Endurance Haiku
Feb. 13 | Whiningmakes enduringharder.Learning Haiku
Feb. 6 | Learn to break free;not just to learn.Openness Haiku
Jan. 29 | Open your heart,and focus your mind to learn and ask.Birthday Haiku
Jan. 2 | It is a happy birthdayonly if you were born happy,to bring happiness to others.Wisdom & Kindness Haikus
Nov. 14 | The wise learn what they should,to help themselves. The kind share what they can to...Best Haiku
Sep. 26 | Do (what is right)(with) your (thought, word and deed)best (you can).
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From Desire’s Fire Far Depart 欲火远离
Jan. 28 | 夫为道者，如被干草，火来须避。道人见欲，必当远之。 — 释迦牟尼佛《四十二章经》: 第三十章 Those as... Read more »- With The Mind Still Are Desires Eradicated 心寂欲除
- With Self Emptied Is Fear Eradicated 我空怖灭
- With Wisdom’s Brightness Destroy The Demonic 智明破魔
- Abide In The Middle To Attain The Path 处中得道
- With Defilements Purified Brilliance Is Retained 垢净明存
- Passing Through Much To Obtain Victory 展转获胜
- Be Mindful Of Precepts To Be Near The Path 念戒近道
- How Long Or Short Is Life? 生命之长短
- That Taught Are Without Differences 教诲无差
- Walking The Path Is In The Mind 行道在心
正观敌色 Right Contemplation To Resist Lust
Feb. 19 | 慎勿视女色，亦莫共言语。若与语者，正心思念：我为沙门，处于浊世，当如莲花，不为泥汙。想其老者如母，长者如姊，少者如妹，稚者如子。生度脫心，息灭恶念。—... Read more »Excerpts
Everything In The Right Places
Feb. 24 | 好雪片片，不落别处。— 庞云居士Good snow!Flake by flake,they do not fall on other places.— Layperson Páng Yún Do not be afraid. Live while accepting... Read more »Even Great Bodhisattvas And Patriarchs Seek Birth In Pure Land
Feb. 17 | [I]f you wish to rescue deluded, suffering sentient beings, you should first seek rebirth in the Western Pure Land. Only after you have achieved Tolerance... Read more »- Universal Virtue’s Practices’ And Vows’ Chapter’s Verses Related To Amitābha Buddha’s Pure Land 与阿弥陀佛净土相关的《普贤行愿品偈颂》
- The Danger Of Arrogance Vs The Power Of Repentance
- Go For That Easy To Get, Use And Keep
- Why Choose Sickness Over Indulgence?
- It Is Easier To Be Born In Amitabha Buddha’s Pure Land
- To What Extent Should The Dharma Be Protected? 护法应当到什么程度？
- That One Should Disdain Hardships
- May Your Compassion Be More Powerful Than Greed
- Does Cutting Out The Organs Disturb The Mind?
- Why Should I Attain Buddhahood Too?
Letters
How Should Buddhists See Birthdays?
Feb. 16 | Question: How should Buddhists view birthday celebrations? Answer: The term ‘birthday celebration’ viewed with the spiritual perspective... Read more »- How To Advise An Angry And Greedy Dying Person?
- Will Speaking Of The Unfortunate Cause It?
- What If I Forgot A Death Anniversary?
- What Is ‘Form Is Emptiness’?
- Is Guānyīn A Bodhisattva Or Buddha?
- Why Dread Karmic Retribution?
- How Best To Have Sea Burial?
- What Is This Certain Sutra About?
- When Do Bodhisattvas Intervene To Help?
- How Does Reciting Sutras Relate To Learning About Them?
Is It Alright To Feed Deceased Animals To Living Animals?
Feb. 23 | Question: What do you think of feeding fish (and ‘standard’ canned pet food) to cats and dogs, while being vegetarian personally, with chanting of the Rebirth... Read more »Movies
The Right Story Can Resume With Timely ‘Atonement’
Dec. 28 | ‘Atonement’ is a believable cautionary tale on the ills of an over-active imagination, which can lead to the ‘natural’ ease of spinning destructive... Read more »My Love Is ‘My Magic’
Nov. 9 | A man jaded after the loss of his wife struggles to provide for himself and his young neglected son. He intoxicates himself by drinking to drown his... Read more »- Meet Ron The White-‘BlackkKlansman’
- ‘She’s Funny That Way’, How She’s Connected To Others
- Was ‘Mee Pok Man’s Love ‘True’?
- A Monkey’s Satire On Human ‘Love’?
- Should You Choose ‘Truth Or Dare’?
- On ‘Percy Jackson’, Knowledge & Power
- ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’ Of A Manifesto
- A Golden Line Extracted From ‘Extraction’
- Choose Life Again, According To ‘T2: Trainspotting’?
- Choose Life, According To ‘Trainspotting’?
- Reliame on Mañjuśrī Bodhisattva's Teachings On Butchers & Buyers
- May on Mañjuśrī Bodhisattva's Teachings On Butchers & Buyers
- David Blessedhands Nwaohuocha on How The Buddha Turned Arrows Into Flowers
- ganentoo on [4] Why Particularly Seek One Pure Land?
- Amy Lee on [4] Why Particularly Seek One Pure Land?
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