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Posts tagged with "hatred"
Apr. 19 | We only need to let go
of the three poisons
of greed, hatred and delusion.
We only need to pick up
the three cures
of generosity, compassion and wisdom.
- Stonepeace
Jun. 14 | ‘People, other than the wise, do not realise,
“We in this world must all die,”
(and, not realising it, continue their quarrels).
The wise realise it and thereby their quarrels cease.’
- The Buddha (Dhammapada Verse 6)
May. 31 | Although the true enemy of the angry is anger,
to confront this anger with more anger is unwise.
The true friend of the angry is loving-kindness,
to transform it within, to be expressed without.
- Stonepeace
I [Sergeant Kendel] thought about what Sakyong...
Mar. 8 | When one loses compassion
at one’s so-called enemy,
one has become that person’s true enemy.
- Stonepeace
Dalai Lama: In a Buddhist text called the Four Hundred Verses by Aryadeva, an Indian pandit, there is a verse which says that the Buddha...
Jan. 30 | Knowing beings tend to cling to first impressions,
Bodhisattvas strive to create good impressions,
so as to better benefit them with the Dharma.
- Stonepeace
If you visit a restaurant for the very first time, and the food happens to be not great, it is...
Nov. 14 | A love story is heartbreaking
when the heartbreak need not occur,
while the heartbreak is clung to,
though the heartbreak can be healed.
- Stonepeace
Many heartwrenching love stories share the common trait of heartbreak – due to miscommunication,...
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...
Aug. 24 | The small-minded fail to appreciate
the vast skilful means of the Buddha -
while they cling to only one means,
or even reject all of them.
- Stonepeace
The Sutra Resolving Doubts Regarding the Period of Imitative Dharma states that if practitioners of...
Jun. 12 | If we truly realise
how our defilements defile us,
would we remain defiled?
- Stonepeace
‘The destructive effects of hatred are very visible, very obvious and immediate. For example, when a very strong or forceful thought of hatred arises within...
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...
Aug. 17 |
The winner sows hatred
because the loser suffers.
Let go of winning and losing
and find joy.
- The Buddha (Dhammapada)
Jun. 16 | How could the Buddha actively teach
if he ‘taught’ total passive inaction?
- Stonepeace
One day, Siha the general approached the Blessed One [the Buddha] and spoke to him thus: ‘I have heard it said, venerable sir, that the ascetic Gautama...
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…...
