Should First Impressions Last?

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...

The Unseen Power Of Karmic Affinities

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...

A Buddhist Vision Of ‘The Child’s Eye’

Oct. 12 | Before watching ‘The Child’s Eye’ in 3D, I wondered if the horror movie will be all the more horrible with a literally additional dimension…, which also led me to wonder what is the true source of horror. As Stonepeace put it, The...

Changing Karmic Affinities

Jan. 27 | We can never truly lose any ‘thing’, while our present karmic affinities with people, places, matters, objects and qualities change. [If so, why not change negative affinities to be positive ones, and change positive affinities to be pure...