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Posts tagged with "three poisons"
Jul. 24 |
Being part of society,you shape the way it iswith the way you are.— Shilashanti
‘A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occurand...
Dec. 21 | As what truly harmful
are the Three Poisons,*
do not poison.**
As what truly harmful
are the Three Poisons,
do not be poisoned.***
* of greed, hatred and delusion
** to harm others
*** to harm oneself
Dec. 12 |
若众生心,忆佛念佛,现前当来,必定见佛。– 大势至菩萨 《念佛圆通章》 If sentient beings’ minds recollect the Buddha, and are mindful of the Buddha, now or in the future, they will definitely see the Buddha. ...
Sep. 30 |
The Jedi Master Luke Skywalker once saw his apprentice Ben Solo, to be so potentially dangerous, that he almost destroyed him, in a bid to prevent him from actualising this potential. Yet, in that very moment, Skywalker forgot the existence of Solo’s...
Sep. 16 |
If we mindfully reflect on the fantastic Greek myth of Perseus, we should realise that it is not truly a tale about external gods and monsters. Instead, it tells of how mere mortals are able to triumph despite seemingly impossible odds, with great...
Aug. 19 |
Based on a true story, ‘TND’ depicts the dawn of the AV industry in Japan. As presented, are four key ideas raised and reflections on them. First, we are born and die naked. However, being humans, not animals with fur, hide, scales or...
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...
Jun. 10 | All horror stories, fictitious or true, are tragedies.
All tragedies are with suffering.
All suffering is from the Three Poisons (of greed, hatred and delusion).
To have unhappy endings, there must be no resolution.
To have no resolution, there must be...
Jun. 3 | The KonMari Method is a technique to organise material stuff at home. Its first step is to heap especially clothes in one giant pile – to realise how much ‘more than enough’ one has. This creates motivation to declutter and to sort what...
May. 23 |
What if there is an secret camp of sorts, amidst the mountains, where for a fortnight, all don masks to hide their true identities, and are free to do whatever they wish? There, almost anything goes, though there are some basic rules to ensure there...
May. 16 |
古人云:「何以息谤?」
曰:「无辩。」
又云:「吃得小亏,则不至于吃大亏。」
余三十年来屡次经验,深信此数语真实不虚。
弘一大师
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Ancient ones say, ‘With...
May. 3 | Water with little poison
is no longer water,
but poison too.
May. 3 | ‘Triple Frontier’ (Or ‘Three Frontiers’) refers to ‘Três Fronteiras’, the Spanish name for an area of the Amazon Rainforest in the Upper Amazon region of South America, named after the tripoint where borders of Brazil,...
Mar. 20 |
Said to be 5,500 miles long, and having taken 1,700 years to build, the Great Wall of China is indeed great in length. It was built for defence, which of course ‘paradoxically’ involves offence, when deemed needed. This telling suggests that...
Jan. 8 |
An inexplicable presence turns people crazy when seen, leading to suicide and murder. With no one who has seen it surviving, no one lives to tell what it really is, be it some spirit being, alien or whatnot. While curiosity of the audience deepens with...