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Posts tagged with "karma"
Sep. 7 |
In the tight comedic scripting of ‘She’s Funny That Way’, the audience quickly realises how each person is linked to another. As a film ‘law’ of sorts, it is no coincidence at all, that protagonist 1 knows protagonist...
Aug. 4 |
Question: Some claim great Bodhisattvas do not intervene to help those with ripening negative karma. However, we know that all Bodhisattvas vow to help all beings. How should this ‘contradiction’ be understood?
Answer: Great Bodhisattvas...
Jul. 8 |
Non-integrity is not to be ashamed of yourself;inconsideration of others is not being embarrassed with regard to others.Haughtiness is the incapacity of honoring others.Fury is a mental disturbance caused by anger.— Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland...
Mar. 27 |
鸟来入瓶中,以縠掩瓶口。縠穿鸟飞去,识神随业走。
《大智度论》
When a bird comes to enter a vase within,with fine gauze covered is the vase’s mouth.When the gauze is penetrated, the bird flies...
Mar. 24 |
Question: Is it so that we have to exhaust all our negative karma before we can become liberated?
Answer: No. This can be clearly known by looking at the case of Maudgalyāyana (Moggallāna). Although he has already attained self-liberation as...
Jan. 27 |
Is this yet another Spider-Man movie? Yes and no. Yes, it seems like a(nother) more teen-focused take, for the younger generation, to create new Spidey fans perhaps. No, as it does imagine, kind of to warn, of some potentially up and rising ills...
Jan. 25 | Preaching about karma
without practising accordingly
creates worse karma.*
* By being a negative example
instead of an expected good one.
Jan. 2 |
生死事大, 光阴可惜。 无常迅速,时不待人。— 寺院钟板文Birth and death is a matter big,and time available is regrettably little.With impermanence swift,time does not wait for one.— Text On Temple Sounding Board
Some...
Dec. 30 |
TDND is a documentary series on the case of Ivan Mykolaiovych Demjanjuk, who lived as an ordinary family man, about whether he was truly ‘Ivan the Terrible’, the nickname given to a notoriously cruel guard at the Treblinka extermination...
Nov. 16 | Your willingness to
say and do what you will
will make you culpable.
Nov. 13 |
Those with great greed become hungry ghosts.Those with great hatred become hell-beings.Those with great delusion become animals.
Of the Ten Unwholesome Karmic Paths, the most severe are causes for the hells, the average degrees are causes...
Oct. 31 |
古古怪,怪怪古,孙子娶祖母。
猪羊炕上坐,六亲锅里煮。
女吃母之肉,子打父皮鼓。
众人来贺喜,我看真是苦!
– 志公禅师
How oddly strange, how strangely odd,
that a grandson is marrying his father’s...
Oct. 19 |
Even the theoretical ‘truth’
that there are no truths
is a ‘truth’ if it is true,
that invalidates itself.
– Nowanden (Part 1)
Will one who ‘renounced’ the Triple Gem to embrace another faith still be ‘haunted’...
Sep. 23 |
What is the meaning, purpose or point of this life, be it long or short? These existential issues are pondered by a dog, who is able to recall several immediate past lives. Is it just to have fun and games, to play and eat? If only it is that...
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]...