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Archive for April, 2011
Archive for April, 2011
Apr. 21 | Question: Some Buddhist teachers say those who engage in abortion, which is the killing of a human life, creates negative karma that is so immense that unless they repent and have remedial action in time, they will be reborn in hell. Some other teachers...
Apr. 20 | True listening [to the Dharma] does not rest
in how much you have listened to your Master [teacher]
but in how well you have listened.
Even if you have listened well,
you would benefit only
if you can apply properly what you have heard
to the circumstances...
Apr. 20 | Not doing any evil is good,
but it is not as good
as doing much good too.
- Stonepeace
~ Good-natured, even-tempered people are more accommodating and can get along with others wherever they go. However, being ‘accommodating’ does not suggest...
Apr. 20 | Asking one about a Dharma teaching
when [this] one had not practised it
is like asking a frog in a well
what one thinks of the sky outside.
Commenting on a Dharma teaching
when one had not practised it
is like a frog in a well
trying to describe the...
Apr. 20 | While birds of similar karmic feathers flock together,
these birds can choose to fly in different directions too.
- Stonepeace
There is a belief that friends or even lovers who look somewhat similar have higher tendencies of staying together for good....
Apr. 6 | The inner demon
you can’t name [recognise],
is the one you are tormented by.
~ Stonepeace
A toddler nephew is undergoing a strange yet understandable phase of growing up. Barely a month ago, his baby sister was born. Suddenly, his behaviour became...
Apr. 5 | Once upon a time the Bodhisattva, leading the life of an ascetic, was meditating at the foot of a tree in the king’s royal park. He was living there at the invitation of the king’s general. One day the king went to the park with the ladies...
Apr. 5 | Question: I read this ‘一般人认为遇到空难,水灾,车祸,火灾,地震,战争,或是其他各种意外死亡,就是横死,其实这是错误的看法.他们的死亡其实是代众生受报,因此是现身说法的菩萨,是以身命來给我们做教材的老师.我们应该感恩他们,并为他们祈福,他们都是菩萨,当然都会往生善处.’...
Apr. 5 | If you are quick to take offense at those
who are quick to take offense at you,
how are you different from them?
~ Stonepeace
Apr. 5 | There are different levels of faith.
(1) First, clear faith refers to the joy and clarity and change in our perceptions that we experience when we hear about the qualities of the Three Jewels and the lives of the Buddha and the great teachers.
(2) Longing...
