Category - Letters
What Are The Benefits Of Committing To The...
Should Merits Be Dedicated To Karmic Creditors...
What Were The Buddha’s Eyes...
Are Sicknesses Due To Karma?
Why Not Dress Before Buddha Images?
Should I ‘Just’ Let My Negative Karma...
Are Negative Karma And Negative Habits The Same?
Which Realm Has The Most Beings?
Is It Alright To ‘Focus’ On More Than...
Is It Alright To Feed Deceased Animals To Living...
How Should Buddhists See Birthdays?
How To Advise An Angry And Greedy Dying Person?
Will Speaking Of The Unfortunate Cause It?
What If I Forgot A Death Anniversary?
What Is ‘Form Is Emptiness’?
Is Guānyīn A Bodhisattva Or Buddha?
Why Dread Karmic Retribution?
How Best To Have Sea Burial?
What Is This Certain Sutra About?
When Do Bodhisattvas Intervene To Help?
How Does Reciting Sutras Relate To Learning About...
Why Do Buddhists Practise Fasting?
Is It ‘Better’ To Eat More Small...
Should I Use Chanting To Fall Asleep?
Is Spiritual Friendship Or Spirituality More...
How Is The Threefold Refuge Both Vows &...
Must Negative Karma Be Exhausted For There To Be...
Are Saṃsāra & The Sahā World Same?
How To Help The Possibly Possessed?
What Is The Cause Of Sickness?
Are There Buddhist Wealth Gods?
How To Say ‘Thanks, But No Thanks’...
Should Vegans Give Away Non-Vegan Food?
How Should New Vegans Handle Old Non-Vegan Stuff?
Does Āmítuófó Have A Sexist Vow?
How To Know If One Is A Bodhisattva Or Buddha As...
Should Buddhists Worry About End Of The World?
Four Queries On Buddhist Images & Ancestral...
Is Cultured Meat Considered Vegetarian Or Vegan?
How To Prevent Breaking Of Precepts & What...
Do Bodhisattvas Help Non-Believers?
How Tall Was The Buddha?
Do Animals Who Kill Create Negative Karma?
Will I Be Ready For Refuge & Precepts?
What Creates The Most Positive Karma?
Are There Many Monastics In Hell?
How To View Miscarriages?
Do We Chant Just To Show Respect?
What Are Buddhist Meditative Practices Truly For?
Why Buy To Liberate Animals ‘Meant’...
Are There ‘Foreign’ Buddhist...
Can I Suffer On Behalf Of Others?
How Do Beings Ascend From Lower Realms?
Are Animal Communication Courses Alright?
Can I Listen To The Dharma At Night?
Clear Answers On Mixed Responses To Going Veg
How To Give Wisely To Those Truly In Need?
Is There A Wrong Time To Chant?
What If I Lack Time For Buddhist Classes?
How Accurate Are Buddhist Scriptures?
What Should ‘New’ House Owners Do?
Can Offerings Be Offered Again?
Can Buddhists Have Tattoos?
How Should We Handle Bad ‘Buddhist’...
Should Worldly Customs Override Spiritual...
Does Killing Bacteria Break The First Precept?
Should Birthdays Be Celebrated With Meat Feasts?
What If I’m Confused By Some Teachings?
Should Buddhists Sell Killed Animals For Charity?
How Were ‘We’ Like Before Becoming...
Is There Predestinated Fate?
How Does Karmic Retribution Exact Itself?
How To Not Follow Customs Blindly
Can Ancestors Bless Survivors?
Can I Commit To The Precepts If I Sometimes Eat...
What Language To Chant In To Help The Deceased?
Are You Upsetting The Global Environment?
How To Handle Unwanted Lay Robes?
Do We Rejoice Over All Kinds Of Happiness?
Does Buddhism Promote Medium Practice?
Can Animal Experimentation Be Alright?
How Should Buddhist Images Be Worn?
Can I Offer Dead Animals To The Buddhas?
Can We Take Refuge On Behalf Of The Deceased?
Does The Donor Or Deceased Gain Merits From Post...
Is It Bad Karma To Report Inconsiderate Parking?
What Does ‘Tathāgata’ Mean?
Can Accidental Mention Of Death Cause Actual...
Should We Offer Food Even Long After Departure?
How To Handle Workplace Non-Listeners
How To Handle Someone In A Rush?
How Should Buddhists View Politics?
Are Cordyceps Considered Vegetarian?
Does Blood Donation Break Any Precept?
Can Chanting Where The Deceased Are Not At...
Is Lab-Grown Meat Ethical?
Am I At Fault For Not Finishing Shared Food?
Do Doctors Create Negative Karma By Healing?
Why Does The Bad Happen To The Good?
How To Clean A Buddha Statue?
Should An Unethical Job Be Done For Survival?
Is Sponsoring Of Buddha Images To Create Them?
Can A Buddhist Shrine Be Near A Dining Table?
Are These IVF Choices Killing?
Do Donations To The Corrupted Create Bad Karma?
Can Buddhists Convert To Other Religions?
Is It Alright To Have A Buddha Image In A Fish...
Must Mantras Be Chanted Accurately?
What Is The Simplest Way To Offer Food?
Can Animals Take Refuge?
Are Kids Growing Up Faster These Days?
Can Lay Buddhists Teach Buddhism?
How To Send Off Unexpected Ghostly Guests
Does Staff Retrenchment Create Bad Karma?
Will I Create Negative Karma By Not Being A...
FAQs On The Pure Land Passport Book
How Does Buddhism Explain Natural Disasters?
Can One Be Addicted To Buddhism?
Does Aversion At Buddha Images Create Negative...
What To Chant Before Buddha & Bodhisattva...
Did The Buddha Die Of Food-Poisoning In Old Age?
Why Are Plants Non-Sentient?
Beware Of Anti-Dharma Slander
Letter To A Buddhist Centre For Kinder Offerings
Should I Stay Or Should I Go Now?
Should I Learn Yoga Before Buddhism?
Are Stray-Feeders Bodhisattvas?
How To Convince Karma Exists?
How To Reply To Claims That I Am Hellbound?
How Does Buddhism Differ From Taoism?
Is Eating Vegan Meritorious?
Can One Suffer Due To Others’ Mistakes?
Which Buddha Should We Pay Homage To?
How Best To Express Filial Piety?
Is It Possible To Fire With Compassion?
Why Merits Can Only Be Partially Dedicated?
Is A Meat-Buyer Also A ‘Meat-Eater’?
Should Buddhists Play Matchmakers?
Should I Help Pay For Non-Vegan Food?
How Did Dharma Ceremonies Originate?
How To See Emptiness Of Forms?
Can Precepts Really Be Broken Virtually?
Should One’s Past Form Be Seen As Empty?
How Do I Make Spiritual Vows?
Should Buddhists Fear God?
Where Are ‘Religious’ Killers Reborn?
How To Be Positive During Downturn?
Can Females Reordain As Buddhist Nuns?
How Should We View Near Accidents?
Should Buddhists Have Kids?
Is This Bad Karma Ripening?
Are Realms In Other Faiths Elsewhere?
What Did The Buddha Teach About Abortion?
How Does Knowing & Seeing Truth Differ?
Should I Report A ‘Minor’ Wrong Or...
How Are Vows & Precepts Related?
How Should Dharma Teachers Protect Dharma...
Should Buddhists Be Bothered By Numbers?
Is He A True Buddhist ‘Teacher’?
Is There A Proper Way To Prostrate?
Why Eat Plants As They Have Life Too?
Where Did God Come From?
How To Help An Angry Family Member?
Am I Creating Positive Or Negative Karma?
How To Relate To Fengshui & Bazi?
Can I Eat Vegan Food Mixed With Non-Vegan Food?
How Should Buddhists View Astrology?
How To Help One Who ‘Lets Go’ Too...
How To Help Resolve Family Conflicts?
Do We Experience Pure Coincidences?
How To Encourage A Busy Housewife?
Is Suffering A Blessing?
Should I Work In A Prison?
Should I Donate Some Now Or All Later?
How & Why Do We Comply With Others’...
Who Decides Who Is A Bodhisattva?
What To Relate To The Triple Gem?
Which Hell Will The Evil Be Born In?
Can I Keep A Bird Who Flew In My Window?
How To Easier Chant Guanyin Bodhisattva’s...
Does Chanting Lead To Seeing Of Spirits?
Should I Bow Before All Buddha Images?
Do Buddhas & Bodhisattvas Only Help Those...
Should We Receive Charitable Donations From All?
How Should I Curb Vengeance?
How Does The Buddha Look Like?
Should I Commit To The Precepts Formally?
Is It Okay To Vent Anger When Stressed?
Are Animal & Human Placentas Vegetarian?
Should Buddhists Kill In War?
What Does It Mean To Be Awakened?
Do Buddhas Help Many All The Time?
Should I Accommodate With Non-Vegan Meals?
Do Buddhist Talismans Work?
Can I Simply Do Good To Cover Evil?
Can I Write On Sutra Books?
Why Do Some Buddhists Die Of Incurable Sicknesses?
Should Buddhists Wear Buddha Images?
Should Those With Negative Karma Be Left To...
How Are Arhats, Bodhisattvas, Pratyekabuddhas And...
Can Elders ‘Send Off’ The Deceased...
Are All Famous Buddhist Teachers Always Right?
Should I Quit My Job Again?
Why Do Some Buddhist Texts Seem...
How To Practise Repentance After Abortion?
How To Pray For Non-Buddhists?
How To Handle Workplace Negativity?
Does Being Unthoughtful Create Negative Karma?
Should Buddhists Help Deviant...
How To Face Competition, Negativity &...
Are There ‘Buddhist’ Extremists?
Do Consented Affairs Break Any Precept?
Is It Alright To Be A Fortune-Teller?
Does Worrying Reduce Blessings?
Are There Buddhist Paper Offerings To Burn?
When Do Buddhists Pray During The Seventh Lunar...
What Happens After Suicide & How Can We Help?
Can The Dharma Boost Self-Acceptance?
Can I Prostrate Without A Shrine?
Are Prayers For The Distant Deceased Helpful?
Can I Use Wine In Cooking Or As A Tonic?
How Can I Be Less Self-Critical?
When Is Generosity Not So Good?
Is It Not Compassionate To Have Children?
Can Buddhists Celebrate With Death In The Family?
How To Better Offer Incense?
How Should Buddhists Invest?
Is It Okay To Attend Controversial...
Why Do Some Monks Take Angbaos?
Can We Eat Food After Offering At Shrines?
Can We Freeze & Resurrect One Another?
Should I Eat Black Garlic?
Can The Buddha Change Our Karma?
How To Offer A Second Chance Without Lying
How To Prevent Being Tricked By...
Is There A Birthday Sutra?
How Are We Reborn Without Souls?
Can Buddhists Pray To Gods?
How To Have Harmonious Inter-Religious Dialogue
Are Sea Cucumbers Animals?
Why Are There No Souls?
Do Plants Feel Pain?
Is Surrogacy Right In Buddhism?
Can Buddhists Seek Advice From Divination?
What Is Buddha-Nature & Bodhicitta?
Can One Committed To The Five Precepts Cook Meat?
Is It ‘Better’ To Eat Bigger Animals?
How To Help Those With Sudden Deaths?
How To Apply Dharma In Office Politics?
How Is Lotus Birth In Pure Land Possible?
Is Amituofo’s Pure Land Physically Far To...
Is Pure Land Sexist?
Are The Enlightened Around Us Now?
How To Not Be A Loner?
Is Pruning A Plant Cruel?
How Are Amituofo’s 18th, 19th & 20th...
Can I Read Dharma Books (On My Lap) While Eating?
What Should We (Not) Offer Monastics?
Answering Dharma Queries
How Do We Have Healthy Aversion?
Should I Support Weapon Creation?
Should I Dedicate Merits To Myself First?
Why Do I ‘Naturally’ Hold My Breath...
If Remorse Is ‘Bad’, Why Practise...
Can I Move House During The Seventh Month?
Are All Buddhas, Bodhisattvas & Gods The...
How Buddhists Can Prevent Harm From Black Magic
Why Fear Death If We Will Be Reborn Human?
What If The World Goes Meatless Overnight?
How Should Vegans Handle Non-Vegan Foods Given?
Is Pure Land Here & Now?
How Do I Bathe The ‘Baby Buddha’...
Does Thanking Others Reduce Their Merits?
Does Buddhism Explain ‘Creation’?
How To Explain Suicide To A Child?
How To Overcome Food Craving Gladly
Must Loved Ones & I Have Niches?
How To Humble The Proud To Better Learn The...
Are There Deadly Water Ghosts?
Can Ghosts & Gods Punish & Reward...
Can I Walk Away After An Accident?
Can I Read Dharma Books On Bed?
Are Oil Lamps On My Shrine A Must?
Is Giving Virtual Life Meritorious?
How To Handle A Found Bus Card?
How Can I Overcome My Shyness?
Is My Life Just Problems To Solve?
Is Mercy-Killing Really Merciful?
Can A Sutra Be A Lullaby?
Should Buddhists Pray To Tai Sui?
How Can I Give Better?
Do Buddhas Have Selective Compassion?
Should I Go Vegetarian During Confinement?
How To Handle Unneeded Dharma Materials?
Is Wanting To Be Muscular Greed?
Are Buddhists Okay With Divorce?
Should I Search For Peace Within Or Without?
Is Animal Liberation & Veganism Extreme?
How Should I Handle Unwanted Consumables?
Should Buddhism Be Made Secular?
How To Handle Attachment To Mementoes
How To Repent For Disrespect?
How To Work With Problematic Team Members?
Is Picking Up Lost Money Stealing?
Do I Lack Compassion At School?
Can Plants Be Reborn?
How Much Should I Accommodate?
How To Choose My Vocation?
Do We Have To Relearn The Dharma Life To Life?
Why Trembling During Chanting?
Does Going Vegan Increase Craving?
Is This Teacher Okay?
Should We Just Give Without Thinking?
Are Relationships Empty?
Does Investment In Animal Trade Break The First...
Does Chanting Attract Spirits?
How To Handle Damaged Dharma Materials
How To Handle A Petty Colleague
How To Handle Wrong ‘Dharma’...
How To Prevent An Affair
Is It Okay To Be Dressed Less In A Temple?
Make A Low Career Point A Major Turning Point
Is Eating Bird’s Nest Soup Okay?
Did The Buddha Ordain Without Parental Consent?
How To Deal With Public Nuisances?
Should I Change My Job?
Should The Kind Be Made Use Of?
Am I Obsessed About Buddhism?
How To Say ‘Thanks, But No Thanks’...
Can The Departed Receive Food Offerings?
Can A Buddha Shrine Be Low?
Is Buddhism Against Childbirth?
Why Are Buddhas Also Bodhisattvas?
How To Help Without Helping?
How To Answer Kids’ Existential Issues?
Is One Who Resembles The Buddha Bound For...
Are Temples Evil Abodes?
How To Deal With The Unforgiving?
Is A Buddha Image In My Bedroom Okay?
What If I ‘Have’ To Lie?
How To Know If The Buddha Teaches The Truth?
Why Do I Fear My Family Know I’m Learning...
How To Teach Kids The Third & Fifth Precept?
Is Buddhism Only For The Smart?
What Is Lasting Happiness?
Should I Practise Non-Buddhist Meditation?
Are You Too Busy For Dharma Practice?
Is A Buddha Image In A Bedroom Okay?
Should All Be Treated With Equanimity?
Can The Buddha Help All?
The Law of Attraction ‘Vs’ Karma?
The Importance Of Inter-Religious Harmony
Does Buddhism Work?
Guilt From Adultery Haunting Me
Must We Not Eat The Kinds Of Animals Liberated?
Buddhist Questions & Answers On 2012
Is Taking Refuge A Must For Buddhists?
Do You Always Get What You Think Of?
Is The Gambling Trade Right Livelihood?
Dealing With Emotional Abuse At Home
How To Be More Disciplined For Practice
Obsessed With Buddhism?
Differences Of Refuge And Respect
Hush About Others’ Faults?
Karma & Precepts
Should I Stay Or Go?
Should We See Only Inter-Religious Similarities?
How To Be Good To Yourself?
Is Suicide Release?
Does Meat-Eating Break The First Precept?
Does Thinking Of Harm Harms?
Unhappy With Your Job?
Don’t Disown Hope
Where To Set Up Shrine?
What To Do For Exhumations?
Chat On Idle Talk
Chat On Harsh Speech
What Is The Best Gift?
Chat On Truthfulness
Precepts Matter
Sharing Buddhism Without Buddhism First
Did The Buddha Teach Fengshui?
Should Sick Babies Be Aborted?
Are Accident Victims Bodhisattvas?
Should I Share on Sharing of Merits?
Middle Path Of Compassion?
How Did The Buddha Know He Was Enlightened?
Why Copy Sutras?
Healing From Jealousy
Is There An Alternative?
Can Self-Help Help Others?
Live Only In The Moment?
Supernormal Powers Anyone?
Are Eggs Considered Vegetarian?
Where Are We Based?
No Right Or Wrong?
Are Accidents Karmic?
Is Our Lifespan Fixed?
Some Ullambana Queries
Anger Management Tips
Why Are We Here?
Are Vulgarities Okay?
Aunt Agony Here!
Must Payback of Karmic Debts Be Complete for...
How To Forgive & Forget?
Meditation by Catholic & Buddhist Chanting
How to Know If Karma is Real?
