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Posts tagged with "forgiveness"
Feb. 27 | Question: A good friend, Alvina (not her real name), who is my colleague had fallen out over a small matter. She refused to make up despite me having tried thrice. She had told me something about another friend, Rita (also not her real name), claiming...
Jun. 22 | Question: How can I deal with someone who is unforgiving?
Answer: By forgiving the person. There is no need to punish yourself for someone’s pettiness if you are sure you have already done your best to explain and make amends.
Question: I did my...
Oct. 11 | As realisations can arise
from negative karma’s ripening,
negative karma can condition positive karma.
- Stonepeace
When April harms May, can April justify her action by claiming she is simply expressing May’s negative karma, that she as the...
Oct. 3 | To not regret
over the regretable
is regretable.
- Stonepeace
On one occasion this [elderly] monk asked the Dalai Lama for initiation into a particular set of demanding practices. The Dalai Lama demurred, saying that they were meant for younger monks,...
Aug. 2 | ‘Wu Xia’ is an entertaining and nuanced study of the tension between the need for forgiving one who has resolved to turn over a new leaf, versus the danger of forgiving one who turns out to be thoroughly unrepentant. Since we cannot read...
Apr. 20 | Not doing any evil is good,
but it is not as good
as doing much good too.
- Stonepeace
~ Good-natured, even-tempered people are more accommodating and can get along with others wherever they go. However, being ‘accommodating’ does not suggest...
Apr. 5 | Once upon a time the Bodhisattva, leading the life of an ascetic, was meditating at the foot of a tree in the king’s royal park. He was living there at the invitation of the king’s general. One day the king went to the park with the ladies...
Sep. 30 | One who apologises [when wrong]
wins one’s ego.
One who forgives not [when wronged]
loses to one’s ego.
~ Stonepeace
Sep. 29 | Question: Out of the blue, I recalled some painful moments when someone close was not nice to me. Though this had long passed, I still feel a tinge of pain and resentment. Why and how could I had allowed the person to treat me that way? I still blame...
May. 12 | The most enlightening part of ‘The Losers’ was when the cornered Jensen uttered something ‘true to bluff’ those pointing guns at him… (Yes, it’s paradoxical) – ‘In the words of Ancient Tibetan [Buddhist] masters, “Don’t start none…...
Nov. 26 | It is impossible for another to accept one’s apology
if one does not apologise,
but it is always possible to forgive one
for not apologising.
- Stonepeace
