Question: What should I chant if I wish to pay respects before images of different Buddhas (e.g...
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Foolish Haiku
The foolish imaginethe certainty of the wise to be foolish.
Verses On Pleasure
见乐著人，当愿众生，以法自娱，欢爱不舍。 见无乐著，当愿众生，有为事中，心无所乐。 – 文殊菩萨 (华严经: 净行品: 第80-81偈) Seeing those attached to...
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净土十疑论 The Treatise On Ten Doubts About Pure Land 隋天台智者大师著 Written by Sui Dynasty’s Tiantai...
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Ego Haiku
Only keep dissolving; never hardening the ‘solid’ illusion of ego.