Traditional saying: 路遥知马力，日久见人心 With the far road, the horse’s strength is known. With many days, the person’s character is seen. My alternative saying: 路遥知自力，日久见自心 With the far road, your strength is known. With many days, your...

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As I quote Stonepeace often, I get these questions a lot… Who is Stonepeace? Is Stonepeace ancient or modern? Is Stonepeace dead or alive? Is Stonepeace young or old? Is Stonepeace male or female? Is Stonepeace monastic or lay? Is Stonepeace local or overseas? Yes? No? Maybe? These...

What is good only for you is seldom really good for you, as it arises from selfishness. What is good for others is always good for you too, if it arises from selflessness. -...

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As they have perfect and immeasurable compassion, and as we have Buddha-nature like them, the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will never give up on us. Why then, should we give up on ourselves and others? - Stonepeace...

Get it in print @ http://www.zazzle.com/true_love_black_poster-228776985523261460 ‎’When we are truly loving, true love is immediately available - since we already embody it. The most loving are the most lovable, the most beloved.’ This is the key to attacting...

We cast our own shadow of delusion. We shed our own light of wisdom. - Stonepeace From http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/hide-and-seek/201204/jung-the-man-and-his-symbols: ‘… Jung had a dream in which he was making painful headway through dense fog, with a tiny light in the cup...

What you find interest in is what others find interesting about you. - Stonepeace As such, to know whether someone is interesting to you, ‘What are your interests?’ is perhaps a much more relevant question than ‘What is your line of work?’, unless the person’s...

Why be displeased at others, when you karmically conditioned yourself to be displeased? - Stonepeace Why ignore others’ mistakes, when you might be the only one aware of them, the best one to awaken them? -...

If one only looks for things done wrong, all the things done right does not seem to matter. If one only looks for things done right, all the things done wrong does not seem matter. Let us see each matter as it is, as how each really matters. - Stonepeace (About the picture, if how you see...

It is not enough to merely struggle to live, or we would live merely to struggle. Our struggles should be for higher purposes, which lead to the ultimate goal of True Happiness of one and all. - Stonepeace B: Many years ago, I once asked a Buddhist friend, what is the purpose of life? He...

The wise are responsible for their feelings.* The kind are concerned about others’ feelings. May we be wise and kind to one another. - Stonepeace * This means that the wise hold themselves accountable for whatever feelings arise in themselves, even if they are feelings of displeasure...

有恩不报恩，即是自我心。 不弃自我心，即是住魔心。 有错不认错，即是我慢心。 不弃我慢心，即是住魔心。- 石子 To be indebted but not repay kindness, is the mind of self-centredness. To not renounce the mind of self-centredness, is to abide in...

The foolish hear the tone of harshness, and miss the bitter words of truth. The wise listen to the words mindfully too, for the harsh is not always wrong. The foolish hear the tone of niceness, and cling to sweet words of falsehood. The wise listen to the words mindfully too, for the nice is...

If you do not drive to drink, you will not drink and drive. To not drink and drive, don’t drive (or drink). 菩萨畏因，众生畏果。 Bodhisattvas fear planting ill seeds. Unenlightened sentient beings fear [reaping] tasting ill...

四依 依法不依人， 依义不依语， 依了义不依不了义， 依智不依识。 Four Reliances Rely on the Dharma; rely not on persons. Rely on the meaning; rely not on the words. Rely on the complete meaning; rely not on the partial meaning. Rely on the wisdom mind; rely not on...

Morality is not a matter of whether one can do this or not, as based on others’ suggestions, but whether one should do this or not, as based on one’s understanding. -...

末法末法，人末法不末。 正法正法，人正法自正。 ~ 石子 Dharma Ending Age, Dharma Ending Age… It is in the humans that the Dharma ends, the Dharma itself has no end. Right Dharma Age, Right Dharma Age… It is when the humans are upRight, that the Dharma Ending...

Came across a scriptural quote for the moonpointer analogy: 修多罗教，如标月指， 若复见月，了知所标毕竟非月， 一切如来种种言说开示菩萨，亦复如是。 ~ 圆觉经 Sutras’ teachings are like the finger that points to the moon. If the moon is...