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Posts tagged with "faith"
May. 3 | The power of personal sincerity
connects and resonates with
the power of universal truth.
- Stonepeace
Faith is like a ring, a grommet; the Buddha’s compassion is like a hook, or shepherd’s crook. The two can connect and Buddha’s blessings...
Mar. 21 | Question: I heard some saying that chanting certain mantras or sutras attracts spirits (ghosts) as they also want to listen to the Dharma. Is there any truth in this? If so, does it really matter, especially if I sometimes chant at night?
Answer: Generally,...
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...
May. 31 | Question: How do we know that the Buddha’s teachings is the truth?
Answer: Through active learning, practising, testing and questioning the teachings. There is no world religion or philosophy that confidently advocates as much diligent intelligent...
May. 9 | Question: How can one with less than average intelligence understand the Dharma enough to be able to practice it? Compare this to some other faiths that advocate ‘believe and you will be saved’. Even a simple-minded person can do this. But...
Apr. 24 |
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‘Namo Amituofo! I attended your Faith Factor class as well as join the Pureland Practice Fellowship. Attending your English Dharma...
Apr. 4 | The Buddha is the greatest among all doctors,
able to cure all diseases of afflictions,
able to relieve people from all the great sufferings of birth and death.
- Avatamsaka Sutra
Yes, Buddhists firmly believe in the efficacy of prayer. When someone prays,...
Mar. 28 | You and all other beings, should have Faith
in this ‘Sutra Praised For Its Inconceivable Merits,
As Mindfully Protected By All Buddhas’.
(汝等众生，当信是称赞不可思议功德，一切诸佛所护念经)
- Amitabha Sutra (The Buddha)
In...
Jan. 30 | Extreme skepticism
that questions everything else
should be extremely skeptical
by questioning itself too.
- Stonepeace
Nov. 28 | All true pilgrimages without
are truly pilgrimages within too,
towards the immediate holy ‘site’
of our Buddha-nature.
- Stonepeace
In the last sermon (Mahaparinibbana Sutta) by the Buddha, Ananda, his attendant disciple, remarked that the...
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),...
Apr. 5 | There are different levels of faith.
(1) First, clear faith refers to the joy and clarity and change in our perceptions that we experience when we hear about the qualities of the Three Jewels and the lives of the Buddha and the great teachers.
(2) Longing...
Mar. 15 | The joy is not in the ride,
but how you ride.
- Stonepeace
Without mindfulness, how do you enjoy anything?
Without mindfulness, how do you not fear everything?
- Stonepeace
From Wikipedia, ‘”Battlestar Galactica (BSG): Human vs. Cylon”...
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. 20 | … When my life approaches its end, may all obstructions be fully eradicated, may I see Amitabha Buddha [Amituofo] in person, may I be instantly born in his World of Peace and Bliss [Pure Land]… These Samantabhadra’s supreme practices,...
