The Zen In Pure Land Practice

Dec. 4 | The supreme power is when Self-Power and Other-Power become One-Power via mindfulness of Buddha. - Stonepeace Those who practice Zen or Pure Land should all understand this truth: “all Dharma methods are equal and none is superior or inferior.”...

How Two Brothers Reached Pure Land

Nov. 21 | Created by Buddhas with mindfulness of the Triple Gem, Pure Lands are ideal schools for learning the Dharma, from the greatest of the Arya [Noble] Sangha. Amituofo is the ‘principal’ of the best known Pure Land, where Bodhisattvas are his...

介绍念佛讲座系列

Nov. 1 | 介绍念佛讲座系列 诸佛念念念众生 劝请诸众念念佛 ~ 十方如来 怜念众生   如母忆子  ~ 大势至菩萨念佛圆通章 (1) 您知道佛如何念您吗？ 释迦牟尼佛曾经在家喻户晓的阿弥陀经中 详细描述诸佛如何慈悲护念一切念佛人。 这即是诸佛苦口婆心劝请我们念佛的方式之一。 虽然诸佛时时忆念众生，还须我们念佛能与佛广结善缘！ ~ 若众生心 忆佛念佛 现前当来 必定见佛 ...

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Oct. 5 | Throughout history, there have been countless wonderful Pure Land chanting texts. However, mindful of possible improvements to popular existing ones, this version was created with the inclusion of these 10 advantages: Appealing cover to attract new...

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The Four Standards of Truth (Applied to Pure Land Teachings)

Dec. 7 | Those who imagine Amitabha Buddha’s Pure Land to be fictitious and figurative miss the truly and literally best school created with perfect compassion and wisdom for perfecting their Dharma practice. - Stonepeace The Four Standards of Truth (Siddhanta)...

A Way To Practise Buddha Recitation

Nov. 22 | Who you are mindful of (e.g. Amitabha Buddha), you will eventually be with (e.g. in Pure Land), and become (i.e. a Buddha) too. ~ Stonepeace ‘”Holding the name” Buddha Recitation’ can be practiced by both the young and old, and...

A Great Bodhisattva Recommends A Great Place!

Oct. 20 | … When my life approaches its end, may all obstructions be fully eradicated, may I see Amitabha Buddha [Amituofo] in person, may I be instantly born in his World of Peace and Bliss [Pure Land]… These Samantabhadra’s supreme practices,...

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...

Are You ‘Recycling’ Yourself Every Three Lifetimes?

Aug. 4 | While those who do great good and evil have great rises and falls in rebirths, the average ones rise and fall similarly, albeit to lesser extremes. – Stonepeace It is often idealistically imagined that the path to enlightenment is a smooth-sailing one,...

How the Future Buddha Began Practising Compassion

Jun. 30 | It is also your positive karma bearing fruit, when another ‘seems’ to be able to relieve your negative karma. - Stonepeace In a distant previous life, even before the historical Shakyamuni Buddha-to-be became a Bodhisattva, he was reborn into...

The Supreme Excellence of Amitabha Buddha’s Pure Land

Jun. 3 | It is perfectly natural that all Buddhas will create Pure Lands. It is perfectly natural that all Buddhas will recommend the best. - Stonepeace [Teachings from Machik Labdron (11th century Tibetan Buddhist yogini, emanation of Yeshe Tsogyel)]: … the...