How Death Hinders Progress To Liberation

Apr. 20 | The thoroughly unenlightened manifest confused rebirths which further confuse themselves. - Stonepeace There is a phenomenon called ‘confusion from separation (from previous lives) by death’ (隔阴之迷), which is the forgetting of the past...

Following The Buddha’s Perfect Example

Nov. 14 | If there are no followers of the Bodhisattva ideal, there would be no Buddhas arising to teach the Buddhadharma, and no followers of the Buddhadharma [including the Arya Sangha]. - Stonepeace The formation of the extant written canons of the schools,...

Who Has Been To Pure Land & Back?

Jun. 6 | If there are sentient beings, who hear of this teaching, they should aspire, to be born in that land. (若有众生，闻是说者，应当发愿，生彼国土.) - Amitabha Sutra 阿弥陀经 (The Buddha) Who has been to Amituofo’s Pure Land (Amitabha...

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,...

Claims of Enlightenment?

Mar. 30 | “I command that after my [Pari]Nirvana, Bodhisattvas and Arhats appear in response-bodies in the Dharma-ending Age, and take various forms in order to rescue those in the cycle of rebirth. They should either become Shramanas, white-robed laypeople,...