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Posts tagged with "interdependence"
May. 8 |
What makes a country what it is physically? If it is the land itself, what if it is being expanded upon by reclaiming land, with sand from other countries? Being one of the world’s largest sand importer, if Singapore’s millions of tons of...
Jan. 16 |
In short, both directly and indirectly, do I offer every happiness and benefit to all my mothers. I shall secretly take upon myself all their harmful actions and suffering.
– Geshe Langri Tangpa
Reflections On ‘The Eight Verses Of Thought Transformation’...
Aug. 8 |
Potential is there,
yet as if ‘not there’,
if never actualised.
– Zhaojian
[1] We Have Great Potential: We all have Buddha-nature, which is the perfect potential to become fully liberated and enlightened Buddhas, with True Happiness. This...
Dec. 21 |
Question: Are my similar experiences purely coincidental, or all due to X?
Answer: In this universe of cause and effect, there are never any ‘pure coincidences’, as in totally random or chance events experienced. While what happens in our...
Mar. 18 |
众会聚集,
当愿众生,
舍众聚法,
成一切智。
– 文殊菩萨
(华严经: 净行品11: 第10偈)
[When] multitudes meet and gather,
[reflect that] ‘May sentient beings,
renounce the many gathered dharmas,*
[and] accomplish...
Feb. 17 |
Before ‘diving’ into fantasy, this eco-conscious comedy starts off on a serious foot – with sobering actual footages of deforestation, pollution and bloody slaughter of big fish. All in the name of life ‘improvement’, as directed...
Sep. 30 | The lay Buddhist precepts are
encouraged for all to uphold always,
especially in times being tempted,
by greed, hatred and delusion.
– Stonepeace | Books
According to the Brahmā Net Sūtra’s (梵网经) ‘Fourteenth [Secondary Bodhisattva] Precept...
May. 2 | Everything symbolises something
which symbolises something else…
which symbolises everything too.
Apr. 20 | Isolated case?
There is nothing other than…
Interconnections.
Mar. 25 | We are all made
of star stuff made
by our mind stuff.
Sep. 6 | To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
– William Blake (Opening Verse from ‘Auguries of Innocence’)
This celebrated stanza is often seen to be...
Aug. 24 | The more clearly we see phenomena,
we will see there is
no clearly distinct or static phenomena.
– Stonepeace
The value of pi is that when the circumference of any circle is divided with its diameter. This mathematical constant is approximately...
Mar. 28 | Nothing is independent.
Every thing is interdependent upon other things.
Even these ‘other things’ are interdependent upon more things.
Even those ‘more things’ are interdependent upon even more things.
Everything is interconnected.
–...
Oct. 11 | Whether we realise this or not,
we are interconnected.
When we realise this,
we can interconnect more fruitfully.
– Stonepeace
In the Rukkhadhamma Jataka, a quarrel had arisen regarding water rights. In response, the Buddha told a tale of his past...
Oct. 11 | A being who has not been your mother
at one time in the past is not easy to find.
A being who has not been your father
at one time in the past is not easy to find.
A being who has not been your brother
at one time in the past is not easy to find.
A...