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Posts tagged with "morality"
Nov. 12 |
If you are not able to choose,it is not your choice to make,not your responsibility to bear.— Shilashanti
In ethical philosophy, perhaps the most famous dilemma is that of ‘Trolleyology’ – the ‘Trolley Problem’....
Dec. 18 |
Without the right motivationtowards the right goal, anything in between might be wrong. – Shilashanti
As noted by Matthieu Ricard, a French Buddhist monk, ‘There can be mindful snipers and mindful psychopaths who maintain a calm and stable...
Oct. 19 |
If pure, think it appropriately.If true, say it appropriately.If right, do it appropriately.
If impure do not think it.If untrue, do not say it.If not right, do not do it. – Nowanden
Oct. 3 |
First, be inspired by the Triple Gem
to take refuge in the Triple Gem.
– Shilashanti
As the Pure Land Tradition’s 13th Patriarch Great Master Yìnguāng (净土宗十三祖印光大师) taught in his ‘Third Reply Letter To Layperson Gāo Shàolín’...
Oct. 2 | Mindfulness is good –
but what guides your mindfulness,
if not sound ethics,
and where does it lead to,
if not true enlightenment?
– Shilashanti
The conspicuous absence of a path for ethical development in the secularized mindfulness movement creates...
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....
Sep. 5 |
恶人转多,
如海中沙。
– 释迦牟尼佛
《佛说法灭尽经》
Evil persons will multiply to be many,
like sands’ number within the ocean.
– Śākyamuni Buddha
(Sūtra In Which The Buddha Speaks Of The Dharma’s Complete End)
According...
Aug. 22 |
首楞严经,般舟三昧,先化灭去。十二部经寻后复灭,尽不复现,不见文字。– 释迦牟尼佛《佛说法灭尽经》
The Śūraṅgama Sūtra, and the Pratyutpanna Samādhi Sūtra,will be the first sūtras to transform...
Aug. 15 |
吾涅槃后法欲灭时,
五逆浊世魔道兴盛。
– 释迦牟尼佛
《佛说法灭尽经》
After my Parinirvāṇa, when the Dharma is about to end,
in this Five Heinous Transgressions’
and Five Defilements’ Evil Age,
demonic paths...
Jul. 24 | Our spiritual health demands
that we let go of anger,
or else it will never let go of us.
– Seneca
Seneca, to judge by his self-presentation in his writings, was a self-reflective and inward-looking man. He describes, in one of the passages...
Jul. 17 | Mind your mind mindfully,
or it will be ‘minded’
by its negative habits
of greed, hatred and delusion.
– Shilashanti
‘We control our reasoned choice and all acts that depend on that moral will. What’s not under our control are...
Jul. 1 | With technological advances, there is an ever-thinning fine line between reality and virtuality; real-life versus ‘fun and games’. What if the day comes, when the fantastically and sensually simulated is maximised so much, that it is preferred...
May. 8 | Morality is doing
what should be done,
not what should not be done.
Apr. 26 | Without the spiritual wheel of the Dharma,
all worldly wheels but turn in endless cycles,
seemingly getting somewhere but nowhere.
– Shilashanti
“The monks since the time of the Buddha have represented the wheel of truth and righteousness, the...
Mar. 6 | Just that youdo the right thing.The rest doesn’t matter…
– Marcus Aurelius(Meditations)
Cold or warm.Tired or well-rested.Despised or honored.Dying… or busy with other assignments.