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Posts tagged with "hatred"
Jan. 20 |
How do you transform an enemy, to make him or her a friend? By offering unconditional help as a fellow human being. By giving the least expected, yet the most needed without being asked, how can an enemy not be moved to see the ‘enemy’...
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. 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
Aug. 14 | There are those who do not realize
that one day we all must die.
But those who do realize this
settle their quarrels.
– The Buddha
(Dhammapada Verse 6)
Let’s get rid of anger’s evil; let’s purge the mind, tear out by the roots that...
Jul. 24 | Our spiritual health demands
that we let go of anger,
or else it will never let go of us.
– Seneca
Seneca, to judge by his self-presentation in his writings, was a self-reflective and inward-looking man. He describes, in one of the passages...
Jul. 22 |
The film (幸福城市) begins in the midst of a casual yet cautionary song – ‘爱千万不要给得太多… 你今天将它挽留,明天它悄悄溜走。你将一切给我,我却不知如何接受。啊… 请你请你不要再来找我。世界上的男孩不只我一个。啊…...
Jul. 5 |
Whatever harm an enemy
may do to an enemy or a hater to a hater,
an ill-directed mind inflicts
on oneself a greater harm.
Neither mother, father,
nor any other relative
can do one greater good
than one’s own well-directed mind.
– The Buddha
(Dhammapada...
Jul. 1 | With technological advances, there is an ever-thinning fine line between reality and virtuality; real-life versus ‘fun and games’. What if the day comes, when the fantastically and sensually simulated is maximised so much, that it is preferred...
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...
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 |
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...
May. 8 |
忏悔文 (1)
我昔所造诸恶业,
皆由无始贪嗔痴,
从身语意之所生,
一切我今皆忏悔。
– 普贤菩萨
《华严经: 普贤行愿品》
Verse For Repentance (1)
Of all my past created evil karma,
all by beginningless greed,...