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Posts tagged with "environmentalism"
Dec. 4 |
Set in 1905, ‘Apostle’ tells of a trio of false prophets, who discover a strange old lady wandering in the woods, with powers to cause fertile growth of vegetation. For power and gain, they imprison and starve her, while claiming to have...
Aug. 24 |
The best way
to curb negative habits
is to cultivate positive habits.
– Stonepeace | Books
It is Buddhist general knowledge, that the Fifth Precept for beginner Buddhists is to abstain from consumption of intoxicants. The usual definition of intoxicants...
Feb. 17 |
Before ‘diving’ into fantasy, this eco-conscious comedy starts off on a serious foot – with sobering actual footages of deforestation, pollution and bloody slaughter of big fish. All in the name of life ‘improvement’, as directed...
Sep. 30 | The lay Buddhist precepts are
encouraged for all to uphold always,
especially in times being tempted,
by greed, hatred and delusion.
– Stonepeace | Books
According to the Brahmā Net Sūtra’s (梵网经) ‘Fourteenth [Secondary Bodhisattva] Precept...
Apr. 20 | The thoroughly unenlightened
manifest confused rebirths
which further confuse themselves.
– Stonepeace
There is a phenomenon called ‘confusion from separation (from previous lives) by death’ (隔阴之迷), which is the forgetting of...
Jul. 26 | 20 lessons learnt from ‘The Cove’, which is an intriguing must-see, be one a dolphin lover or not…
1. Dolphins are not all happy just because they appear to be ‘smiling’.
2. Dolphins are easily stressed by sounds as they...
Jul. 19 | In the movie ‘Four’, the first story ‘A Noob’s Human Holocaust’ tells of a gang of guys discussing about global warming, about how the passion for reversing it has cooled down worldwide, much to their dismay. (This is arguably...
Dec. 28 | In case you don’t know him, Yogi Bear isn’t a yogi (Buddhist meditator or of the like). He’s quite the opposite – totally unmeditative! He is a bear but not just any bear. As he would often define of himself, he is ‘smarter...
Nov. 2 | Question: Why are human beings here since all we do is make a mess of our own lives and everything else?
Answer: Most of us like to assume there is a fixed purpose in life, but the truth is, there is none. This is not to say life is unpurposeful or should...
Apr. 8 | … I am committed to cultivating the insight of interbeing and compassion and to learning ways to protect the lives of people, animals, plants and minerals…
– Thich Nhat Hanh
(The first mindfulness training)
Many Buddhist traditions encourage...
Mar. 18 | Recycling your materials
recycles your blessings
– Stonepeace
While the modern economic principle of lowering costs and increasing profits seems like a model for economic efficiency, once we factor in the additional costs of environmental pollution,...
Jan. 27 | In order to turn the worlds into pure Buddha-worlds,
in which all living beings can be enlightened,
Bodhisattvas should not eat meat.
[As there is no killing or demand for it in Purelands.]
– The Buddha: Lankavatara Sutra
The Buddha once told his...
Aug. 14 | Your harmony is when your Buddha-nature
makes peace with nature.
World harmony is when our Buddha-nature
makes peace with nature.
– Stonepeace
One day during meditation, I was contemplating global warming… With some anguish, I asked Nature this...