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Posts tagged with "Bodhisattva"
How Guanyin Bodhisattva Rejects, Accepts & Gives
Apr. 25 | Offer gifts with compassion and wisdom. Reject gifts with compassion and wisdom. Accept gifts with compassion and wisdom. Redirect gifts with compassion and wisdom. - Stonepeace (Get Books) ‘无 尽意！是观世音菩萨成就如是功德，以种种形，游诸国土，度脱众生，是故汝等应当一心供养观世音菩萨。是观世音菩萨摩诃萨于怖畏急难之中，能施无畏，是故，...
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...
How To See Impermanence Positively
Mar. 30 | Impermanence is not just about the end of all things, but their renewal too. - Stonepeace (Get Books) Having learnt about the truth of impermanence of all things material in this life, of the value of living with more contentment and less excesses, and...
New Guanshiyin Bodhisattva’s Universal Door & Heart Sutra Book
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High Time To Transform Our Resolutions To Vows!
Jan. 27 | If we have stronger resolutions for the worldly, we have stronger aspirations for the samsaric. - Stonepeace Come spring, we often do spring-cleaning of our houses. But what about spring-cleaning our immediate homes too? Our minds, which shape our lives!...
How To Be Inexhaustible Joyful Lamps Of The Dharma
Jan. 10 | All Buddhas only wish that all practise and share the Dharma well to benefit all. - Stonepeace According to the Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra, Mara (the most evil heavenly demon king from the Paranirmita-vashavartin heaven) once disguised as Sakra (the chief...
Course: The Universal Door Of Guanyin Bodhisattva: From Seeking To Becoming Compassion (2nd Run)
Dec. 22 | click to enlarge poster Register: http://tinyurl.com/dabeiclass Feedback From 1st Run: ‘I’m so glad I joined your class, and wish I have time to sign up for all your classes.’ - Hwee ‘There is no better way to learn about Pu Men...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,...Why Are Buddhas Also Bodhisattvas?
Aug. 23 | Question: I’ve heard that Guanyin Bodhisattva is an ancient Buddha (‘Brightness of Right Dharma’ Buddha). Why must a Buddha return as a Bodhisattva to guide us? Is it such that a Buddha cannot guide us until he transforms into a Bodhisattva? Answer:...How To Help Without Helping?
Aug. 10 | Question: I came across this in a Dharma book - ‘Great Bodhisattvas do not think they have anything specific to accomplish. They do not have the idea that they must help sentient beings; rather, they naturally respond to others…’ Does this...
Why Are There Immeasurable Buddhas Instead Of One?
Aug. 3 | Although there are immeasurable Buddhas, there is only one goal of Buddhahood attained by them, and one complete Dharma based on Bodhicitta realised. - Stonepeace A young student in a Dharma class asked me three interesting questions… [1] Why are...Be A Beginner Bodhisattva
Aug. 2 | Always here and now, Always new and fresh, Always aware and alive. - Stonepeace For a bodhisattva, the safest course is to constantly remind oneself of the initial aspiration to bodhi-mind [Bodhicitta: aspiration to guide one and all to Buddhahood]. In...Are Temples Evil Abodes?
Jul. 4 | Question: Some Christian friends say they don’t visit Buddhist temples (and other ones Hindu, Taoist…) as they believe there are idols with spirits in them, that they don’t feel good going there. I have even heard of a Mother telling...True Great Power & Compassion
Jun. 22 | True self greatness is from great selfless service to others; not great selfish service for oneself. - Stonepeace There is a Buddhist saying: “You will be the Great Power [Strength] Bodhisattva [Mahasthamaprapta] if you show joy and unselfish giving...
