Tag - rebirth
Should Others Smile Or Cry At Your Wake?
Significance Of 12 Analogies In The Sūtra In Which The Buddha Speaks Of Analogies《佛说譬喻经》之十二譬喻的意义
‘They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?’ But Should They?
What Is Most Essential For Buddhists To Master?
Seven ‘Recurring’ Lessons From ‘Russian Doll’
Is This The Horror Of Horrors?
Towards The True ‘Happily Ever After’
Should We Help The Deceased Within 49 Or 100 Days After Death?
Rebirthday Haiku
Is Dying Younger More Unfortunate?
A Review Of Epicurus’ ‘Deadly’ Existential Mistake
Which Realm Has The Most Beings?
How Should Buddhists See Birthdays?
Why Dread Karmic Retribution?
Wáng Yángmíng’s Fantastic Encounter 王阳明奇遇记
Bird In Vase
The Chicken Or Egg Question In ‘The Coldest Game’
What Truly Scary About ‘The Ghost Bride’
Day Haiku
Should Buddhists Take Their Time Spiritually?
Respite Haiku
Out & ‘In The Shadow Of The Moon’
How Comedies Can Become Scary Movies
How Two Grandsons Married Their ‘Grandmothers’ 二孙如何娶祖母
Is ‘A Dog’s Purpose’ Ours Too?
What Are Buddhist Meditative Practices Truly For?
Breaking Free Of Rebirth In ‘Thor: Ragnarok’
Six Matters You Might Wish To Consider Now
‘The Song Of Patience By Hánshān & Shídé’ As Sung By The Bodhisattvas Mañjuśrī, Samantabhadra & Maitreya 文殊、普贤与弥勒菩萨所唱的《寒山拾得忍耐歌》
Have You Chosen Your Last Thought Yet?
The Right Way For ‘The Highwaymen’?
How Were ‘We’ Like Before Becoming Humans?
Verse On Four Impermanences 四非常偈
How To Have Thought Of Being Reborn In Pure Land? 如何作往生想？
How Did Ignorance Arise?
What If You Are Reborn Here Again?
Snow Haiku
Diligence Haiku
How To Not Be Reborn As Animals
One Way To Understand ‘Two’ Kinds Of Impermanence
Which Of These Four Actions Do You Create?
‘Jason Bourne’ Vs His Past Karma
Lost & Found In ‘The Sea Of Trees’ 在《青木原树海》遗失与找到自己
Countdown Haiku
Nobler Brotherhood For ‘A Better Tomorrow 2018’
How To Have The Ultimately Blissful Reunion
The Top 10 Buddhist Assurances
Can Faith In Any Deity Help The Dying?
Busting The ‘Ghostbusters’?
Is Life Just A Lamp To Be Snuffed Out?
‘Meet Joe Black’, Life & Death
Existential Chats In ‘Café Society’
A Buddhist Retells The Myth Of Sisyphus
A Buddhist Retells The Myth Of Orpheus & Eurydice
How ‘Demolition’ Led To Reconstruction
Are You Waiting For Your ‘Guru’ To Find You?
Cent Haiku
Why You Should Master The Pure Land Teachings Now
Meaning Haiku
Destination Pureland: How To Have The Best Rebirth (7th Run)
Rebirth Haiku
‘Jessica Jones’s Brawn Vs Kilgrave’s Brain?
Should Buddhists Have Kids?
Are Realms In Other Faiths Elsewhere?
Forgetful Bodhisattvas & Maras Of ‘Gantz:O’
Life Haiku
Transcending The Limits Of Worldly Philosophies
Growing Up In ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’
The Boy Who Eats Too Many Sweets
Is The Reborn Person Same Or Different?
Verse On Exit
Should I Work In A Prison?
Should I Donate Some Now Or All Later?
The Buddha’s Admonition Against Not Severing Lust
Ghost-Counsellors Over ‘Ghostbusters’!
Where Best To Go When This Life Ends?
Karma Follows Like A Shadow Does
How Shariputra Saw A Man, His Son & Their Dog
Sg: Destination Pureland: How To Have The Best Rebirth (4th Run)
The Lying ‘Snake’ Vs The Sitting ‘Toad’
My: Destination Pureland: How To Have The Best Rebirth (5th Run)
How Bridesmaids Meet Revata’s Ghosts And Theseus’ Ship
How Can Niànfó Prevent The Worst Rebirth To Attain The Best? 念佛如何能免堕地狱而得生净土？
Self-Plea Haiku
‘Begin Again’, Play It Again?
Why A Monk Shattered His One Precious Bowl
Wild Greed, ‘Wild City’
How A Monk Became A Bug
How Do You Celebrate Your Re-Birthday?
What Happens After Suicide & How Can We Help?
Are Prayers For The Distant Deceased Helpful?
Destination Pureland: How To Have The Best Rebirth (3rd Run)
Is It Not Compassionate To Have Children?
[Full Review] What If You Are A ‘Tulku’? (‘Recognised Reborn Master’)
[Brief Review] What If You Are A ‘Tulku’? (‘Recognised Reborn Master’)
How To Sabotage Yourself In This & Future Lives
Can We Freeze & Resurrect One Another?
Circle Haiku
The Body Candle & The Mind Flame
How To Have Harmonious Inter-Religious Dialogue
An Open Letter To Buddhist Practitioners
Truth Over ‘The Theory Of Everything’
If You Think YOLO, You Should Know YOLNO!
Rebirth Haiku
Destination Pureland: How To Have The Best Rebirth (2nd Run)
Precious Human Rebirth
10 Lessons From ‘The Fault In Our Stars’
Why Fear Death If We Will Be Reborn Human?
Rebirth Haiku
A Matter Of Life & Death
Are There Deadly Water Ghosts?
Are You Reborn Or Reincarnated?
An Often Hungry Arhat Meets A Well Fed Elephant
Is Mercy-Killing Really Merciful?
How The Buddha Consoled A Bereaved Mother
The Monk Attached To Sugar Cane
The Buddha’s Advice For Vanquishing Fear
Can Buddhists Be Time Travellers?
Do We Have To Relearn The Dharma Life To Life?
Live & Die
Enough Focus
How Death Hinders Progress To Liberation
The Sage, The Lady, And The Fish
From The Fiscal Cliff To The Spiritual Cliff
Can ‘Buddhists’ Not Believe In Rebirth?
How Can Some With Good Karma Become Evil?
Bittersweet Haiku
Is Buddhism Against Childbirth?
True Dharma Practice
Can Creating Good Karma ‘Become’ Bad Karma?
Who Has Been To Pure Land & Back?
How Do We Recognise The Wise?
How Right Is Your Livelihood?
Universal Appreciation Of Goodness
The Buddha’s Victory Over A God & Demon
Can The Buddha Help All?
Is Mindfulness Of Buddha Applicable In Everyday Life?
Lacking Spiritual Urgency, Means & Direction
Three Types Of Karma
How Pure Land Facilitates Fruition Of Bodhicitta
Why Go On A Buddhist Pilgrimage?
Is The Buddha Just A Man?
How Even The Gods May Fall
The Middle Path Between Nihilism & Eternalism
From The ‘Womb’ Of Attachment Or Love?
Same Old Same Old? What’s New?
Are You Sure You Closed The Window?
Are You An Outcast?
Should Sick Babies Be Aborted?
Are Accident Victims Bodhisattvas?
How To Stop Being A Snake
Claims of Enlightenment?
A Human Survivor of Battlestar Galactica’s Cylon Ride Speaks
The ‘Black Swan’ Mara
Where Is Your ‘Hereafter’?
The Four Harmonious Friends (Bird, Hare, Monkey & Elephant)
A Buddhist Vision Of ‘The Child’s Eye’
Aftershock Of The Human Heart
Can ‘The Losers’ Really Win?
Return of ‘The Wolfman’
Is It Better To Not Observe Any Precepts?
What If You Were a Vampire in ‘Daybreakers’?
How to Truly Live Long & Prosper
Serious Stuff from ‘Funny People’
The Keeper of ‘My Sister’s Keeper’ is My Sister
Who is ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’?
‘Sankara’s Magical Touch of Theravadin Zen
