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Posts tagged with "non-self"
Mar. 30 | Impermanence is not just
about the end of all things,
but their renewal too.
- Stonepeace (Get Books)
Having learnt about the truth of impermanence of all things material in this life, of the value of living with more contentment and less excesses, and...
Aug. 24 | The more clearly we see phenomena,
we will see there is
no clearly distinct or static phenomena.
- Stonepeace
The value of pi is that when the circumference of any circle is divided with its diameter. This mathematical constant is approximately 3.14159265359…...
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...
Aug. 18 | Not realising
the Three Universal Characteristics
sustains one’s universal delusion.
- Stonepeace
How can we attain universal freedom, as in ultimate freedom, from every constraint, including the universe itself? The answer is through the complete...
Jul. 15 | Just as there are thoughts without a thinker,
there is karma without a creator (of karma).
- Stonepeace
How is it possible, as the Buddha taught, that there is no fixed self to inherit the karma of one’s deeds, while karma still operates for one? Here...
Mar. 26 | People in the world tend to believe in one of two views:
the view of being or the view of non-being.
That is because they are bound to wrong perception.
- The Buddha (The Sutra on the Middle Way)
The Middle Way between the illusions of being and non-being
is...
Feb. 5 | The best joke is the one
you are able to laugh the loudest at
when it is played the hardest upon you.
- Stonepeace
The streets of Singapore are now no longer safe (again)… from professional pranksters… whom with their meticulous planning and...
Sep. 2 | Adapted from the bestseller, ‘The Time Traveller’s Wife’ tells of a man’s peculiar condition, of being involuntarily subject to fading away, only to manifest in another time and place. It is suspected to be a medical anomaly, though Buddhism would...