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Posts tagged with "enlightenment"
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. 31 | Perfect attainment
of the fruit of enlightenment
is non-attainment of anything.
- Surangama Sutra
[Perfect enlightenment is non-attachment to everything, while functioning with perfect compassion and wisdom naturally for everyone, as it realises that...
Sep. 6 | If you are hungry,
why have you not eaten?
If you have eaten,
why have you not washed up?
- Stonepeace
In the Zen tradition, a classic dialogue between a teacher and a student is called a ‘mondo’ (in Japanese and Chinese: ‘問答: question...
Aug. 2 | Paradoxically,
realisation of the unconditioned
requires many conditions.
- Stonepeace
When we speak of the word ‘enlightenment’, what might come to mind is the image of an electric bulb within suddenly switching on, illuminating the darkness...
Jul. 12 | The first step towards enlightenment is having awareness.
The next step towards enlightenment is increasing awareness.
The last step towards enlightenment is perfecting awareness.
- Stonepeace
May. 24 | Major sudden enlightenment in an instant
is the culminating effect
of minor gradual awakenings over much time.
~ Stonepeace
In the Lotus Sutra, there is a section where Wisdom Accumulation Bodhisattva asks Manjushri Bodhisattva if there is anyone who...
May. 19 | If you have attachment to this life,
you are not a spiritual person.
If you have attachment to the world of existence,
you do not have renunciation.
If you have attachment to your own purpose,
you do not have the thought of enlightenment.
If grasping...
May. 9 | Once you have doubts if you are enlightened,
have no doubt you are not yet enlightened,
because enlightenment is about absolute certainty.
(If you are enlightened like the Buddha,
why are you not ‘enlightening’ others like the Buddha?)
~...
Mar. 30 | “I command that after my [Pari]Nirvana, Bodhisattvas and Arhats appear in response-bodies in the Dharma-ending Age, and take various forms in order to rescue those in the cycle of rebirth.
They should either become Shramanas, white-robed laypeople,...
Mar. 14 |
Question: How did Buddha know that he was enlightened?
Answer: The Buddha developed his mind so perfectly that he could survey the universe, after which he realised there are no beings who are just as enlightened – other than other Buddhas. It’s...
Nov. 11 | To assume oneself
to be right dogmatically is
to be wrong spiritually.
- Stonepeace
Recently, there is an increase in atheists and agnostics (free-thinkers) who are eager to show that it is possible to be secular humanists, to be moral (instead of immoral...
Oct. 25 | If you don’t find a teacher soon, you’ll live this life in vain. It’s true, you have the Buddha-nature. But without the help of a teacher, you’ll never know it. Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s...
Oct. 12 |
From issue 258 (October 2010) of ‘For You Information’, in the article ‘On Worship, Sutras & Mantras’, there was this question, ‘Can mantras erase kammic debts?’, followed by this answer by Dr. Teoh, ‘All...
Sep. 2 | Life is only as unkind
as we are unkind in life
(including to ourselves).
- Stonepeace
Hi Dr Lee Wei Ling, thank you for sharing about your Mother’s illness in ‘The Straits Times’. Below, I quote the most poignant parts of your article...
Aug. 4 | While those who do great good and evil
have great rises and falls in rebirths,
the average ones rise and fall similarly,
albeit to lesser extremes.
– Stonepeace
It is often idealistically imagined that the path to enlightenment is a smooth-sailing one,...
