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Posts tagged with "rebirth"
Enough Focus
May. 3 | There should be enough focus on what has consequences in this life, without losing enough focus on what has consequences after this life. - Stonepeace
How Death Hinders Progress To Liberation
Apr. 20 | The thoroughly unenlightened manifest confused rebirths which further confuse themselves. - Stonepeace There is a phenomenon called ‘confusion from separation (from previous lives) by death’ (隔阴之迷), which is the forgetting of the past...
The Sage, The Lady, And The Fish
Mar. 21 | Although we have both grudges and gratitude linked to one another in the rounds of rebirth, it is by focusing on gratitude that grudges dissolve. - Stonepeace (Get Books) In the fifth century B.C. lived an enlightened monk, venerable in wisdom and years,...
From The Fiscal Cliff To The Spiritual Cliff
Jan. 3 | As death can occur at any moment, this is the moment to get ready. - Stonepeace The Fiscal Cliff was a point in time (end of 2012) for the American economy, when certain tax policies expire, and if there is no implementation of a balanced approach for...
Can ‘Buddhists’ Not Believe In Rebirth?
Dec. 4 | If you do not believe in unenlightened rebirth, what are you seeking liberation from? [to be continued...] - Stonepeace There are some who do not believe in the Buddha’s teachings on rebirth, who nevertheless consider themselves to be Buddhists....
How Can Some With Good Karma Become Evil?
Nov. 21 | If merits and wisdom are always steadily cumulative from life to life, we should be liberated already. - Stonepeace One might be reborn into very favourable physical and material circumstances as a result of past good karma ripening now. However, being...Samsara Haiku
Aug. 29 | Even the sweetest becomes bittersweet, and even bitter… till we forget. (Thus are we reborn, pining for the bittersweet, time and again.)Is Buddhism Against Childbirth?
Aug. 29 | Question: Some governments want their citizens to have more babies. That means more people will be reborn in Samsara. Is it not against Buddhism, whose aim is to end rebirth in Samsara? Answer:Advocating more births is just a political suggestion for...True Dharma Practice
Aug. 16 | Unless you practice the Dharma according to the Dharma, ‘the Dharma’ itself becomes the cause of evil rebirths. - Gampopa
Can Creating Good Karma ‘Become’ Bad Karma?
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...
Who Has Been To Pure Land & Back?
Jun. 6 | If there are sentient beings, who hear of this teaching, they should aspire, to be born in that land. (若有众生，闻是说者，应当发愿，生彼国土.) - Amitabha Sutra 阿弥陀经 (The Buddha) Who has been to Amituofo’s Pure Land (Amitabha...
