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Be More Mindful Of The Ocean Not Its Waves
Jan. 1 | What to be dissolved is not the self, but the sense of self, by realising it is not there in the first place. – Shilashanti Suzuki Roshi… had a very helpful way of describing the relief that comes from getting over yourself. He used the expression...
The Buddha’s Leading Lay Disciple’s Dialogue With Mahavira
Jul. 11 | In the case of words that the Tathagata knows to be unfactual, untrue, unbeneficial, unendearing and disagreeable to others, he does not say them. – Sakyamuni Buddha (Abhaya Sutta) [Citta was the model Buddhist layman whose learning and behaviour the...
Why A Monk Shattered His One Precious Bowl
Feb. 24 | 若人欲拿金碧峰， 除非铁鍊锁虛空， 虛空若能锁得住， 再來拿我金碧峰。 – 金碧峰禅师 If one desires to seize Jin Bifeng, unless able to use metal chains to lock empty space, [and] if empty space is able to be locked...
How To Be Free From Demonic Obstacles
Jun. 26 | 虽则身心，无杀盗淫… 若大妄语，即三摩地， 不得清净，成爱见魔， 失如来种。 Although thus with bodies and minds without killing, stealing [and] sexual (mis)conduct… if [beings are with] great false speech, immediately,...
Why Do I ‘Naturally’ Hold My Breath During Meditation?
Aug. 14 | Question: I realised that I tend to hold my breath when I practise meditation on mindfulness of breathing (Anapanasati meditation, as a kind a Samatha or calm-abiding meditation). But when I breathe, I would be controlling my breathing, while holding...
The Importance Of Teaching Appropriately
Aug. 4 | Although there are many Dharma doors, each more appropriate for some, there are also some Dharma doors, the most appropriate for most. – Stonepeace | Get Books When Buddha Sakyamuni was alive, during his many travels, a group of devotees sought...
Awaken To The Light Of Understanding
Dec. 28 | When your mind is not clear… you may well take a thief to be your own child. – The Buddha (Surangama Sutra) When you practice meditation in stillness and enter samadhi, the essence of your mind merges with the Bodhisattvas of the ten directions...
At The Beginning, Middle And End Of Meditation
Aug. 16 | Life doesn’t stay in place, even for just a moment. – Gampopa Gampopa said, “When you first begin to practice, you must be like a deer locked in a pen, or a prisoner in jail, urgently seeking a way out of samsara. In the intermediate...
How To Enjoy Life More Fully
Aug. 10 | Your life’s happiness is directly proportional to mindfulness of life itself. While unmindfulness prolongs suffering, Right Mindfulness lessens suffering, and approaches True Happiness. – Stonepeace When we speak of the cultivation of Right...
The Buddha’s Eight Remedies For Drowsiness
May. 31 | If one does not even resolve to stay awake, how can one resolve to fully awaken? – Stonepeace Drowsiness is a common recurring problem for many meditators (and chanting practitioners, as chanting is a meditative practice too). If we fail to counter...
Two Proven Pain-Free Solutions For Meditators
May. 2 | The only good about suffering is that it reminds us that it is good to rise above it. – Stonepeace A recurring problem for many beginner meditators (and those who practise chanting, which is essentially a meditative practice too) is that of physical...
Should I Practise Non-Buddhist Meditation?
Apr. 18 | Question: Is it alright for Buddhists to practise a ‘third eye meditation’ technique that I came across? There is no reference to the Buddha’s teachings though. Answer: Here are thoughts to share on this, using mindfulness of Amituofo...
Neither Fearing Nor Clinging To Failure
Nov. 7 | With aversion of failure, one does not try. With attachment to failure, one does not retry. – Stonepeace There is a saying that is useful for practitioners: “Put down the myriad thoughts. Take up the practice.” The myriad thoughts are...
The Silent Yet Noisy Falling Tree?
Sep. 20 | The practice of all the bodhisattvas is never to entertain concepts, which revolve around dualistic notions of perceiver and perceived, in the knowledge that all these appearances are but the mind itself, whilst mind’s own nature is forever beyond the...
