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Posts tagged with "Amitabha Buddha"
Feb. 24 |
In season 2’s episode 2 of ‘Narcos: Mexico’ are some literally torturous-to-watch yet thought-provoking scenes, of an accomplice in torture-cum-murder being interrogated for leads. Cocky and not cooperative, with his self-assured...
Feb. 10 |
The following clarifies on major myths propagated by the named series. In the Buddhist perspective, the very Chinese title of ‘The Ghost Bride’, as based on the book《彼岸之嫁》, which means ‘Marriage of the Other Shore’...
Jan. 14 |
Question: The 35th Vow of Amitābha Buddha (阿弥陀佛: Āmítuófó) says that ‘if there are women who hear my name (i.e. are sincerely mindful of it), with joyful faith, give rise to Bodhicitta, and loathe the female body, after the...
Nov. 25 |
Fascinating as time travel stories can be, it is also a rather exhaustedly ‘travelled’ genre, ‘inspiring’ a sense of ‘Isn’t this like what I saw before? Here we go again?’ Then again, almost every time travel...
Nov. 7 |
The American philosopher Robert Nozick proposed a thought experiment, where people can choose to plug into a machine that induces exclusively pleasurable experiences. This Experience Machine (EM) guarantees only pleasures in the mind, free from...
Oct. 28 |
A key philosophical problem with the Star Wars universe is that it is ‘romantically’ yet unrealistically portrayed in terms of balance. For example, Luke Skywalker explains the force as so to Rey, ‘The force is not a power you have....
Sep. 20 |
汝粗得其门,
当传灯化物,
莫作最后断种人也。
– 慧思大师致智者大师之遗教
《佛祖统纪》第六卷
智者大师最后教诲乃
亲自得生阿弥陀佛极乐净土
You, who have just attained this [Dharma] Door,
should...
Sep. 19 |
末世法灭之时,特驻此经,百年在世,接引众生,往生彼国。
– 释迦牟尼佛《无量寿经》
When it is the last period of the Dharma-Ending Age [which is this era],I will specially retain this sūtra, for one hundred [more]...
Sep. 5 |
恶人转多,
如海中沙。
– 释迦牟尼佛
《佛说法灭尽经》
Evil persons will multiply to be many,
like sands’ number within the ocean.
– Śākyamuni Buddha
(Sūtra In Which The Buddha Speaks Of The Dharma’s Complete End)
According...
Aug. 26 |
Like it or not, life now is as if a giant escape room puzzle with minor puzzles within to escape from. Such escape is not from rightly due responsibilities, but from saṃsāric (娑婆) existence itself. It is the ultimate escape, for attaining...
Aug. 15 |
吾涅槃后法欲灭时,
五逆浊世魔道兴盛。
– 释迦牟尼佛
《佛说法灭尽经》
After my Parinirvāṇa, when the Dharma is about to end,
in this Five Heinous Transgressions’
and Five Defilements’ Evil Age,
demonic paths...
Jul. 18 |
我观是
阎浮众生,
举心动念,
无非是罪。
– 地藏菩萨
《地藏经》
I see that of these
Jambudvīpa sentient beings [here],
with their raising of minds and moving of thoughts,
none are not with transgressions.
– Kṣitigarbha...
Jun. 6 |
It all seems so stupid,
it makes me want to give up…
– Shame: First half of chorus
(Depeche Mode)
The classic 1987 Depeche Mode concert anthem, ‘Never Let Me Down Again‘, is about a debatable ‘best friend’, who is taking...
May. 30 |
The wise are grateful
for their ancestors’ good,
and never resentful
for their mistakes.
– Nowanden (Part 1)
Is it so, that many generations’ accumulation of merits is needed, for us to be able to learn and practise the Dharma? Although...
May. 16 |
古人云:「何以息谤?」
曰:「无辩。」
又云:「吃得小亏,则不至于吃大亏。」
余三十年来屡次经验,深信此数语真实不虚。
弘一大师
《弘一大师全集》
Ancient ones say, ‘With...