Question: A teacher mentioned that the Lotus Sutra is fictional, that some of its contents do not accord with the Buddha’s instruction (e.g. making fun of the Arahants/Arhats). What do you think?
Answer: Some teachers of Theravada Buddhism tend to say Mahayana sutras are not true. But this in the view of Mahayana teachers, is very [...]

True confidence arises
only when one becomes
one with the true/truth.*
- Stonepeace
* Total confidence is attained
by realising the total truth,
when one becomes fully enlightened – a Buddha

It is partly due to the ‘endless’ clinging to self-delusion, to constant wondering about the nature of the ’self’, which is really an illusion, that perpetuates our rebirths in Samsara (via attachment to this non-existent ’self’). The subtlest attachment we have to the idea of ’self’ will lead to rebirth because rebirth is due to [...]

In ‘The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor’, the first emperor of China (Qin Shihuang), after his conquest of the whole of China, felt compelled to conquer what he perceived to be his last enemy – death, because he wanted for more than the span of a single normal life to fulfill his further ambitions. [...]

In the book ‘The Meaning of Life’ by Terry Eagleton is this passage – “… we are in something like the situation of the narrator of Henry James’ story ‘The Figure in the Carpet’, who is told by a celebrated author he admires that there is a concealed design in his work, one implicit in [...]