Tag - compassion
Do Intentions Matter More Than Actions?
An Imaginary Dialogue
Should The Bodhisattva Path Only Be Practised In This Human World? 应当只修人间菩萨道吗？
Bodhisattvas Must Not Eat Meat, Pungent Roots Or Drink Alcohol 菩萨不得食肉辛饮酒
Practise Compassionate Patience To Swiftly Accomplish Buddhahood 行慈忍，疾成佛
Shojin Ryori 精进料理
Be Those Wise, Compassionate And Brave 作智仁勇者
So, How Are You Doing?
Poisons And Antidotes 毒与药
Top Ten First Lessons From The Buddha-To-Be 未来佛先给予吾人之十大教训
How The Pure Land Dharma Door Is Connected To The Immeasurable Meanings Sūtra’s Essence 净土法门与《无量义经》之精华的关系
How Is ‘Vegetarianism’ Different From ‘Purification’? 素与斋有何分别?
The Root Of Accomplishing Buddhahood Is Compassion 慈悲为成佛之本
Is It Right To Not Bother About What Is Right Or Wrong? 不管对错对不对？
How To Contemplate Liberation Of Lives’ Cause And Effect? 如何观放生因果?
What Is (Not) Self-Praising And Slandering Of Others?
How To Complain And Handle Complaints Properly (With And Without AI)?
Not Can Or Cannot, But Should Or Should Not 不是可不可，而是该不该
How To Properly Have ‘No Time To Die’ 如何正确无暇赴死
Uphold The Bodhisattva Precepts Like The Grass Tied Monks 持菩萨戒如草系比丘
Top Ten Power Reflections From ‘The Rings Of Power’
Should Buddhist Vegans Treat Others With Non-Vegan Food And Drinks?
How Much Pure Gold Is There In Your Golden Rule?
Are They All The Same Bodhisattva?
How To Handle Insects At Home?
Neither Dirty Things Nor Good Brothers
‘People Are People’, But ‘People Are Good’?
‘Parasyte: The Grey’ Zone Between
Is Hell Really Other People?
Why Are There Few New Buddhist Ghost Stories? 为何新的佛教鬼故事不多？
How To Know If A Deed Is Against The Precepts?
Should Bodhisattva Preceptees Buy Meat For Others? 菩萨戒子该为别人买肉吗？Should Preceptees Break Precepts For Others? 持戒者该为别人破戒吗？
Should We Dedicate Merits To Karmic Creditors When Sick?
Verse On Four Immeasurable Minds 四无量心偈
How A Demoness Came To Be Named After Wisdom 名为般若的妖怪之由来
How Two ‘Expats’ Sought Resolution
The Rocky Refuge In ‘Expats’?
What Within Your Mind Remains? 何在心中留？
‘Einstein And The Bomb’s Paradoxes
Three Existential Queries On Life And The Universe
How Should Buddhists Protect Themselves From Potentially Violent Ones? 遇到暴力者的佛教徒该如何保护自己？
‘Yu Yu Hakusho’s Four Lessons《幽游白書》四訓
More Mud, Less Lotuses
How To Live A Fulfilling Life?
Verses On Natural And Man-Made Disasters 天灾人祸偈
[11] The Parable Of The Brahmin Who Killed His Son From The Sūtra Of A Hundred Parables《百喻经》之婆罗门杀子喻
I Have No Time For These Five Poisons (What About You?)
‘John Wick 4’ What Lived And ‘Died’?
When Mencius Met A King With Cognitive Dissonance 当孟子遇见了之认知失调的王
So, What Do You Eat?
To Await Or Create The Ideal Karma?
Can Great Bodhisattvas Manifest As Demon Kings? 大菩萨能化为魔王吗？
Can We Offer Non-Vegan Food To The Buddha?
Why Was Great Master Hóngyī With Sorrow And Joy Mixed Together? 为何弘一大师悲欣交集？
Putting All Before One With The Unsurpassable Skilful Means Leads Fastest To Buddhahood 以后其身为最速成佛之无上方便
‘Night School’ Needs More Schooling On Empathy
Three Key Points On Threefold Pure Meat 三净肉之三重点
The Good, The Evil And The Pure 善恶净
15 Lessons From ‘The Glory’
Why Do Some Bodhisattva Images Have Many Faces And Arms?
To Kill ‘Em All Or To Set ‘Em Free?
16 Lessons On Anger From ‘The Incredible Hulk’ (1977)
Are You A Karmic Creditor Or Debtor? 您是冤亲债主还是债人？
Does Astrological Phenomena Affect Our Well-Being? 星宿会影响我们的幸福吗？
Focus Haikus
Wholehearted Mindfulness Of The Buddha Is Cultivation Of Precepts, Concentration And Wisdom 一心念佛时，即修戒定慧
How To Neither Gossip Nor Slander? 如何不说闲话不诽谤？
Retributive Responses Of 23 Evil Habits 二十三恶习之报应
To Stay In This Defiled Land Or Reach A Pure Land? 留在秽土或往生净土？To Personally Reach Pure Land First Or Encourage Others To Reach Pure Land First? 先自生净土或劝生净土？
How To Transform Our Five Poisons? 如何转化五毒？
Somebody, Please! Anybody?
Are The Bothersome All Karmic Creditors?
The Buddhas And Bodhisattvas Are Always Smiling
[8] What Is The Buddha Like And How Does He Relate To Me?
[1] Why Learn The Buddha’s Teachings?
Some ‘Bulgasal’ (Impossible To Kill) Truths
Selfless Haiku
Is Guānyīn A Bodhisattva Or Buddha?
When Do Bodhisattvas Intervene To Help?
Are You Affected by the Bystander Effect?
Does Āmítuófó Have A Sexist Vow?
Those Who Care For The Buddha Should Care For The Sick Too
Loving-Kindness & Compassion 慈与悲
How Two Grandsons Married Their ‘Grandmothers’ 二孙如何娶祖母
How To Delight The Buddhas 如何令佛欢喜
‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Who Returned As Master
Is ‘A Dog’s Purpose’ Ours Too?
[D] Why Even The Enlightened Cannot Prevent The Dharma-Ending Age 为何甚至觉者阻止不了末法时期
The Three Kinds Of Patience
Can I Suffer On Behalf Of Others?
The Three Fields As Spiritual Capacities
Can Buddhists Have Tattoos?
‘The Song Of Patience By Hánshān & Shídé’ As Sung By The Bodhisattvas Mañjuśrī, Samantabhadra & Maitreya 文殊、普贤与弥勒菩萨所唱的《寒山拾得忍耐歌》
Not ‘Possessed’ Of Enough Compassion & Wisdom
How Bodhisattvas Should Always Practise Repentance 菩萨应当如何常修忏悔
How The Buddha Saved A Suicidal Girl
How The Buddha Redirected A Precious Offering
Should Buddhists Sell Killed Animals For Charity?
Does Śākyamuni Buddha Have His Own Pure Land? 释迦牟尼佛有自己的净土吗？
‘Elysium’ As An Imperfect ‘Heaven’
Why You Should Be More Giving Now (Or ‘Death Cleaning For Better Living’)
Should You Eat Animals?
How To Have Thought Of Being Reborn In Pure Land? 如何作往生想？
Is ‘The Punisher’ Is Also The Punished?
Are You Upsetting The Global Environment?
Lessons On ‘The Fundamentals Of Caring’
Can Animal Experimentation Be Alright?
Here’s ‘The Fix’ For Global Warming
[7] How To Offer Benefits To All
How The Future Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva ‘First’ Visited Hell
See All Kindly
[4] How To See The Suffering And Insufferable
[3] How To Avert Harming Of All
What Does ‘Tathāgata’ Mean? 何为如来？
The Lotus Sūtra’s Verses For Breaking Free From Hell 《法华经》之《破地狱偈》
Four Seeds To Guard
Which Of These Four Actions Do You Create?
How To Handle Someone In A Rush?
Did The Buddha Ever Say The Disagreeable?
Which Is More ‘Allowable’ For Consuming?
Lost & Found In ‘The Sea Of Trees’ 在《青木原树海》遗失与找到自己
How The Buddha Is Gone Yet Not Gone For Good 佛陀如何如去亦不去
One Hell Of An Act Of Compassion
How Can We Handle Our Jealousy?
Verses On Food (2)
The Three Bodies Of Buddhas
‘The Monkey King 3’: Kingdom Of Women (Vs Four ‘Monks’)
Why We Should Ask & Answer Dharma Queries Well
Five Good Qualities Of Suffering
We Should Repay The Kindness Of All Mother Sentient Beings
How One Who Slighted None Attained Buddhahood
‘Toc Toc’, OCD OCD…
A Monk To A King On Listening To Good Advice
The Sūtras With Ultimate Compassion And Wisdom
What Is Love Under ‘A Full Bright Moon’?
It’s A Very Very ‘Mad World’
Do All Religions Share The Same Essence?
Should I ‘Lend’ Money To Strangers?
Is It Possible To Fire With Compassion?
Does Good Triumph Over Evil?
A Short Chat In ‘A Chinese Tall Story’
From Ordinary To Enlightened Love
Transcending The Limits Of Worldly Philosophies
‘The Secret Life Of Pets’ & The Missed Deaths Of Many Other Animals
Is Suffering A Blessing?
Kindness Haiku
How Shariputra Saw A Man, His Son & Their Dog
Of Loving-Kindness To Our Tiny Friends
Should Buddhists Kill In War?
What If You Can Fulfil ‘Absolutely Anything’?
Four Ways Bodhisattvas Lose Bodhicitta
Do Buddhas Help Many All The Time?
You, ‘Animals And The Buddha’
Is There A God Who Allows Suffering?
Ode To Guanyin Bodhisattva On The Rocks
Can I Simply Do Good To Cover Evil?
‘Beyond 24’ Good Reasons To Live Vegan
Why Veganism Is The ‘Beginning’ & ‘End’ Of Vegetarianism
Should Those With Negative Karma Be Left To Suffer?
Verse On Full Filiality
‘Ted 2’ (Too) Is Sentient?
‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ (Or ‘Terminator’)?
Away With The Dirt!
How The Buddha-To-Be Saw The Four Sights
Constructive Compassion
Are There ‘Buddhist’ Extremists?
Are Your Blessings Going Up In Smoke?
Universal Compassion Arises From Impartial Detachment
Is There An Almighty, All-Good & All-Wise Creator?
Kindness Haiku
Shabkar’s Song Of Compassion
Equanimity
How Can I Be Less Self-Critical?
Disagreement Haiku
‘Julie & Julia’, The Lobster Killers
The Choice Is Yours
What Are Supreme Offerings To All Buddhas
How Should Buddhists Invest?
The Power Of Buddhas & Bodhisattvas’ Names
Smile
How ‘Wild’ To Let It Be!
Cause Of Buddhahood
A ‘Nightcrawler’ Who Failed To Be ‘Superman’
Why Should I Help You?
Well-Being Haikus
Does Being Angry Break Any Buddhist Precept?
What Makes Life Truly Moving & Wonderful?
Are Sea Cucumbers Animals?
Are The Great Bodhisattvas Real Or Not?
If You Think YOLO, You Should Know YOLNO!
An Interterrestrial’s Ode To ‘Interstellar’
How To Apply Dharma In Office Politics?
Six Precepts
How To Not Be A Loner?
The Dharma Nurtures Like Rain & Shine
Compassion Demon 慈悲魔
It Is Love
The Silently Teaching Tears Of Compassion
Does ‘Acting’ Bad Create Bad Karma?
How Everyone Is Every Buddha’s ‘Only Child’
Of Transcendental, Celestial & Terrestrial Buddhas
Water Offering Haiku
Make A Difference
The Nightmare That Woke Me Up
How The Buddha Discriminates No One
Are All Buddhas, Bodhisattvas & Gods The Same?
The Moon Shines On Behind The Clouds
Faults
Mother Sentient Beings
Compassion Is Essential
[1] Do Pure Land Aspirants Forsake Other Beings? 愿生净土者有舍弃其他众生吗？
Is Giving Virtual Life Meritorious?
Light Haiku
An Often Hungry Arhat Meets A Well Fed Elephant
Are The Animals You Eat Blessed?
Sparrow
Utilisation
Should We Share Merits With Our ‘Enemies’?
Do Buddhas Have Selective Compassion?
Are Buddhas Omnipotent, Omnibenevolent & Omniscient?
Is Animal Liberation & Veganism Extreme?
Do I Lack Compassion At School?
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Live & Die
Can Dedication Of Merits Solve Problems? 回向功德能解决问题吗？
Does Going Vegan Increase Craving?
How Guānshìyīn Bodhisattva Rejects, Accepts And Gives 观世音菩萨如何拒绝，接受与布施
Crossing To The Other Shore
Let Go & Pick Up
Should We Just Give Without Thinking?
Project Transformation: The Eight Verses Of Thought Transformation
How To See Impermanence Positively
Liberation
Commentary On Three Sayings From ‘The Stonepeace Book: Vol. 2’
Note To Self Haiku
New Guanshiyin Bodhisattva’s Universal Door & Heart Sutra Book
‘I Could (Have) Eat(en) A Horse?!’
The Equality Of All That Lives
Easier & Better
Course: The Universal Door Of Guanyin Bodhisattva: From Seeking To Becoming Compassion (2nd Run)
Can ‘Buddhists’ Not Believe In Rebirth?
Favour
Should You Harm Others To Clear Their Bad Karma?
Should The Kind Be Made Use Of?
Following The Buddha’s Perfect Example
Smile Haiku
How Not To Attend Dharma Activities?
Most Important
Why Are Buddhas Also Bodhisattvas?
How To Help Without Helping?
Why Are There Immeasurable Buddhas Instead Of One?
Be A Beginner Bodhisattva
Can Creating Good Karma ‘Become’ Bad Karma?
Others’ Mistakes
Living Together
True Great Power & Compassion
Do You Sit On The Special Subway Seats?
Should You Be Good For Goodness’ Sake?
How Do We Recognise The Wise?
Universal Appreciation Of Goodness
What Is Lasting Happiness?
Course: The Universal Door Of Guanyin Bodhisattva: From Seeking To Becoming Compassion
Why Practise Compassion For All?
Always Compassionate And Never Angry
Can The Buddha Help All?
Is Mindfulness Of Buddha Applicable In Everyday Life?
True Equanimity
The Unseen Power Of Karmic Affinities
The Compassion & Wisdom Of Relative & Absolute Truths
Attainment Of Non-Attainment
True Compassion & Wisdom
Are Teachers Reflections Of Their Students?
Are All Outer Evils Projected By Us?
Danger Of Clinging To Emptiness
Is The Ultimate Goal To Become Nothing?
Another Golden Rule
Does Karma Go In Endless Loops?
Hush About Others’ Faults?
The Cabbage & The Cow
Clash Of Desires
Perfect Happiness
Why Are There Wars?
How To Be Good To Yourself?
Have You Washed Your Bowl Yet?
Did The Buddha Teach The Path To Buddhahood?
The ‘Wu Xia’ Koan Of Forgiveness
Was The Buddha ‘Reluctant’ To Teach?
The Compassionate Captain’s Skilful Means
Was The Buddha-To-Be Heartless Or ‘Heartful’?
‘Never Let Me Go’, Never Let Compassion Go
How Is Compassion Great?
Realisation & Action
Buddhist Reformation & Rehabilitation Of Criminals
The Bodhisattvas of ‘Qixia Temple 1937’
Brilliant Moon of Compassion and Wisdom
Should Sick Babies Be Aborted?
A Toddler’s Encounter With A ‘New’ Emotion
A Brief History of the Love-Hate Relationship with Mock Meats
Middle Path Of Compassion?
How Did The Buddha Know He Was Enlightened?
Some ‘Shaolin’ Showdown!
Cherish Every Being
Joy in the Welfare of Others
Offering Of Greater Kindness
Did The Universe Have A Creator?
The Story of the Needle Versus the Knife
What The Lotus Means
Was The Buddha A Free-Thinker?
Are All Religions the Same?
Is Buddhism A Religion?
The Cross-Manifestations of Buddhas, Bodhisattvas & Gods?
Are Buddhists Atheists?
Altruism Brings Courage
Is The Thus Come One Gone Forever?
A Great Bodhisattva Recommends A Great Place!
On Eating Animals
The True Meaning of Letting Go & Being At Ease
Introduction to Animal Liberation
Should You Meditate for Supernatural Powers?
The Laws of the Garbage & Flower Trucks
Will Any ‘Mantra’ Do For You?
Secret Of Longevity
How To Easier Accept A Loved One’s Suffering
How Inaction Might Be Evil
Why Past Buddhas Are Still Bodhisattvas
What is Holy?
Combining Meditations on the Four Immeasurables
Aftershock Of The Human Heart
Spiritual Perfection
Is There Tension Between Compassion & Detachment?
Why Is ‘The Laughing Buddha’ Laughing?
Voluntary Cultivation of Involuntary Compassion
How the Future Buddha Began Practising Compassion
Can’t They Imagine Them Being Killed?
How to Practise the Perfection of Generosity
Overcoming Anger and Bitterness with Compassion
What Would the Buddha Do When He is Slandered?
‘The Blind Side’ Seen
How a Monk Failed a Temptation
Is ‘District 9’ Fictitious?
The Guru Within You
Buddhahood is Possible
Rebuttal of Arguments Against Identitylessness
Democracy with Freedom, Compassion & Wisdom
Courage & Compassion To Share The Dharma
