Truth be told, with all due respect to all great Tulkus,
many Tulkus (recognised reborn Buddhist masters or students)
still need Dharma re-education
to re-align themselves to the path… in case…
It is not true that
all Tulkus are firmly on the path to enlightenment,
or already enlightened,
for there are cases of Tukus who go astray.
Such is the danger
of the rounds [...]

Q: Sometimes, suffering may not be a bad thing.
A: Suffering is ‘useful’ only if it spurs one to advance to enlightenment. If not, suffering will return again and again – and one repeats suffering pointlessly – life after life.
Q: I don’t think I am ’suffering’ too much although I have some problems. I think I [...]

The above is a fan video, while here’s a different interpretation of the lyrics of ‘Morning Star’ by Flunk:
… You are my morning star
It’s just the way you are
When the orange sky
Kiss the night goodbye…
It’s not the way you move
It’s not the way you walk
It’s just the way you are
Oh you’re my morning star
It’s just [...]

If enlightenment is impossible,
the strife towards it is still meaningful
because it is the path to greater happiness,
as we can tell when we practise the Dharma.
If enlightenment is possible and we can backslide from it,
the strife towards it is still meaningful
because it is the path to greater happiness,
as we can tell when we practise the Dharma.
Even [...]

Even the most fun app(lication) in my iPhone
gets deleted eventually,
to make room for another app.
Life is seeking one app after another,
for one kick after another -
till you lose the kick of seeking kicks?
What is life thereafter?
Seek the ultimate ‘kick’ of transcending kicks -
by striving for enlightenment!

From ‘The Power and the Pain: Transforming Spiritual Hardship Into Joy’ by Andrew Holecek -

There are teachers who proclaim that the only thing necessary to wake up is to ‘just do it.’ They tell us that we are already enlightened, we just do not recognize it. I have studied with such teachers, and their ‘quick-fix’ [...]

I finished reading ”Becoming Enlightened’ by His Holiness the Dalai Lama (translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins, PhD) a few weeks ago, but had been procrastinating on writing a review. Not because I don’t want but how do you review a master’s work? It probably won’t do it any justice. So, instead of reviewing it, [...]

From ‘This is a Bad Time’ by Bruce Eric Kaplan:

But why do we choose to be attached to the idea
that we are really our poor ’selves’,
since we do change and can change at will?

What’s terrifying about negative karma
is its compounding effects if left unchecked!

But enlightenment is also the end of all disappointment,
and the realisation of [...]

Seeing a cleaner dusting a stupa that housed the Buddha’s relics.
I wondered what would happen,
should it be left neglected?

It will become buried,
swallowed by the sands of time,
forgotten and lost in history.

Like a precious relic that is the Buddhadharma,
or our Buddhadhatu (Buddha-nature) too,
it will be obscured by dirt and such.

As stupas stand for the peak of [...]

A Tit for a Tat (76)
Tit: I’m supposed to get this…
Tat: Ya ya…
Tit: And that…
Tat: Ya ya…
Tit: And I’m supposed to get enlightened too!
Tat: Ya!
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