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...

Knowing Contentment

Jul. 19 | Those who do not know contentment, although rich, they are poor. Those who know contentment, although poor, they are rich. Those who do not know contentment, are constantly led by their five desires, pitied by those who know contentment. - The Buddha...

Itchy?

Feb. 15 | There is pleasure when an itch is scratched, But to be without an itch is more pleasurable still; There are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still. - Nagarjuna (Ratanvalli)

One Of A Kind

Oct. 19 | Of all attachments and desires, none is more extreme than lust. With lust as a desire, its greatness has no other, Fortunately, there is only one [of its kind]! If there are two similar desires, of all humans under the heavens [in the world], no one...

The Intention Of Renunciation

Aug. 2 | True renunciation is to let go of attachment, aversion and delusion; not anything else. - Stonepeace The Buddha does not demand that everyone leave the household life for the monastery [to further facilitate spiritual cultivation] or ask his followers...

The Middle Way Between Hedonism & Asceticism

Jul. 6 | Birth in the heavens might be supremely hedonistic. Birth in the hells might be supremely ascetic. Birth in the Pure Lands is supremely the Middle Way. - Stonepeace In India at the time the Buddha’s time, there was a belief that the purpose of life...

Get Greater Relief

Aug. 23 | Scratching itchy skin which is diseased brings pleasure, But it’s more pleasurable not to have skin disease. Similarly, mundane people gain pleasure from [negative] desire, But it’s more pleasurable not to have skin disease. - Nagarjuna (Precious...

How a Monk Failed a Temptation

Nov. 12 | The Buddha taught us how to become living Buddhas; not to mimic lifeless Buddha statues. - Stonepeace There was once an old woman, who supported a monk for more than twenty years. She had taken the trouble to build him a small hut, for his both his lodging...