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Posts tagged with "three poisons"
Dec. 4 | Greed for this is
with hate of that,
from delusion about both.
Nov. 1 |
This imaginative telling of Lincoln’s life as a part-time vampire hunter is an elaborate allegory perhaps, of how capitalistic slave-owners were like exploitative and unrelenting ‘bloodsuckers’, who would not stop till they took over...
Oct. 25 |
Like a pure mirror,
experience the pleasant
only clearly as they are,
without any attachment.
– Shilashanti
In the Chappana Sutta, the Buddha gave two analogies… First, suppose a person caught six animals, whom he ties together with a rope, with...
Oct. 11 |
Create not karmic creditors
by harming any.
Be not karmic creditors
by harming any.
– Nowanden
Who are karmic creditors (冤亲债主)? They are those whom we owe karmic debts to, who we have harmed, from whom our negative karma is expressed by bearing...
Jul. 26 |
Five young women of various ages, with their teacher in a small girls school, encounter a wounded soldier, who had since deserted the army. Struggling slightly at first, to decide if he ought to be saved or reported, they decided to discreetly nurse...
Aug. 30 |
But he who has abandoned greed,
hatred and delusion,
is no longer Māra’s prisoner;
he is freed from Māra’s snares,
no longer subject to
the Evil One’s will and pleasure.
– The Buddha
(Itivuttaka 68)
Will good triumph over evil? Or does evil...
Mar. 22 |
In ‘Inferno’ is what many might see as a compelling speech by Zobrist, reminiscent of Agent Smith’s unnerving monologue to Morpheus in ‘The Matrix’, on how humanity is like a relentless virus. However, there are many more...
Apr. 5 | Question: We sometimes hear of the belief that drowning in water bodies is sometimes caused by ‘water ghosts’ tugging them down, who are previously drowned persons, who want someone to take their places, so that they themselves can be reborn....