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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?
Why Take Threefold Refuge & Receive Five...
[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 & 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 Dharma From?
Three Spiritual Diseases, Evils & Mistakes...
The Five Contemplations To Remember At Mealtimes
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 Urge Meat-Eating & Wine-Drinking...
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 Guanyin Bodhisattva Rejects, Accepts &...
How Death Hinders Progress To Liberation
Why The Dharma Is The Greatest Gift
How To See Impermanence Positively
Review Of Three Sayings From ‘The...
Commentary On Three Sayings From ‘The...
‘I Could (Have) Eat(en) A Horse?!’
What Do You Want To Be Famous For?
High Time To Transform Our Resolutions To Vows!
How To Be Inexhaustible Joyful Lamps Of The Dharma
From The Fiscal Cliff To The Spiritual Cliff
Should We Only Let Karma Mete Out Justice?
Can ‘Buddhists’ Not Believe In...
How Can Some With Good Karma Become Evil?
Should You Harm Others To Clear Their Bad Karma?
Are All Present Obstacles Due To Past Karma?
How Subha Gave & Gained Her Eye
How Not To Attend Dharma Activities?
How To Hold Infinity In Your Hand
How The Buddha Enjoys Wonderful Scenery
How Is One In All & All In One?
How To Enjoy Life More Fully
Why Are There Immeasurable Buddhas Instead Of One?
Have You Met Sam & Sara?
Can Creating Good Karma ‘Become’ Bad...
Do You Sit On The Special Subway Seats?
Should You Be Good For Goodness’ Sake?
Who Has Been To Pure Land & Back?
The Buddha’s Eight Remedies For Drowsiness
How Do We Recognise The Wise?
How Right Is Your Livelihood?
Two Proven Pain-Free Solutions For Meditators
With Every Breath You Take
The Universal Past, Present & Future Key To...
The Path To Non-Retrogression Starts Now
The Buddha’s Victory Over A God & Demon
Safeguarding The Buddhist Community’s...
Is Mindfulness Of Buddha Applicable In Everyday...
The Importance of Inter-Religious Harmony
Is It Really ‘Very Bad (Or Good)...
The Buddha’s Analogies On The Danger Of...
Should First Impressions Last?
Are You Mindful Of Your Spiritual...
The Unseen Power Of Karmic Affinities
More ‘Buddhist Question & Answers On...
I’ll Find Someone Like You? (A ‘Zeph...
Do You See The ‘Invisible’...
Why Go On A Buddhist Pilgrimage?
Why Some Love Stories Break Your Heart
The Compassion & Wisdom Of Relative &...
Are Teachers Reflections Of Their Students?
Are All Outer Evils Projected By Us?
Is The Ultimate Goal To Become Nothing?
Does Karma Go In Endless Loops?
You Are Always In Control
Is The Buddha Just A Man?
The Silent Yet Noisy Falling Tree?
The Middle Path Between Nihilism & Eternalism
Have You Washed Your Bowl Yet?
Is There Eternal Heaven Or Hell?
Did The Buddha Teach The Path To Buddhahood?
How To Attain Universal Freedom
Same Old Same Old? What’s New?
Is Enlightenment Gradual Or Sudden?
Was The Buddha ‘Reluctant’ To Teach?
Was The Buddha-To-Be Heartless Or...
A Misconception On Killing
Are You Sure You Closed The Window?
Map Of The Four Noble Truths
Are You An Outcast?
When Are Miracles Appropriate?
How A Dragon Girl Attained ‘Instant’...
What Does The Buddha Take Refuge In?
Donald & Charlie Talk About Love &...
‘Looks’ Like It’s A Perfect...
A Toddler’s Encounter With A...
A Brief History of the Love-Hate Relationship...
A Buddhist By Any Other Name Is Just As Buddhist?
A Human Survivor of Battlestar Galactica’s...
The Secret of the Buddha’s Smile
What Does It Mean to Be Blessed?
Hey! It’s Nothing Personal!
Does Thinking Something Bad Create Bad Karma?
Reflections From ‘Cleaning’ A...
The Banana Skin Syndrome
What is Your Totem of Reality?
Can Practising The Good Dharma Create Bad Karma?
Offering Of Greater Kindness
‘Inception’ Of Some Ideas For...
Should We Compare Religions?
Did The Universe Have A Creator?
The Story of the Needle Versus the Knife
Our Three Thousand Strands Of Frustrations
What If Plants Feel Pain Too?
Was The Buddha A Free-Thinker?
When is So-Called ‘Buddhism’ not...
Are All Religions the Same?
Is Buddhism A Religion?
The Cross-Manifestations of Buddhas, Bodhisattvas...
Are Buddhists Atheists?
What’s the Big Deal About Buddhism?
An Easy Way To Say ‘Thanks, But No...
Are All Religions Rivers Leading To One Ocean?
A Great Bodhisattva Recommends A Great Place!
The Four Harmonious Friends (Bird, Hare, Monkey...
The True Meaning of Letting Go & Being At...
The Laws of the Garbage & Flower Trucks
How Poor Students Can Create Poor Teachers
Will Any ‘Mantra’ Do For You?
How To Easier Accept A Loved One’s Suffering
How Inaction Might Be Evil
Are You Awake But Wilfully Unmindful?
Why Past Buddhas Are Still Bodhisattvas
Are You ‘Recycling’ Yourself Every Three...
Is There Tension Between Compassion &...
Why Is ‘The Laughing Buddha’ Laughing?
If There Is No Self, Who Owns My Karma?
How to Receive the Robe & Bowl
How the Future Buddha Began Practising Compassion
Good & Bad News For You
Have You Taken Refuge in the Inner Triple Gem?
Can’t They Imagine Them Being Killed?
Have You Seen the Buddha Yet?
Do You Have Any Karmic Debtees?
Holding On the Snake Before Letting Go the Raft
Are the Enlightened Among Us Now?
How Did We Fall?
Some Regrets About Some Relationships
The Fool’s Spoon Versus The Wise’s Tongue
The Middle Path Between Relative & Absolute...
How Students Can Become Teachers
How Were The ‘First’ Humans ‘Created’? (Part 2:...
How Were The ‘First’ Humans ‘Created’? (Part 1:...
An Easy Gauge of Your Good & Evil
Can a ‘Creator God’ be ‘Created’?
What Would the Buddha Do When He is Slandered?
Is It Better To Not Observe Any Precepts?
What If the Joke’s On You?
What Basic Integrity & Gratitude Should We...
How to Truly Live Long & Prosper
Why Veganism is Not an Extreme Way of Life
Walking the Physical & Mental Middle Path
The Bird That Flew Too Far
What is the Whole of the Holy Life?
When Teachers are Not Yet One with the Dharma
The Perfect Problem of Being Perfectionist
How a Monk Failed a Temptation
The Twin Criteria for Rejection & Acceptance
The Moon Cannot Be Stolen
Is Ignorance Really Bliss?
The Old & Young Monks Who Killed &...
How to Make Our Love Truer & Greater
When Best Friends Become Worst Colleagues
Are You a Moth Entranced by the Fire?
How to Bust Bogus Monastics
When the Truth is Not Enough
Courage & Compassion To Share The Dharma
Have You Taken True & Total Refuge Yet?
How to Easier Stomach a Pinch of Salt
Is Fengshui Part of Dharma Practice?
What Was Behind the Buddha’s Silent Answer?
How the Buddha Chooses What to Say
