Howto identify you own coordinate
'Self' is a temporary phenomenon which consists of the body, feelings,perception, and consciousness etc..

It is ever changing and it is indeedimpossible to find a permanent
self. 

This ‘Self' is relative to‘others’, therefore playing various roles according to various objects. 

Without ‘others’ the self is nowhere to beanchored.

Many are afraid of losing the ‘Self'.

However few have thought about what the‘self’means. 

Buddhism teachesselflessness for the “self” that many are firmly attached to is nothing but atemporary existence that are made of countless cells and ever-changingconsciousness. 

There are good and evil, purity and indecency in our minds.

To practice is toeliminate these evil, impurity, and attachment. 

It is only through elimination of these parts, can one obtain liberation andenlighten.

Taking a time perspective, we recall our ancestors and have future generationsin mind.

This is to return the favor of the former and to take responsibilitiesof the latter.

Taking a space perspective, we are inseparable from the entirenatural and social environments.

It isour duty to endeavor to give back.

Lifecannot be treated simply as a process of birth, aging, illness, and death.

Finding the meaning of life, one has to put life under the grand perspective oftime and space and to identify one’s own coordinate.

如何找到自己的坐标

“我”是由身体、感受、知见、意识等等组合而成的一个暂时现象，

并且随时随地都在变化，实在找不到一个固定不变的自体。

“我”相待于“他”而生，对不同的人，扮演着不同的身份，

离开了他人，“我”也无处可以安立。

很多人都害怕失去自我，有没有仔细想过：“自我”是什么呢？

佛法说无我，人牢牢执著的这个“我”，

不过是无数细胞与流变不息的心识组成的一个暂时存在体。

每个人的心识中都有善有恶、有染有净，

修行就是要净除这些恶、杂染与执著，要“失去”这个部分，

才能“得到”解脱与光明。

从时间上，追念前人，思及来者，

对前人有恩情要报，对后人有责任要担；

从空间上，自己的存在与整个自然和社会环境都是分不开的，

所以应尽力回馈和建设。

人的生命只有放在大的时空因缘下才能找到自己的坐标，

找到存在的意义，不能只从一个人的生老病死来看待。