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Eating Salt
If eating or fasting leads to enlightenment, the greediest and the hungriest would long be...
Learn & Practise
One who claims to know the rationale of a Dharma teaching, but does not practise it does not truly...
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Some ‘Shaolin’ Showdown!
As usual, reflective of the prevalent Chinese Buddhist custom, the monks in the movie ‘Shaolin’...
Live Only In The Moment?
Question: I have read that one must live in the moment (活在当下), that one should tackle...
Dharma Work
Dharma work is to take some inconveniences upon ourselves to create more conveniences for others to...
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...
New & Unique
The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past…...
The Banana Skin Syndrome
When it is everyone’s shared responsibility,is it no one’s personal responsibility?—...
Where Is Your ‘Hereafter’?
‘Hereafter’ proposes something ‘simple’ yet mysterious. It speaks of the great possibility of...
What is Your Totem of Reality?
What you cling to as real, be it worldly or spiritual, is your refuge, even if it is not the true...