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Posts tagged with "intention"
How To Not Follow Customs Blindly
Mar. 20 | Question: Some are very particular that red packets (angbaos) given must be with amounts of money ending with 8 (which sounds in a Chinese dialect like ‘huat’, which means ‘prosper’), and not 4 (which sounds like ‘die’)....
Is It Bad Karma To Report Inconsiderate Parking?
Dec. 19 | Question: When I see inconsiderate drivers parking at lots reserved for the handicapped, I consider reporting their cars. If they get fined, will I have negative karma? Answer: If you will create negative karma for doing so, all parking attendants will...
Which Of These Four Actions Do You Create?
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...
Beyond ‘Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond’
Mar. 2 | This documentary (2017) features how one famous comedian Jim Carrey portrayed another famed comedian – Andy Kaufman (1949-1984) in the latter’s biopic – ‘Man On The Moon’ (1999). What intriguing is that Jim attempted to do what...
What If You Can Fulfil ‘Absolutely Anything’?
May. 18 | Sampled by ‘superior’ aliens, Neil is lent the power to wish absolutely anything to reality. It was a test to see if humans know good from evil, to deserve life as usual, or to be destroyed – if deemed too stupid and dangerous to the rest...
A Buddhist Tale Of Sex & Violence
May. 8 | Those who intentionally break precepts with plans to repent after doing so will find it very difficult to repent truly. – Stonepeace | Books Once when the Buddha Shakyamuni was in the world, there were two Bhikshus [Buddhist monks] cultivating in the...
The Buddha Path Of ‘The Man With The Iron Fists (2)’?
Aug. 4 | In ‘The Man With The Iron Fists 2’, is this interesting dialogue. Li Kung says, ‘We are desperate people, Thaddeus. I need to liberate us from the ruthless Beetle Clan. And when that fight comes, my people need a way to protect themselves....
Intentions & Experiences
May. 17 | Be swifter in knowing if your intentions are good or bad. Be slower in deciding if your experiences are good or bad. – Stonepeace
On Eating Animals
Oct. 13 | As you are shaped by your intentional actions, you are also what, who, why and how you eat. – Stonepeace In the Mahayana sutras, Buddha advised his followers not to eat meat. Not only is it nonvirtuous to bring direct harm to another being, but...
