Just because another stops arguing with you, it does not mean you have won. It might mean there is no reasoning with you. Just because you keep arguing with another, it does not mean you are winning. It might mean there is no reasoning with you. Just because another keeps arguing with you, it...

A Tit for a Tat (360) Tit: Will you be going? Tat: Not sure. Tit: Well, it’s free! Tat: Well, even if it is free, I have to be free! Tit: Even if the event pays you, it can’t buy you time! Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2012/07/whos-afraid-of-who Previous aT4aT:...

If it is perfectly natural for there to be a perfect creator, it would be perfectly unnatural for this creator to create anything imperfect. As much is naturally imperfect, it is perfectly natural that there is no perfect creator, who was ‘created’ by imperfect...

A Tit for a Tat (359) Tit: If the Dharma is so good, why are you not practising it? Tat: Because I’m no good. Tit: If the Dharma is so good, why don’t you try practising it? Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2012/06/its-free Previous aT4aT:...

A friend lists ‘the few true friends’ he has so far in his Facebook status. Am not listed, which is natural, as I don’t know him well. He might be dividing his friends with such a comment. What if some unlisted ones are true to him? Better to silently be a truer friend to...

Z: (After hearing about it from H) Gnostic Christianity, as with many things, is very interesting indeed. But life is too short to compare religious similarities and differences to no end. Life can end any time too. Good to 一门深入 (enter one Dharma door deeply) to practise towards...

Group-chanting session Sharing session by Purelander Chanting practice precedes Dharma discussion Sharing session by another Purelander Sharing session by yet another...

Participants trying out the practice of mindfulness of Buddha. Sharing by past participant, on the benefits of practising Buddha...

The first Stonepeace book is in production… Stay...

A scene from Project Rebirth (Run 4), when participants try out basic meditation, after sharing the recommended physical and mental postures. Details on Run 5 (& Feedback on Past Runs) can be seen...

Question: I was wondering what took so long for the rebirth to take place. It was like 60 years after the pilot died. Do you happen to have some explanation? Answer: Hmmm… there are at least 2 possibilities. (1) He was reborn elsewhere, but recalls the pilot birth due to its strong...

A participant of my latest Pure Land class (http://thedailyenlightenment.com/2012/01/course-understanding-amituofo-via-the-amitabha-sutra-9th-run) had an interesting experience. While chanting the name of Amituofo in class for five minutes, right after hearing instructions on how to do so,...

To believe there are karmic causes to be born of one’s gender, of one’s sexual orientation, of one’s physical (dis)ability, of one’s mental (dis)ability, of one’s race, of one’s nationality, is not to be judgemental, but to be truthful, and to...

The cleaner at the food court came to retrieve an empty tray, but with absent-mindedness. She lifts a tray off the table, without even looking, and misses the one stacked just below. She’ll have to return for other tray later, though it needn’t be at all, if she had more presence...

Funny how she winks and flutters with her thick and fake lashes, as if they make her pretty, for even if a little, they look thick with fakeness, which makes her basis for flirting, her displayed confidence, thick with fakeness...

How to Practise Animal Liberation Wisely (Review of New Documentary by Wisdom Sutra Distributor) According to Acharya Nagarjuna in the Treatise on the Great Perfection of Wisdom, “Among all negative karma, that of killing is the heaviest. Among all positive karma, that for releasing life is...

Among all negative karma, that of killing is the heaviest. Among all positive karma, that for releasing life is the highest. - Acharya Nagarjuna (The Treatise on the Great Perfection of Wisdom) In the recent years, there is much talk among Buddhists about stopping the practice of animal...

Buddhist Prayer For Animal Liberation by antishitstem Music by Choyling Drolma and Steve Tibbetts. – Songs “Chenrezig” & “Padmesambava” Prayer for Liberation for Our Brother & Sister Animals. May all sentient beings in the animal realm subject to unbearable pain in labs...

From an episode of ‘The Mentalist’ - Patrick Jane: Mmm, liar. Bad liar. Mrs Doverton: How dare you. Patrick Jane: Well, it’s a compliment to your character. You rather be a good liar? Hmm? It is better to be a bad liar than a good liar? Well, it is best not to be a...

A Dharma friend passed me a book. Here is my revew of it… On the book ‘Meetings with Remarkable People’, unfortunately, it is, as experienced before, one of those books by Osho who misrepresents the Buddha. Not that all he writes is downright wrong, but he habitually mixes...