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Archive for February, 2012
Feb. 29 | Always craving,
always poor,
even if always rich.
Always content,
always rich,
even if always poor.
- Stonepeace
Feb. 29 | In the depths of the innermost self,
more remote than the farthest mountain,
and closer than close,
lies the secret house of the one hand.
Enter!
- Hakuin
Related Course:
108 Zen Stories Illustrated & Demystified
Feb. 29 | The truly skilful are able
to correct the unskilful
without antagonising the latter.
- Stonepeace
When Zen Master Ikkyu was still a child, he began to study Zen in a monastery. Ikkyu’s master had a jar of candy that he was particularly fond of and,...
Feb. 29 | Question: Do you have any articles on karma and law of attraction?
Answer: Here is a ‘reverse’ article on it: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thedailyenlightenment-realisation/message/329 (‘The Secret’ of the Law of Resistance).
Question:...
Feb. 29 | Life is uncertain;
death is certain.
Rebirth is certain;
where to is uncertain.
- Extended Buddhist Saying
Summarised in one line, the Pure Land teachings, which are the most popular in the Mahayana tradition, teach that via faithful single-minded practice...
Feb. 22 | If you are not mindful of Buddha,
as the embodiment of supreme compassion and wisdom,
how do you embody supreme compassion and wisdom?
- Stonepeace
There are those in this Dharma-Ending Age who dare to deprecate Buddha Recitation as an inferior practice....
Feb. 22 | The roots of non-religious, religious and inter-religious disharmony
are universally the same -
greed, hatred and delusion.
- Stonepeace
The most common problem in inter-religious dialogue is disagreement on perspectives of Truth. But disagreement is...
Feb. 22 | The path of spiritual cultivation might be long,
but the path without spiritual cultivation is even more long.
The path of spiritual cultivation might be difficult,
but the path without spiritual cultivation is even more difficult.
修行之路固然很长，但不修行的路更长；
...
Feb. 22 | ‘… if one utters these 4 aphorisms of the Dharma, in uttering them one is expressing all 84,000 articles of the Dharma…
“To fully engage in understanding the inexhaustible doctrine of the Bodhisattvas and Mahasattvas that
(1) all...
Feb. 17 | As featured in Singapore’s Inter-Religious Organisation’s 2009 commemorative magazine for the China-Singapore Religious and Cultural Exhibition, by committee member Shen Shi’an, who co-represented the Buddhist faith.
It is a common...
Feb. 15 | There is pleasure when an itch is scratched,
But to be without an itch is more pleasurable still;
There are pleasures in worldly desires,
But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
- Nagarjuna (Ratanvalli)
Feb. 15 | Question: I think Buddhism is a religion that can only be practised in a quiet environment, where there are not many of those distractions.
Answer: Buddhism is for practice in all environments, with or without distractions. The more distractions there...
Feb. 15 | Time is never running out of due to re-birth.
Time is always running out due to re-death.
- Stonepeace
From your letter, I see that you are diligently fighting bad habits but have not yet obtained results. This is because you are not truly concerned...
Feb. 15 | Clean (in conduct, via observation of morality),
Calm (in emotion, via cultivation of concentration),
Clear (in reason, via realisation of wisdom),
these are characteristics of a noble person.
- Buddhist Saying
Feb. 13 | Whether something that happens to you
is truly good or bad for you
depends on how you perceive the experience.
- Stonepeace
We often hear the utterance of the dreaded exclaimation, ‘Very bad karma!’ Sometimes, this is remarked in response...
