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Jan. 29 | Do not disregard small misdeeds,
Thinking they are harmless,
Because even tiny sparks of flame,
Can set fire to a mountain of hay.
Do not disregard small positive acts,
Thinking they are without benefit,
Because even tiny drops of water,
Will eventually...
Dec. 4 | If you do not believe
in unenlightened rebirth,
what are you seeking liberation from?
[to be continued...]
- Stonepeace
There are some who do not believe in the Buddha’s teachings on rebirth, who nevertheless consider themselves to be Buddhists....
Nov. 21 | If merits and wisdom
are always steadily cumulative
from life to life,
we should be liberated already.
- Stonepeace
One might be reborn into very favourable physical and material circumstances as a result of past good karma ripening now. However, being...
Jul. 4 | Empowering one another with compassion,
may all be motivated in doing good.
Empowering one another with wisdom,
may all be skilful in doing good.
- Stonepeace
Recently, a friend encountered a deceased bird on a pavement. Out of compassion, he stood near...
May. 17 | Be swifter in knowing
if your intentions are good or bad.
Be slower in deciding
if your experiences are good or bad.
- Stonepeace
May. 9 | How connected you are
to good, evil and purity
pivots upon
how connected you are
to your Buddha-nature.
- Stonepeace
Feb. 13 | Whether something that happens to you
is truly good or bad for you
depends on how you perceive the experience.
- Stonepeace
We often hear the utterance of the dreaded exclaimation, ‘Very bad karma!’ Sometimes, this is remarked in response...
Sep. 12 | If you try to convert me,
I’ve thought about heaven and hell,
I’m prepared to face either,
if either of them exists.
- Lee Kuan Yew
(The Straits Times, 06.09.11)
But is it possible for anyone to truly imagine or to ever be prepared to face...
Aug. 30 | If even Mara
can become a Buddha eventually,
why doubt your ability to do so?
- Stonepeace
The definitions of good and evil in Buddhism are much more subtly nuanced and realistic than the conventional versions. What is goodness? It is whatever done with...
Aug. 10 | Though there is no absolute right or wrong in this world,
relatively, there are some matters that are more right or more wrong.
This is why we still need to propagate the Buddhadharma,
to encourage observation of the precepts as spiritual cultivation,
so...
Aug. 10 | Abandon wrongdoing.
It can be done.
If there were no likelihood,
I would not ask you to do it.
But since it is possible
and since it brings blessing and happiness,
I do ask of you:
abandon wrongdoing.
Cultivate doing good.
It can be done.
If it brought...
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...
Feb. 15 | The unminded mind
leads to suffering
from mindless words and actions.
~ Stonepeace
A common question is whether there is karma created through the power of thought alone. For example, if one nurses malicious thoughts against another, is it alright?...
Feb. 14 | One who can become good
is not truly evil.
One who can become evil
is not truly good.
~ Stonepeace
(If even Mara can become a Buddha,
there is no true Mara-nature;
there is only true Buddha-nature.)
Jan. 23 |
‘Hereafter’ proposes something ‘simple’ yet mysterious. It speaks of the great possibility of existence hereafter, which seems certain to exist, yet being beyond the scope of our clear understanding. Even the protagonist psychic featured, who...
