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Archive for March, 2018
Mar. 31 | As featured in the June 2018 issue of ‘For You Information’
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Mar. 30 |
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Mar. 28 | Nothing is
more complex
than simplification.
Mar. 28 | 畜牲本是人来做,
人畜轮回古到今。
若不披毛并戴角,
劝君休使畜性心。
– 普庵禅师
Animals [including livestock] originally were humans, [who have] become [them, as] humans and animals [are] reborn [as one another from]...
Mar. 28 |
我昔所造诸恶业,
皆由无始贪嗔痴,
从身语意之所生,
一切我今皆忏悔。
– 普贤菩萨
(华严经普贤行愿品)
Of all my past created evil karma,
all by beginningless greed, anger and delusion,
from my body, speech...
Mar. 28 |
净土十疑论
The Treatise On Ten Doubts About Pure Land
隋天台智者大师著
Written by Sui Dynasty’s Tiantai Tradition’s Great Master Zhizhe (538–597 CE)
优婆塞沈时安英译
Translated to English by Upāsaka Shen Shi’an (2014...
Mar. 28 |
Question: What should I chant if I wish to pay respects before images of different Buddhas (e.g. Medicine Buddha) and Bodhisattvas (e.g. Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva)? I only know how to chant ‘Amituofo’ (Amitabha Buddha; 阿弥陀佛).
Answer: If...
Mar. 28 |
‘Mad World’ (一念无明) accurately depicts of how the mentally ill, who deserve more empathy by society get more demonisation instead. Much more dangerous than the extremely rare ‘raving lunatics’, are the masses’...
Mar. 19 | The foolish imagine
the certainty of the wise
to be foolish.
Mar. 19 |
见乐著人,当愿众生,
以法自娱,欢爱不舍。
见无乐著,当愿众生,
有为事中,心无所乐。
– 文殊菩萨
(华严经: 净行品: 第80-81偈)
Seeing those attached to [sense] pleasures,
[reflect that] ‘May sentient...
Mar. 19 |
Confession: I do not find it necessary to walk the Bodhisattva path to help others, as there are already countless Buddhas around. It does not make a difference if there is one less. Attaining self-liberation as an Arhat is enough for me. I do not see...
Mar. 19 |
净土十疑论
The Treatise On Ten Doubts About Pure Land
隋天台智者大师著
Written by Sui Dynasty’s Tiantai Tradition’s Great Master Zhizhe (538–597 CE)
优婆塞沈时安英译
Translated to English by Upāsaka Shen Shi’an (2014...
Mar. 19 |
Question: How is it that the Buddha could have died at 80 years old due to eating spoiled pork?
Answer: Since the Buddha already announced the date of his passing at least 3 months in advance, he did not die of ageing or sickness, as he was in total...
Mar. 19 |
‘The Outsider’ tells a fictitious tale of how a foreigner (gaijin) joined a yakuza gang, rising in its ranks to be its most ‘honourable’ leader. Often the case, such stories depict the fierce sense of ‘honour’ among,...
Mar. 8 | Only keep dissolving;
never hardening
the ‘solid’ illusion of ego.