Home » Posts tagged with "Middle Path"
Posts tagged with "Middle Path"
How Do You Grasp Emptiness?
Dec. 28 | 色不异空；空不异色； 色即是空；空即是色；– 心经 （观世音菩萨） Form is not different from emptiness; emptiness is not different from form; form is the same as emptiness; emptiness is the same as form. – Heart Sutra (Guanshiyin...
How To Appreciate Blooming & Withering Peonies
Dec. 13 | 色不异空； 空不异色； 色即是空； 空即是色。 – 观世音菩萨 （心经） Form is not different from emptiness; emptiness is not different from form; form is the same as emptiness; emptiness is the same as form. – Guanshiyin...
Should One’s Past Form Be Seen As Empty?
Aug. 2 | Question: It is said that we should not be attached to emptiness… Answer: … and not be attached to form too, while it is practically safer to be skilfully ‘attached’ to pure forms (such as that of Pure Land) as the best stepping...
When Is Your Good Or Bad Karma’s ‘Due Date’?
Jul. 13 | Near the beginning of the movie ‘Due Date’ is a minor accident before Ethan and Peter enter an airport. Ethan tries to console Peter – ‘My father always had a saying. When a day starts like this, it’s all uphill from here.’...
True Liberation
Feb. 22 | He who cling to emptiness And neglects compassion, Does not reach the highest stage. But he who practices only compassion, Does not gain release from toils of existence. He, however, who is strong in practice of both, Remains neither in Samsara nor in...
The Middle Way
Nov. 3 | ‘All exists,’ Kaccayana, this is one extreme, ‘All does not exist,’ this is the other extreme. Without veering towards either of these extremes, the Tathagata teaches the Dhamma by the Middle Way. — Sakyamuni Buddha (Samyutta...
‘Begin Again’, Play It Again?
Feb. 24 | ‘But are we all lost stars, trying to light up the dark?’ If you are a recording artist, trying to get your big break into the music scene, one song might change your life – for better or worse. If it is moving enough, resonating with many,...
Are There ‘Buddhist’ Extremists?
Oct. 20 | Question: How is it that there are some ‘Buddhist monastics’, who are supposed to be good at practising Metta (loving-kindness), who have instead become extreme racists against minorities in their countries? Answer: This is because they are...
Can You Say Your True Name?
Sep. 25 | The past mind cannot be attained, The present mind cannot be attained, The future mind cannot be attained. – Diamond Sūtra (Śākyamuni Buddha) 过去心不可得， 现在心不可得， 未来心不可得。 – 金刚经 (释迦牟尼佛) In the...
A Bodhisattva ‘Man Of Steel’?
Nov. 29 | Like a skilful transcendental Bodhisattva whom, as instructed by the Buddha, does not reveal his identity – so as to better enter and blend into the worldly masses and protect relations, Superman functions almost anonymously despite his obvious...
How The Buddha Enjoys Wonderful Scenery
Aug. 30 | The simplest spiritual joy begins with recognition and rejoice of the worthy. – Stonepeace In the Mahaparinibbana Sutta, the Buddha was recorded to have remarked, ‘Pleasant, Ananda, is Vesali; pleasant are the shrines of Udena, Gotamaka,...
How To Teach Kids The Third & Fifth Precept?
May. 17 | Question: How can kids be taught the Third & Fifth Precept, of abstaining from sexual misconduct and taking of intoxicants? Answer: For teaching the Third Precept to kids who have yet to reach puberty, I suggest teaching it ‘forward’,...
The Compassion & Wisdom Of Relative & Absolute Truths
Nov. 1 | To share absolute truths with those who need relative truths is to confuse instead of help. To share relative truths with those who need absolute truths is to belittle instead of enlighten. – Stonepeace Relative truths refer to conventional realities...
Danger Of Clinging To Emptiness
Oct. 24 | If one clings to the relative forms of all phenomena, one neglects the absolute emptiness of all phenomena. One makes forms an eternalistic dogma, and forgoes the wisdom of practising non-attachment [of the transient]. If one clings to the absolute...
