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Dec. 12 |
‘Shirkers’ (2018) is paradoxically, a documentary on a movie titled ‘Shirkers’ (1992), that did not come fully into being. The result is a full film on a half film, a film within a film, on love of films and filmmaking. Even though...
Oct. 4 |
吾今来此世界八千返,
为此娑婆世界,
坐金刚华光王座。
– 释迦牟尼佛
《梵网经菩萨戒本》
I now [have] come [to] this world [for the] eight thousandth return, for this Sahā World[‘s sentient beings], sitting...
Aug. 22 |
Knowing exactly
what one needs
requires wisdom.
– Shilashanti
In an overheard conversation, participants in a tour group lamented to their guide that there is nothing to buy in the area. Surprised, the guide replied that the hotel they were staying...
Aug. 8 |
Potential is there,
yet as if ‘not there’,
if never actualised.
– Zhaojian
[1] We Have Great Potential: We all have Buddha-nature, which is the perfect potential to become fully liberated and enlightened Buddhas, with True Happiness. This...
Jul. 18 |
Pain is inevitable.
Suffering is optional.
– Buddhist Saying
At the clinic, I saw how a kid was dragged by his mother into the doctor’s room. When the door closed, almost immediately from the outside, some screaming could be heard. Perhaps he...