Home »
Posts tagged with "Zen"
Posts tagged with "Zen"
Jan. 2 | Of the two Dharma schools,
Samsara is the most challenging,
and Pure Lands the most skilful.
- Stonepeace
The Dharma of Pure Land [path] can assist people of three different potentials [high, average and low roots; everyone] to attain liberation, and...
Dec. 4 | The supreme power is
when Self-Power and Other-Power
become One-Power
via mindfulness of Buddha.
- Stonepeace
Those who practice Zen or Pure Land should all understand this truth: “all Dharma methods are equal and none is superior or inferior.”...
Sep. 6 | To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
- William Blake (Opening Verse from ‘Auguries of Innocence’)
This celebrated stanza is often seen to be very...
Apr. 24 |
Register: http://tinyurl.com/dabeiclass
Enquiry: tpbc@dabei.org.sg
Feedback from 1st Run’s Participants:
‘I enjoyed this evening’s first lesson of The “Magic” of Zen very much. Thank you for painstakingly preparing and...
Feb. 22 | If you are not mindful of Buddha,
as the embodiment of supreme compassion and wisdom,
how do you embody supreme compassion and wisdom?
- Stonepeace
There are those in this Dharma-Ending Age who dare to deprecate Buddha Recitation as an inferior practice....
Jan. 17 |
Register: http://tinyurl.com/dabeiclass
Enquiry: tpbc@dabei.org.sg
Feedback From Past Zen Course:
(The above standalone course can be attended as a sequel to ‘The “Magic” of Zen’:
http://thedailyenlightenment.com/2011/05/course-the-magic-of-zen-origins-stories-essence)
I...
Dec. 5 |
Register:
http://kmspks.org/download/form/Pure%20Land%20Prospectives%20Zen%20Application%20form%20v2.pdf
(Update: Fee now applies to all)
Feedback From Past Courses:
http://thedailyenlightenment.com/2011/07/understanding-amituofo-via-the-amitabha-sutra-8th-run
http://thedailyenlightenment.com/2011/05/course-project-rebirth-rediscover-reflect-recharge-round-3
About...
Nov. 7 | The Great Way is broad,
Neither easy nor difficult.
With narrow views and doubts,
Haste will slow you down.
Attach to it and you lose the measure;
The mind will enter a deviant path.
Let it go and be spontaneous,
Experience no going or staying.
- Seng...
Oct. 3 | As you are always in control
of what you want or not want,
when you think you have ‘lost’ control,
it is you not wanting to be in control.
- Stonepeace
Overeating can become a form of addiction, that causes problems such as obesity, which...
Sep. 20 | The practice of all the bodhisattvas is never to entertain concepts,
which revolve around dualistic notions of perceiver and perceived,
in the knowledge that all these appearances are but the mind itself,
whilst mind’s own nature is forever beyond the...
Sep. 6 | If you are hungry,
why have you not eaten?
If you have eaten,
why have you not washed up?
- Stonepeace
In the Zen tradition, a classic dialogue between a teacher and a student is called a ‘mondo’ (in Japanese and Chinese: ‘問答: question...
Aug. 30 | As Zen has no gates,
nothing is not of Zen;
everything can be an entry point into Zen,
we can be enlightened by anything.
- Stonepeace
May. 3 | Venue: Tai Pei Buddhist Centre
(Building with Buddha on roof, 3 minutes’ walk from Lavender MRT)
Register: Reception Office @ Tai Pei Buddhist Centre, 2, Lavender Street
(10am-9pm on weekdays, 10am-6pm on weekends)
Registration Enquiries: 6298-3343
Course...
Mar. 23 | The supreme and endless blessings of Samantabhadra’s deeds,
I now universally transfer,
May every living being, drowning and adrift,
Soon return to the Land of Limitless Light! [Amituofo's Pure Land]
~ Samantabhadra Bodhisattva (Vow #10)
Many people...
Jan. 26 | As usual, reflective of the prevalent Chinese Buddhist custom, the monks in the movie ‘Shaolin’ (which is an independent ‘sequel’ to ‘The Shaolin Temple’ made in 1982) chant ‘Amituofo’ (the name of Amitabha Buddha) a lot, in the face of...
