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Posts tagged with "liberation"
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. 30 |
For that which I have proclaimedand made known as the Dharma and the Discipline,that shall be your Master when I am gone.– Śākyamuni Buddha(Mahāparinibbāṇa Sutta)
What if you encounter a so-called famous ‘master’, who claims...
Jan. 10 |
善哉解脱服,钵吒礼忏衣, 我今顶戴受, 世世常得披。 This excellent liberation garment,the patta* prostration and repentance robe,I now with my crown support and receive it,** in life after life, may I always attain draping...
Dec. 31 |
Question: What does Buddhism say about the end of the world?
Answer: As Buddhism speaks of the whole universe, with many planets and such, its teachings are not merely earth-centric. Since nothing physical in Saṃsāra (i.e. cycle of rebirth)...
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. 20 |
汝粗得其门,
当传灯化物,
莫作最后断种人也。
– 慧思大师致智者大师之遗教
《佛祖统纪》第六卷
智者大师最后教诲乃
亲自得生阿弥陀佛极乐净土
You, who have just attained this [Dharma] Door,
should...
Sep. 17 |
Question: What are Buddhist meditative practices for? Can they be for relaxation and the sharpening of mindfulness for work and play?
Answer: They are for training, to attain enlightenment, which leads to liberation from the cycle of birth and death....
Aug. 26 |
Like it or not, life now is as if a giant escape room puzzle with minor puzzles within to escape from. Such escape is not from rightly due responsibilities, but from saṃsāric (娑婆) existence itself. It is the ultimate escape, for attaining...
Aug. 12 |
When trapped on the planet Sakaar, there was this conversation… Korg: I’m actually organising another revolution. I don’t know if you’d be interested in something like that. Do you reckon you’d be interested?...
Jul. 10 | With my diligence, carefully
I examined the body
And saw this as it really is —
Both within and without.
– Nanda
(Thig 84)
Because Nanda was so taken up with her physical beauty, the Buddha used his psychic powers to conjure up the vision of an even...
Jul. 4 |
As not choosing
is also choosing,
do consider well
to choose well.
– Shilashanti
[1] First, you might
not liberate yourself
before this life ends,
but you can choose where reborn.
[2] Second, you might
not care where
you will be reborn,
but such rebirth...
Jun. 28 |
Heedfulness is the path to the Deathless.
Heedlessness is the path to death.
The heedful die not.
The heedless are as if dead already.
– The Buddha
(Dhammapada Verse 21)
Jun. 6 |
It all seems so stupid,
it makes me want to give up…
– Shame: First half of chorus
(Depeche Mode)
The classic 1987 Depeche Mode concert anthem, ‘Never Let Me Down Again‘, is about a debatable ‘best friend’, who is taking...
May. 31 |
Much though he recites the sacred texts,
but acts not accordingly,
that heedless man is like a cowherd
who only counts the cows of others –
he does not partake of the blessings of the holy life.
Little though he recites the sacred texts,
but puts the...
May. 30 |
The wise are grateful
for their ancestors’ good,
and never resentful
for their mistakes.
– Nowanden (Part 1)
Is it so, that many generations’ accumulation of merits is needed, for us to be able to learn and practise the Dharma? Although...