How truly good can Parinirvana be if it is to be truly gone for ‘good’? — Stonepeace According to the lower schools of Buddhist thought, when a being, like Sakyamuni Buddha, attains mahaparinirvana...
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What Is Worthy
Spiritual cultivation might be difficult, but to face its difficulties is worthy. As this is worthy, it is not seen as difficult, but seen as good fortune instead. — Stonepeace | Get Books 修行可能辛苦，...
Another Golden Rule
Just as you love to think What could be done to help oneself, So should you love to think What could be done to help others. — Nagarjuna (Precious Garland)
A Lesson From The Forest
Whether we realise this or not, we are interconnected. When we realise this, we can interconnect more fruitfully. — Stonepeace In the Rukkhadhamma Jataka, a quarrel had arisen regarding water rights...
We Are Family
A being who has not been your mother at one time in the past is not easy to find. A being who has not been your father at one time in the past is not easy to find. A being who has not been your...
True Happiness
The ultimate way to True Happiness for one’self’ is to be the ultimate guide to True Happiness for others [i.e. to be a Buddha]. When one becomes a selfless ‘source’ of True...
Acceptance of Regret, Shame & Dread
To not regret over the regretable is regretable. — Stonepeace On one occasion this [elderly] monk asked the Dalai Lama for initiation into a particular set of demanding practices. The Dalai Lama...
Interdependence
Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence (interdependence) and are nothing in themselves. — Nagarjuna
Practise Now
Practise now. Don’t think you will do more later. — Dipa Ma
The Cabbage & The Cow
When generalised compassion for ‘all’ forgoes compassion for individuals, how can it be universal compassion? – Stonepeace In his 1999 book “Celebrating Everyday Life”...
Clash Of Desires
How can you aspire to save all beings from suffering, while craving to eat some of these beings at the same time? — Stonepeace | Get Books
Illusion Vs Reality
The foolish speculate about the truth, often settling for illusion. The wise investigate for the truth, only settling for reality. — Stonepeace | Get Books
How Even The Gods May Fall
That even gods may fall is a powerful reminder that merely doing good is not good enough. – Stonepeace Whoever has accumulated much merit, after his rebirth in the Deva-realms [heavenly planes of...
Perfect Happiness
Everyone wants happiness,but the true way to reach perfect happinessis to bring happiness to others. — Patrul Rinpoche
Why Are There Wars?
How can we wish for world peace for all our lives, while we wish to feed on victims of violence for all our lives? – Stonepeace A disciple once asked the Buddha, “Why are there wars? When will...
Flies & Buddhas
Where there are humansyou’ll find flies,and Buddhas. – Issa Editor’s note: And many other kinds in between!And all can become Buddhas one day.
Knowing When To Bow
Sometimes the disciple bows to the master; sometimes the master bows to the disciple. A master who cannot bow to his disciple cannot bow to the Buddha. Sometimes the master and disciple bow together...
Open Truth
Each molecule preaches perfect law. Each moment chants true sutras. The most fleeting thought is timeless. A single hair’s enough to stir the sea. — Shutaku
Does Meat-Eating Break The First Precept?
Question: When the buying of meat stops the killing will stop. Hence, how is buying or eating meat ever be in the grey area of whether it breaks the first precept? Worse than that, it is an attempt...
Guard Your Mind
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded. But once mastered, no one can help you as much, not even your father or your mother. — The Buddha
Nirvana Transcends Mind & Matter
If Dharma practice is for becoming ‘nothing’, it would be nothing helpful. – Stonepeace “… There is, monks, that base where there is neither earth, nor water, nor heat, nor...
Right Or Wrong
Though there is no absolute right or wrong in this world, relatively, there are some matters that are more right or more wrong. This is why we still need to propagate the Buddhadharma, to encourage...
Avoid Evil & Do Good
Abandon wrongdoing.It can be done.If there were no likelihood,I would not ask you to do it.But since it is possibleand since it brings blessing and happiness,I do ask of you:abandon wrongdoing...
The Intention Of Renunciation
True renunciation is to let go of attachment, aversion and delusion; not anything else. – Stonepeace | Get Books The Buddha does not demand that everyone leave the household life for the monastery...
Good Or Bad Dream?
We are caught believing in and living a dream reality,investing in it emotionally,unwilling and unable to see through itbecause of our own personal attachment to the dream,especially if it seems a...
This Good Season
Spring has hundreds of flowers, autumn has the (fullest) moon. Summer has cooling breezes, winter has snow. If without other matters on the mind, then is this human world’s good season. — Chán...
Can A Baby Take Refuge In Buddhism?
To take the Threefold Refuge unmindfully or insincerely is to only create an imprint with little impact. – Stonepeace | Get Books Buddhism does not accept the Christian notion of original sin, so...
Rejoice In Goodness
The doer of good rejoices here, rejoices there,Rejoices both here and there.He rejoices and is gladAs he recollects his own good deeds. — The Buddha (Dhammapada)
Paradox Of Discipline
Paradoxically, we need to be truly disciplined, to learn to be truly relaxed [at ease]. — Stonepeace | Get Books
The Compassionate Captain’s Skilful Means
Without the marriage of compassion and wisdom, there are no skilful means. – Anon Then the Lord [Buddha] again addressed the Bodhisattva Jnanottara: “Son of the family: Once a upon a time, long...
Past & Future Cause & Effect
If you wish to know your [karmic] causes in your past life, look at [the effects of] that you are experiencing in this present life. If you wish to know your [karmic] effects in your future life...
Not Rectifying Evil As Evil
For self-liberation, it is a fault not to address one’s faults. For others’ liberation, it is a fault not to address their faults. – Stonepeace 16. Chandragomin: Not correcting others...
Understanding Amituofo Via The Amitabha Sutra (8th Run)
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The Middle Way Between Hedonism & Asceticism
Birth in the heavens might be supremely hedonistic. Birth in the hells might be supremely ascetic. Birth in the Pure Lands is supremely the Middle Way. — Stonepeace | Get Books In India at the time...
The Four Reliances
1. Rely on the [Dharma] message of the teacher, not on his personality; 2. Rely on the meaning, not just on the words; 3. Rely on the real meaning, not on the provisional one; 4. Rely on your wisdom...
Non-Dual Form & Emptiness
If you’re confused about the outside, you’re attached to forms. If you’re confused about the inside, you’re attached to emptiness. To be free of form amid forms and to be free...
Don’t Give Too Much Too Soon
To give without wisdom is to share your delusion. — Stonepeace | Get Books We can give anything we like [for practising the perfection of generosity], as long as we do it freely and with pleasure. At...
Why Inner Hatred Is Worse Than Outer Enemies
If we truly realise how our defilements defile us, would we remain defiled? — Stonepeace | Get Books ‘The destructive effects of hatred are very visible, very obvious and immediate. For...
Buddhist Reformation & Rehabilitation Of Criminals
Rebirth is for reformation and retraining. ~ Stonepeace Buddhism holds the view that a person is good as soon as he refrains from doing evil. The Buddhist attitude towards criminals is focused in a...
What Does The Buddha Take Refuge In?
Be islands unto yourselves, refuges unto yourselves, seeking no other refuge; with the Dharma as your island, the Dharma as your refuge, seeking no other refuge. — The Buddha Shortly after the Buddha...
Discriminating Wisdom
When there is no need to discriminate, it is wise not to. When there is need to discriminate, it is wise to do so — with wisdom. — Stonepeace | Get Books
The Buddha’s Dharma of Plowing
The compassionately wise and skilfulfind opportunities to share the Dharmathrough every and any occasion. — Stonepeace The eleventh rainy season was spent in the vicinity of Rajagriha. Following it...
Four Attachments
If you have attachment to this life, you are not a spiritual person. If you have attachment to the world of existence, you do not have renunciation. If you have attachment to your own purpose, you do...
Did The Buddha Teach Fengshui?
Question: Is fengshui (geomancy) related to Buddhism? Did the Buddha teach it? Answer: The Buddha didn’t teach about it. Question: Is palm-reading and fortune-telling true? Answer: Palm-reading...
The Demon’s Costume
When the inner demon of self is exorcised, all outer demons are powerless. ~ Stonepeace In the country of Gandhara there was a troupe of entertainers known throughout the land. One year a famine...
Should Sick Babies Be Aborted?
Question: Some Buddhist teachers say those who engage in abortion, which is the killing of a human life, creates negative karma that is so immense that unless they repent and have remedial action in...
True Listening
True listening [to the Dharma] does not restin how much you have listened to your Master [teacher]but in how well you have listened. Even if you have listened well,you would benefit onlyif you can...
Sticking To Principles & Overcoming Bad Habits
Not doing any evil is good, but it is not as good as doing much good too. – Stonepeace ~ Good-natured, even-tempered people are more accommodating and can get along with others wherever they go...
Asking & Commenting
Asking one about a Dharma teachingwhen [this] one had not practised itis like asking a frog in a wellwhat one thinks of the sky outside. Commenting on a Dharma teachingwhen one had not practised itis...
The Story of Khantivadi Ascetic
Why live to expend positive and negative karma? Why not live to create positive karma to dilute negative karma? — Stonepeace | Get Books Once upon a time the Bodhisattva, leading the life of an...
Are Accident Victims Bodhisattvas?
Question: I read this ‘一般人认为遇到空难,水灾,车祸,火灾,地震,战争,或是其他各种意外死亡,就是横死,其实这是错误的看法.他们的死亡其实是代众生受报,因此是现身说法的菩萨,是以身命來给我们做教材的老师.我们应该感恩他们,并为他们祈福,他们都是菩萨,当然都会往生善处.’ Is this true? Answer: It’s not...
Take Offense?
If you are quick to take offense at those who are quick to take offense at you, how are you different from them? ~ Stonepeace
Levels Of Faith
There are different levels of faith. (1) First, clear faith refers to the joy and clarity and change in our perceptions that we experience when we hear about the qualities of the Three Jewels and the...
How To Stop Being A Snake
Why live to expend positive and negative karma? Why not live to create positive karma to dilute negative karma? — Stonepeace | Get Books There is a story about a man who, after he died, was reborn as...
Claims of Enlightenment?
“I command that after my [Pari]Nirvana, Bodhisattvas and Arhats appear in response-bodies in the Dharma-ending Age, and take various forms in order to rescue those in the cycle of rebirth. They...
Best Student & Teacher
The best Dharma student aspires to be the best teacher [a Buddha]. The best Dharma teacher aspires to be the best student [a good disciple of the Buddha(s), e.g. in Pure Land]. — Stonepeace | Get...
Best Spiritual School
As we aspire to enroll in good worldly schools in this life, why should we not aspire to be born in the best spiritual school [Pure Land] in the next life? — Stonepeace | Get Book
First Noble Truth
One must realise there is something wrong with life before wanting to make it right. This is the discovery of the First Noble Truth. — Stonepeace
The Dharma Today
The Dharma today is to remind you to practise what you already know you ought to! No theory today! Practise today! — Shen Shi’an (The Daily Enlightenment Book 1)
The Man Who Killed His Herd
As the precepts are interconnected in the spirit of non-harm to anyone, to truly observe any one is to truly observe all. — Stonepeace | Get Books Many years ago there was a man who had two hundred...
Emptiness of Matter
Ignorance apprehends its object as if it exists purely objectively… If phenomena in fact existed in this way… then the more carefully one investigated them, the more clearly those objects...
As ‘I’ Am
If I only perceive things as I am [according to my deluded perception], how do I perceive things as they are? By not using the illusory ‘I’ to perceive. — Stonepeace | Get Books
True Fragrance
What pleases the Buddha is not the vigorous waving of many joss-sticks but how widely you spread the fragrance of virtue to benefit others. — Stonepeace | Get Books
The Significance of Tibetan Stupas
Any ordinary ritual infused with Dharma meaning becomes a spiritual practice — Stonepeace | Get Books The Tibetan translation of the Sanskrit term stupa – chorten — is an interpretive one...
‘The Rite’ of Passage to Hell Or Pure Land?
‘The battle against the Devil, which is the principal task of Saint Michael the Archangel, is still being fought today, because the Devil is still alive and active in the world. — Pope John...
Not Truly Evil
One who can become good is not truly evil. One who can become evil is not truly good. — Stonepeace | Get Books (If even Mara can become a Buddha, there is no true Mara-nature; there is only true...
Direct, Deep & Personal Experience
The real meaning of the Dharma… must be directly experienced. — Siddhi Nagarjuna Personal experience is… the foundation of Buddhist philosophy. In this sense, Buddhism is radical...
Eating Salt
If eating or fasting leads to enlightenment, the greediest and the hungriest would long be enlightened. — Stonepeace | Get Books A long time ago, a fool was invited to a neighbor’s house to...
Learn & Practise
One who claims to know the rationale of a Dharma teaching, but does not practise it does not truly know the rationale of the Dharma yet. — Stonepeace | Get Books [The Buddhadharma is not just for...
Live Only In The Moment?
Question: I have read that one must live in the moment (活在当下), that one should tackle problems when they occur (instead of worrying and doing all sort of things now just in case the...
Dharma Work
Dharma work is to take some inconveniences upon ourselves to create more conveniences for others to learn the Dharma. — Stonepeace | Get Books
What No Longer & Not Yet Exists
To truly reflect on the past, one does so in the present. To truly plan for the future, one does so in the present. To be lost in the past or future, one has lost the present. — Stonepeace | Get...
Cherish Every Being
If you cannot care for a simple small being, how can you care for complex bigger ones? — Stonepeace | Get Books On this particular afternoon a fly fell into my tea. This was, of course, a minor...
Where Are We Based?
Question: Greetings! Could you tell me where is www.TheDailyEnlightenment.com based? Answer: Hi! The teachings featured in the website are based on universal reality, while the events and notices...
Middle Path Between Samsara & Nirvana
If Samsara appeals more than Nirvana, how are you going to be free? If Nirvana appeals more than Samsara, how are you going to help others be free? — Stonepeace | Get Books
Mindfulness Is Heartfulness
In Asian languages [such as Mandarin], the word for ‘mind’ and the word for ‘heart’ are the same word [心]. So when we hear the word ‘mindfulness’, we have to...
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Friendship As Middle Path
Between the dualistic extremes of strong love (attachment) and hate (aversion) is the Middle Way of spiritual friendship (with the friendliness of loving-kindness) — Stonepeace | Get Books
Small Is Beautiful
The most simple way to attain sufficiency is the best. The most complex way to attain excesses is the worst. — Stonepeace While the materialist is mainly interested in goods, the Buddhist is mainly...
In The Ears Of The Beholder
The raindrops patter on the basho leaf,but these are not tears of grief;this is only the anguish of himwho is listening to them. — Zen Saying
As It Is
Zen is the unsymbolization of the world. — R.H. Blyth
Okay To Break Just One Precept?
To occasionally break a precept is enough to prevent one from becoming a Buddha, as all Buddhas have perfect morality. While we might not have perfect morality now, the practice of observing the...
Perfect Dharma Practice
To know if you have perfected a Dharma practice, keep practising the Dharma perfectly. — Stonepeace | Get Books
A Way To Practise Buddha Recitation
Who you are mindful of (e.g. Amitabha Buddha), you will eventually be with (e.g. in Pure Land), and become (i.e. a Buddha) too. — Stonepeace | Get Books ‘”Holding the name” Buddha...
Freedom Beyond Mind & Matter
There is a sphere where there is neither earth nor water nor heat nor air, for it is beyond the field of matter; nor is it the sphere of infinite space, or consciousness, for it is beyond the field...
To Love Perfectly
Love those imperfect… because they can be perfect. Love those trying to be perfect… because they will be perfect. Love those perfect… because they are already perfect. — Stonepeace | Get Books...
Mind Of Equanimity
Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect the poise of the mind: follow the calmness, the absence of pride. ~ The Buddha (Sutta Nipata)
What The Lotus Means
Meaningful symbols, though powerful, are never as powerful as that symbolised. — Stonepeace | Get Books The lotus (padme) is an important symbol in Tibetan Buddhism and is commonly associated with...
How To Create An Island For Retreat
A spiritual retreat is to retreat from external distractions, to retreat towards internal Buddha-nature. — Stonepeace | Get Books When practicing on retreat, isolate yourself. First, drop everything...
What’s the Big Deal About Buddhism?
27 Excellent Reasons to Learn More about Buddhism: 01. The Buddha, being a perfected being of great Compassion and Wisdom, is not just a human being — He is a “Buddha”, a fully awakened...
Altruism Brings Courage
Altruism is a source of goodness for yourself and others, Medicine alleviating all troubles, The great path traveled by the wise, Nourishment for all who see, hear, remember, and contact it...
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TDE 4 Reader Spotted!
Seen at Buddhist Conference 2554 on 23 October: A participant reading a few pages of TDE Book 4, including ‘A Buddhist Ghost Story’… (TDE Book 4 was kindly included in the...
Is The Thus Come One Gone Forever?
If the Parinirvana of Buddhas is the end of re-manifestations to help more beings, they would not be ones with perfect compassion… Parinirvana is just the end of physical imperfections; it is...
Aunt Agony Here!
Question: As Buddhism practice seldom have cell groups, I am sometimes lost as to where to seek help when I encounter challenges in my daily life. Answer: I happen to run what functions like a cell...
Handling Those Unsupportive of Our Dharma Practice
Since Dharma practice ultimately is to benefit all, antagonising some with ‘Dharma practice’ is unbeneficial. – Stonepeace What can we do if our family and friends are not...
Not Turning Away
When you turn your back from one being in need,you already turn your back from Bodhicitta[your aspiration for Buddhahood to help all beings]. — Stonepeace
On Eating Animals
As you are shaped by your intentional actions, you are also what, who, why and how you eat. — Stonepeace | Get Books In the Mahayana sutras, Buddha advised his followers not to eat meat. Not only is...
The Purpose of Life
I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of...
Introduction to Animal Liberation
May all beings have free physical lives for freely furthering their spiritual lives. — Stonepeace | Get Books Buy animals that are definitely going to be slaughtered and keep them in large containers...
Should You Meditate for Supernatural Powers?
One’s supernormal powers are only as super in positive effect as one is super in compassion and wisdom. — Stonepeace | Get Books Some people are fascinated by supernatural powers and seek them...
Evil Spirit
The first malevolent spirit to subdue is not the one next to you but the one within you. — Stonepeace | Get Books
Drop By Drop
Do not make light of your failings, Saying, ‘What are they to me?’ A jug fills drop by drop. So the fool becomes full of folly. Do not belittle your virtues, Saying, ‘They are...
How to Seek a Good Teacher
The best teacher not only shares the Dharma, the best teacher also embodies the Dharma. – Stonepeace Without acquiring some wisdom and knowing true Dharma from false Dharma, trying to practise with...
Truth Beyond Rationalisation
One who rationalises so-called truths for others out of devotion has less devotion to the real truth. — Stonepeace
The Heart Of The Heart Sutra
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True Enlightened Love
Even true love [of the enlightened] has one condition – it must be truly unconditional. – Stonepeace
Do Your Fantasies Reflect Your Reality?
The watcher of the mind masters it. The wanderer of the mind is enslaved by it. – Stonepeace If our real stories are considered to be a waste of time in meditation, then a fantasy must be an...
Water of Greed, Fire of Hate
Toward our friends and those we love run the waters of attachment, toward our enemies burns the fire of anger; in the obscurity of ignorance, we lose sight of what should be abandoned and what should...
Why Buddha Mindfulness?
To be mindful of a Buddha without is to align with one’s Buddha-nature within. – Stonepeace
How the Buddha’s Attendant Became Enlightened
All we need to let go of is attachment, aversion and delusion, so as to realise generosity, loving-kindness and wisdom. — Stonepeace | Get Books You know the story of Ananda, the Buddha’s...
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What is Holy?
Holiness is simply the coming together of great compassion and great wisdom. [It is nothing mystical.] — Stonepeace | Get Book
Combining Meditations on the Four Immeasurables
The practice of equanimity is the equal application of loving-kindness, compassion and rejoice towards all beings without discrimination. — Stonepeace | Get Books Begin with altruistic love, the...
Spiritual Perfection
Spiritual perfection is the rendering of one’s compassion and wisdom to be unbounded by space or time. This is Buddhahood. — Stonepeace | Get Books
From Sentient Beings to Bodhisattvas & Buddhas
All Buddhas hope all beings can eventually spiritually evolve to all be Buddhas like themselves. — Stonepeace | Get Books You could say we are sentient beings working to become awakening beings...
Transforming Muck & Mire
The murkier the mud, the purer the lotus. [As the plant draws nutrients from the dirt.] — Stonepeace | Get Books
Voluntary Cultivation of Involuntary Compassion
When compassion becomes not just your second nature, but your first and only nature, you become a full-fledged Bodhisattva. — Stonepeace | Get Books Dalai Lama: (translated) When you have an intense...
Save Your Blessings
To gamble is to takeone’s blessings,one’s good karma for granted,to potentially squander it away.
Internalising The Dharma
Merely being near Dharma teachersis not enoughif the Dharma they teachis not internalised by you.
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If Not Now?
If the truth cannotbe realised here and now within,where and whenwithout can you realise it?
Why Pain Need Not Mean Suffering
The fastest way to transform your karma is to transform your perspective of it. — Stonepeace | Get Books Most of the time, we are indifferent or at least neutral to the sensations we experience. At...
Joyride
The joy is not in the ride, but how you ride. — Stonepeace | Get Books
Far Beyond Self-Improvement
The Dharma is not merely for self-improvement, but ultimately for self-perfection — such that selflessness is realised to benefit one and all. — Stonepeace | Get Books
Caring for Each Other (Medicine for the World)
Whatever medicines are found in the world – many and varied — none are equal to the Dharma. Drink of this, monks! And having drunk the medicine of the Dharma, you’ll be untouched by age...
The Right Way of Teaching Dhamma
One should always be mindful of the differences between learning, practising, realising and sharing the Dharma, and actualise the above as much as possible. — Stonepeace | Get Book ‘It is not...
Your Worst Enemy
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your unguarded thoughts. — The Buddha
Does the Buddha Advocate Inaction?
How could the Buddha actively teachif he ‘taught’ total passive inaction? — Stonepeace One day, Siha the general approached the Blessed One [the Buddha] and spoke to him thus: ‘I...
Use Blessings Wisely
While it is certain that we deserve our present blessings, it is uncertain how long they will be present [which is why we should use them to practise the Dharma diligently] . — Stonepeace | Get Books
The Importance of the Fourfold Community
If it is easier for one to practise the Dharma, one should practise more. If it is harder for one to practise the Dharma, one should practise even more. [In the Mahaparinibbana, the Buddha says,]...
Triumph Over Evil
No one can be reborn as Mara forever but everyone can break free of rebirth to be Buddhas forever. [This is how purity ultimately triumphs over evil] – Stonepeace
Valuable in Relation
Everything is valuable only in relation to something else — even one’s Buddhahood — which is due to Bodhicitta for everyone else. — Stonepeace | Get Books
The Supreme Excellence of Amitabha Buddha’s Pure Land
It is perfectly natural that all Buddhas will create Pure Lands. It is perfectly natural that all Buddhas will recommend the best. — Stonepeace | Get Books [Teachings from Machik Labdron (11th...
To See Virtue
If you want to see virtue [goodness][in oneself and others],you have to have a calm mind. — Suzuki Roshi
Honour What’s Relative
Instant enlightenment is possible only for those an instant away in practice. — Stonepeace | Get Books There are teachers who proclaim that the only thing necessary to wake up is to ‘just do it.’...
Greatest Precept
The greatest [moral] precept is continual awareness. – Atisha
The Dharma of Ikebana
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. – Tagore The art of ikebana began in the sixth century as flower offerings to the Buddha. The arrangements, created in the...
Everyone is A Stranger
If you are not open to the reality that people change, you will have stale relationships of your own making. — Stonepeace Jennifer Taylor is a Buddhist teacher who lives in Alive Springs in the...
Know the Truth
As the truth is true whether we realise it or not, it is wiser to realise it than not. – Stonepeace
How to Practise the Perfection of Generosity
The gift of truth is the greatest because it is the gift of both compassion and wisdom. — Stonepeace | Get Books In training in the applied resolve, the Bodhicitta [aspiration to help all gain...
How to Practise Diligently
To practise diligently, see each Dharma practice session as possibly your last chance to practise in this life — because it could really be. — Stonepeace | Get Books
Don’t Generalise
One who generalises the truth makes specific mistakes about it. — Stonepeace | Get Book
Overcoming Anger and Bitterness with Compassion
With selfish apathy arises no compassion. With selfless empathy arises true compassion. — Stonepeace | Get Books [7-step visualization exercise] 1. Think of someone who annoys you or whom you really...
Vast Yet Fine
Your view should be as vast as the sky,* but your conduct should be as fine as barley flour.** – Padmasambhava * All-encompassing without attachment ** Meticulous with necessary concerns
A Very Brief Introduction to Dzogchen
Not abiding anywhere in particular, where does one not abide in particular? — Stonepeace | Get Books In Western society the message of Dzogchen may come as a relief, particularly to those who feel...
Deep Thought
Deep contemplation is not to think a lot but to reflect upon and realise the essential. — Stonepeace | Get Books
True Paradox
True Love is truly paradoxical because it is truly conditioned by being truly unconditional. — Stonepeace | Get Books
Timeless Truth
An entire lifetime with no time spent to realise the timeless truth is an utter waste of time. — Stonepeace | Get Books
Why a Monk Didn’t Enjoy
Any pleasure enjoyed without awareness of its fleeting nature will lead to pain. – Stonepeace There once was a king who did not follow the Buddha but whose wife was a very devout Buddhist. One...
Not Fully Adequate
Others’ opinions of us are useful for reference because as long as we are unenlightened, our self-reflections are never fully adequate. Yet, our opinions of others are never fully adequate...
The Emptiness & Interrelatedness in Recycling
Recycling your materials recycles your blessings – Stonepeace While the modern economic principle of lowering costs and increasing profits seems like a model for economic efficiency, once we...
Realistic Results
If you practice fantasised methods, you get fantasised results. If you practice realistic methods, you get realistic results. — Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche
How Conscious of Your Consciousness are You?
All suffering arise from self-centredness. All solutions arise from selflessness. – Stonepeace A common mistake about consciousness is to misunderstand it (in secular terms) as some sort of...
The Real Magic
The real magic is not in the mystical but in the demystification of what seems magical. This is called Enlightenment. — Stonepeace | Get Books
Do the Worthier
Though it might be harder to do the right thing, it is correspondingly worthier to do so. — Stonepeace | Get Books
An Admonitory Funeral Speech
Buddha-nature as a pure potential is fully indestructible, while any defiled nature is fully destructible. — Stonepeace | Get Books At the cremation of a dead monk, Hengchuan said: “Each and every...
The Nine-Point Meditation on Death
Life is uncertain; Death is certain. — Buddhist Saying The Tibetan Buddhist tradition contains an extremely effective meditation on death called the nine-point meditation on death. It is presented...
How Best to Protect the Dharma
The best way to protect the Dharma is to study, practise, realise and share it. — Stonepeace | Get Books
Please Feed the Right Wolf
How you feed yourself physically reflects how you feed yourself spiritually. — Stonepeace | Get Books There was a story that was widely circulated a few days after the attacks of September 11, 2001...
What’s Left To Do
Since all the teachings have already been taught by the Buddha, what’s left is for us to study, contemplate, practise, realise & share them. — Stonepeace | Get Books
Changing Karmic Affinities
We can never truly lose any ‘thing’, while our present karmic affinities with people, places, matters, objects and qualities change. [If so, why not change negative affinities to be...
The Invisible Armour Against Aggression
Unfounded fearlessness leads to unbounded shamelessness. — Stonepeace | Get Books Normally we have so little control over our emotions – and we feel our vulnerability as a tight knot in our chests...
Mad Being Mad
It is mad to be mad at someone mad. — Stonepeace | Get Books Being angry is to let others’ mistakes punish us. — Saying
邪恶 | Evil
没有邪恶之人— 真正的邪恶是我们内心的无明， 让我们以为有恶人的存在， 让我们没发现真正的邪恶， 是我们内心的无明。 就是我们内心这集体的邪恶， 化现为我们看到的世界上各种形式的邪恶。 因此，也是集体的精神净化， 才能把世界从邪恶中拯救出来。 (1月15日 – TDE 1) There are no evil people— the real evil is the ignorance...
Let’s End Regrets
Since the slightest regret binds us to Samsara, spiritual cultivation is the process of resolving regrets. — Stonepeace | Get Books
分享 | Share
分享喜悦使快乐倍增，不是减损。 是个双赢的局面。 那就分享吧—何乐而不为？ 没什么好失去的—除了自私自利的不快乐以外！ (1月14日 – TDE 1) Sharing a joy is a happiness doubled, not divided. It is a win-win situation. Share then—why not? Nothing to...
人人处处 | Everyone Everywhere
任何人在任何地方做任何事情 都影响所有地方的所有事物。 一切事物的性质都凭着互相的依存 自身都并不存在。 一个人本身并没有什么， 因为他的存在靠着全世界的支持， 然而同时他自己一个也可以摧毁世界一大部分。 世界的存活靠每一个人。 我们每一个都扮演各自的角色。 你扮演什么角色？ (1月13日 – TDE 1) Anything anyone does anywhere affects...
内在真理 | Truth Within Oneself
如果你不准备 从你所在之处寻找真理， 你认为应该在哪里找到它呢？ 你越是在自己以外寻找真理， 真理就离得越远。 如果真理可以在自身以外找到， 最富最强者早已找到。 真理不可能在外头， 因为你那蒙蔽着真理的妄念在里头。 你只需要往内看， 去除你的妄念， 真理就在那里！ (1月12日 – TDE 1) If you do not expect to find the Truth where you...
妄念 | Delusion
你所知道的真理有多真实， 就看你的妄念让你看得多清晰— 如同满月的光芒有多亮， 就看遮挡它的乌云允许它照射多少。 不是此就是彼— 你要的是更多真理的光芒， 还是无明的黑暗？ 我们一直都在做这样的抉择— 无时无刻。 (1月11日 – TDE 1) The Truth you know is only as real as your delusions allow it to be— just as...
错误 | Mistakes
证悟路上我们可能会犯的两个错误— 不现在就上路， 似乎还有更好的上路的时间， 似乎还有很多时间慢慢上路。 不走完全程， 似乎别处还有更好的目的地， 似乎放弃会更好。 (1月10日 – TDE 1) Two mistakes one might make on the way to Enlightenment— Not starting now, as if there is a better...
地狱 | Hell
现在经历着“地狱”般的痛苦 并不是永远都留在地狱。 我们只是经过地狱。 尽管非常可怕， 但它也不过是漫长的学习经历的一部分； 通往觉悟路上的 漫长却“必要”的业的弯路。 你个人的地狱不是个人的惩罚； 它是紧急的警钟。 它是心灵训练— 你所受的艰辛度正是你所需要的剂量， 以你个人业报呈现。 (1月9日 – TDE 1) Going through “hell” now is not going...
抗拒 | Resistance
我们抗拒什么，什么就越顽强。佛陀从来没有抗拒魔罗，他让魔罗在他内心里浮起，向自己展开剧烈斗争。但是他能毫不畏缩地面对心魔。 重要的是，不要随着这一切而迷失自己。在狂风暴雨之中站稳脚跟，保持平静。一失足，你就会被旋涡卷走。如果我们每一次都抗拒心魔，那它们只会被压抑下去，日后则一而再再而三地死灰复燃。愿你今天就面对你顽强的心魔！ (1月8日 – TDE 1) Whatever we resists...
开阔的心灵 | Openness
跟一个朋友有了意见上的冲突，可是我及时恢复正念，在情况恶化之前止息了怒气，把内心的紧绷的情绪松开。这并没有什么了不起，如果我真的了不起的话，那么我应该一开始就保持正念，不让嗔心升起。...
简单的真理 | Simple Truth
静心。 照见。 观。 没什么束缚着你。 你是自由的！ —佛陀《法句经》 多么简单，却多么真实！《法句经》与其他较为复杂的佛教经典比较起来，相对“简单”。然而，它却能从无数的方方面面，在不同场合，以各种方法利益我们。重新探索吧！ (1月6日 – TDE 1) Quieten your mind. Reflect. Watch. Nothing binds you. You are free...
睁大新奇的双眼 | Wild Wide Eyes
我发现当我把眼睛睁得大大的时候，这世界看起来更加明亮，更加鲜明。你可别笑！你可能认为我们打从幼儿时期就应该发现了这点。但是我觉得这不尽然。 用一双新鲜的大眼睛看世界，就能给一切注入新生命。你不妨试用在你亲人的身上，以些许惊奇的心态，去看他们的存在，看他们从头到脚无限量的错综复杂的可能性。你会看到全新的他们。小孩子能享受无尽的乐趣，不就是因为他们总能睁大新奇的双眼看世界吗？...
相信 | Belief
某些东西，是我们误以为的信仰。 某些东西，是我们真正的信仰。 你真正信仰什么呢？ 你必须老实。 为了追求真理和真实的快乐， 你必须对自己老实。 你必须老实。 你真的相信自己骨子里是佛教徒吗？ 如果是，你做了些什么让你称得上是佛教徒呢？ (1月4日 – TDE 1) There are beliefs we believe we believe. And there is that we...
神奇 | Magic
随着年龄的增长，我们似乎越来越难以感受到周遭事物的神奇。我想，这是因为我们每天早上醒来面对这个世界时，总是有一股抹不去的烦闷，觉得我们“什么都见过了”。似乎再没有任何事情能让我们产生新鲜感。甚至亲密关系也可能变得毫无生气，让人难以承受。就连最好的朋友和恋人之间也可能失去共同的兴趣。我想，关键不在于寻找更多让人感到刺激的新的经历，而是觉悟到同样的老玩意儿大部分都已经够好了。...
菩萨道 | Way Of The Bodhisattva
因为完全地善待自己， 而体会到慈爱的无价。 因为体会到慈爱的无价， 而把它与一切众生分享。 这就是最好的善行。 这就是未来佛——菩萨，所行之道！ (1月2日 – TDE 1) The kindest thing you can do is to be so kind to yourself, that you realise the value of kindness so much, that...
正念 / Mindfulness
保持正念应当是不费吹灰之力，最自然不过的事情。然而对我们这些习惯了心念散乱的众生来说，保持正念可能是令人畏惧的差事。我们越是没有正念，就越加强化我们心念散乱的习性，那么正念的境界就更加遥不可及。这多么可怕！从此刻起，让我们都好好看护我们的念头吧。...
Honesty as a Spiritual Warrior
How can we face truths of the universe openly,if we do not even face truths about ourselves honestly? — Stonepeace | Get Books Becoming a [spiritual] warrior and facing yourself is a question of...
Purpose of Life
The first purpose of life is to realise the meaning of life. The second purpose of life is to share the meaning of life. — Stonepeace | Get Books
The Great Bliss Prayer for Birth in Pure Land
What greater bliss can there be, than to dwell in the land of bliss, that leads us to the ultimate bliss of liberation, that leads us to help others realise the same. — Stonepeace Wherever one is...
Most Endangered Most Forgotten
The most individually endangered animals are those deemed the least endangered by species — countless chickens, turkeys, fish, pigs, cows, sheep who are killed everyday. — Stonepeace
The Emptiness of Money
Craving physical wealth oils the rounds of Samsara. Accumulating spiritual wealth ends the rounds of Samsara. — Stonepeace | Get Books The basic difficulty, from a Buddhist perspective, is that we...
Ultimate Sacrifice
Sacrifice of precious things without is not the ultimate sacrifice. Sacrifice of useless defilements within is the ultimate sacrifice. — Stonepeace
The Efficacy of Buddha Mindfulness
If we are truly mindful,we will realise that mindfulness of Buddhais the most skilful of means that the Buddha ever taught. — Stonepeace | Get Books A friend of mine was once bold enough to...
Magnanimity
It is impossible for another to accept one’s apology if one does not apologise, but it is always possible to forgive one for not apologising. — Stonepeace
Is the Dharma Difficult or Easy to Realise
Easy or difficult depends on whether one’s method is right or not, whether one’s effort is enough or not. — Stonepeace | Get Books Lingzhao (early ninth century C.E.) was the daughter of...
Paradox of Rules
There are fixed rules, including the rule that some rules are not fixed. [The spirit of the precepts is more important than the letter of the precepts.] — Stonepeace
Three of Many Disadvantages of Anger
Anger is not only seldom productive; it is often thoroughly destructive. — Stonepeace | Get Books In fact, Buddhism says that acting out of anger is never the skillful thing to do. You might think of...
Weakness to Strength
The only one true weakness is to be complacent about our weaknesses. The only one true strength is to be diligent about transforming them to strengths. — Stonepeace
How Broadening Our Mind Alleviates Pain
To be fully enlightened is to have the broadest heart and mind possible, without losing sensitivity to the narrowest hearts and minds. — Stonepeace | Get Books Just as the Dalai Lama was about to...
Love All
How can one love all beings while one loves some beings’ flesh at the same time? – Stonepeace
The Legend of Princess Miao Shan
If living beings encounter weariness or peril, immeasurable suffering pressing them down. the power of the Perceiver of Sounds’ wonderful wisdom can save them from the sufferings of the world...
Full Awareness
As we are affected by our sub-consciousness, we should become as conscious as possible. Otherwise, our lives would be semi-conscious ones. — Stonepeace | Get Books
Perfectly Imperfect
This imperfect moment is the perfect momentto practise the Dharma,because if all is already perfect now,there would be no need to practise. — Stonepeace
It’s Time for Mindful Self-Examination
Mindfulness is the root of all the methods that tame the mind. First it focuses the mind. Then it eases the mind. Finally it is the luminous nature, beyond thoughts. — Patrul Rinpoche We should take...
Every Bit Counts
No good deed is insignificant, especially to the one who benefits from it. – Stonepeace
Mindfulness is Lesson One
If you are not even mindful of your suffering (by realising the First Noble Truth), how can you be mindful of the need to end it (by realising the Third Noble Truth)? — Stonepeace | Get Books There’s...
True Integrity
One who is agreeable to all on all matters will be disagreeable to some on some matters. — Stonepeace
Waves of Loving-Kindness
Why be grouchy when you can be neutral? Why be neutral when you can be friendly? – Stonepeace The meditation center where I teach is in the hills of the West Virginia countryside. When we first...
Hopelessness & Hopefulness
Due to impending (re)death, we always have little time. Due to impending (re)birth, we always have much time. — Stonepeace
The Guru Within You
If there are no inner gurus, outer gurus would not be needed to awaken them. — Stonepeace | Get Books Question: You said something… about an ‘inner guide.’ Could you explain that? Answer:...
Foolish or Wise?
If others are often more foolish or wise than you think, are you often more foolish or wise than you think? — Stonepeace | Get Books
Buddhahood is Possible
Even if Buddhahood is impossible, it is still the worthiest goal to work towards — to be as perfect in compassion and wisdom as possible. Since Buddhahood is possible, it is the worthiest goal to...
Rebuttal of Arguments Against Identitylessness
As there is self only conventionally, there is no self ultimately. — Stonepeace | Get Books (70) One might [mistakenly] say that in the absence of a [ultimate; substantial and thus unchanging] self...
Everyone’s Strengths
One has one’s weaknesses while everyone has everyone’s strengths. — Stonepeace | Get Books
Democracy with Freedom, Compassion & Wisdom
The only ‘restrictions’ that lead to greater freedom are the [moral] precepts. — Stonepeace | Get Books A democratic system based on freedom [and on compassion and concern for the well-being of all...
Not Different
The mind, the Buddha and sentient beings — these three are not different [because they have Buddha-nature]. — The Buddha (Avatamsaka Sutra)
Close the Gap
[If] you feel that there is some gap between yourself and the Dharma, then you [should] strive to make that gap smaller, to bring yourself nearer and nearer to the Dharma. – H.H. the 17th...
No Point in Being Dejected & Glum
The cause of happiness is rare, And many are the seeds of suffering! But if I have no pain, I’ll never long for freedom; Therefore my mind, be steadfast! — Shantideva So come what may, I’ll not upset...
How to Easier Stomach a Pinch of Salt
Since the workings of Karma are dynamic, so is your destiny dynamic. — Stonepeace | Get Book In the Lonaphala Sutta (Salt Crystal Discourse), the Buddha explained why it is erroneously fatalistic to...
Fastest Way
The fastest way to dissolve tension is to radiate loving-kindness. Even for great long-time enemies, it is still the fastest way. — Stonepeace | Get Books
Perfect Humanity
When [one’s] humanity is realised [perfectly], Buddhahood is realised [perfectly]. – Master Taixu
Don’t Mix Up
Assess a religion on the basis of its teachings. The deeds of its followers are a different matter; whether good or bad, they belong to individuals and not the teachings. Don’t mix up the two...
Not in Vain
Make the day not in vain, a little or a lot. However much the day passes, that’s how much less is life. Your last day approaches. This isn’t your time to be heedless. – Srimanda...
Proof of the Validity of Rebirth
A life without a past or future life is much more unbelievable than a chain of past and future lives linked to this one. — Stonepeace During his closing comments, Alan Wallace illustrates the need...
Still Yet Aware
Stillness with awareness is right, but stillness without mindfulness is wrong. — Master Yongjia
The Buddha’s Skilful Use of Supernormal Powers
To the wise, the Dharma is the true miracle. To the foolish, magic tricks are ‘enough’. Transformation of the foolish into the wise is the true miracle. — Stonepeace A rich merchant in...
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