教堂幽默

天堂与地狱女儿：＂妈妈,我不想和贝尼结婚了,那个人不信有天堂和地狱。＂妈妈：＂别担心,孩子。只要一结婚,他就会尝到味道了。＂女儿：＂为什么？＂妈妈：＂凭你这坏脾气,结婚后他不等于天天生活在地狱中？不过,蜜月会像天堂!＂[感悟]如果真能活出＂在地如同在天＂的生活就好了!     

禅房花木深

地狱与天堂 一名日本武士问高僧白隐：“真的有天堂和地狱吗?”白隐不正面回答，却说：“你有把剑，可惜钝得根本砍不下我的头。”武士被激怒，拔剑相对。白隐方道：“地狱大门由此打开。”武士心中一震，当下大悟，遂收剑：白隐又说：“天堂大门由此敞开。”     

面对诱惑

近日偶尔看到了这样一则故事：一个即将离开人世的人，不知道死后是去天堂好还是入地狱好。因此买了一些贵重的礼物去看望阎王，顺便问一问哪里好。于是阎王带着他到天堂和地狱转了一圈，由自己决定。     

哪里是天堂

一个人历尽千辛万苦,终于找到了他朝思暮想的天堂。来到天堂门口,他喜极而泣,然后开始欢呼起来:“我终于来到天堂啦!我终于来到天堂啦!“然而天堂的守门人却诧异地问道:“哪里是天堂啊?“欢呼的人一下子惊呆了:“难道你不知道这里就是天堂?我明白了,原来你没去过地狱啊!“是啊,在     

还有明天……

在民间曾听到这样一则寓言,有一段时间,因为下地狱的人锐减了,阎罗王便紧急召集群鬼,商讨如何诱人下地狱。群鬼各抒己见。牛头提议说:“我告诉人类,‘丢弃良心吧!根本没有天堂!’”阎王考虑了一会儿,     

鬼与地狱·经忏法事——中国佛教琐谈(二)

鬼与地狱在生死轮回的六趣———六道中,鬼与地狱,是六趣中不同的二趣。鬼与地狱,可说是古代极一般的信仰;在佛法传来以前,我国也早有了鬼与近似地狱的信仰。佛法传来,在重信仰的民间佛教中,鬼与地狱有了混合的倾向。特别是盛唐以后,佛教偏重实行,法义的理解衰落,传出了国人自己编写的经典,鬼与地狱被混合为一,成为民间的信仰。在我国古代的传说中,如魑,魅,魍,魉,魃,魈等,或是山精、木怪,或是灾旱、疫疠的厉鬼;有关天象的,称为神。人类是聚族而居的,最初想到的,死是回到(民族)祖神的所在(“帝所”),如文王的“在帝左右”。但知识渐增,自身的…     

鬼与地狱·经忏法事——中国佛教琐谈（二）

在生死轮回的六趣——六道中,鬼与地狱,是六趣中不同的二趣。鬼与地狱,可说是古代极一般的信仰;在佛法传来以前,我国也早有了鬼与近似地狱的信仰。佛法传来,在重信仰的民间佛教中,鬼与地狱有了混合的倾向。特别是盛唐以后,佛教偏重实行,法义的理解衰落,传出了国人自己编写的经典,鬼与地狱被混合为一,成为民间的信仰。     

解读孤独

孤独,是天堂,也是地狱。孤独让人行走于刀锋之上,要么崩溃,要么创造奇迹。在印第安人的传统中,一个勇士深感沮丧的时候,会进入洞     

鬼源初探

鬼,来无影,去无踪,要想探知其源流委实是比较困难的。不过,笔者在近日翻阅古籍时却偶然觅见了它的一些端倪。据我国汉代文字学家许慎的《说文解字》所载,对鬼字的解释为:人所归为鬼。人去世后,归往何处?按迷信者说,一般有两个去向:一为天堂,二是地狱。天堂诚然是生前为善者所进,地狱自然就是生前作恶者所入了。去世之人能进入到上述之地的毕竟是少数,因为人间大部分是平庸之辈,这些人的鬼魂当然只好滞留人间混碗饭吃了。然而,这正好给巫婆、神汉和其他装神弄鬼者提供藉以吓人的依     

《迷悟之间》四则

念力增上 人的心念，快如瀑流，念念不停。“念”。非常重要．有善念，有恶念；善恶之念就好像人生的两条路．善念走向天堂，恶念走向地狱。     

"Psychotherapy" versus "treatment"

Presents a comment on "Psychological treatments" by D. H. Barlow. Barlow proposed that we distinguish between the terms "treatment" and "psychotherapy." The author believes that not only is the distinction unnecessary, but that its implications could have negative consequences for the field of clinical psychology. It is the proposed distinguishing feature that treatments are "specifically tailored to the pathological process that is causing the impairment and distress" that is most problematic. Clinical psychology does not need a distinction that further exacerbates the split between researchers and practitioners.     

"Enmeshment" and "Fusion"

The paper examines two related concepts utilized by two different schools of family therapy. Any family seen to be "enmeshed" is also seen as "fused," and vice versa. The difference in the level of focus, on the "system containing the individuals" (structural) or the "individual in the system" (fusion), determines the difference in therapeutic approach of these two schools.     

“对的”与“好的”

什么是“对的”,和对它的证立,是道德哲学中具有争议性的核心问题,也是效用主义和道义论间的主要差异之所在。统合效用主义对于“好的就是对的”这个陈述有一套完整周延的说法。而道义论对这个问题的证立不够周延或没有足够的说服力。     

"本体论"与"伦理学"--形而上学的两个向度

形而上学有两个密切相关的内在向度,就是本体论向度与伦理学向度.在哲学史上,哲学家们之所以在"追求形而上学"的同时,又总是"反形而上学",并非是人们的形上本性出了问题,而是因为人们总是将形而上学视为单纯的"一维性",总是用一个向度来取代或遮蔽另一个向度.而所谓的"后形而上学思想",也并不是消解了形而上学,而是指形而上学从"本体论向度"转向了"伦理学向度".     

从"管制"到"平衡"--政府与公众理想关系模式的构建及其制度化

论文从行政民主的角度探讨政府与公众之间的理想关系模式及其制度化构建过程 ,将我国在改革之前的政府与公众模式概括为管制模式。论文指出 ,在制度变迁的过程中 ,这一模式日益受到挑战。而在新的制度环境下 ,我国政府与公众的关系模式应该是平衡模式。这一模式的制度化措施包括培育自主的市民社会 ,赋予公众以独立的活动空间 ;促进行政公开 ,建立一个开放负责的政府 ;推进行政法建设 ,抑制行政恣意     

"石狮"、"风水"与"吉祥"

谁都知道,在古老的中国,不管是衙门、宫殿、庙宇的门前,还是豪宅、大户人家的门口,人们都能看到摆着一对石狮。据说,这对石狮子在许多中国人的心目中,它不但是一种气派的象征,而且还是一种被人认为是好的“吉祥物”。如今,旧时的衙门没有了,但遗留下来的宫殿、庙宇的门前,其中有些石狮仍有保存。然而,想像不到的是,这号称“吉祥物”的石狮今天却开始“走”进某些党政机关的大门口,它们(石狮)在那里时时都在保护着这些政府要员“平平安安”、“吉祥如意”。这不仅使我联想起一些极端的报道,有些政府官员为升迁,请算命先生定位,用风水术为政府…     

PREFERRING "HOUSEWIVES" TO "FEMINISTS"

Four studies are described outlining the favorability of attitudes toward women. In Study 1, participants indicated their attitudes toward women and men and their construal of the term "women". The results revealed that women were evaluated more favorably than men, but that male right-wing authoritarians (RWAs) who construed women as referring primarily to feminists were least favorable in their attitudes. In Study 2, participants indicated their attitudes toward both "housewives" and "feminists". The results revealed that feminists were evaluated less favorably than housewives, and that the most negative attitudes toward feminists were expressed by authoritarian men. Study 3 revealed that high-RWA males held more negative symbolic beliefs concerning feminists (i.e., beliefs that feminists failed to promote participants'values) and that these beliefs accounted for variation in attitudes among high RWAs and much of the RWA-attitude relation. Finally, Study 4 revealed that high RWAs perceived greater value dissimilarity between them-selves and feminists. The implications of the findings for future research are discussed.     

"Us" and "Them":

Abstract: In the Aristotelian tradition, politics is a matter of public deliberation over questions of justice and injustice. The Bush administration's response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, has been uniformly hostile to this notion, and it has instead promoted a jingoistic politics of self‐assertion by an America largely identified with the executive branch of its government. This is doubly disturbing, as the executive branch has sought to free itself from international law, multinational commitments, and domestic judicial regulation, even as it has sought to validate itself by demonizing its enemies. This essay draws out the disturbing echoes here of Carl Schmitt's work of the 1920s, in particular of Schmitt's conception of the sovereign as the ungrounded ground of the law and the political as the site of mortal conflict between friend and enemy. The essay argues that Schmitt's position in the twenties, for all of its evident problems, is superior to that of Bush, Wolfowitz, and Ashcroft in at least two senses: Schmitt condemns the idea of waging war for profit and recognizes that such wars will often be disguised as moral crusades waged against the “inhuman”; and he acknowledges that claiming to fight a war for humanity denies one's enemies their humanity, leaving them open to torture and even extermination.