Category - Excerpts
With Shame Then Diligently Cultivate 惭愧而勤修
Abstinence From Flattery 戒谄曲
Far Depart From Confusions And Disturbances 远离愦闹
Cultivate Concentration To Give Rise To Wisdom...
Self-Encouragement 自勉
The Dharma Body Constantly Abides 法身常住
Swiftly Eliminate Arrogance 疾灭憍慢
With Few Desires Is Less Suffering 少欲少苦
The Four Noble Truths Are Eternal 四圣谛是永恒的
Illumination Of True Wisdom 实智慧之照
Pare Down Your Belongings
Four Sayings On Being Timely
Abandon Scattered Minds With Frivolous...
See Others’ Buddha-Nature (With Yours)
The Buddha’s Teachings On Women’s 84...
Desire Little And Know Contentment 少欲知足
Contemplating Knowing Contentment 观知足
Not Forgetting Mindfulness 不忘念
Contemplating Eating And Drinking As Taking...
With The Straightforward Mind Sever...
Dedication Verses For Printing, Upholding And...
Take Dharma Medicine To Walk The Buddha’s...
Make Only Veg(etari)an Offerings At Wakes 丧礼只供素食
Guard And Protect Against Anger’s Mind 防护瞋心
Make Only Vegan Food Offerings For The Deceased...
What Makes This Life Worthy?
To Live A Meaningful Life, Fully Fill Your Life...
A Spinning Coin
A Great Master’s Only Sincere Request...
What Does Your Life Expect Of You?
Be Morally Superior Firmly
Animals (A Vegan Slam Poem)
Keep Leading By Doing What Is Right
How To Stoically Respond To A Ghost
The Meaning Of Life Transcends Mere Pleasures
How You Respond Matters More Than What Happens
Now Is Forever
Rationality: A Simple Definition
Buddhism And Stoicism On Overcoming Obstacles
Life Is For Joyful Duty
Give It To Me!
You Have Your Now
The Future Buddha’s Gambatte Spirit Under...
The Most Wonderful Secret For Success 最妙秘诀
With Utmost Sincere Minds Study And Recite...
The Central Practicality Of Pure Land Buddhism
Many Evil Demons Will Claim To Be Enlightened...
How Buddhas And Bodhisattvas Use Innumerable...
How To Reduce Lust 如何减少淫欲
How To Transform Those Foolish And Arrogant...
Inscription On ‘Song Of The Mind And...
Bǎo Níngyǒng Chán Master’s Cautionary Text...
Introduction To ‘The Three Great Essentials...
Live Without Cold Spots
Everything In The Right Places
Even Great Bodhisattvas And Patriarchs Seek Birth...
Universal Virtue’s Practices’ And...
The Danger Of Arrogance Vs The Power Of Repentance
Go For That Easy To Get, Use And Keep
Why Choose Sickness Over Indulgence?
It Is Easier To Be Born In Amitabha...
To What Extent Should The Dharma Be Protected...
That One Should Disdain Hardships
May Your Compassion Be More Powerful Than Greed
Does Cutting Out The Organs Disturb The Mind?
Why Should I Attain Buddhahood Too?
Why Be Ashamed Of Being Shameless?
Be As Bodhisattva-Like As You Can
The Butter & Lamp Analogies For Buddha-Nature
Tame & Transform Your Raging Tiger
Do The Right Thing Naturally
One Stone At A Time
Master Being A Beginner
Mindfully Ask Your Heart If You Need It
I Want You To Panic
How News Can Destroy Peace Of Mind
Do Not Forget This World Of Phenomena
Spiritual Practice In The Face Of War & Death
Thank You Very Much
Give The Dharma By Asking For It
Patience With Big & Small Frustrations Is...
The Phenomenon Of Jewish Buddhists
Do People Swarm To You Or Shun You?
Increasing Mindfulness Without Morality Can Be...
How Managers Can Have Right Speech
Those Who Care For The Buddha Should Care For The...
In Summer & Winter, Dress & Eat
Effects Of Ten Unwholesome (Evil) Karmic Paths...
Arrange Things Simply To Simplify Your Mind
Eat Clean With Your Whole Heart
Discard What You Don’t Need
Mindfulness Without Being Mindful Of Core Ethics...
Wake Up Earlier To Be Less Busy
How To Reset & Recalibrate Your Mind
How To Rise From Rock Bottom
Friends, Not Food
The Three Kinds Of Patience
We Have No Time To Be Evil
Are You Causing Suffering With Speciesism?
A Stoic’s Daily Zen-like Self-Review
What Is In Your Circle Of Control?
See Your Body’s Impermanence Closely &...
How To Truly Know Anyone
Be Mindful, Brothers & Sisters
Careful Who You Lust For, Whom You Might Never Get
How An Abandoned Parent Taught His Children
The Three Fields As Spiritual Capacities
Extend The Five Precepts To Cover All
Two Kinds Of Lion’s Roar
The Noble Abstain From False, Divisive, Harsh...
Some Truths Revealed On Revealed...
The Wheels Of Spiritual & Worldly Power
How To Not Sleepwalk Through Life
Two Ways To Overcome Lust
Four Ways To Overcome Anger
The Buddha’s Words On Loving-Kindness...
Should You Eat Animals?
Samantabhadra & Manjusri Bodhisattvas’...
Both The Haves & Have-Nots Suffer
Four Kinds Of Unskilful & Skilful Speech
Uncover Your Forgotten But Never Lost Treasure
Make Your Bed
Always Listen To Continually Learn
Ancient Symbiotic Relationship Of Monastics...
The Great Value Of Spiritual Friendship
You Stop Too
Be More Mindful Of The Ocean Not Its Waves
How The Buddha Turned Arrows Into Flowers
Just Your Thinking So Does Not Make It So
A Monk’s Friendly Goodwill To A Snake
Protect & Heal Yourself & Others With...
How We Should Train Ourselves
Food Of The Monks, Devotional Cuisine
6 Brief Universal Lessons
How Encouragement Now Transforms The Future
A Zen Master’s 3 Lessons
Just Work Harder
How To Guard Your Six Senses?
The Glass Is Already Broken
Be Ever More Sober
One Hell Of An Act Of Compassion
There Is No Need To Be Depressed
Pure Land Teachings Within Earliest Found...
The Buddha When Just A Gardener Sage
The Three Bodies Of Buddhas
Repair & Repurpose Before Rebuying
Don’t Put It Off Till Tomorrow
How Sariputra Spoke The Dharma
The Obstacle Is The Way
How To Better Interest Others In The Dharma
The Buddha’s Leading Lay Disciple’s...
The Hitter And The Hit
The Power Of Even One Word
Five Good Qualities Of Suffering
We Should Repay The Kindness Of All Mother...
Why There Is Never Reason For Anger
A Monk To A King On Listening To Good Advice
The Buddha’s Lay Disciple Foremost In...
Never Retaliate The Harmful With Anger
Always Be Truthful & Disciplined
Better Without An Itch Than To Scratch One
Some Karmic Causes For Our Suffering
[10] How To Cultivate To Reach Pure Land? 如何修行生净土？
[9] How Do Those Lacking Roots Reach Pure Land...
All Great Trees Were Once Small Seeds
Mindfulness Of Buddha Is A Must For Buddhahood
The Ultimate Taming Of Disturbing Emotions
How Great Bodhisattvas Complete The Six...
Why It Is Wrong To Kill To Celebrate Weddings
The Sunbathing Carcass
How Do You Grasp Emptiness?
Four Kinds Of ‘Spiritual Teachers’...
All Sentient Beings Love Their Lives
How To Lessen Suffering Of Animals
We, The ‘Well’, Are Dying Like The...
Eat Poo-Poo!
Never Have Contempt At The Contemptuous
Rely Only On Those Superior In Morality &...
A Checklist For Bad Gurus (Spiritual Teachers)
We Are All Passing Travellers
6 Reflections On Departure From...
Be The Master Of Yourself
Be Responsible To Criticize Well
What Do You Allow To Pull Your Strings?
Your Money Or Your Self?
Where Are The 17 Arhats?
Taste Flavours As They Are
How To (Not) See The Attractive?
Oceanography, Meteorology, Astronomy, Swimology
How Attachment To Fame & Wealth Harms
Why Confident Patience Is A Strength
Of Sumeru, Moon & Sutras
What Is There To Hold On?
Can We Have Renunciation With Bodhicitta?
Purify Yourself Without Projecting Perfection On...
Rely Upon Buddha As Best Spiritual Friend
Reflect To Diffuse Your Anger
From Ordinary To Enlightened Love
Beware Of Westernised Self-Centric...
Do You Have The Twin Guardians?
How Regret Can Be Good (Or Bad)
See Yourself As Lowest Of The Low
How A Grudging Man Sought Deadly Revenge
Doing Evil Knowingly Vs Unknowingly
The Benefits of Previous Endeavour
Why Do Good Now Instead Of Later?
We Reap Fruits From Seeds We Sow
What Is Meant By Time?
Is The Reborn Person Same Or Different?
The Buddha Is All-Knowing
Where Did This Anger Come From?
Parable Of The Greedy Child
Question Of Maitreya On Eight Qualities
Guidance To A Possibly Dying Man
First Class Devils For Sale
Where Are You Going?
The Snow Does Not Fall Elsewhere
How To Most Swiftly Attain Buddhahood
A Very Brief Glimpse Of The Amitābha Sūtra
How The Buddha Taught Completely & Perfectly
How Even Stubborn Rocks Agreed With A Master
Karma Follows Like A Shadow Does
Great Ease Of Coming & Going
How Shariputra Saw A Man, His Son & Their Dog
Queries On Abstention From Killing (& Meat...
How Time Is Relative To Our Experiences
How Past Lives’ Karma Can Ripen In Future...
The Buddha As The Ultimate Revolutionary
Learn The Poise Of A Dying Man Alive
The Lying ‘Snake’ Vs The Sitting...
Four Ways Bodhisattvas Lose Bodhicitta
A Buddhist Tale Of Sex & Violence
Great Good & Evil Start Small
How Asanga Urged Vasubandhu To Be A Bodhisattva...
Offering Self-Sacrifice Vs Wanting Others...
Why The Chinese Canon Is As Important As The Pali...
Harm Of Praising Oneself & Blaming Others
Why It Is Wiser To Turn Grievance To Friendship
The Buddha’s Perfect Fatherly Speech
The Seven Limbs As Antidotes To Afflictions
Transforming Bandits To Bodyguards
Santideva Bodhisattva Explains Why There Is No God
A Profound & Essential One-Word Teaching
Mundane Vs Supramundane Perfection of Giving
The Parable Of Me & Mine
Away With The Dirt!
The Toilet Cleaner’s True Fragrance
Will Nana The Tiger Learn?
How The Buddha-To-Be Saw The Four Sights
Be Kind To Be Happy
Change You Can & Change You Should
13 Everyday Aspirations For Everyone
Guru Rinpoche & Lama Tsongkhapas’s...
Ideal Physical & Mental Postures For...
Universal Compassion Arises From Impartial...
Why Is Receiving Criticism Wonderful?
The Difference Between Attachment & True Love
Shabkar’s Song Of Compassion
How Our Dualistic Minds Torment Us
Become The Best You Can Be
The Three Kinds Of Laziness
Practice Is Needed For Perfection
Just Do The Needed Now
Thoroughly Examine Your Mind
Should Buddhists Have Missionary Zeal?
The Choice Is Yours
What Are Supreme Offerings To All Buddhas
The Power Of Buddhas & Bodhisattvas’...
You Have A Rebel Buddha Within
Beware Of Fake ‘Reborn Masters’...
155 Spiritual & Physical Differences Between...
The Man Who Learnt Too Much
The Moon Wanes Faster Than Expected
Be More Mindful When Complacent
The ‘Curse’ Of Intoxication
Do It Till You Make It
On Gassho, Dojo & Ailments
The Chinaberry Fools
An Open Letter To Buddhist Practitioners
We Know Not What We Know Not
This Transient World Offers No True Refuge
One Shot For One Hit – Now!
The Buddha’s Admonition Against Making...
How Attachment To Freedom Prevents Freedom
Before It’s Too Late
Three Poems Of Master Shih Te
Don’t Spoil Your Teachers
Right ‘Craziness’ As Spiritual Sanity
Why We Should Vow To Reach Pure Land
The Dharma Nurtures Like Rain & Shine
The Eight Things To Remember
Compassion Demon
It Is Love
The Silently Teaching Tears Of Compassion
Of Transcendental, Celestial & Terrestrial...
Why The Mahayana Teachings Are Authentic
What Kind Of Pot Are You?
How To Verify Truthfulness Of The Buddha’s...
Tibet’s Best Shrine Offering
How The Buddha Discriminates No One
On Quenching Thirst & Soothing Itches
The Slave Of Passion (Maccha Jataka)
The Moon Shines On Behind The Clouds
Seeing Falling Snow
Stand Up For Justice Without Anger
Meat Eating & Violence Towards Humans
[8] How Is Pure Land Reached With Ten Thoughts...
[7] Why Not Seek Birth In Tuṣita Heaven? 为何不求生兜率天？
[6] How Is There Non-Retrogression In Pure Land...
[5] How Can Ordinary Beings Reach Pure Land...
[4] Why Particularly Seek One Pure Land? 为何偏求一净土？
[3] Why Be Particularly Mindful Of One Buddha...
[2] Do Pure Land Aspirants Renounce Here For...
[1] Do Pure Land Aspirants Forsake Other Beings...
Relativity Of Space & Time In Buddhism
Is Buddhism Against Birth Control?
There Are No Unforgiving Bodhisattvas
Are The Animals You Eat Blessed?
Why Drink More Salt Water?
What Is Extreme About Veganism?
The Discourse On The Heart Of Perfection Of...
Do You Catch Yourself Red-Handed?
Wake The Master Up Now
Grave Admonition Against Slander Of Pure Land...
How Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Saved A Boy
The Groom Who Lost His Bride To The Stars
From Craving Arises Grief & Fear
Spirit Versus Letter Of Precepts
Blessings From Good Observation Of Precepts
The Upholding, Breaking & Restoring Of...
The Monk Attached To Sugar Cane
Beware Of Fatal Words
The Monk With Practice Without Faith &...
The Importance Of Teaching Appropriately
Even The Poor Should Be Charitable
It Depends On Your Determination
How Death From Enmity Was Averted
The Only Way To End Hatred
How To Prevent Drowsiness From Overeating
The Cruel Fowler
The Miraculous Tooth
The Mooning Teaching
Crossing To The Other Shore
Better Seek Your Self
The Mani Man
The Sage, The Lady, And The Fish
Not A Damned Thing!
The Equality Of All That Lives
Beating A Thief With The Triple Gem
The Wonderful Open Secret Of Sincerity &...
The Gold Standard Test For Truth
Why Not Stay In Samsara?
The Pure Land Path Is For Everyone
Awaken To The Light Of Understanding
Are You Born With A Short Temper?
The Zen In Pure Land Practice
How Two Brothers Reached Pure Land
Following The Buddha’s Perfect Example
Rahula’s Calmness Despite Adversities
What Kind Of Dharma Speaker & Listener Are...
Buddha-Nature And Egolessness
Difference Between Faith & Respect
Is Buddhism Okay With Premarital Sex?
Some Of The Fourteen Meaningless Things
At The Beginning, Middle And End Of Meditation
Be A Beginner Bodhisattva
Seeing Enemies As Precious Treasures
The Buddha’s Perspectives On...
True Great Power & Compassion
The Buddha On Bondage To Sexuality
Stanzas of Victory (Jaya Mangala Gatha)
Walking The Tiger’s Path
The Power Of Mindfulness Of Buddha
Suffering Within Suffering, Decay & Process
The Four Noble Truths & The Four Magnificent...
Do Buddhists Believe In The Efficacy Of Prayers?
Why Practise Compassion For All?
Nirvana Is True Happiness
Always Compassionate And Never Angry
Ikkyu’s Poison
Buddha Mindfulness Is Not Inferior
Lacking Spiritual Urgency, Means & Direction
Importance of Truthfulness As Right Speech
Cool Heroism
The Sutra of Eight Great Awakenings
Three Types Of Karma
Three Degrees of Courage for Arousing Bodhicitta
The Three Levels Of Suffering
How Pure Land Facilitates Fruition Of Bodhicitta
The Power Of Empathy Over Vengeance
Can Buddha Mindfulness Fail When Dying?
Neither Fearing Nor Clinging To Failure
Some Dynamics of Parent-Child Karma
Danger Of Clinging To Emptiness
The Buddha Is Still Around
A Lesson From The Forest
Acceptance of Regret, Shame & Dread
The Cabbage & The Cow
How Even The Gods May Fall
Why Are There Wars?
Knowing When To Bow
Nirvana Transcends Mind & Matter
Why There Is No Creator
The Intention Of Renunciation
Can A Baby Take Refuge In Buddhism?
Not Rectifying Evil As Evil
The Middle Way Between Hedonism & Asceticism
The Four Reliances
Don’t Give Too Much Too Soon
Why Inner Hatred Is Worse Than Outer Enemies
Those Mountains of Old Age, Sickness & Death
Buddhist Reformation & Rehabilitation Of...
The Buddha’s Dharma of Plowing
The Demon’s Costume
Sticking To Principles & Overcoming Bad...
The Story of Khantivadi Ascetic
How To Stop Being A Snake
Zen Master’s Perspective Of The Pure Land...
The Mark of Faith
The Man Who Killed His Herd
The Significance of Tibetan Stupas
With Whom Should You Be Angry?
Eating Salt
What No Longer & Not Yet Exists
Cherish Every Being
The Enemy’s Gift
Joy in the Welfare of Others
Grasping At Water
Small Is Beautiful
Perfecting the First Perfection
The Four Standards of Truth (Applied to Pure Land...
How A Loving Father Rejected His Son
A Way To Practise Buddha Recitation
What The Lotus Means
How To Create An Island For Retreat
Altruism Brings Courage
Is The Thus Come One Gone Forever?
Handling Those Unsupportive of Our Dharma Practice
On Eating Animals
Introduction to Animal Liberation
Should You Meditate for Supernatural Powers?
How The Personal & Collective Are...
How to Seek a Good Teacher
Do Your Fantasies Reflect Your Reality?
Do You Meditate to ‘Strike Lottery’?
Are You A Stranger To A Deep Blue Day?
How the Buddha’s Attendant Became...
Combining Meditations on the Four Immeasurables
From Sentient Beings to Bodhisattvas &...
Voluntary Cultivation of Involuntary Compassion
Why Pain Need Not Mean Suffering
Caring for Each Other (Medicine for the World)
The Right Way of Teaching Dhamma
Does the Buddha Advocate Inaction?
The Importance of the Fourfold Community
The Supreme Excellence of Amitabha Buddha’s...
Honour What’s Relative
The Dharma of Ikebana
Everyone is A Stranger
How to Practise the Perfection of Generosity
Overcoming Anger and Bitterness with Compassion
A Very Brief Introduction to Dzogchen
How to Eat for Better Personal & Planetary...
Why a Monk Didn’t Enjoy
Throwing Away the Four Notions in the Diamond...
The Emptiness & Interrelatedness in Recycling
How Conscious of Your Consciousness are You?
The Mantra of the Perfection of Wisdom
An Admonitory Funeral Speech
The Nine-Point Meditation on Death
Please Feed the Right Wolf
Where is Our Beloved Child Now?
The Invisible Armour Against Aggression
The Seeing of Magic in the Ordinary
Honesty as a Spiritual Warrior
The Great Bliss Prayer for Birth in Pure Land
The Emptiness of Money
The Efficacy of Buddha Mindfulness
Is the Dharma Difficult or Easy to Realise
Three of Many Disadvantages of Anger
The Two Dimensions of Reality
How Broadening Our Mind Alleviates Pain
The Legend of Princess Miao Shan
How Death Realised Deathlessness
It’s Time for Mindful Self-Examination
Mindfulness is Lesson One
Waves of Loving-Kindness
The Guru Within You
Transforming the Past in the Present
Rebuttal of Arguments Against Identitylessness
Democracy with Freedom, Compassion & Wisdom
Can Nature Rely on Your Buddha-nature?
No Point in Being Dejected & Glum
How to Listen to a Dharma Talk
Proof of the Validity of Rebirth
Of Truth, Character, Teachers & Students
