng1 lì4    experience

• 对你来说  dui4 ni3 lai2 shuo1      For you, ...

• 生命     shēng3 mìng4     life

• 虽然    suī3 rán2    although

Examples :

虽然你叫它肉， 我看到的是一个生命。
Even though you call this meat, what I see is a life.

我们一天又一天地经历着轮回的苦难。
Day after day, we experience the sufferings of samsara.

对你来说 这是个好的经历。
This is a good experience for you.

一生又一生, 我们都在经历轮回。
Life after life, we experience samsara.

生命是个轮回。
Life is samsara。

所有的生命都是平等的。 Every life matters.

 

轮回

佛法之轮 The Wheel of Dharma

Vocab and components:

  
轮回
lún2 huí2
· samsara
· reincarnation (Buddhism)

轮    lún2
· wheel
· disk
· ring
· steamship
· to take turns
· to rotate
· by turn
· classifier for big round objects: disk, or recurring events: round, turn

回     huí2 
· to circle
· to go back
· to turn around
· to answer
· to return
· to revolve
· Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims)
· time
· classifier for acts of a play
· section or chapter (of a classic book)
· to curve
· variant of  迴 | 回[hui2]
  

经历
jīng1 lì4
· experience

对你来说 这是个好的经历。
For you, this is a good experience.

经   jīng1
· surname Jing
· classics
· sacred book
· scripture

历   lì4  
· calendar
· to experience
· to undergo
· to pass through
· all
· each
· every
· history








对你来说
For you, ...
  

生命
shēng3 mìng4
· life
· living
· biological
· CL:個 | 个[ge4]



生   shēng3
· to be born
· to give birth
· life
· to grow
· raw
· uncooked
· student

命          ==> The only character for the sound ming4
mìng4
· life
· fate
· order or command
· to assign a name, title etc
  

虽然
suī rán
· although
· even though

虽
suī
· although
· even though

然
rán
· correct
· right
· so
· thus
· like this