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Posts tagged with "hell"
Feb. 10 |
The following clarifies on major myths propagated by the named series. In the Buddhist perspective, the very Chinese title of ‘The Ghost Bride’, as based on the book《彼岸之嫁》, which means ‘Marriage of the Other Shore’...
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. 28 | Do those who
wish hell on others
deserve hell too?
If hell is for rehabilitation,
why not repent now,
to avoid hell later?
Sep. 19 |
末世法灭之时,特驻此经,百年在世,接引众生,往生彼国。
– 释迦牟尼佛《无量寿经》
When it is the last period of the Dharma-Ending Age [which is this era],I will specially retain this sūtra, for one hundred [more]...
Aug. 13 |
Question: Is it so that those who have fallen into one of the three lower realms will have to be reborn in all three before they can exit from them?
Answer: It depends on where they fell to in the first place. (Note that from bottom up, from...
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…...
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...
Apr. 26 | ‘The Highwaymen’ tells the notorious case of Bonnie and Clyde, who were on the run from the law for over two years, who were twistedly idolised by the deluded as heroes, despite having committed 13 murders, with multiple robberies and burglaries....
Apr. 3 |
末世法灭之时,
特驻此经,
百年在世,
接引众生,
往生彼国。
– 释迦牟尼佛
《无量寿经》
When it is the last period of the Dharma-Ending Age [which is this era], I will specially retain this Sūtra, for one hundred...
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...
Dec. 11 |
破地狱偈 [3]
每自作是念:
‘以何令众生,
得入无上道,
速成就佛身?’
– 释迦牟尼佛
《法华经》如来寿量品第十六
Verse For Breaking Free From Hell [3]
[I] always personally have this thought,
‘With...
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. 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...