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Posts tagged with "delusion"
Mar. 1 |
Every unresolved ghost story is a tragedy, arising from the three poisons of strong attachment, aversion and delusion. Reborn out of delusion, we return with its offsprings of attachment and aversion too. As time goes by, we might even feed ourselves...
Dec. 12 |
若众生心,忆佛念佛,现前当来,必定见佛。– 大势至菩萨 《念佛圆通章》 If sentient beings’ minds recollect the Buddha, and are mindful of the Buddha, now or in the future, they will definitely see the Buddha. ...
Dec. 5 |
只看好样子…Only looking at good examples… – 净土宗十三祖印光大师 – Pure Land Tradition’s 13th Patriarch Great Master Yìnguāng
Someone shared a testimonial on how a person gave up...
Dec. 2 |
Ghostly vengeance sounds super scary and violent. Yet, revenge means there was wrong done, that seems to ‘justify’ the havoc, or does it? Bearing in mind that ghosts are ex-humans, which ghost is so downright evil, to wish to wreck chaos...
Sep. 30 |
The Jedi Master Luke Skywalker once saw his apprentice Ben Solo, to be so potentially dangerous, that he almost destroyed him, in a bid to prevent him from actualising this potential. Yet, in that very moment, Skywalker forgot the existence of Solo’s...
Sep. 6 |
Never attribute to malice
that which is adequately
explained by stupidity.
– Hanlon’s Razor
It is always from the third poison of delusion,
that arise the first poison of greed,
and the second poison of hatred.
– Poisons’ Rule
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. 17 | Believing you can get away,
you are already trapped,
by your delusions.
Jul. 11 |
因地不真,
果招纡曲。
– 释迦牟尼佛
《楞严经》
[With the] causal ground [or direction] not true [at the start,
the] fruit [or effect] attracted [will be with] twists and turns,
[away from the true goal].
– Śākyamuni Buddha
(Śūraṅgama...
Jun. 14 |
The greedy,
when overboard, will be deprived,
when repented, will be content.
The hateful,
when overboard, will be loathed,
when repented, will be accepted.
The deluded,
when overboard, will be confused,
when repented, will be clear.
The arrogant,
when...
Jun. 10 | All horror stories, fictitious or true, are tragedies.
All tragedies are with suffering.
All suffering is from the Three Poisons (of greed, hatred and delusion).
To have unhappy endings, there must be no resolution.
To have no resolution, there must be...
Jun. 3 | The KonMari Method is a technique to organise material stuff at home. Its first step is to heap especially clothes in one giant pile – to realise how much ‘more than enough’ one has. This creates motivation to declutter and to sort what...
May. 23 |
What if there is an secret camp of sorts, amidst the mountains, where for a fortnight, all don masks to hide their true identities, and are free to do whatever they wish? There, almost anything goes, though there are some basic rules to ensure there...
May. 16 |
Those who imagine evil
where there is none,
and do not see evil where it is —
upholding false views,
they go to states of woe.
Those who discern
the wrong as wrong
and the right as right —
upholding right views,
they go to realms of bliss.
– The...
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
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Ancient ones say, ‘With...