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...

Don’t Tell Me You Saved The World

Jan. 13 | Life can be shorter than expected. What are you doing with the ‘little’ time left? Don’t tell me a major global disaster that could had killed many on 21 December 2012 was averted by propagation of your doomsday (or disaster-day) beliefs...

From The Fiscal Cliff To The Spiritual Cliff

Jan. 3 | As death can occur at any moment, this is the moment to get ready. - Stonepeace The Fiscal Cliff was a point in time (end of 2012) for the American economy, when certain tax policies expire, and if there is no implementation of a balanced approach for...

Matter Of Life & Death

Oct. 12 | Only with mindfulness of life [now] and [impending] death, can one transcend life and death - Stonepeace

This Prophecy Could Save Your Life Today (Or Tomorrow)?

Aug. 16 | To be read today: I hereby prophecize that the world will end tomorrow. If you believe and practise my teachings well, there is hope yet! - Master Knowitall (Part 1) As the story goes, there was a boy, who cried wolf, not once or twice, but thrice, who...

The Parable Sutra (With 12 Metaphors)

Aug. 10 | As long as unenlightened, each thing misperceived is a ‘hidden’ metaphor for truth missed. - Stonepeace Thus have I heard: Once upon a time, the Bhagavan [Blessed One; Buddha] was staying in Jetavana grove near Shravasti City. Then, the Bhagavan...

Milestones Of Life & Death

Jun. 6 | New year’s decorations, milestones on the journey to the other world - auspicious and not auspicious at the same time. - Ikkyu

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...

No Regrets

May. 31 | My religion is to live and die without regret. - Milarepa

Suffering Within Suffering, Decay & Process

May. 2 | Refuge only in the worldly and material, in clothing, food, lodging, wealth… eventually leads to suffering, when one is forced to part from them in death, when one has no greater refuge in the spiritual. - Stonepeace An example of Suffering within...

With Every Breath You Take

Apr. 18 | Death is certainly eventual. Dying is not certainly gradual [as it can be sudden]. When you are only mindful of life, you might not be mindful of death. When you are also mindful of death, you will be more mindful of life. - Stonepeace In the Maranassati...

Is Mindfulness Of Buddha Applicable In Everyday Life?

Feb. 29 | Life is uncertain; death is certain. Rebirth is certain; where to is uncertain. - Extended Buddhist Saying Summarised in one line, the Pure Land teachings, which are the most popular in the Mahayana tradition, teach that via faithful single-minded practice...

Lacking Spiritual Urgency, Means & Direction

Feb. 15 | Time is never running out of due to re-birth. Time is always running out due to re-death. - Stonepeace From your letter, I see that you are diligently fighting bad habits but have not yet obtained results. This is because you are not truly concerned...

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...

Mere Manifestations

Jan. 9 | Just as maras can take the most benevolent manifestations, Bodhisattvas can take the most wrathful manifestations. - Stonepeace [Form is not the substance.] The picture is of the wrathful manifestation of Manjusri, the Bodhisattva of wisdom, as Yamantaka,...