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Posts tagged with "perception"
Dec. 28 |
‘Atonement’ is a believable cautionary tale on the ills of an over-active imagination, which can lead to the ‘natural’ ease of spinning destructive and false testimonials. Seeing only little of what to be seen, while speculating...
Sep. 21 | The palette
is also painted
with the painting.
Sep. 2 |
In the first act of the theatrical production (ironically and comically produced for TV), the proverbial starting gun is spotted on a table, as this dialogue ensues… Miss Machbeth: Don’t touch that. It’s a gun. Aren’t...
Jul. 13 | Even the small moon
reflecting the big sun
can eclipse it totally.
Jul. 12 |
不举他功过,
勿观作未作,
唯观己修行,
已修与未修。
– 佛陀
(法句经,第50偈)
Let none find fault with others;
let none see the omissions and commissions of others.
But let one see one’s own acts, done and undone.
–...
Jul. 8 |
In ‘Arrival’, a language expert (Dr. Banks) requested to ask another ‘expert’ on the Sanskrit word for ‘war’ and its translation. The reply was ‘gravisti’, and that is means ‘an argument’. Banks...
Jun. 29 | What tests you
is also
what teaches you.
Apr. 3 |
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...
Mar. 20 |
极圆极顿,
难议难思,
唯有大智,
方能谛信。
– 净土宗九祖澫益大师
《佛说阿弥陀经要解》
Extremely complete [and] extremely sudden [for enlightenment], difficult [to] discuss [and] difficult [to] conceive, only with...
Dec. 26 |
‘The Kominsky Method’ is a bittersweet drama series on the challenges of two old friends growing older together, as they look out for each other while musing on life. Sandy Kominsky is an acting coach, who just lost a dear friend to sickness....
Aug. 1 | The obstacle on the path
is part of the path;
not end of the path.
Jul. 18 |
Pain is inevitable.
Suffering is optional.
– Buddhist Saying
At the clinic, I saw how a kid was dragged by his mother into the doctor’s room. When the door closed, almost immediately from the outside, some screaming could be heard. Perhaps he...
Jun. 27 | Words are empowered
as much by their speakers
as by their listeners.
– Shilashanti
Once a monk was called to heal a sick child with a few words of paritta [protection] chanting. A skeptic in the crowd observed it all and expressed doubts about such...
May. 15 |
When we are no longer
able to change a situation,
we are challenged to change ourselves.
– Viktor Frankl
(Man’s Search For Meaning)
In the movie ‘The Week Of’, Isaac the boy had to sit on a bench when his baseball coach ushered the...
Apr. 7 |
Question: When I visited a temple, the Buddha statue there seemed to stir up some aversion in me, as its face did not look peaceful or compassionate to me. Does this feeling create negative karma? The fierce statues of Dharma Protectors do not give...