Can Dedication Of Merits Solve Problems?

May. 3 | As the Buddhas help immeasurable beings, from this they personally gather immeasurable merits. - Stonepeace (Part 1) Is it possible to do certain good deeds to solve specific problems? Of course, karmically speaking, this is possible – provided...

Does Going Vegan Increase Craving?

May. 3 | Question: I support the promotion of vegetarianism/ veganism as a practice of compassion and wisdom for the welfare of animals, humans and the environment, but what if having gatherings with Buddhist friends at vegetarian restaurants lead to craving?...

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，...

Crossing To The Other Shore

Apr. 19 | Even attachment to Nirvana and aversion to Samsara obstructs ultimate Nirvana. - Stonepeace One day, two Tibetan monks who were on a pilgrimage came to a rushing river. There on the bank sat an ugly old leper, begging for alms. When the monks approached,...

Let Go & Pick Up

Apr. 19 | We only need to let go of the three poisons of greed, hatred and delusion. We only need to pick up the three cures of generosity, compassion and wisdom. - Stonepeace

Should We Just Give Without Thinking?

Apr. 19 | Question: While having a meal in a public place, if a handicapped person tries to sell us items like pens or tissue paper, should we just donate if we can afford, without thinking if it is another cheating case? Or should we just donate to associations...

Project Transformation: The Eight Verses Of Thought Transformation

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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...

Liberation

Mar. 30 | Not being attached to one’s suffering by realisation of its unsubstantiality to liberate oneself is wisdom. Not being attached to one’s liberation by realisation of its ungraspability to liberate others is compassion. - Stonepeace (Get Books)

Commentary On Three Sayings From ‘The Stonepeace Book: Vol. 2′

Mar. 21 | As you can only have one thought in each moment, you only have to take care of your mind in this moment. This is how mindfulness is practised from moment to moment, for all moments. - Stonepeace ‘The sure way to know if a person has the good karma...

Note To Self Haiku

Mar. 21 | Mercy please! To me and others around… Please be good.

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‘I Could (Have) Eat(en) A Horse?!’

Feb. 28 | All sentient beings love their own selves and their own kind, even if not loved by others. - Stonepeace There is this expression, ‘I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.’ Its origin probably arose from it being a social taboo in many cultures,...

The Equality Of All That Lives

Feb. 27 | If we cannot be kind even to a single small ant, how can be be kind to other boundless beings? - Stonepeace In 1982 His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet was dining in France with the 10th Pawo Rinpoche… Just then the elderly Pawo Rinpoche spied...

Easier & Better

Feb. 27 | If you see one as severely wicked, it is easy to give rise to anger. If you see the same person as severely deluded, it is easier to give rise to compassion. - Stonepeace