The Daily Enlightenment – Buddhist Inspirations & News (since 1997)

Buddhist Inspirations & News (since 1997)

Precepts Matter

8 Jun 2011

Self-Deceit Before Other-Deceit 先自欺后欺他

20 Dec 2019

Verse On Shaving

1 Jun 2016

The Buddha’s Advice For Vanquishing Fear

5 Sep 2013

Does Being Angry Break Any Buddhist Precept?

24 Feb 2015

Crisis Haiku

15 May 2015

Most Important Thing

30 Aug 2011

Can A Sutra Be A Lullaby?

18 Jan 2014

[8] How To Be Released From Attachment

23 Jan 2019

Firefly

2 Aug 2012

How To Prevent Breaking Of Precepts & What To Do When They Are Broken

10 Dec 2019

Autumn Haiku

3 Aug 2013

Holiday Haiku

24 Jul 2013

Are You One In A Million?

25 Oct 2010

[2] Do Pure Land Aspirants Renounce Here For There?

21 Mar 2014

In Each One Moment Is One New Encounter 一期一会

3 Jun 2021

‘Arrival’ Of Mis/communication

8 Jul 2019

The Demon’s Costume

9 May 2011

Make Your Bed

12 Feb 2019

Can I Simply Do Good To Cover Evil?

30 Mar 2016

‘The Monkey King 3’: Kingdom Of Women (Vs Four ‘Monks’)

8 Aug 2018

Chaos Haiku

10 Apr 2019

How To Be Free From Demonic Obstacles

26 Jun 2015

Beware Of Anti-Dharma Slander

6 Mar 2018

A Zen Master’s 3 Lessons

25 Oct 2018

Where is Our Beloved Child Now?

27 Jan 2010

Why Is ‘The Laughing Buddha’ Laughing?

22 Jul 2010

Two Kinds Of Lion’s Roar

16 May 2019

Should Buddhists Pray To Tai Sui?

28 Dec 2013

Five Poisons

14 Jun 2019

‘This Is The End’ Of The ‘Line’?

27 May 2017

Make A Difference

6 Aug 2014

The Most Reliable Buddhist Practice

27 May 2017

Verse On Four Impermanences 四非常偈

20 Mar 2019

Who Are Your Karmic Creditors?

11 Oct 2018

Moon Pearl

11 Jan 2014

155 Spiritual & Physical Differences Between Buddhas & Arhats

2 May 2015

From Mindfulness To Buddhahood

5 Jan 2015

The Mark of Faith

14 Mar 2011

Some Truths Revealed On Revealed ‘Truths’

3 May 2019

The Emptiness of Money

3 Dec 2009

Why ‘Hellboy (2019)’ Is Not Hellbound

9 Dec 2019

What Language To Chant In To Help The Deceased?

27 Feb 2019

What Were The Buddha’s Eyes ‘Blinking’?

25 May 2021

Can We Have Renunciation With Bodhicitta?

6 May 2017

Are There Deadly Water Ghosts?

5 Apr 2014

[5] How Can Ordinary Beings Reach Pure Land?

12 Apr 2014

The ‘Black Mirror’ That Reflects Darkness

4 May 2018

Mind Moon

1 Dec 2014

Careful Who You Lust For, Whom You Might Never Get

19 Jun 2019

Should You Avoid Intoxicants Or Intoxication?

25 Sep 2014

Verse On Equanimous Care

26 Jan 2016

Life Haiku

16 Nov 2016

Verse On Entering Hall

23 Sep 2016

Cicada Haiku

14 Jul 2015

Transforming Bandits To Bodyguards

10 Feb 2016

Summary of ‘Practices With Ten Great Obstacles’《十大碍行》纲要

15 Apr 2020

Relativity Haiku

5 Jan 2017

Beware Of The ‘John Wick’ Syndrome!

27 May 2015

Verse For Lamp-Lighting (点灯偈)

21 Feb 2018

How Should Buddhists Invest?

25 May 2015

Be A Perfect Mirror

27 May 2017

Why Is It Better To Give Than To Receive?

10 Dec 2013

Live Without Cold Spots

3 Mar 2021

How Do We Recognise The Wise?

17 May 2012

How To Verify Truthfulness Of The Buddha’s Teachings

14 Aug 2014

Can Buddhists Seek Advice From Divination?

14 Jan 2015

Friends, Not Food

28 Aug 2019

Love Not Terrorism But Hate Not Terrorists

24 Jul 2017

Self-Plea Haiku

17 Mar 2016

Should I Work In A Prison?

23 Nov 2016

Blessings From Good Observation Of Precepts

8 Oct 2013

An Outsider’s Review Of ‘The Outsider’

19 Mar 2018

Which Hell Will The Evil Be Born In?

15 Oct 2016

Are You ‘Possessed’ Of Even Quicker Wits?

29 Jul 2019

Joyride

15 Jul 2010

[E] How Is The Monastic Community Destroyed In The Dharma-Ending Age? 僧团如何在末法时期被破坏？

29 Aug 2019

Mat Haiku

28 Dec 2012

Sūtra In Which The Buddha Speaks Of Eight Great Beings’ Realisations《佛说八大人觉经》

13 Feb 2020

The Buddha’s Two Authorities Within Four Great References For All

30 Jan 2020

How Do I Bathe The ‘Baby Buddha’ Properly?

14 May 2014

Lessons On ‘The Fundamentals Of Caring’

29 Jan 2019

What Does The Buddha Take Refuge In?

19 May 2011

Spiritual Maturity

2 Oct 2013

Others’ Mistakes

4 Jul 2012

Who Is A True Sangha Member?

28 Dec 2016

The Mantra of the Perfection of Wisdom

4 Mar 2010

Smile

25 May 2015

Bird In Vase

27 Mar 2020

Reflections From ‘Cleaning’ A Bodhisattva

8 Feb 2011

Is Wanting To Be Muscular Greed?

13 Nov 2013

Contemplation Verse When Standing

4 Jan 2016

True Form

21 Dec 2016

Surprise Haiku

2 Aug 2017

Is Life With Perfect Order Or Total Chaos?

2 Mar 2018

Difference Haiku

27 May 2017

Wisdom Haikus

26 Jul 2018

No You Here

17 May 2012

Force Of Habit

11 Apr 2014

How Bodhisattvas Should Always Practise Repentance 菩萨应当如何常修忏悔

8 May 2019

Does The Donor Or Deceased Gain Merits From Post-Death Donations?

26 Dec 2018

Birds Of A Feather

27 Dec 2019

‘Our Brand Is Crisis’, Our Brand Is Clean?

7 Oct 2016

How to Listen to a Dharma Talk

30 Jul 2009

Mindfulness Of Buddha & Prostration To Buddha 念佛拜佛

27 Mar 2019

Timeless Truth

31 Mar 2010

How Should New Vegans Handle Old Non-Vegan Stuff?

21 Jan 2020

Anew

17 Mar 2015

Why Balance Regular & ‘Random’ Practice?

10 Oct 2013

Can We Freeze & Resurrect One Another?

23 Apr 2015

Moods

21 Mar 2013

World Of Words

15 Jun 2015

Where Evil Starts

6 Dec 2019

See Yourself As Lowest Of The Low

16 Feb 2017

Doubt The Doubtful To Realise The Truthful

11 Jul 2018

Are All Religions Rivers Leading To One Ocean?

25 Oct 2010

Do People Swarm To You Or Shun You?

25 Dec 2019

Is Enlightenment Gradual Or Sudden?

2 Aug 2011

As It Is

7 Dec 2010

Triumph Over Evil

9 Jun 2010

With Wisdom’s Brightness Destroy The Demonic 智明破魔

25 Sep 2020

Is Mindfulness Of Buddha Applicable In Everyday Life?

29 Feb 2012

Fleeting Haiku

20 Jul 2019

The Four Noble Truths & The Four Magnificent Vows

18 Apr 2012

‘The Monkey King 2’ Has Buddha-Nature

28 Jun 2017

The Monk With Practice Without Faith & Aspiration

24 Aug 2013

Life Haiku

8 Apr 2017

How Should Buddhist Images Be Worn?

16 Jan 2019

Right Haiku

6 Mar 2019

How The Buddha Is Gone Yet Not Gone For Good 佛陀如何如去亦不去

4 Oct 2018

With Whom Should You Be Angry?

14 Feb 2011

Equanimity

10 Aug 2015

Sharing Buddhism Without Buddhism First

23 May 2011

Karma Haiku

30 Sep 2016

Mindfulness Of Buddha Before Bed

4 Apr 2012

Should I Accommodate With Non-Vegan Meals?

13 Apr 2016

How A Deva King Defeated An Asura King

25 Aug 2013

Love Haiku

10 Dec 2013

‘Batman: The Killing Joke’ Is On The Joker

30 Sep 2016

Oceanography, Meteorology, Astronomy, Swimology

13 Jun 2017

When Teachers are Not Yet One with the Dharma

26 Nov 2009

Star Haiku

9 Mar 2016

What Is Your True Nature To Show?

19 Aug 2019

Conscience

21 Mar 2014

Altruism Brings Courage

4 Nov 2010

How Death From Enmity Was Averted

6 Jul 2013

Past & Future Cause & Effect

12 Jul 2011

Nuturing The Bodhi Seed

21 Nov 2014

How Does Buddhism Differ From Taoism?

21 Dec 2017

Buddha & Self

22 Dec 2014

Verse On Contemplation

28 Oct 2016

How To Rise From Rock Bottom

4 Sep 2019

Threefold Learning’s Haiku 三学俳句

27 Feb 2021

Why Avoidance Of Alcohol Is So Important

18 Aug 2016

Can One Be Addicted To Buddhism?

13 Apr 2018

Verse On Chanting

11 Oct 2018

Can Precepts Really Be Broken Virtually?

9 Aug 2017

Why Does Buddhahood Require Bodhicitta?

20 Jun 2014

Haikus On Movies, Documentary & Drama Series

20 Jun 2018

A Single Breath

3 Jan 2012

Those Without Attachment Attain The Path 无著得道

5 Mar 2021

How To Not Be Reborn As Animals

27 Nov 2018

Are Animal Communication Courses Alright?

30 Jul 2019

How Best to Protect the Dharma

19 Feb 2010

Always Reflect On Your Thoughts, Words & Deeds

27 Jun 2018

Verse On Refuge In Dharma

14 Jul 2016

Chat On Truthfulness

13 Jun 2011

Do You Desire For More Or Less Desires?

29 Nov 2017

Definition Of Success

14 Jun 2012

Both The Haves & Have-Nots Suffer

6 Mar 2019

Is My Teacher Testing My Patience?

29 Oct 2014

Verse On Assemblies

24 Jul 2017

Praise & Blame

25 Feb 2010

What To Relate To The Triple Gem?

24 Oct 2016

Rebirth Haiku

13 Jun 2017

The Dharma

8 Jan 2019

Rejoice In Goodness

26 Jul 2011

Be Kind To Be Happy

6 Nov 2015

Can A Buddhist Shrine Be Near A Dining Table?

15 Aug 2018

How Subha Gave & Gained Her Eye

12 Oct 2012

How The Buddha Eventually Advocated Veganism

15 Jun 2016

Why Merits Can Only Be Partially Dedicated?

18 Oct 2017

Is Buddhism Okay With Premarital Sex?

29 Aug 2012

It Is Easier To Be Born In Amitabha Buddha’s Pure Land

11 Nov 2020

Lotus Haiku

26 Jan 2016

Right ‘Craziness’ As Spiritual Sanity

18 Nov 2014

How Is Compassion Great?

6 Jul 2011

Should I Make My Spiritual Vows Silently?

5 Jun 2014

Mind One Needle

9 May 2012

Desires’ Fire Burns Oneself 欲火烧身

9 Apr 2021

The Mooning Teaching

26 Apr 2013

Can I Suffer On Behalf Of Others?

20 Aug 2019

Right Or Wrong

10 Aug 2011

Is There An Alternative?

14 Feb 2011

Learn To Practise Accordingly

18 Apr 2019

Nobler Brotherhood For ‘A Better Tomorrow 2018’

20 Sep 2018

Constructive Criticism

25 May 2014

Mindfully Ask Your Heart If You Need It

11 Mar 2020

Do Buddhas & Bodhisattvas Only Help Those Faithfully Mindful Of Them?

24 Aug 2016

Is There A ‘Dark Phoenix’ In You?

23 Dec 2019

Small Is Beautiful

21 Dec 2010

What If the Joke’s On You?

5 Feb 2010

Verse With Three Truths 三谛偈

7 Feb 2020

Smile Haiku

26 Jan 2014

How To Queue Alone To Lead Many

18 Jan 2017

How A Great Master Overcame Suffering From Terrible Sicknesses 大师如何克服大病苦

9 Jan 2020

A Profound & Essential One-Word Teaching

26 Jan 2016

Repentance As Cure

20 Oct 2015

Freedom Haiku

26 Jul 2020

Solution Without Dejection

28 Mar 2012

Help Haiku

5 Oct 2019

Is the Dharma Difficult or Easy to Realise

19 Nov 2009

Tea Haiku

31 May 2013

Is Buddhism Against Birth Control?

18 Feb 2014

How To Not Follow Customs Blindly

20 Mar 2019

True Dharma Practice

16 Aug 2012

Waves of Loving-Kindness

25 Sep 2009

The Seeing of Magic in the Ordinary

14 Jan 2010

Where Are ‘Religious’ Killers Reborn?

5 Jul 2017

Can Faith In Any Deity Help The Dying?

1 Aug 2018

Do Not Be A Wild Fox ‘Zen Master’! 别成野狐‘禅师’！

6 May 2017

Neither Fearing Nor Clinging To Failure

7 Nov 2011

Regret Haikus

22 Aug 2018

Following The Buddha’s Perfect Example

14 Nov 2012

Clarity Haiku

18 Jul 2018

Arbitrary Conditions

14 Nov 2012

Easier & Better

27 Feb 2013

Verse For Wearing Precepts’ Robe 搭缦衣偈

10 Jan 2020

Is It Better Not to Observe Any Precepts?

19 Feb 2010

Family Verse For Laypeople

11 Jan 2016

The Snow Does Not Fall Elsewhere

24 Oct 2016

What To Make Of ‘Wounds’?

4 Nov 2019

Is Eating Bird’s Nest Soup Okay?

2 Jan 2013

Should I Support Weapon Creation?

30 Aug 2014

What Is The Sound Of One Hand Clapping?

29 Feb 2012

On Quenching Thirst & Soothing Itches

23 Jun 2014

Hopelessness & Hopefulness

25 Sep 2009

Why Are Buddhas Also Bodhisattvas?

23 Aug 2012

Verse On Dangerous Paths

13 Jul 2017

Was The Buddha-To-Be Heartless Or ‘Heartful’?

19 Jul 2011

‘The Cove’ Of Hidden Bloody Truths

26 Jul 2011

A Buddhist Gratitude & Repentance Prayer

30 Dec 2015

Verses On Food (2)

5 Sep 2018

What Should ‘New’ House Owners Do?

11 Jun 2019

Self-Destruction

13 Dec 2010

When Is Generosity Not So Good?

24 Jun 2015

The ‘Go Drink Tea’ Koan (‘吃茶去’的公案)

19 Jan 2016

What Is Extreme About Veganism?

18 Jan 2014

Advice

28 Dec 2012

Are You Attached To Superstars?

6 Feb 2014

How News Can Destroy Peace Of Mind

12 Feb 2020

Should Buddhists Help Deviant ‘Buddhist’ Groups?

24 Nov 2015

The Compassionate Captain’s Skilful Means

19 Jul 2011

How Should I Handle Unwanted Consumables?

16 Oct 2013

Can Practising The Good Dharma Create Bad Karma?

10 Jan 2011

Lost & Found

9 Jan 2013

Are All Religions the Same?

10 Nov 2010

How To Repent For Disrespect?

18 Sep 2013

Pleasure Versus Bliss

19 Aug 2010

How An Abandoned Parent Taught His Children

12 Jun 2019

Ryuk Returns With His ‘Death Note’ (2017)

6 Sep 2017

An Easy Way To Say ‘Thanks, But No Thanks’

3 Nov 2010

Where Are The 17 Arhats?

13 Jul 2017

The Power Of Mindfulness Of Buddha

17 May 2012

Guru Rinpoche & Lama Tsongkhapas’s Exhortation To Reach Pure Land

15 Oct 2015

What If I Lack Time For Buddhist Classes?

25 Jun 2019

Anger Management Tips

2 Dec 2010

How Two Brothers Reached Pure Land

21 Nov 2012

How Can I Overcome My Shyness?

14 Feb 2014

Wellness

21 Jun 2019

Respite Haiku

28 Dec 2019

Are The Enlightened Around Us Now?

12 Nov 2014

Terminators ‘R’ Us? (Review Of ‘Terminator Salvation’)

15 Jul 2015

Should One’s Past Form Be Seen As Empty?

2 Aug 2017

Readjust ‘The Adjustment Bureau’

24 Aug 2011

Secret to Longevity

4 Sep 2010

What Are The Most Relevant & Lasting Buddhist Teachings?

11 Oct 2017

Eclipse Haiku

13 Jul 2019

Must Payback of Karmic Debts Be Complete for Enlightenment?

12 Oct 2010

How To Lessen Suffering Of Animals

7 Dec 2017

Verse On River

31 Oct 2017

Is It Possible To Fire With Compassion?

31 Oct 2017

Are There Many Monastics In Hell?

19 Oct 2019

Dinner Haiku

5 Mar 2015

Attainment Without Attachment

19 Jul 2011

The Noble Abstain From False, Divisive, Harsh & Frivolous Speech

8 May 2019

Mind Like Space

28 Aug 2015

Be More Mindful Of The Ocean Not Its Waves

1 Jan 2019

Disappointment

15 Mar 2013

An Often Hungry Arhat Meets A Well Fed Elephant

14 Feb 2014

Verses On Water

17 Oct 2018

Focus Haiku

23 Nov 2016

How To Not Sleepwalk Through Life

18 Apr 2019

Cause & Effect Haiku

25 Nov 2014

Foremost Path To Buddhahood

8 Apr 2015

What Happens After Suicide & How Can We Help?

10 Aug 2015

Are There Buddhist Wealth Gods?

11 Feb 2020

How To Handle Attachment To Mementoes

25 Sep 2013

It Is Love

24 Sep 2014

Why Tezuka’s ‘Buddha’ Is No Buddha

3 Dec 2014

Craziness Haiku

18 Nov 2014

Should Buddhists Fear God?

13 Jul 2017

Subduing Anger

10 Aug 2012

Verses On Moral Shame

22 Aug 2018

How To Better Interest Others In The Dharma

18 Jul 2018

Be Mindful Of Precepts To Be Near The Path 念戒近道

25 Jul 2020

How To Spiritualise The Worldly Five Desires

13 Jul 2017

What Are You Practising Mindfulness For?

3 Aug 2016

Discard What You Don’t Need

19 Oct 2019

Self-Reflection

16 Oct 2013

Your Money Or Your Self?

24 Jul 2017

Did The Buddha Ordain Without Parental Consent?

24 Dec 2012

Brace Haiku

17 Apr 2020

Guidance To A Possibly Dying Man

16 Nov 2016

The Free Mind

14 Dec 2011

The Hitter And The Hit

4 Jul 2018

Away With The Dirt!

4 Jan 2016

Can We Take Refuge On Behalf Of The Deceased?

1 Jan 2019

Eat Clean With Your Whole Heart

30 Oct 2019

Eradicate Bad Minds

24 Jan 2020

The Emptiness & Interrelatedness in Recycling

18 Mar 2010

Throwing Away the Four Notions in the Diamond Sutra

26 Mar 2010

How To (Not) See The Attractive?

28 Jun 2017

What Does It Mean To Be Awakened?

18 May 2016

Should Buddhists Have Kids?

27 May 2017

How Broadening Our Mind Alleviates Pain

30 Oct 2009

Change Haiku

23 Sep 2015

Fear Death Now

3 Jun 2015

How Do You Tame Your Six ‘Animals’?

25 Oct 2018

Attainment Of Non-Attainment

31 Oct 2011

Inscription On ‘Song Of The Mind And Fate’ 题心命歌

5 May 2021

If Not Now?

19 Jul 2010

An ‘Avatar’ for All the Oppressed

22 Dec 2009

Two Proven Pain-Free Solutions For Meditators

2 May 2012

The Pure Land Path Is For Everyone

2 Jan 2013

Just Your Thinking So Does Not Make It So

19 Dec 2018

Verse On Straightness

13 Jun 2017

Some Dharma Depths In ‘The Shallows’?

15 Mar 2017

Be Ever More Sober

27 Sep 2018

All Lies Of The ‘Allied’?

19 Dec 2018

Best Haiku

18 Aug 2015

Higher Ground

5 Apr 2014

The Upholding, Breaking & Restoring Of Precepts

25 Sep 2013

The Significance of Tibetan Stupas

28 Feb 2011

Does ‘Acting’ Bad Create Bad Karma?

19 Sep 2014

‘Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation’ Of Undercover ‘Bodhisattvas & Maras’?

27 Dec 2015

The Two Dimensions of Reality

5 Nov 2009

Of Loving-Kindness To Our Tiny Friends

29 Jun 2016

That Taught Are Without Differences 教诲无差

19 Jun 2020

Short Yet Big Lessons From ‘The Big Short’

18 May 2017

At The Beginning, Middle And End Of Meditation

16 Aug 2012

The Man Who Killed His Herd

7 Mar 2011

Painting Haiku

21 Sep 2019

Differences Of Refuge And Respect

11 Oct 2011

Learning Haiku

13 Apr 2018

Cherry Blossoms Haiku

18 Jan 2016

Blame Haiku

19 Apr 2018

To Love Perfectly

22 Nov 2010

Who Is The ‘Genius’ Behind Good Books?

16 Feb 2017

All Sentient Beings Love Their Lives

13 Dec 2017

Attention Haiku

25 Jan 2017

Where Is Freedom?

16 Aug 2019

Am I Obsessed About Buddhism?

25 Oct 2012

Speculations & Hallucinations?

20 Oct 2010

‘Ted 2’ (Too) Is Sentient?

18 Jan 2016

True Haiku

7 Apr 2018

Greatest Precept

19 May 2010

An Imaginary Movie On Water Ghosts’ Origins

27 Sep 2018

Verse On Walking Down

18 May 2017

How To Be Inexhaustible Joyful Lamps Of The Dharma

10 Jan 2013

Do Your ‘Big Eyes’ See These Truths?

27 May 2015

Book Haiku

13 Dec 2016

Verse On Fruit

18 Oct 2017

Why Some Love Stories Break Your Heart

14 Nov 2011

Every Bit Counts

6 Oct 2009

Demons

5 Feb 2013

Patient & Sincere Efforts

25 Jul 2015

Demonisation & Idealisation

25 Oct 2010

The Universal Past, Present & Future Key To Liberation

4 Apr 2012

[A] Did the Buddha Teach The Dharma-Ending Age To Discourage Us? 佛陀的末法教理是要我们气馁吗？

25 Jul 2019

Growing Up In ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’

13 Jan 2017

How a Monk Failed a Temptation

12 Nov 2009

Should I Learn Yoga Before Buddhism?

11 Feb 2018

‘She’s Funny That Way’, How She’s Connected To Others

7 Sep 2020

How Buddhists Can Prevent Harm From Black Magic

23 Jun 2014

What Are Supreme Offerings To All Buddhas

3 Jun 2015

Heavenly Demons Disturbing The Buddha 天魔娆佛

12 Mar 2021

Rage Haiku

3 May 2013

Why Do Buddhists Practise Fasting?

7 Jul 2020

Ego Haiku

8 Aug 2020

Where Did This Anger Come From?

13 Dec 2016

Do You Always Get What You Think Of?

14 Nov 2011

How To Avoid Supernatural Disturbances And Curses? 如何不撞鬼中邪？

27 May 2021

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Desires’ Fire Burns Oneself 色欲障道

7 May 2021

Walking The Tiger’s Path

31 May 2012

Binge Haiku

5 Feb 2013

Should Birthdays Be Celebrated With Meat Feasts?

26 Apr 2019

How We Almost Entered Darkness

6 Mar 2019

Are You Mindful Of Your Spiritual ‘Superstar’?

16 Jan 2012

Right Contemplation To Resist Lust 正观敌色

5 Feb 2021

How Is The Threefold Refuge Both Vows & Precepts?

6 Apr 2020

Can Animal Experimentation Be Alright?

23 Jan 2019

Giving Little Gains Much 施少得多

16 Jan 2019

Woe & Bliss

16 May 2019

The True Meaning of Letting Go & Being At Ease

7 Oct 2010

Do You Need A Happy Buddhist Card?

3 Nov 2010

Why Are There No Souls?

10 Feb 2015

Exaggerated Worth

7 Oct 2010

Gratitude

6 Jul 2013

Waste Haiku

3 Jun 2015

Take Ultimate Refuge

25 Aug 2010

The Discourse On The Heart Of Perfection Of Wisdom (Prajñā Pāramitā Hṛdaya Sūtra; The Heart Sūtra)

11 Jan 2014

How A Great Master Repented Slander Of The Mahāyāna Teachings 大师如何忏悔诽谤大乘教理？

28 Nov 2019

Verse On Dustless Roads

5 Jul 2017

True Paradox

8 Apr 2010

How Buddhas And Bodhisattvas Use Innumerable Manifestation Bodies To Deliver Sentient Beings At The Same Time 佛菩萨如何以千百亿化身同时度众生

2 Jun 2021

What To Chant Before Buddha & Bodhisattva Images?

28 Mar 2018

Should The Kind Be Made Use Of?

14 Nov 2012

From ‘Mood Indigo’ To Mood Mono?

13 Sep 2016

Are You Waiting For Your ‘Guru’ To Find You?

13 Sep 2017

Burn Haiku

8 May 2016

How Dairy Cows & Veal Calves Suffer

6 Feb 2020

Don’t Generalise

29 Apr 2010

Perfect Thought

6 Dec 2011

Zen Master’s Perspective Of The Pure Land Teachings

23 Mar 2011

Effects Of Ten Unwholesome (Evil) Karmic Paths (十恶业道)

13 Nov 2019

The Perfect Problem of Being Perfectionist

19 Nov 2009

Make-Up Haiku

12 Jun 2015

Why Choose Sickness Over Indulgence?

30 Dec 2020

Is There A God Who Allows Suffering?

13 Apr 2016

Grave Admonition Against Slander Of Pure Land Practice

20 Nov 2013

Music Haiku

26 Apr 2013

How To Explain, End And Prevent Mass Hysteria?

30 Nov 2016

Samantabhadra & Manjusri Bodhisattvas’ Greatest Dedication Of Merits

14 Mar 2019

Why The Inconceivable Is Not The Impossible

13 Jan 2015

How Egg-Bearing & Meat Chickens & Chicks Suffer

26 Dec 2019

No Right Or Wrong?

6 Jan 2011

Same Old Same Old? What’s New?

10 Aug 2011

Bodhicitta Haiku

10 Aug 2015

Is There Predestinated Fate?

3 Apr 2019

Three Degrees of Courage for Arousing Bodhicitta

3 Jan 2012

Verse On Full Filiality

18 Jan 2016

Taste Flavours As They Are

5 Jul 2017

Verses On Food (1)

29 Aug 2018

Why Dread Karmic Retribution?

22 Sep 2020

With One Recitation Of Āmítuófó Driving Out A Ferocious Possessing Ghost 一声阿弥陀佛驱赶附体猛鬼

13 May 2021

The Glass Is Already Broken

4 Oct 2018

Verse On Adornment

24 Feb 2016

Rest Haiku

22 Dec 2014

Horizon Haiku

12 Feb 2019

How To Sabotage Yourself In This & Future Lives

23 May 2015

Was The Buddha Reluctant To Teach?

25 Jul 2011

Should Buddhists Take Their Time Spiritually?

2 Jan 2020

Choose Life, According To ‘Trainspotting’?

11 Apr 2020

As ‘I’ Am

7 Mar 2011

‘Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice’ After Clarification!

6 Apr 2016

I’m Taking A Ride With My Best Friend

6 Jun 2019

Verse On Cultivation

11 Feb 2018

Are You Causing Suffering With Speciesism?

31 Jul 2019

Do Plants Feel Pain?

4 Feb 2015

Is He A True Buddhist ‘Teacher’?

15 Mar 2017

How To Know If The Buddha Teaches The Truth?

31 May 2012

Not Fully Adequate

26 Mar 2010

How The Buddha Enjoys Wonderful Scenery

30 Aug 2012

Gold Standard Test

16 Jan 2012

How Should Buddhists View Astrology?

13 Jan 2017

Who Has Been To Pure Land & Back?

6 Jun 2012

A Buddhist By Any Other Name Is Just As Buddhist?

23 Mar 2011

The Cross-Manifestations of Buddhas, Bodhisattvas & Gods?

10 Nov 2010

Introduction To ‘The Three Great Essentials When Approaching Death’《临终三大要》序文

10 Mar 2021

Reasoning For Self To Fundamentally Be Empty 推我本空

11 Jun 2021

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Rely Only On Those Superior In Morality & Understanding

11 Oct 2017

One Way To Understand ‘Two’ Kinds Of Impermanence

19 Nov 2018

The Flower Adornment & Immeasurable Life Sūtras’ Verses For Breaking Free From Hell《华严经》与《无量寿经》之《破地狱偈》

11 Dec 2018

‘A Land Imagined’ With Labour & Loss?

8 May 2019

How Does Karmic Retribution Exact Itself?

27 Mar 2019

Ancient Symbiotic Relationship Of Monastics & Laity

23 Jan 2019

[1] How To Most Greatly Benefit From All

4 Dec 2018

‘Clash Of The Titans’ (2010) & Humans

7 Apr 2010

We Need More Practice

1 Oct 2015

Verse On Not Forgetting 莫忘偈

27 Feb 2019

Silence Haiku

23 May 2015

Twin Wings

4 Aug 2015

Circle Haiku

24 Mar 2015

‘Inception’ Of Some Ideas For Awakening

13 Dec 2010

Worry Haiku

27 May 2016

Ego

29 Nov 2019

Was The Buddha A Free-Thinker?

11 Nov 2010

The Miraculous Tooth

3 May 2013

Changing Karmic Affinities

27 Jan 2010

Right Haiku

27 Jan 2015

Deadline Haiku

28 Nov 2013

How To Clean A Buddha Statue?

5 Sep 2018

Serious Haiku

17 Mar 2015

Brilliant Moon of Compassion and Wisdom

5 May 2011

Mundane Vs Supramundane Perfection of Giving

18 Jan 2016

Drop By Drop

17 Sep 2010

Truth & Goodness

13 Dec 2019

Why Veganism is Not an Extreme Way of Life

14 Jan 2010

Is ‘Revenge Of The Pontianak’ Justified?

2 Dec 2019

Practice Haiku

5 Sep 2018

Verse On Toileting

25 Jan 2017

Lost & Found In ‘The Sea Of Trees’ 在《青木原树海》遗失与找到自己

17 Oct 2018

What Does It Mean to Be Blessed?

7 Mar 2011

What Pure Land Here & Now?

1 Jul 2015

Disagreement Haiku

24 Jun 2015

Words Haiku

29 May 2021

Can Dedication Of Merits Solve Problems? 回向功德能解决问题吗？

3 May 2013

Supreme Offering 最上供养

3 Jan 2020

Is It Alright For Buddhists To Gamble?

15 Mar 2017

Donald & Charlie Talk About Love & Happiness

10 May 2011

Sunset Haiku

5 Sep 2012

Is Spiritual Practice Easier In This World? 在这个世界比较容易修行吗？

18 Jul 2019

How To Be Mindful Like A Wise Tortoise

12 Dec 2019

Are Buddhas Omnipotent, Omnibenevolent & Omniscient?

14 Nov 2013

How To Transcend Your Present Suffering Now

23 Dec 2015

‘Alien: Covenant’ Between Nature & Nurture?

17 Jan 2018

Can Buddhists Have Tattoos?

28 May 2019

What To Do For Exhumations?

19 Jul 2011

Can Buddhist Practice Cause Sickness?

8 May 2016

Have You Taken True & Total Refuge Yet?

14 Aug 2009

How Encouragement Now Transforms The Future

1 Nov 2018

What The Lotus Means

17 Nov 2010

Finger & Moon

29 Nov 2011

How To Explain Suicide To A Child?

28 Apr 2014

Should The Old Travel Or Watch More TV?

29 Aug 2018

Heed The Dharma

28 Jun 2019

Valuable in Relation

3 Jun 2010

Does ‘Laggies’ Lack Respect For Buddhism?

4 Jun 2015

Make A Low Career Point A Major Turning Point

9 Jan 2013

Is Pure Land Sexist?

17 Nov 2014

Are You A ‘Convenient’ Buddhist?

6 Jul 2013

One Dharma

4 Feb 2015

Verses On Joy & Suffering

8 Mar 2018

Verse On Marsh

10 Nov 2017

Honour Haiku

14 Dec 2019

Why The ‘Same’ River Is A ‘Different’ River

26 Apr 2014

Better To Observe Precepts

26 May 2014

Will Haiku

16 Nov 2019

Can A Buddha Shrine Be Low?

6 Sep 2012

Four Reliances & Four Non-Reliances (四依四不依)

14 Apr 2015

Contemplation Haiku

12 Sep 2016

The Love & Loss Of ‘Norwegian Wood’

6 Jul 2011

Does Chanting Lead To Seeing Of Spirits?

23 Sep 2016

Has ‘Terminator Genisys’ Already Begun?

15 Jul 2015

Terror of the Real Cheese Touch!

3 Apr 2010

Is Taking Refuge A Must For Buddhists?

29 Nov 2011

Kindness Haiku

12 Oct 2016

Always On Your Mind

29 Aug 2014

How Death Hinders Progress To Liberation

20 Apr 2013

How The Buddha-To-Be Saw The Four Sights

24 Nov 2015

Why Practise the Dharma?

7 Oct 2010

The Power Of Even One Word

27 Jun 2018

A Great Bodhisattva’s Buddha Mindfulness Practice

12 Dec 2013

Anxiety Haiku

1 Feb 2020

Are the Enlightened Among Us Now?

5 May 2010

Is There A Birthday Sutra?

17 Mar 2015

Better Without An Itch Than To Scratch One

13 Apr 2018

Moment of Buddha Mindfulness

23 Mar 2011

Ikkyu’s Poison

29 Feb 2012

Verse On Peak

18 Aug 2017

Do Your Fantasies Reflect Your Reality?

2 Sep 2010

Strength Haiku

12 Jun 2021

Patience Haiku

18 Sep 2013

Does Chanting Attract Spirits?

21 Mar 2013

Love Vs Lust In ‘Zoolander 2’

18 Mar 2016

How To Practise Repentance After Abortion?

11 Jan 2016

A Day Better Than A Hundred Years 百岁不如一日

23 Aug 2019

Best Haiku

26 Sep 2020

Are Prayers For The Distant Deceased Helpful?

14 Jul 2015

Calm & Clear Equanimity

23 Mar 2015

A Review Of Epicurus’ ‘Deadly’ Existential Mistake

11 Mar 2021

Focus Haiku

18 Jan 2020

Fire Haiku

10 Feb 2016

How To Handle Workplace Non-Listeners

19 Nov 2018

How Great Bodhisattvas Complete The Six Perfections

11 Feb 2018

How Can Niànfó Prevent The Worst Rebirth To Attain The Best? 念佛如何能免堕地狱而得生净土？

18 Mar 2016

Four Attachments

19 May 2011

First Class Devils For Sale

3 Nov 2016

[Full Review] What If You Are A ‘Tulku’? (‘Recognised Reborn Master’)

27 May 2015

Fragility Haiku

15 Mar 2017

How Should Buddhists Respond To Pandemics? 佛教徒该如何应对疫情？

6 Aug 2020

How Is Lotus Birth In Pure Land Possible?

25 Nov 2014

Impermanence Haiku

24 Jul 2017

Suffering Vs Blessings

1 May 2012

How Two Journeyed Into Darkness & Light

11 Feb 2018

Two Razors

6 Sep 2019

Verse On Tree

11 Oct 2017

From The Fiscal Cliff To The Spiritual Cliff

3 Jan 2013

Verse On Dharma-Speaking

20 Sep 2018

New Year Haiku

4 Feb 2015

Doing As Pleased

27 Jan 2015

Grief Haiku

14 Apr 2015

Why a Monk Didn’t Enjoy

31 Mar 2010

Not Truly Evil

14 Feb 2011

How Managers Can Have Right Speech

11 Dec 2019

Verse On Complete Precepts

13 Sep 2016

Perfecting the First Perfection

13 Dec 2010

Anger Haiku

21 Mar 2020

Deep Thought

15 Apr 2010

The Moon Wanes Faster Than Expected

8 Apr 2015

The Buddha’s Words On Loving-Kindness (Karaniya Metta Sutta)

27 Mar 2019

Does It Always Rain When You’re Without An Umbrella?

8 Apr 2017

Can Individuals Create Collective Karma Together?

12 Apr 2014

三宝偈 Verse On Triple Gem

19 Dec 2018

Is Picking Up Lost Money Stealing?

24 Aug 2013

With Every Breath You Take

18 Apr 2012

Essential Haiku

2 Nov 2014

‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’s Lack Of Logic On Balance

28 Oct 2019

The Middle Path Between Relative & Absolute Truths

8 Apr 2010

Protection & Harm

5 Jun 2014

Meet ‘Okja’ The Super Omni-Animal!

24 Jul 2017

Cool Heroism

30 Jan 2012

Be Not An Animal

28 Mar 2018

Complex Haiku

28 Mar 2018

‘The Rite’ of Passage to Hell Or Pure Land?

16 Feb 2011

Even The Poor Should Be Charitable

25 Jul 2013

Verse On Good Roots

16 Nov 2016

The Nine-Point Meditation on Death

19 Feb 2010

Ode To Guanyin Bodhisattva On The Rocks

6 Apr 2016

What is Holy?

4 Aug 2010

‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ (Or ‘Terminator’)?

7 Jan 2016

‘Poltergeist’ Reborn Or Released?

16 Dec 2015

Existential Chats In ‘Café Society’

19 Apr 2018

Wit Haiku

27 May 2015

Verse On Dusty Roads

28 Jun 2017

Can I Move House During The Seventh Month?

10 Jul 2014

The First Things In ‘Cities Of Last Things’

22 Jul 2019

Tame & Transform Your Raging Tiger

14 Apr 2020

Four Great Vows 四弘誓愿

29 Jan 2019

Not A Damned Thing!

15 Mar 2013

The Mani Man

30 Mar 2013

‘Bleach’ing Out Darkness Of Evil

8 Nov 2018

Why Are Plants Non-Sentient?

8 Mar 2018

6 Brief Universal Lessons

8 Nov 2018

All Sentient Beings Have Everlasting Buddha-Nature 一切众生佛性不朽

25 Feb 2021

Why Veganism Is The ‘Beginning’ & ‘End’ Of Vegetarianism

2 Mar 2016

Be ‘The Intern’ Of Dharma Before Death

30 Mar 2016

The Story of the Needle Versus the Knife

30 Nov 2010

Why We Should Ask & Answer Dharma Queries Well

4 Jul 2018

How Two Grandsons Married Their ‘Grandmothers’ 二孙如何娶祖母

31 Oct 2019

What Is ‘Beauty’?

4 Feb 2021

How Much Of Our Blessings Are From Our Ancestors?

30 May 2019

Why The Dharma Is The Greatest Gift

6 Apr 2013

You Can Outlive ‘The Age Of Adaline’!

20 Aug 2015

Bright Haiku

28 Feb 2014

This Moment

14 Aug 2014

Is The Thus Come One Gone Forever?

25 Oct 2010

Knowing Contentment

19 Jul 2012

Must We Not Eat The Kinds Of Animals Liberated?

30 Jan 2012

The Three Bodies Of Buddhas

22 Aug 2018

Verse On Firmness

15 Oct 2016

[1] Do Pure Land Aspirants Forsake Other Beings?

7 Mar 2014

Why Does The Bad Happen To The Good?

13 Sep 2018

Better Seek Your Self

6 Apr 2013