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Archive for January, 2012
Archive for January, 2012
Jan. 30 | Knowing beings tend to cling to first impressions,
Bodhisattvas strive to create good impressions,
so as to better benefit them with the Dharma.
- Stonepeace
If you visit a restaurant for the very first time, and the food happens to be not great, it is...
Jan. 30 | Question: A relative participated in the liberation of pomfret yesterday. Being a non-vegetarian, she is concerned that she would not be able to consume pomfret or any other kind of fish again in future. She must have heard it from somewhere that one...
Jan. 30 | Though a wheel of fire about your head
Were wildly whirling and flaming,
Just do not abandon your Bodhi Mind (Bodhicitta),
Even amidst such strong suffering.
- Avatamsaka Sutra
* Bodhicitta is the aspiration
to attain Buddhahood,
and to guide others...
Jan. 30 | Extreme skepticism
that questions everything else
should be extremely skeptical
by questioning itself too.
- Stonepeace
Jan. 30 | Rage should be transformed
into energy for dissolving itself,
transmuting it into skilful action.
- Stonepeace
To deal with feelings of anger and fear and frustration, we can start by finding relationality. As the Lakota Indians say, Mitakuye oyasin:...
Jan. 17 |
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Feedback from participants of 5th, 6th, 7th & 8th run:
“Dear Bro. Shi’an, ‘The Gift of Truth Excels All Other Gifts.’ Thank you for sharing the Pure Land Teachings...
Jan. 17 |
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Feedback From Past Courses:
http://thedailyenlightenment.com/2011/07/understanding-amituofo-via-the-amitabha-sutra-8th-run
http://thedailyenlightenment.com/2011/05/course-project-rebirth-rediscover-reflect-recharge-round-3
About...
Jan. 17 |
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Feedback From Past Zen Course:
(The above standalone course can be attended as a sequel to ‘The “Magic” of Zen’:
http://thedailyenlightenment.com/2011/05/course-the-magic-of-zen-origins-stories-essence)
I...
Jan. 16 | Unless mindful of the need
to transform mindlessness to mindfulness,
mindlessness leads to more mindlessness.
- Stonepeace
A teenage girl goes googoo gaga over a superstar. She pastes his posters all over her room’s walls. She goes to all his...
Jan. 16 | Just like examining gold in order to know its quality,
you should put my words to the test.
A wise person does not accept them merely out of respect.
- The Buddha
Jan. 16 | Do not mistaken being fully apathetic to all
as being fully equanimous,
as true equanimity is full
of active and equal compassion for all.
- Stonepeace
Jan. 16 | To awaken to reality,
simply observe the reality
right before you,
till you see it through and through.
- Stonepeace
Buddhist Disciples! At all times, day and night, sincerely recite and bear in mind these eight truths that cause great people to awaken. The...
Jan. 10 | Just as a positive karmic affinity
can be rendered negative unmindfully,
a negative karmic affinity
can be rendered positive mindfully.
- Stonepeace
One day, when the Buddha entered a village with his assistant Ananda, he approached a poor woman to share...
Jan. 10 | With increasing of wisdom,
spiritual cultivation also includes
the purifying of mixed karma,
by creating more positive karma,
for diluting more negative karma.
- Stonepeace
If a person is stubborn, haughty, honours not those who are worthy of honour,...
Jan. 9 | If you spend too much time
browsing the books of life,
you will have too little time
for truly learning from them,
for applying what you have learnt.
- Stonepeace
