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Apr. 6 | Question: Are relationships (parent-child, spouses, siblings, friends etc.) also emptiness?
Answer: Emptiness means being subject to change and thus being empty of any fixed nature. If so, indeed, relationships are of the nature of emptiness, as people...
Mar. 15 | Realising the emptiness of forms,
there is no aversion of anything in particular.
Realising the forms of emptiness,
there is no attachment to no-thing in particular.
- Stonepeace (Get Books)
Konchog Paldron received extensive teachings from many enlightened...
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...
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Oct. 12 | External beauty is only skin deep
and the skin is not very deep.
- Stonepeace
From the Therigatha,
‘Verses of the Elder [Buddhist] Nuns’,
the world’s earliest collection of poetry by women,
is a dramatic incident,
that almost climaxed...
Sep. 6 | To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
- William Blake (Opening Verse from ‘Auguries of Innocence’)
This celebrated stanza is often seen to be very...
Sep. 6 | For one to take refuge,
there must be respect.
For one to have respect,
there need not be refuge.
- Stonepeace
Since faith and respect are different, respect for other religions does not mean we must have faith in their doctrines. For example. I have...
Sep. 5 | Everything the same;
everything distinct.
- Chien-ju
(All phenomena of mind and matter
are equally empty of any fixed self
in the absolute truth of emptiness,
yet also totally different due to
constant change as relative truths.)
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...
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...
Apr. 4 | 过去心不可得，
现在心不可得，
未来心不可得。
- 金刚经
The past mind cannot be grasped,
The present mind cannot be grasped,
The future mind cannot be grasped.
- Diamond Sutra (The Buddha)
The past is empty of fixed aggregates
(of...
Nov. 1 | To share absolute truths
with those who need relative truths
is to confuse instead of help.
To share relative truths
with those who need absolute truths
is to belittle instead of enlighten.
- Stonepeace
Relative truths refer to conventional realities...
Oct. 25 | When the student is ready,
the master appears.
(When the students wrongly assume they are ready,
the might maras appear.)
- Zen Saying (extended)
There is the mistaken notion, that after ‘carefully’ choosing human gurus (spiritual teachers),...
Oct. 24 | If one clings to the relative forms of all phenomena,
one neglects the absolute emptiness of all phenomena.
One makes forms an eternalistic dogma,
and forgoes the wisdom of practising non-attachment [of the transient].
If one clings to the absolute...
Aug. 18 | Not realising
the Three Universal Characteristics
sustains one’s universal delusion.
- Stonepeace
How can we attain universal freedom, as in ultimate freedom, from every constraint, including the universe itself? The answer is through the complete...
