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How Zeno From Zero Became A Stoic Hero
What Might Become Of Those Severely Lustful? What...
How Much Pure Gold Is There In Your Golden Rule?
How Giving Rise To Aspiration For Birth In Pure...
Can We Bring All Old And New, Good And Evil...
Should We Be Good Children To ‘Bad’...
Who Does S/he Really Love?
Neither Dirty Things Nor Good Brothers
How To Spiritually Deliver And Be Delivered...
How To Encourage Agnostics To Learn Buddhism?
The Second Best Story I Know
‘People Are People’, But...
Should You Hold A Living Funeral For Anyone...
The Essential Matter Of ‘Mind Over...
Is Hell Really Other People?
Why Are There Few New Buddhist Ghost Stories...
The Five Paradoxes Of Ghost-‘Hunting’
Should Bodhisattva Preceptors Buy Meat For Others...
Should We Stay In This Human Realm To Accomplish...
How Buddhist Teachers And Students Can Harm Or...
How To Advise Fault-Finding Buddhist Students?
How A Demoness Came To Be Named After Wisdom...
How Buddhist Organisations Might Decline?
Have You Heeded The Five Heavenly...
So-And-So, Quickly Escape! 某某，快跑！
How Much Time Can Transpire Between Tea And Pee?
How Should Buddhists Protect Themselves From...
Verses On Eating As Vegans 吃素偈
How The Extreme Might Think They Are Not Extreme
On Physical Freedom And Spiritual Ease In Pure...
More Mud, Less Lotuses
Verses On Natural And Man-Made Disasters 天灾人祸偈
Why Is Āmítuófó’s Pure Land The Most...
Is It Alright To Take Breaks From What Is Right?
Which ‘You’ Or ‘Another’...
The Dangers Of Living ‘Too Much’ In...
I Have No Time For These Five Poisons (What About...
When Mencius Met A King With Cognitive Dissonance...
The Two Steps Of Brainwashing
So, What Do You Eat?
Verses On Smelting For Gold 炼金偈
Can Great Bodhisattvas Manifest As Demon Kings...
Do You Wear Any Of These Masks?
Why Was Great Master Hóngyī With Sorrow And Joy...
The Easiest Way To Give Rise To And Fulfil The...
Putting All Before One With The Unsurpassable...
Do Not Mistake Ordinary Helping As Actual...
Forge And Fight For Your Fate, But Love Your...
From Eternal Recurrence To Timeless Liberation
The Four Stages Of A Demon Dance
What Is The Most Practical Form Of Buddhism...
The First Lesson(s) Of The Buddha-(To-Be) For Us
Tick Tock, Tick Tock, Tick Tock…
Three Key Points On Threefold Pure Meat 三净肉之三重点
To Whom Are You A Karmic Creditor? 您是谁的冤亲债主？
The Good, The Evil And The Pure 善恶净
How AI Tried To Vindicate The Creator Idea...
How To Be Confident In Reaching Pure Land...
Is The Four-Faced ‘Buddha’ A Buddha...
Who Do You Choose To Be?
To Kill ‘Em All Or To Set ‘Em Free?
Are You A Karmic Creditor Or Debtor? 您是冤亲债主还是债人？
Why Share Pure Land Testimonies And Learn From...
The Delusion And Reality Of The ‘Law’...
A Drive Out Of Stormy Weather
Six Dharma Reminders On Mistakes To Avoid
Does Astrological Phenomena Affect Our Well-Being...
From ‘The Snow Girl’ To A Vegan Baby
Will The Buddha Bless The Evil? (Moral...
From More Invitations To More Notices
Should Others Smile Or Cry At Your Wake?
How To (Not) Be Disappointed Repeatedly
Significance Of 12 Analogies In The Sūtra In...
Why Look For A Needle In A Haystack Without...
How To Overcome Bullying?
Wholehearted Mindfulness Of The Buddha Is...
Retributive Responses Of 23 Evil Habits 二十三恶习之报应
To Stay In This Defiled Land Or Reach A Pure Land...
To Attain Buddhahood First Or Guide Others To...
Some Physical And Mental Benefits Of Eating As...
Record Of Bright Eyes’ Mindfulness Of...
How Earth Treasury Bodhisattva Entered The Buddha...
Somebody, Please! Anybody?
The Buddhas And Bodhisattvas Are Always Smiling
You Can Always Control Your Interpretations And...
Are We In The ‘Beginning’ Pure...
Your Coffin, Urn, Tablet, House Is Not Your True...
How A Meditator Ascended The Highest Heaven And...
How Do Buddhas And Bodhisattvas Save And Deliver...
When ‘Bad’ Things Happen To...
Time Will Tell The Truth 时间会说出真相
How Should Buddhists See The Plant-Based Meat...
Mindfulness Of Buddha As A Universal Deathbed...
Five Sections On Patience In The ‘Sūtra Of...
The Buddhas Are The Best Friends Of All Sentient...
Where Should Buddhist Teachers And Students Be...
What Is The Best Way To Depart?
Should We All Fully And Strictly Uphold The Five...
All The More Should Pure Land Be Reached
From Schadenfreude to Mitfreude And Beyond
Am ‘I’ Thinking About ‘I Think...
Past As Prologue
What Is The Proper Buddhist View On Rearing Of...
Towards The True ‘Happily Ever After’
Six Serenity ‘Prayer’ Reminders
Are Humans More Frightening Than Ghosts? 人比鬼可怕吗？
Why Is Āmítuófó’s Pure Land The Land Of All...
What Will Never Deceive You
Appreciate Wabi-Sabi, But Don’t Fall In...
Beyond Ruffy The Dog And Meowy The Cat
Your Invincible Summer Despite The Changing...
Is Dying Younger More Unfortunate?
Why Did The Buddha Eat Horse Wheat? 佛陀为何吃马麦？
In Each One Moment Is One New Encounter 一期一会
How To Avoid Supernatural Disturbances And Curses...
With One Recitation Of Āmítuófó Driving Out A...
How Should We Lie Down When Sleeping And Dying?
How The Pure Land Tradition’s 13th...
How To Solve ‘The Problem Of Evil’...
A Review Of Epicurus’ ‘Deadly’...
Record Of A Venerable Identifying A Fake...
All Sentient Beings Have Everlasting Buddha...
Three Ways To Urge Those Doing Well To Learn...
Great Master Hānshān’s ‘Song On...
Right Contemplation To Resist Lust 正观敌色
What Is ‘Beauty’?
To Transcend, And To Transcend Transcending
Great Master Hānshān’s ‘Song For Awakening...
To Pull Or Not To Pull… That Is The Question
Mañjuśrī Bodhisattva’s Teachings On...
How Maitreya Bodhisattva Gave Rose To The...
Wáng Yángmíng’s Fantastic Encounter 王阳明奇遇记
How Should Buddhists Respond To Pandemics...
We Are Our Own Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
Are You Fighting A Viral Disease Or Viral Fear?
Three Ways To See Mountains And Rivers 三看山水
How The Buddha Relieved A Triple Disaster...
How An Angry Insulter Was Calmly Reasoned With
How A ‘Haunted’ Room Was...
Summary of ‘Practices With Ten Great...
How Can Wandering Spirits Be Delivered? 如何超度孤魂？
Is There Buddhist Minimalism?
Be Born In Pure Land To Be Without Humans’...
Sūtra In Which The Buddha Speaks Of Eight Great...
How Dairy Cows & Veal Calves Suffer
As Already Warned By A Great Master 大师已警告...
The Buddha’s Two Authorities Within Four...
How To Win At ‘Scissors, Paper, Stone...
Are You Affected by the Bystander Effect?
How A Great Master Overcame Suffering From...
Should Buddhists Take Their Time Spiritually?
How Egg-Bearing & Meat Chickens &...
How A Shocking Teaching Can Be True
How To Be Mindful Like A Wise Tortoise
Why Be A Lapsed ‘Buddhist’?
How A Great Master Repented Slander Of The...
Just Pour Away Ink-Diluted Water
Are You Plugging Into The Right...
How Two Grandsons Married Their...
Can Truths Be Invalidated By Disbelief?
[H] What Will Happen After This Dharma-Ending Age...
[G] What Will Happen To The Demonic In The Dharma...
[F] How Do Sūtras Disappear In This Dharma-Ending...
[E] How Is The Monastic Community Destroyed In...
[D] Why Even The Enlightened Cannot Prevent The...
[C] Did The Buddha Warn About The Climate Crisis...
[B] What Are 32 Signs Of This Dharma-Ending Age...
[A] Did the Buddha Teach The Dharma-Ending Age To...
Is Spiritual Practice Easier In This World...
How To Know Who Is Not A Buddha
Six Matters You Might Wish To Consider Now
Will Dharma Learning And Practice Create...
Have You ‘Signed Up’ For Spiritual...
Do You Learn & Practise Buddhism Sincerely?
I’m Taking A Ride With My Best Friend
How Much Of Our Blessings Are From Our Ancestors?
‘The Song Of Patience By Hánshān &...
How Bodhisattvas Should Always Practise...
How The Buddha Saved A Suicidal Girl
Have You Chosen Your Last Thought Yet?
How The Buddha Redirected A Precious Offering
Where To Meet Amitābha Buddha & Maitreya...
Should You Save Others Or Yourself First...
Does Śākyamuni Buddha Have His Own Pure Land...
Why You Should Be More Giving Now (Or...
Some Quantum Theories Of Pure Land Principles...
How To Have Thought Of Being Reborn In Pure Land...
How We Almost Entered Darkness
Do Sentient Beings Increase Or Decrease?
How Did Ignorance Arise?
Brief Remarks On A Brief Answer To A Big Question
What If You Are Reborn Here Again?
What Makes The Worldly Go Round & Round?
[8] How To Be Released From Attachment
[7] How To Offer Benefits To All
How The Future Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva...
How To Help The Deceased With The Triple Gem
[6] How To See Those Who Have Betrayed Us
[5] How To Handle Those Who Abuse Us
[4] How To See The Suffering And Insufferable
[3] How To Avert Harming Of All
[2] How To See Ourselves When Relating To Others
The Lotus Sūtra’s Verses For Breaking Free...
The Flower Adornment & Immeasurable Life...
The (Mind-Only) Verses By Forest Of Awakening...
[1] How To Most Greatly Benefit From All
How To Not Be Reborn As Animals
One Way To Understand ‘Two’ Kinds Of...
Which Of These Four Actions Do You Create?
Did The Buddha Ever Say The Disagreeable?
How Do You Tame Your Six ‘Animals’?
Which Is More ‘Allowable’ For...
Who Are Your Karmic Creditors?
How The Buddha Is Gone Yet Not Gone For Good...
The Easiest Ways To…
The ‘Three Provisions’ For...
How Can We Handle Our Jealousy?
How To Have The Ultimately Blissful Reunion
Should The Old Travel Or Watch More TV?
Can There Be Much Yet Nothing To Buy?
How Can A ‘Creator’ Be...
The Top 10 Buddhist Assurances
Can Faith In Any Deity Help The Dying?
How Not To Despair At Many Beings To Save
A Kid’s ‘Real’ Pain From An...
Doubt The Doubtful To Realise The Truthful
Why We Should Ask & Answer Dharma Queries...
Always Reflect On Your Thoughts, Words &...
How To Sleep Well Like The Buddha
Is Life Just A Lamp To Be Snuffed Out?
How One Who Slighted None Attained Buddhahood
‘The Week Of’ Expectation Vs...
The Girl Who Ate Too Many Lollipops
The Sūtras With Ultimate Compassion And Wisdom
Are You Ready To Face ‘Yourself’?
Craving To Have King Midas’ Golden Touch?
A Buddhist Retells The Myth Of Sisyphus
10 Reflections On Repentance
I Don’t Wanna Be A Bodhisattva Or Buddha
A Buddhist Retells The Myth Of Orpheus &...
Is Life With Perfect Order Or Total Chaos?
Do All Religions Share The Same Essence?
How Two Journeyed Into Darkness & Light
How Are Others’ Faults Also My Faults?
Why Do We Keep Practising Giving?
How About Being A More Buddhist Stoic?
Was That Truly A Buddhist Teaching?
How To Appreciate Blooming & Withering...
Should I ‘Lend’ Money To Strangers?
Do You Desire For More Or Less Desires?
How To Neither Meet Nor Become Mara!
Why Are Some Buddhists Not Monastics Here &...
How To Prevent Slander Of The Buddha, Dharma...
What Are The Most Relevant & Lasting...
Are You Waiting For Your ‘Guru’ To...
Why You Should Master The Pure Land Teachings Now
Does Good Triumph Over Evil?
Why Should I Help Anyone At All?
Why Denounce Precept-Breaking ‘Buddhist...
10 Stonepeace Verses On Good, Evil & Purity
Love Not Terrorism But Hate Not Terrorists
How To Spiritualise The Worldly Five Desires
Will We Face Obstacles During Buddhist Practice?
Should Buddhism Focus On Humans Only?
Are All In ‘Monastic’ Robes Beyond...
Who Did You Bury In Your Past Lives?
Be A Perfect Mirror
When You See Someone Dressed Just Like You
Why Do Buddhists Say ‘Amituofo’ So...
Do Not Be A Wild Fox ‘Zen Master’...
Who Should We Learn The Buddha Dharma From...
Three Spiritual Diseases, Evils & Mistakes...
Explanation Of The Five Contemplations At...
Does It Always Rain When You’re Without An...
Do You Believe In The Flying Spaghetti Monster?
Is It Alright For Buddhists To Gamble?
Transcending The Limits Of Worldly Philosophies
Should We Simply Act Upon ‘Good’...
Can A Parent’s Negative Karma Ripen Through...
Let’s Extend The Starfish Story!
How The Buddha Gradually Urged The Kindest Diet
The ‘It’s Nothing (Yet Something)...
How To Queue Alone To Lead Many
Can You Walk With A Full Bowl On Your Head?
The Boy Who Eats Too Many Sweets
Who Is A True Sangha Member?
Should Refuge And The Five Precepts Go Together?
How To Explain, End And Prevent Mass Hysteria?
Should Buddhists Eat Cows?
The Buddha’s Admonition Against Not Severing Lust
Your Suffering Is Always Your Fault!
You Do It To Yourself
We Are Still Buddhists, Not Yet Buddhas!
Why Slander Of Pure Land Teachings Is Especially...
How Should All Aspiring For Buddhahood Eat And...
Where Best To Go When This Life Ends?
Should We Kill Many Others To Protect Ourselves?
My Journey From ‘Hell’ To...
Does Smoking Break The Fifth Precept?
Why Avoidance Of Alcohol Is So Important
What Are You Practising Mindfulness For?
Why We Should All Attend Buddhist Classes
Of Loving-Kindness To Our Tiny Friends
How The Buddha Eventually Advocated Veganism
Why Do Buddhists Avoid Meat-Eating &...
Are You Ignorant Of Your Cypher Complex?
An Imperfect Student Seeks A Perfect Teacher
Can Buddhist Practice Cause Sickness?
Is There A God Who Allows Suffering?
Ode To Guanyin Bodhisattva On The Rocks
How Bridesmaids Meet Revata’s Ghosts And...
How Can Niànfó Prevent The Worst Rebirth To...
Is Collection Of ‘Blessed’ Amulets...
Why Veganism Is The ‘Beginning’...
Why A Monk Shattered His One Precious Bowl
How Do I Handle An Abusive Spouse?
Are You An Anger-Feeding Demon (Or Feeding One)?
Can You See The ‘Buddha’ In That...
Should You Be More Keen On Dharma Learning Or...
The ‘Go Drink Tea’ Koan (‘吃茶去’的公案)
Should ‘Buddha Candles’ Be Designed...
A Buddhist Gratitude & Repentance Prayer
How To Transcend Your Present Suffering Now
Introduction To ‘The Pure Land...
Can Buddhist Monastics Change To Lay Clothes?
How To Protect Mothers With Unborn Babies
How To Increase & Decrease Gun Violence
Should We Follow Only One Teacher’s...
Are Your Blessings Going Up In Smoke?
Can You Say Your True Name?
How A Monk Became A Bug
Is There An Almighty, All-Good & All-Wise...
How Do You Celebrate Your Re-Birthday?
Can Karma Be Created In Dreams?
How Should We Learn Buddhism Properly?
How To More Fully Observe The Five Precepts
Is Vegetarianism Of Secondary Or Arbitrary Value?
How To Be Free From Demonic Obstacles
How Is ‘The Dharma’ Different From...
Are You Committed To Being Committed?
How To Better Learn, Contemplate & Practise...
[Brief Review] What If You Are A...
How To Sabotage Yourself In This & Future...
Why Should I Help You?
How To Be Good Parents With Good Children
What Is The Meaning Of Life?
Should We All Monkey See Monkey Do?
The Body Candle & The Mind Flame
Does Being Angry Break Any Buddhist Precept?
What Makes Life Truly Moving & Wonderful?
How To Awaken Those Tricked By...
Are You The Hackberry Priest?
Are You Stealing Something Without Knowing?
The First Step To Improve & Perfect Your Life
Are The Great Bodhisattvas Real Or Not?
Can Buddhists Seek Fengshui Advice?
Why The Inconceivable Is Not The Impossible
Essence Of The ‘Sūtra Of Immeasurable...
If You Think YOLO, You Should Know YOLNO!
The Dharma In A Bowl Of Curry Rice
Why No One Truly Believes In Predestination
Does Hearing Amituofo’s Name Lead To...
Let’s Choose Compassion & Wisdom For...
Please Pacify And Liberate My Fettered Mind!
Can Buddhists Seek Revenge? (‘Out Of The...
Is My Teacher Testing My Patience?
Did Jìgōng Endorse Or Urge Meat-Eating And Wine...
Should You Avoid Intoxicants Or Intoxication?
Does ‘Acting’ Bad Create Bad Karma?
How Everyone Is Every Buddha’s ‘Only...
Who Am ‘I’ Really?
Are Your Eyes Windows To Your ‘Soul’?
The Lady Who Did (Not) Lose Her Beloved
The Nightmare That Woke Me Up
Are You Still ‘Tied’ Down?
Do You Have Karmic Affinity With Another?
Why Does Buddhahood Require Bodhicitta?
Are You As ‘Poor’ As You Think?
Should I Make My Spiritual Vows Silently?
A Water Offering
Do Good Intentions Excuse Bad Results?
One Buddhist Does Not All Of Buddhism Make
Why The ‘Same’ River Is A...
How To Be Good Dharma Students & Teachers
Can Individuals Create Collective Karma Together?
How Well Should You Observe The Precepts?
Are You Reborn Or Reincarnated?
How To Transform Lazy Excuses With Diligent...
A Brief Introduction Of Pure Land
Are Manifestations & Mediums Of Bodhisattvas...
Can Buddhists Chant In Restrooms & Bedrooms?
An Often Hungry Arhat Meets A Well Fed Elephant
Are You Attached To Superstars?
Should We Share Merits With Our...
Can True Buddhists Ever Be Converted?
Can The Bereaved Or Menstruating Visit Buddhist...
Why Is It Better To Give Than To Receive?
The Goat Who Laughed, Wept, Spoke & Died
How The Buddha Prevented A Bloody War
How Many Horses Do You Need?
Are Buddhas Omnipotent, Omnibenevolent &...
How The Buddha Consoled A Bereaved Mother
How You Can Protect The Triple Gem
Do You Protect Or Endanger The Great Lion?
Why Balance Regular & ‘Random’...
Is This Article Really Long Or Short?
Do You Have Any More Excuses?
The Buddha’s Advice For Vanquishing Fear
How A Deva King Defeated An Asura King
Why Does Buddhism Always Talk About Suffering?
Can Buddhists Be Time Travellers?
How A Great Beauty Realised Greater Beauty
Are You A ‘Convenient’ Buddhist?
The Fable Of The Father, Son & Donkey
How Karmic Power Overpowers Supernormal Powers
The Double Insurance Of The Buddha’s...
Can Dedication Of Merits Solve Problems...
How Guānshìyīn Bodhisattva Rejects, Accepts And...
How Death Hinders Progress To Liberation
Why The Dharma Is The Greatest Gift
How To See Impermanence Positively
Review Of Three Sayings From ‘The...
