Home »
Posts tagged with "suffering"
Posts tagged with "suffering"
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...
Mar. 30 | Not being attached to one’s suffering
by realisation of its unsubstantiality
to liberate oneself is wisdom.
Not being attached to one’s liberation
by realisation of its ungraspability
to liberate others is compassion.
- Stonepeace (Get Books)
Nov. 8 | Having a good attitude matters more
than having good experiences,
as it also decides how well
bad experiences are experienced.
- Stonepeace
There is a common misconception that absolutely everything being experienced is due to past karma’s ripening....
Sep. 26 | The path to self-liberation
starts from awareness of your own suffering.
The path to liberating others
starts from awareness of others’ suffering.
- Stonepeace
From a Dharma friend and regular class participant, I received a thought-provoking email....
Aug. 10 | Your life’s happiness
is directly proportional
to mindfulness of life itself.
While unmindfulness prolongs suffering,
Right Mindfulness lessens suffering,
and approaches True Happiness.
- Stonepeace
When we speak of the cultivation of Right Mindfulness...
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...
May. 17 | In reference to the seen, there will be only the seen.
In reference to the heard, only the heard.
In reference to the sensed, only the sensed.
In reference to the cognized, only the cognized.
That is how you should train yourself.
When for you there will...
May. 2 | Refuge only in the worldly and material,
in clothing, food, lodging, wealth…
eventually leads to suffering,
when one is forced to part from them in death,
when one has no greater refuge in the spiritual.
- Stonepeace
An example of Suffering within...
May. 2 | The only good about suffering
is that it reminds us
that it is good to rise above it.
- Stonepeace
A recurring problem for many beginner meditators (and those who practise chanting, which is essentially a meditative practice too) is that of physical pain,...
May. 1 | To experience suffering is to end suffering.
To enjoy blessings is to exhaust blessings.
- Buddhist saying
受苦是了苦，
享福是消福.
(When we face inevitable sufferings bravely, they will end.
When we indulge in pleasures complacently, they...
Mar. 28 | As the path to Buddhahood necessitates compassion for one and all,
to be truly compassionate to others is to be compassionate to oneself,
to be truly compassionate to oneself is to be compassionate to others.
- Stonepeace
Without exception, no sufferings...
Jan. 30 | Though a wheel of fire about your head
Were wildly whirling and flaming,
Just do not abandon your Bodhi Mind (Bodhicitta),
Even amidst such strong suffering.
- Avatamsaka Sutra
* Bodhicitta is the aspiration
to attain Buddhahood,
and to guide others...
Dec. 14 | To fully recognise suffering
is to fully begin the path
to fully transcend suffering.
- Stonepeace
The practice here is to meditate on the three expressions of suffering and to experience their nature. The Buddha said there is one word that can describe...
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...
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...
