Home »
Posts tagged with "blame"
Posts tagged with "blame"
Jul. 19 |
Irrigators regulate the rivers;fletchers straighten the arrow shaft;carpenters shape the wood;the wise control themselves.
Just as a solid rockis not shaken by the storm,even so the wiseare not affected by praise or blame.
On hearing the Teachings,the...
Mar. 6 | The ‘DC’ in DC Comics stands for ‘Detective Comics’, but they might as well stand for ‘Darker Comics’? On both big and small screens in recent years, their characters are consistently darker than Marvel’s, and...
Feb. 27 | Granted that serving in war is no walk in the park, what happens when soldiers return, trying to readjust to peaceful civilian life? Sadly, the bloodier the experiences one had gone through, the harder it is, even if home is much craved for. Appropriately,...
Jan. 29 |
On eight worldly conditions
which obsess the world
and round which it revolves:
gain and loss, status and disgrace,
blame and praise, pleasure and pain.
– Śākyamuni Buddha
(Lokavipatti Sutta)
As summarised from the Lokavipatti Sutta…
How Ordinary...
Jan. 23 |
Undefiled by the stains of the superstitions of the eight worldly concerns, may I, by perceiving all phenomena as illusory, be released from the bondage of attachment.
– Geshe Langri Tangpa
Reflections On ‘The Eight Verses Of Thought Transformation’...
Dec. 19 | Praise and blame, gain and loss,
pleasure and sorrow
come and go like the wind.
To be happy, rest like a giant tree
in the midst of them all.
– Buddhist Saying
While Right Speech conventionally means abstaining from lying, gossip, vain talk, and...
Apr. 19 | The Buddha too
got wrongly blamed,
what more us?
Related Article:
Fable Of The Father, Son & Donkey
Mar. 9 | When you praise yourself,
you forget to improve yourself.
When you blame others,
you forget to help others.
– Stonepeace | Books
“One can say that the habit of praising oneself and looking down on others is common to most people. That is why wherever...
Dec. 1 | Question: Somehow, I feel that upholding Buddhist principles seems idealistic and impractical in worldly work.
Answer: This is absolutely untrue, as the Dharma is applicable for every situation. What needed is more skilfulness.
Question: Where I work,...
Nov. 18 | Wisdom shared appropriately,
even if ‘crazily’, is skilful.
Wisdom shared inappropriately,
even if ‘sanely’, is unskilful.
– Stonepeace | Books
We should really have this aspiration. We should pray that one day we reach a...
Oct. 29 | Hurt yourself
holding a sword’s blade!
Who’s to blame?
– Buddhist Saying
Jun. 29 | Blame only to censure,
to discourage more evil.
Blame only the blameworthy,
lest blame becomes slander.
– Stonepeace | Get Books
As the famous Aesop’s fable goes… An old father and his young son were leading a donkey to a fair when...
Oct. 31 | Question: Someone in my family is giving me to a lot of emotional abuse. She would find fault with me and scold me, yet treat me as non-existent at other times. When I speak to her about this, she refuses to communicate. Do you have any advice?
Answer: If...
May. 10 | To have unconditioned happiness,
have unconditioned love
for one and all.
– Stonepeace
There is a great conversational gem in the underrated film ‘Adaptation’. In it, Charlie spoke of, to his brother Donald, a time in high school, ...