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Archive for September, 2020
Sep. 26 |
Do (what is right) (with) your (thought, word and deed) best (you can).
Sep. 25 |
夫为道者,譬如一人与万人战。挂铠出门,意或怯弱:或半路而退,或格斗而死,或得胜而还。沙门学道,应当坚持其心,精进勇锐,不畏前境,破灭众魔,而得道果。
— 释迦牟尼佛《四十二章经》:...
Sep. 24 |
[M]eat itself always derives from killing.If there were no killing,the lives of animals would remain unharmed.If there were no meat-eater, there would be no killer.— Shambhala King Pundarika(Vimalaprabhā: Great Commentary On The Kālacakra)
In...
Sep. 23 |
于诸佛净戒,护持如明珠。— 释迦牟尼佛《梵网经菩萨戒本》Of all the Buddhas’ pure precepts,protect and uphold them like bright pearls.— Śākyamuni Buddha (Brahma Net Sūtra’s Bodhisattva Precepts)
The...
Sep. 22 |
Question: Why should one be afraid of being reborn in a lower realm like hell if one does not remember anything from one’s past life?
Answer: If one knows one is going to hell later, one will be terrified now. If one is in hell...
Sep. 21 |
Dharmically, we have been reborn so many times already, that we must have all been of various species of sentient beings, what more races. Who is a ‘purebred’ then? There are no definitely inferior races; only inferior individuals due...
Sep. 12 |
As life is precious and short,choose your battles well —those against your ‘self’.
Sep. 11 |
沙门夜诵迦叶佛遗教经,其声悲紧,思悔欲退。佛问之曰:「汝昔在家,曾为何业?」对曰:「爱弹琴。」佛言:「弦缓如何?」对曰:「不鸣矣。」「弦急如何?」对曰:「声绝矣。」「急缓得中如何?」对曰:「诸音普矣。」佛言:「沙门学道亦然,心若调适,道可得矣。于道若暴,暴即身疲。其身若疲,意即生脑。意若生脑,行即退矣。其行既退,罪必加矣。但清净安乐,道不失矣。」
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Sep. 9 |
You will earn the respect of all menif you begin by earning the respect of yourself.— Musonius Rufus(Fragment: 30)
In order to support more easily and more cheerfully those hardships which we may expect to suffer in behalf of virtue and goodness,...
Sep. 8 |
Question: For sea burial, is it better to scatter the ashes, which seems to express freedom, or to drop the ashes in the urn?Answer: Scattering of ashes does not lead to freedom of the deceased, just as keeping ashes together does not lead to being...
Sep. 7 |
In the tight comedic scripting of ‘She’s Funny That Way’, the audience quickly realises how each person is linked to another. As a film ‘law’ of sorts, it is no coincidence at all, that protagonist 1 knows protagonist...
Sep. 4 |
是故弥勒,设有大火,充满三千大千世界,要当过此,闻是经法,欢喜信乐,受持读诵,如说修行。– 释迦牟尼佛《无量寿经》Therefore, Maitreya, if there is a great fire, that fully fills the three-thousandfold...