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Posts tagged with "fear"
Jan. 2 | The terrified victim is
eventually, hopefully,
the courageous hero too.
Dec. 19 | ‘Those ignorant, deluded or negligent of
the Buddha’s true teachings
might be ready for
Mara’s false teachings.’
‘阿难。彼善男子。受阴虚妙。不遭邪虑。圆定发明。三摩地中。心爱圆明。锐其精思。贪求善巧。尔时天魔。候得其便。飞精附人。口说经法。其人不觉。是其魔著。自言谓得。无上涅槃。来彼求巧。善男子处。敷座说法。其形斯须。或作比丘。令彼人见。或为帝释。或为妇女。或比丘尼。或寝暗室。身有光明。是人愚迷。惑为菩萨。信其教化。摇荡其心。破佛律仪。潜行贪欲。口中好言。灾祥变异。或言如来。某处出世。
或言劫火。或说刀兵。恐怖于人。令其家资。无故耗散。此名怪鬼。年老成魔。恼乱是人。厌足心生。去彼人体。弟子与师。俱陷王难。汝当先觉。不入轮回。迷惑不知。堕无间狱。’
~...
Aug. 16 | To be read today:
I hereby prophecize that
the world will end tomorrow.
If you believe and practise my teachings well,
there is hope yet!
- Master Knowitall (Part 1)
As the story goes, there was a boy, who cried wolf, not once or twice, but thrice, who...
May. 31 | Question: When I practise chanting, I do not dare to recite aloud when my family members are around. I only recite when I am alone or when they are not at home. I like to read Dharma articles and watch Dharma videos online regarding Pure Land Buddhism,...
Jan. 30 | Rage should be transformed
into energy for dissolving itself,
transmuting it into skilful action.
- Stonepeace
To deal with feelings of anger and fear and frustration, we can start by finding relationality. As the Lakota Indians say, Mitakuye oyasin:...
Dec. 14 | To fully recognise suffering
is to fully begin the path
to fully transcend suffering.
- Stonepeace
The practice here is to meditate on the three expressions of suffering and to experience their nature. The Buddha said there is one word that can describe...
Aug. 31 | Sometimes the disciple bows to the master;
sometimes the master bows to the disciple.
A master who cannot bow to his disciple cannot bow to the Buddha.
Sometimes the master and disciple bow together to the Buddha.
- Shunryu Suzuki
The practice of nonharming...
Jun. 27 | The Green Lantern (GL) mythos speaks of the universe being invisibly yet carefully divided into thousands of intergalactic sectors, each guarded by an appointed member of the GL Corps. Reminds me of the concept of Buddhalands being compassionately watched...
Mar. 30 | Why live to expend
positive and negative karma?
Why not live to create positive karma
to dilute negative karma?
~ Stonepeace
There is a story about a man who, after he died, was reborn as a snake. He retained his intelligence and memory, so he knew...
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. 4 | Altruism is a source of goodness for yourself and others,
Medicine alleviating all troubles,
The great path traveled by the wise,
Nourishment for all who see, hear, remember, and contact it,
Possessing great efficacy for advancing others’ welfare.
Through...
Oct. 20 | Since Dharma practice ultimately is to benefit all,
antagonising some with ‘Dharma practice’ is unbeneficial.
- Stonepeace
What can we do if our family and friends are not supportive or are even resentful of our interest in Buddhism? First, accept...
Oct. 18 |
Who is ‘The American’? He is ‘A Very Private Gentleman’ (the novel which the film was adapted from) – though not very gentlemanly when he kills. Due to the nature of his livelihood as a hired assassin, he is indeed very...
Oct. 12 | Before watching ‘The Child’s Eye’ in 3D, I wondered if the horror movie will be all the more horrible with a literally additional dimension…, which also led me to wonder what is the true source of horror. As Stonepeace put it,
The...
Jul. 30 | Emptiness in Buddhism is not nothingness;
it is everythingness (physical and mental) being unsubstantial,
being ‘empty’ of anything unchanging (e.g. self),
due to constant change in the moment.
- Stonepeace
Does compassion, which relieves...
