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Apr. 3 | ‘Elysium’ comes from the Greek word ‘Elusion’, which means ‘(plain) of the blessed’, which is supposedly at the ends of the earth, as offered to heroes favoured by the gods after death – a place or state of perfect...
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. 12 |
Those who have ignorance
will engage in bad karma
and go to hell.
Those who have ignorance
will create good karma
and go to heaven.
Those who are wise
will go beyond karma,
and attain liberation.*
– Chandrakirti
* By progressing towards purity,
swiftest...
Nov. 27 |
The very shortsighted
must learn to see
much further.
– Shilashanti
The Kukkuravatika Sutta records how Puṇṇa (of the Koliyans), an ox-duty ascetic, and Seniya the naked dog-duty ascetic learnt the error of their ways through the Buddha. Prior...
Nov. 8 |
There are four kinds of [karmic] actions
proclaimed by me,
after realising them for myself
with direct knowledge.
– Śākyamuni Buddha
(Kukkuravatika Sutta)
(As paraphrased and extended from the second half of the Kukkuravatika Sutta)
[1] There are dark...
Sep. 5 |
若有众生,
闻是说者,
应当发愿,
生彼国土。
– 释迦牟尼佛
(佛说阿弥陀经)
If there are beings
who hear this,
they should vow
to be born in that [Pure] Land.
– Śākyamuni Buddha
(Sūtra [In Which The] Buddha Speaks [Of]...
Aug. 13 |
I’m the one who asked Brahmā
in the Hall of Justice before the assembly:
‘Friend, do you still have the same view
that you had in the past?
Or do you see the radiance
transcending the Brahmā realm?’
[to be continued…]
–...
Aug. 1 |
According to one doctrine, there is a great, self-existent [i.e. uncreated] deity whose substance is real and who is all-pervading [i.e. omnipresent], eternal, and the producer of all phenomena [as a creator]…. If something [or someone] produces...
May. 27 |
The world suddenly becomes apocalyptically chaotic, as the good are beamed up to heaven directly, while the rest fend for themselves, often fighting one another. At first hanging out to party hedonistically with his more of less equally indulgent friends,...
Aug. 24 |
The mind is its own place,
and in itself can make
a heaven of hell,
a hell of heaven.
– John Milton
(The below is based on a personal past experience)
Admitted to the first hospital
due to outbreak of drug allergy.
Sluggishly, the cause remained undiscovered,
with...
Aug. 18 |
The following is perhaps the most interesting part of the critically acclaimed ‘Hail, Caesar!‘ It is an argument over the nature of God, as believed by some faiths. (You can catch the humourously depicted debate at https://youtube.com/watch?v=KJEiDRi4Itc)...
Jul. 20 | An hour sitting with a pretty girl
on a park bench passes like a minute,
but a minute sitting on a hot stove
seems like an hour.
– Albert Einstein (paraphrased)
A day and a night in the Heaven of the Four Kings is equivalent to fifty years among...
Jan. 10 | All Buddhas only wish
that all practise and share
the Dharma well to benefit all.
– Stonepeace
According to the Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra, Mara (the most evil heavenly demon king from the Paranirmita-vashavartin heaven) once disguised as Sakra (the...
Nov. 21 | If merits and wisdom
are always steadily cumulative
from life to life,
we should be liberated already.
– Stonepeace
One might be reborn into very favourable physical and material circumstances as a result of past good karma ripening now. However,...
Sep. 12 | That even gods may fall
is a powerful reminder
that merely doing good
is not good enough.
– Stonepeace
Whoever has accumulated much merit, after his rebirth in the Deva-realms [heavenly planes of gods], lives there till the end of the life-span of that...