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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...
Jan. 2 | Question: As Buddhists, is consuming birds’ nest drink or soup justifiable since it has lots of health benefits? The swiftlets are not harmed and they can always build new homes when their nests are taken.
Answer: In case you do not know, bird’s...
May. 17 | Question: How can kids be taught the Third & Fifth Precept, of abstaining from sexual misconduct and taking of intoxicants?
Answer: For teaching the Third Precept to kids who have yet to reach puberty, I suggest teaching it ‘forward’,...
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...
Mar. 7 | The purpose of receiving the precepts
is to remind us to be alert of our own thoughts and conduct.
When we repent over any and every transgression,
we are keeping the precepts.
- Master Kuang-Ch’in
Nov. 7 | Question: Will one who works in a casino or the general betting industry create negative karma? Is it Right Livelihood, according to the Noble Eightfold Path?
Answer: The more directly involved in the promotion of facilitation of gambling one is, the...
Nov. 1 | To share absolute truths
with those who need relative truths
is to confuse instead of help.
To share relative truths
with those who need absolute truths
is to belittle instead of enlighten.
- Stonepeace
Relative truths refer to conventional realities...
Oct. 24 | The misfortune we experience from others
are rebounding effects of our evil,
be they from this present life or past lives.
- Stonepeace
It is often said that when we perceive others to be evil (i.e. to have misgivings), we are the evil ones, as the evils...
Sep. 26 | How you think conditions how you speak later.
How you speak conditions how you think later.
- Stonepeace
Loving speech means to communicate and discuss with pleasant speech. There are three types of loving speech:
(1) Comforting speech: We should communicate...
Sep. 26 | Q: If we have not taken the precepts, and have broken all of them, what happens if we later commit to take them all?
A: There will be more regular and good (positive) karma generated throughout life as it is a resolution to not harm others for life. This...
Aug. 23 | Question: When the buying of meat stops the killing will stop. Hence, how is buying or eating meat ever be in the grey area of whether it breaks the first precept? Worse than that, it is an attempt to cover up murder by paying someone else to do the dirty...
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...
Jun. 8 | Question: If one has not taken the precepts, and had broken all of them, what happens if one commits to take them later?
Answer: There will be more regular good (positive) karma generated throughout life as it is a resolution to not harm others for...
Mar. 7 | As the precepts are interconnected
in the spirit of non-harm to anyone,
to truly observe any one is to truly observe all.
~ Stonepeace
Many years ago there was a man who had two hundred and fifty cows. He took great care of his herd, always driving them...
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?...
