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měi hǎo de shēng huó

In Chinese, 美好的生活 means “Beautiful Life,” or “The Good Life.”

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rén shēng liáng hǎo

jin sei ryou kou

人生良好 means “life is good” in Japanese.

The first two characters mean “life” (as in your or a human lifespan).

The last two characters mean “good.”

This also makes sense in Chinese but it reads more like, “life is all right.”

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shēng huó shì měi hǎo de

生活是美好的 is “Life is Good” in Mandarin Chinese.

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jinsei wa subarashii

人生は素晴らしい means “life is good,” “life is great,” or “life is beautiful” in Japanese.

The first two characters mean “life” (as in your or a human lifespan).

The third character kind of means “is.”

The last five characters are a long adjective that means wonderful, splendid, and/or magnificent. In the context of life, it reads more like good or beautiful.

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shēng huó měi hǎo

生活美好 means “life is good” in Chinese.

The first two characters mean “life” or “living.”

The last two characters mean “good” or “beautiful.”

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Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese	Pronunciation Romanization	Simple Dictionary Definition
三業三业 see styles	sān yè san1 ye4 san yeh sangou / sango さんごう	三業 Custom Scroll {Buddh} (See 身口意) three activities (action, speech and thought) trividha-dvāra. The three conditions, inheritances, or karma, of which there are several groups. (1) Deed, word, thought, 身, 口, 意. (2) (a) Present-1ife happy karma; (6) present-life unhappy karma; (c) 不動 karma of an imperturbable nature. (3) (a) Good; (b) evil; (c) neutral karma. (4) (a) 漏業 Karma of ordinary rebirth; (6) 無漏業 karma of Hīnayāna nirvana; (c) 非漏非無漏 karma of neither, independent of both, Mahāyāna nirvana. (5) (a) Present deeds and their consequences in this life; (b) present deeds and their next life consequences; (c) present deeds and consequences after the next life, There are other groups of three.
不善 see styles	bù shàn bu4 shan4 pu shan fuzen ふぜん	不善 Custom Scroll bad; ill; not good at; not to be pooh-poohed; quite impressive evil; sin; vice; mischief Not good; contrary to the right and harmful to present and future life, e. g. 五逆十惡.
二果 see styles	èr guǒ er4 guo3 erh kuo nika	二果 Custom Scroll Sakṛdāgāmin; v. 裟 and 斯. The second "fruit" of the four kinds of Hīnayāna arhats, who have only once more to return to mortality. Also the two kinds of fruit or karma: (a) 習氣果 The good or evil characteristics resulting from habit or practice in a former existence; (b) 報果the pain or pleasure resulting (in this life) from the practices of a previous life.
五果 see styles	wǔ guǒ wu3 guo3 wu kuo goka ごか	五果 Custom Scroll (1) five fruits (peach, Japanese plum, apricot, jujube, Japanese chestnut); (2) (Buddhist term) five types of effect in cause-and-effect relationships; (3) (Buddhist term) five effects of ignorance and formations on one's current life The five fruits, or effects; there are various groups, e. g. I. (1) 異熟果 fruit ripening divergently, e. g. pleasure and goodness are in different categories; present organs accord in pain or pleasure with their past good or evil deeds; (2) 等流果 fruit of the same order, e. g. goodness reborn from previous goodness; (3) 土用果 present position and function fruit, the rewards of moral merit in previous lives; (4) 增上果 superior fruit, or position arising from previous earnest endeavor and superior capacity: (5) 離繋果 fruit of freedom from all bonds, nirvana fruit. II. Fruit, or rebirth: (1) 識 conception (viewed psychologically); (2) 名色 formation mental and physical; (3) 六處 the six organs of perception complete; (4) 觸 their birth and contact with the world; (5) 受 consciousness. III. Five orders of fruit, with stones, pips, shells (as nuts), chaff-like (as pine seeds), and with pods.
人因 see styles	rén yīn ren2 yin1 jen yin ninin	人因 Custom Scroll The causative influences for being reborn as a human being, i.e. a good life. Those in positions of honour have obtained them by former deeds of benevolence, reverence to Buddhas and monks, patience, humility, devotion to the sutras, charity, morality, zeal and exhortation, obedience, loyalty - hence they have obtained affluence, long life, and are held in high regard. Those in mean condition are thus born because of the opposite characteristics in previous incarnation.
善友 see styles	shàn yǒu shan4 you3 shan yu yoshitomo よしとも	善友 Custom Scroll (rare) good friend; (personal name) Yoshitomo kalyāṇamitra, 'a friend of virtue, a religious counsellor,' M. W.; a friend in the good life, or one who stimulates to goodness.
堅法坚法 see styles	jiān fǎ jian1 fa3 chien fa kenpō	堅法 Custom Scroll The three things assured to the faithful (in reincarnation)—a good body, long life, and boundless wealth.
天鼓 see styles	tiān gǔ tian1 gu3 t`ien ku tien ku tenko てんこ	天鼓 Custom Scroll (given name) Tenko The deva drum— in the 善法 Good Law Hall of the Trayas-triṃśas heavens, which sounds of itself, warning the inhabitants of the thirty-three heavens that even their life is impermanent and subject to karma: at the sound of the drum Indra preaches against excess. Hence it is a title of Buddha as the great law-drum, who warns, exhorts, and encourages the good and frightens the evil and the demons.
娑婆 see styles	suō pó suo1 po2 so p`o so po shaba; shaba しゃば; シャバ	娑婆 Custom Scroll (1) this world; this life; (2) (kana only) (colloquialism) the free world (outside of prison, the army, red light district, etc.); (3) {Buddh} this corrupt world; present world sahā; that which bears, the earth, v. 地; intp. as bearing, enduring; the place of good and evil; a universe, or great chiliocosm, Where all are subject to transmigration and which a Buddha transforms; it is divided into three regions 三界 and Mahābrahmā Sahāmpati is its lord. Other forms: 娑婆世界; 娑界; 娑媻; 娑訶; 沙訶; 索訶.
持犯 see styles	chí fàn chi2 fan4 ch`ih fan chih fan jibon	持犯 Custom Scroll maintaining and transgressing', i. e. keeping the commandments by 止持 ceasing to do wrong and 作持 doing what is right, e. g. worship, the monastic life, etc.; transgression is also of two kinds, i. e. 作犯 positive in doing evil and 止犯 negative in not doing good.
散業散业 see styles	sàn yè san4 ye4 san yeh sangō	散業 Custom Scroll The good karma acquired in a life of activity.
果報果报 see styles	guǒ bào guo3 bao4 kuo pao kaho かほ	果報 Custom Scroll karma; preordained fate (Buddhism) (noun or adjectival noun) (1) good fortune; luck; happiness; (noun or adjectival noun) (2) {Buddh} (See 業・ごう・1) vipaka (retribution); (female given name) Kaho 異熟 Retribution for good or evil deeds, implying that different conditions in this (or any) life are the variant ripenings, or fruit, of seed sown in previous life or lives.
現報现报 see styles	xiàn bào xian4 bao4 hsien pao genpō	現報 Custom Scroll Present-life recompense for good or evil done in the present life.
白報白报 see styles	bái bào bai2 bao4 pai pao byappō	白報 Custom Scroll Pure reward, or the reward of a good life.
護摩护摩 see styles	hù mó hu4 mo2 hu mo goma ごま	護摩 Custom Scroll {Buddh} homa; Buddhist rite of burning wooden sticks to ask a deity for blessings homa, also 護磨; 呼麽 described as originally a burnt offering to Heaven; the esoterics adopted the idea of worshipping with fire, symbolizing wisdom as fire burning up the faggots of passion and illusion; and therewith preparing nirvāṇa as food, etc.; cf. 大日經; four kinds of braziers are used, round, semi-circular, square, and octagonal; four, five, or six purposes are recorded i.e. śāntika, to end calamities; pauṣṭika (or puṣṭikarman) for prosperity; vaśīkaraṇa, 'dominating,' intp. as calling down the good by means of enchantments; abhicaraka, exorcising the evil; a fifth is to obtain the loving protection of the Buddhas and bodhisattvas; a sixth divides puṣṭikarman into two parts, the second part being length of life; each of these six has its controlling Buddha and bodhisattvas, and different forms and accessories of worship.
達磨达磨 see styles	dá mó da2 mo2 ta mo daruma だるま	(1) (kana only) daruma; tumbling doll; round, red-painted good-luck doll in the shape of Bodhidharma, with a blank eye to be completed when a person's wish is granted; (2) (kana only) Bodhidharma; (3) (kana only) prostitute; (personal name) Daruma dharma; also 達摩; 達麼; 達而麻耶; 曇摩; 馱摩 tr. by 法. dharma is from dhara, holding, bearing, possessing, etc.; and means 'that which is to be held fast or kept, ordinance, statute, law, usage, practice'; 'anything right.' M.W. It may be variously intp. as (1) characteristic, attribute, predicate; (2) the bearer, the transcendent substratum of single elements of conscious life; (3) element, i.e. a part of conscious life; (4) nirvāṇa, i.e. the Dharma par excellence, the object of Buddhist teaching; (5) the absolute, the real; (6) the teaching or religion of Buddha; (7) thing, object, appearance. Also, Damo, or Bodhidharma, the twenty-eighth Indian and first Chinese patriarch, who arrived in China A.D. 520, the reputed founder of the Chan or Intuitional School in China. He is described as son of a king in southern India; originally called Bodhitara. He arrived at Guangdong, bringing it is said the sacred begging-bowl, and settled in Luoyang, where he engaged in silent meditation for nine years, whence he received the title of wall-gazing Brahman 壁觀婆羅門, though he was a kṣatriya. His doctrine and practice were those of the 'inner light', independent of the written word, but to 慧可 Huike, his successor, he commended the Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra as nearest to his views. There are many names with Dharma as initial: Dharmapāla, Dharmagupta, Dharmayaśas, Dharmaruci, Dharmarakṣa, Dharmatrāta, Dharmavardhana, etc.
靈芝灵芝 see styles	líng zhī ling2 zhi1 ling chih reishi	靈芝 Custom Scroll lingzhi or reishi mushroom (Ganoderma lucidum) The auspicious plant, emblem of good luck, or long life; name of 元照 Yuanzhao, q.v.
青山 see styles	qīng shān qing1 shan1 ch`ing shan ching shan seizan / sezan せいざん	青山 Custom Scroll green hills; (the good) life (1) lush mountain; green mountain; (2) (せいざん only) grave; burial place; (given name) Seizan
三善道 see styles	sān shàn dào san1 shan4 dao4 san shan tao san zendō	三善道 Custom Scroll (or 三善趣) The three good or upward directions or states of existence: 天 the highest class of goodness rewarded with the deva life, or heaven; 人 the middle class of goodness with a return to human life; 阿修羅 the inferior class of goodness with the asura state. Cf. 三惡道; v. 智度論 30.
三等流 see styles	sān děng liú san1 deng3 liu2 san teng liu santōru	三等流 Custom Scroll Three equal or universal currents or consequences, i.e. 眞等流 the certain consequences that follow on a good, evil, or neutral kind of nature, respectively; 假等流 the temporal or particular fate derived from a previous life's ill deeds, e.g. shortened life from taking life; 分位等流 each organ as reincarnated according to its previous deeds, hence the blind.
世間乘世间乘 see styles	shì jiān shèng shi4 jian1 sheng4 shih chien sheng seken jō	世間乘 Custom Scroll The vehicle, or teaching for the attainment of good fruit in the present life, in contrast with 出世間乘 that for attainment in lives outside this world.
十善位 see styles	shí shàn wèi shi2 shan4 wei4 shih shan wei jū zen(no) gurai	十善位 Custom Scroll 十善戒力; 十善王 The position, or power, attained in the next life by observing the ten commandments here, to be born in the heavens, or as rulers of men.
無量壽无量寿 see styles	wú liàng shòu wu2 liang4 shou4 wu liang shou muryō ju	無量壽 Custom Scroll boundless life (expression of good wishes); Amitayus, the Buddha of measureless life, good fortune and wisdom Boundless, infinite life, a name for Amitābha, as in無量壽佛; 無量壽如來; 無量壽王.
九種大禪九种大禅 see styles	jiǔ zhǒng dà chán jiu3 zhong3 da4 chan2 chiu chung ta ch`an chiu chung ta chan kushu daizen	九種大禪 Custom Scroll The nine kinds of Mahāyāna dhyāna for bodhisattvas, given in the 菩薩地持經 6 and in other works; they are associated with the patience 忍 pāramitā and with the dhyāna of the super-realms. The nine are meditations: (1) 自性禪 on the original nature of things, or mind as the real nature, from which all things derive; (2) 一切禪 on achieving the development of self and all others to the utmost; (3) 難禪 on the difficulties of certain dhyāna conditions; (4) 一切禪 on the entrance to all the (superior) dhyāna conditions; (5) 善人禪 on the good; (6) 一切行禪 on all Mahāyāna practices and actions; (7) 除煩惱禪 on ridding all sufferers from the miseries of passion and delusion; (8) 此世他世樂禪 on the way to bring joy to all people both in this life and hereafter; (9) 淸淨淨禪 on perfect purity in the termination of all delusion and distress and the obtaining of perfect enlightenment.
五增上緣五增上缘 see styles	wǔ zēng shàng yuán wu3 zeng1 shang4 yuan2 wu tseng shang yüan go zōjō en	五增上緣 Custom Scroll (種增上緣) ; 五緣 Five excellent causes, e.g. of blessedness: keeping the commandments; sufficient food and clothing; a secluded abode; cessation of worry; good friendship. Another group is: riddance of sin; protection through long life; vision of Buddha (or Amitābha, etc. ); universal salvation (by Amitābha); assurance of Amitābha's heaven.
十二因緣十二因缘 see styles	shí èr yīn yuán shi2 er4 yin1 yuan2 shih erh yin yüan jūni innen	十二因緣 Custom Scroll Dvādaśaṅga pratītyasamutpāda; the twelve nidānas; v. 尼 and 因; also 十二緣起; 因緣有支; 因緣率連; 因緣棘園; 因緣輪; 因緣重城; 因緣觀; 支佛觀. They are the twelve links in the chain of existence: (1)　無明avidyā, ignorance, or unenlightenment; (2) 行 saṃskāra, action, activity, conception, "dispositions," Keith; (3) 識 vijñāna, consciousness; (4) 名色 nāmarūpa, name and form; (5) 六入 ṣaḍāyatana, the six sense organs, i.e. eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind; (6) 觸 sparśa, contact, touch; (7) 受 vedanā, sensation, feeling; (8) 愛 tṛṣṇā, thirst, desire, craving; (9) 取 upādāna, laying hold of, grasping; (10) 有 bhava, being, existing; (11) 生 jāti, birth; (12) 老死 jarāmaraṇa, old age, death. The "classical formula" reads "By reason of ignorance dispositions; by reason of dispositions consciousness", etc. A further application of the twelve nidānas is made in　regard to　their causaton of rebirth: (1) ignorance, as inherited passion from the beginningless past ; (2) karma, good and evil, of past lives; (3) conception as a form of perception; (4) nāmarūpa, or body and mind evolving (in the womb); (5) the six organs on the verge of birth; (6) childhood whose intelligence is limited to sparśa, contact or touch; (7) receptivity or budding intelligence and discrimination from　6 or 7 years; (8) thirst, desire, or love, age of puberty; (9) the urge of sensuous existence; (10) forming the substance, bhava, of future karma; (11) the completed karma ready for rebirth; (12) old age and death. The two first are associated with the previous life, the other ten with the present. The theory is equally applicable to all realms of　reincarnation. The twelve links are also represented in a chart, at the centre of which are the serpent (anger), boar (ignorance, or stupidity), and dove (lust) representing the fundamental sins. Each catches the other by the tail, typifying the train of sins producing the wheel of life. In another circle the twelve links are represented as follows: (1) ignorance, a blind woman; (2) action, a potter at work, or man gathering fruit; (3) consciousness, a restless monkey; (4) name and form, a boat; (5) sense organs, a house; (6) contact, a man and woman sitting together; (7) sensation, a man pierced by an arrow; (8) desire, a man drinking wine; (9) craving, a couple in union; (10) existence through childbirth; (11) birth, a man carrying a corpse; (12) disease, old age, death, an old woman leaning on a stick. v. 十二因緣論 Pratītya-samutpāda śāstra.
幸せ太り see styles	shiawasebutori しあわせぶとり	幸せ太り Custom Scroll (colloquialism) putting on weight from the good (married) life
阿賴耶識阿赖耶识 see styles	ā lài yé shì a1 lai4 ye2 shi4 a lai yeh shih araya shiki	阿賴耶識 Custom Scroll ālaya-vijñāna. 'The receptacle intellect or consciousness;' 'the orginating or receptacle intelligence;' 'basic consciousness' (Keith). It is the store or totality of consciousness, both absolute and relative, impersonal in the whole, temporally personal or individual in its separated parts, always reproductive. It is described as 有情根本之心識 the fundamental mind-consciousness of conscious beings, which lays hold of all the experiences of the individual life: and which as storehouse holds the germs 種子 of all affairs; it is at the root of all experience, of the skandhas, and of all things on which sentient beings depend for existence. Mind is another term for it, as it both stores and gives rise to all seeds of phenomena and knowledge. It is called 本識 original mind, because it is the root of all things; 無沒識 inexhaustible mind, because none of its seeds (or products) is lost; 現識 manifested mind, because all things are revealed in or by it; 種子識 seeds mind, because from it spring all individualities, or particulars; 所知依識 because it is the basis of all knowledge; 異熟識 because it produces the rounds of morality, good and evil karma, etc.; 執持識 or 阿陀那 q.v., that which holds together, or is the seed of another rebirh, or phenomena, the causal nexus; 第一識 the prime or supreme mind or consciousness; 宅識 abode (of) consciousness; 無垢識 unsullied consciousness when considered in the absolute, i.e. the Tathāgata; and 第八識, as the last of the eight vijñānas. There has been much discussion as to the meaning and implications of the ālaya-vijñāna. It may also be termed the unconscious, or unconscious absolute, out of whose ignorance or unconsciousness rises all consciousness.
好飯不怕晚好饭不怕晚 see styles	hǎo fàn bù pà wǎn hao3 fan4 bu4 pa4 wan3 hao fan pu p`a wan hao fan pu pa wan	好飯不怕晚 Custom Scroll the meal is remembered long after the wait is forgotten; the good things in life are worth waiting for
老婆孩子熱炕頭老婆孩子热炕头 see styles	lǎo pó hái zi rè kàng tou lao3 po2 hai2 zi5 re4 kang4 tou5 lao p`o hai tzu je k`ang t`ou lao po hai tzu je kang tou	老婆孩子熱炕頭 Custom Scroll wife, kids and a warm bed (idiom); the simple and good life

Title	Characters	Romaji (Romanized Japanese)	Various forms of Romanized Chinese
The Good Life Beautiful Life	美好的生活		měi hǎo de shēng huó mei3 hao3 de sheng1 huo2 mei hao de sheng huo meihaodeshenghuo	mei hao te sheng huo meihaoteshenghuo
Life is Good	人生良好	jin sei ryou kou jinseiryoukou jin sei ryo ko	rén shēng liáng hǎo ren2 sheng1 liang2 hao3 ren sheng liang hao renshenglianghao	jen sheng liang hao jenshenglianghao
Life is Good	生活是美好的		shēng huó shì měi hǎo de sheng1 huo2 shi4 mei3 hao3 de sheng huo shi mei hao de shenghuoshimeihaode	sheng huo shih mei hao te shenghuoshihmeihaote
Life is Good Life is Beautiful	人生は素晴らしい	jinsei wa subarashii jinseiwasubarashii jinsei wa subarashi
Life is Good Life is Beautiful	生活美好		shēng huó měi hǎo sheng1 huo2 mei3 hao3 sheng huo mei hao shenghuomeihao

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