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Posts tagged with "loving-kindness"
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...
Feb. 27 | If we cannot be kind
even to a single small ant,
how can be be kind
to other boundless beings?
- Stonepeace
In 1982 His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet was dining in France with the 10th Pawo Rinpoche… Just then the elderly Pawo Rinpoche spied...
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...
Jun. 14 | Compassion is the root
[beginning] of the Buddha path.
[the path to Buddhahood].
- Nagarjuna (The Treatise on Perfection of Wisdom)
There is this adage… To ‘be good for goodness’ sake’; instead of being good for pleasing anyone...
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...
May. 17 | We take refuge in the Triple Gem,
when we discern nothing more precious,
that embodies complete goodness and truth.
- Stonepeace
Called the criterion for rejection and acceptance in the Kalama Sutta, the Buddha famously taught how to discern the truth...
Oct. 31 | Question: Someone in my family is giving me to a lot of emotional abuse. She would find fault with me and scold me, yet treat me as non-existent at other times. When I speak to her about this, she refuses to communicate. Do you have any advice?
Answer: If...
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...
Dec. 21 | Between the dualistic extremes
of strong love (attachment) and hate (aversion)
is the Middle Way of spiritual friendship
(with the friendliness of loving-kindness)
~ Stonepeace
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...
Oct. 7 | Let go only of your attachment, aversion and delusion;
never your generosity, loving-kindness and wisdom.
- Stonepeace
On one of those customary birthday cards passed around the workplace, I saw these words written – ‘fangxia zizai’...
Sep. 30 | An angry person is just an unhappy person.
Why be another angry person
because of this person?
- Stonepeace
Circulating online is a simple but illuminating story by David J. Pollay. Here is a paraphrased version… He was in a taxi when the cabbie...
Aug. 12 | All we need to let go of is attachment, aversion and delusion,
so as to realise generosity, loving-kindness and wisdom.
- Stonepeace
You know the story of Ananda, the Buddha’s attendant. His faith was as strong as anyone’s. There was to be...
Aug. 4 | The practice of equanimity is the equal application
of loving-kindness, compassion and rejoice
towards all beings without discrimination.
– Stonepeace
Begin with altruistic love, the strong wish for others to find happiness and the causes of happiness. If...
Jul. 22 | 大肚能容,容天下难容之事;
笑口常开,笑世间可笑之人。
The big belly can contain,
embracing matters difficult to withstand in this world.
The smile is always there,
laughing at those who are laughable in this world.
- Buddhist Saying...
