The Mooning Teaching

Apr. 26 | Practising for learning is just as important as learning for practising. - Stonepeace (Get Books) After years of solitary meditation in a cave, interspersed with visits to Milarepa, Gampopa finally completed his training and was ready to leave his master…...

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...

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...

Disappointment

Mar. 15 | Disappointment is just a reminder to further align with reality with greater diligence. - Stonepeace (Get Books)

The Wonderful Open Secret Of Sincerity & Respect

Jan. 30 | With utmost sincerity and deepest reverence for a Dharma teaching learnt, there will be great diligence in practice, leading to realisation of its true goal and benefits. - Stonepeace Ultimately, when the practitioner recites (the name of Amituofo mindfully)...

Fire & Water

Jan. 29 | Do not disregard small misdeeds, Thinking they are harmless, Because even tiny sparks of flame, Can set fire to a mountain of hay. Do not disregard small positive acts, Thinking they are without benefit, Because even tiny drops of water, Will eventually...

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!...

Wasted Time

Dec. 19 | Time was never truly wasted if one realises in time, that time was wasted and wastes it no more, by being more diligent. Time was truly wasted if one does not realise in time that time was wasted and wastes it more, by being still complacent. - Stonepeace

Diligence Haiku

Aug. 23 | Remote not working well? Nope… Battery is low. (It is never that the Buddhadharma does not work, for it always does; it is us who do not work hard enough via practice.)

At The Beginning, Middle And End Of Meditation

Aug. 16 | Life doesn’t stay in place,  even for just a moment.  - Gampopa Gampopa said, “When you first begin to practice, you must be like a deer locked in a pen, or a prisoner in jail, urgently seeking a way out of samsara. In the intermediate stages...

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...

Seven Down Eight Up

Jul. 27 | To fall seven times, To rise eight times, Life starts from now. - Daruma Doll Saying

Is One Who Resembles The Buddha Bound For Buddhahood?

Jul. 25 | Question: If a person resembles the Buddha in appearance to some extent, is he or she destined become a monastic? Does it means that he or she has been a Dharma practitioner in a past life? Answer: Just because someone has some resemblance to the way...

The Buddha’s Eight Remedies For Drowsiness

May. 31 | If one does not even resolve to stay awake, how can one resolve to fully awaken? - Stonepeace Drowsiness is a common recurring problem for many meditators (and chanting practitioners, as chanting is a meditative practice too). If we fail to counter the...

What Is Lasting Happiness?

May. 2 | Question: What is lasting and stable happiness? How does one knows if one has reached this stage? Answer: Lasting and stable happiness is best embodied and expressed by the Buddha. It is the peaceful and blissful state of mind that is unperturbed by...