How To Prevent An Affair

Jan. 29 | Question: I find it difficult to observe the third precept of abstaining from sexual misconduct. I tend to have sexual thoughts of others besides my spouse. Please advise as to what I should do. I understand there is no quick fix formula, so is there...

How Right Is Your Livelihood?

May. 9 | Instead of engaging in a livelihood that links directly or indirectly to harming others, why not engage in a livelihood that links directly or indirectly to helping others? - Stonepeace At the end of one of my Dharma classes, a student asked an interesting...

Guilt From Adultery Haunting Me

Feb. 7 | Question: I have committed adultery. The guilt is haunting me. Answer: Why not visit a temple, and bow to the Buddha for an extended period of time to express your remorse formally, and vow not to ever let it happen again? If you feel it is appropriate,...

Does Karma Go In Endless Loops?

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...

‘The American’ Killer’s Private Hell

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...

Aftershock Of The Human Heart

Jul. 30 | Though ‘Aftershock’ retells the terrible tragedy of the 1976 Tangshan earthquake which killed 240,000, it is not a typical disaster movie. Its focus is on its tear-jerking aftermath – of the subtle yet sure spiritual aftershocks, of how it tore...