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The Demon Haunted You

By shian under Quotations | Your Comment | Tags: Anatta, emptiness, ghost, Mara, monster

‘…Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too.
They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.’
- Stephen King
Monsters are empty, and ghosts are unsubstantial too -
when they are realised as so, vanquished within us.
That is how we win them all – inside out,
conquering our inner Mara before  the external one.
When our personal demons are taken care of, outer [...]



Naked ‘R Us

By shian under Odds & Ends | 1 Comment | Tags: emptiness, karma

Naked we come
Naked we are
Naked we go
We come empty of possessions.
Stripped even of ’self’.
Even our past karma is empty of fixed nature.
We live empty of possessions.
Stripped even of ’self’.
Even our present karma is empty of fixed nature.
We die empty of possessions.
Stripped even of ’self’.
Even our future karma is empty of fixed nature.



Self : Spellbound

By shian under Comics & Graphic Novels | 1 Comment | Tags: Anatta, emptiness, mantra, meditation, self

In ‘Superman: Camelot Falls’ by Kurt Busiek, Superman resists a spell by repeating a ‘mantra’ (taught by J’onn Jones) that tries to overpower his will – ‘I know who I am. I know where I am. I think for myself.’ To that, illusory avalanche rocks become more solid and resistible, as he pushes them aside, [...]



Svaha! : Heart Sutra

By shian under Odds & Ends | 5 Comments | Tags: attachment, emptiness, equanimity

Just finished teaching the last lesson of a series of four weekly classes on the Heart Sutra. This last lesson began an hour earlier at 6.30pm, and ended at 9.30pm. Last week, I had to request the class to grant me another extra hour for this lesson, so as to better pace it, to give [...]



Equanimity : Ups & Downs

By zweiya under Movies/TV | 6 Comments | Tags: Anicca, attachment, emptiness, equanimity, feelings, love, suffering

 
It’s probably not the best combo to attend a Heart Sutra lesson and watch a rom-com movie (Cape No. 7) later. I was unable to relate to the story, which would usually stir up feelings of yearning and forlornness. I found myself sitting in the dark cinema, predicting the ending and waiting for it to come. [...]



Beings : Love All (2)

By yizhen under Relationships | Your Comment | Tags: attachment, aversion, delusion, emptiness, enlightenment, love

Wi: How to love all beings equally?
Yi: Before you can achieve that, you have to rid greed, hatred and ignorance.
Wi: That would mean I have to be enlightened.
Yi: Technically, yes.
Wi: I don’t get it… Why all these talk of loving all if we, the unenlightened can’t do it anyway?
Yi: The idea is to cultivate love till we can. We [...]



Photography : Useful Art

By shian under Movies/TV | Your Comment | Tags: Anicca, Dukkha, emptiness, nothing, Stonepeace

Photography as Skilful Means for Those ‘Born into Brothels’
Winner of the Best Documentary Feature (for the 77th Academy Awards), “Born into Brothels”, despite its seemingly depressing tite, is really a rather uplifting film, of how a bunch of poor Indian children, who were otherwise subject to a future of poverty and even prostituition, were presented [...]



Emptiness : Some Sayings

By shian under Quotations | Your Comment | Tags: Anatta, Anicca, Dukkha, emptiness, nothing, Stonepeace, suffering

Some sayings on emptiness in the Buddhist sense, from Stonepeace -
Emptiness is the nature of being empty of permanence.
Emptiness is the nature of being full of change.
~
Sunyata [emptiness] is Anicca [impermanence] and Anatta [insubstantiality];
Dukkha [suffering] due to Sunyata is optional.
~
If you cling to emptiness, it becomes a form.
When you cling to form, you miss emptiness.
~
Emptiness [...]



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