Knowing When To Bow

Aug. 31 | Sometimes the disciple bows to the master; sometimes the master bows to the disciple. A master who cannot bow to his disciple cannot bow to the Buddha. Sometimes the master and disciple bow together to the Buddha. - Shunryu Suzuki The practice of nonharming...

From The ‘Womb’ Of Attachment Or Love?

Aug. 31 | If even no two snowflakes are exactly the same due to countless combinations of different environmental conditions, can there ever be perfect clones of anyone? Not likely at all. Even if you can physically clone someone, with the person’s genetic...

Is Suicide Release?

Aug. 31 | Question: I hear friends saying there is nothing in this world that we cannot let go of as once we feel attachment is painful, we will naturally let go. Is this true? Answer:Due to the power of attachment and delusion, it’s not true that it’s...

Most Important Thing

Aug. 30 | The most important thing is to find out what is the most important thing. - Shunryu Suzuki

Gateless Gate

Aug. 30 | As Zen has no gates, nothing is not of Zen; everything can be an entry point into Zen, we can be enlightened by anything. - Stonepeace

Is There Eternal Heaven Or Hell?

Aug. 30 | If even Mara can become a Buddha eventually, why doubt your ability to do so? - Stonepeace The definitions of good and evil in Buddhism are much more subtly nuanced and realistic than the conventional versions. What is goodness? It is whatever done with...

Readjust ‘The Adjustment Bureau’

Aug. 24 | What if, one day, you discover, to your horror, that all the deliberations and accidents in your life are predetermined, with even your choices somehow puppeted by a mysterious and secretive bunch of men? Or rather, to ask the question more realistically,...

Danger Of Slandering Dharma Doors

Aug. 24 | The small-minded fail to appreciate the vast skilful means of the Buddha - while they cling to only one means, or even reject all of them. - Stonepeace The Sutra Resolving Doubts Regarding the Period of Imitative Dharma states that if practitioners of...

Open Truth

Aug. 23 | Each molecule preaches perfect law. Each moment chants true sutras. The most fleeting thought is timeless. A single hair’s enough to stir the sea. - Shutaku

Does Meat-Eating Break The First Precept?

Aug. 23 | Question: When the buying of meat stops the killing will stop. Hence, how is buying or eating meat ever be in the grey area of whether it breaks the first precept? Worse than that, it is an attempt to cover up murder by paying someone else to do the dirty...

Cicada Cry

Aug. 23 | Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die -  Basho

Did The Buddha Teach The Path To Buddhahood?

Aug. 23 | If there is no Bodhicitta, there would be no Buddha, and no Buddhadharma [teachings of the Buddha]. - Stonepeace The title of this article sounds like a ridiculous question. And indeed, it is. For if even the Buddha did not teach the path to Buddhahood,...

Guard Your Mind

Aug. 18 | Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded. But once mastered, no one can help you as much, not even your father or your mother. - The Buddha

Inferiority & Superiority By Action

Aug. 18 | Beings are owners of their actions, heirs of their actions, they originate from their actions, are bound to their actions, have their actions as their refuge. It is action that distinguishes beings as inferior and superior. - The Buddha (Culakammavibhanga...

Nirvana Transcends Mind & Matter

Aug. 18 | If Dharma practice is for becoming ‘nothing’, or it would be nothing helpful. - Stonepeace “… There is, monks, that base where there is neither earth, nor water, nor heat, nor air; neither the base of the infinity of space, nor...