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Posts tagged with "faith"
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. 3 |
Question: Can those who do not believe in Bodhisattvas be saved by them?
Answer: The very definition of Bodhisattvas is that they are those who aspire to guide all beings to Buddhahood, which is the ultimate salvation, liberation from all suffering,...
Oct. 19 |
Even the theoretical ‘truth’
that there are no truths
is a ‘truth’ if it is true,
that invalidates itself.
– Nowanden (Part 1)
Will one who ‘renounced’ the Triple Gem to embrace another faith still be ‘haunted’...
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. 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...
May. 3 |
‘Come Kalamas. Do not go upon what has been acquired by
[1] repeated hearing; nor
[2] upon tradition; nor
[3] upon rumor; nor
[4] upon what is in a scripture; nor
[5] upon surmise; nor
[6] upon an axiom; nor
[7] upon specious...
Apr. 26 |
The fundamental practice NOW
is to take good care of
this thought in this moment,
from thought to thought,
from moment to moment.
– Shilashanti
What will your last thought be, right before your coming rebirth? As the natural working of death-proximate...
Apr. 18 |
Being the fundamental source
of physical kindness in our lives,
our parents should first to be repaid,
by sharing the Dharma learnt with them.
– Shilashanti
As recounted by the Pure Land Tradition’s 2nd Patriarch Great Master Shàndǎo (净土宗二祖善导大师)...
Jan. 23 |
诸善男子,
汝等当信解
如来诚谛之语。
复告大众,
汝等当信解
如来诚谛之语。
又复告诸大众,
汝等当信解
如来诚谛之语。
– 释迦牟尼佛
《妙法莲华经》
(如来寿量品)
‘All good men...
Jan. 12 |
佛名大觉,具一切智,
若在世时,我母死后,
傥来问佛,必知处所。
– 婆罗门女
《地藏菩萨本愿经》
[The] Buddha [is] named [the] Great Awakened [One],
complete [with] all wisdom,
thus [on] when alive, [and]...
Dec. 11 |
破地狱偈 [1]
若人欲了知,三世一切佛,应观法界性,一切唯心造。
– 觉林菩萨《华严经》升夜摩天宫品第十九
Verse For Breaking Free From Hell [1]
If [a] person desires [to] understand fully,[the] three periods’...
Nov. 8 | Your mind cannot hold two thoughts at once.
This means that a single thought can occupy your entire mind.
Whether good or bad, everything stems from a single thought.
If we are careful with that first thought, even tragedies can be prevented.
– Haemin...
Nov. 1 | In a way, Buddhas confer predictions
of future attainment of Buddhahood
as the purest ‘self-fulfilling’ prophesies –
by inspiring greater practice towards it,
with which definitely reaches it, as predicted.
– Shilashanti
As I was reading...
Oct. 4 |
吾今来此世界八千返,
为此娑婆世界,
坐金刚华光王座。
– 释迦牟尼佛
《梵网经菩萨戒本》
I now [have] come [to] this world [for the] eight thousandth return, for this Sahā World[‘s sentient beings], sitting...
Sep. 20 |
设我得佛,十方众生,
至心信乐,欲生我国,
乃至十念,若不生者,不取正觉。
唯除五逆,诽谤正法。
– 释迦牟尼佛
《佛说无量寿经》
阿弥陀佛第十八大愿
If I, [Dharmākara Bodhisattva] attain...