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Dharma-sharing by Bro Jeffrey (1) Dharma-sharing by Bro Jeffrey (2) Bro Chin’s singing of the Heart Sutra in Cantonese Sis Jacqueline’s sharing on the below Inspirational charity photo-cards by Sis Jacqueline’s daughter Listening to the Heart Sutra song Listening 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...

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,...

From the movie ‘Precious’ - Here Precious: And, I never really talked in class before. Ms Rain: How does that make you feel? Precious: Here. It makes me feel here. Comments: Precious experiences mindfulness of the precious here and now for the first time in class, when she...

C: How I wish I can be born during the golden days when the Buddha is around, when there are many pure practising Buddhists. S: No worries… That is just one lifetime away. In Pure Land, ‘得与如是诸上善人俱会一处!’ (‘attain being with all such beings of...

L: Hi, you mentioned a few times that you had some doubts and questions about life some time ago, and you found the answers in the Buddhist teachings. May I know what were the questions and answers? S: Woah… very broad question. Some questions I had were along this line,...

Gil tells Adriana in ‘Midnight in Paris’, when they travelled back in time to an era of Paris (Belle Epoque) more appealing to her, ‘Adriana, if you stay here, though, and this becomes your present, then pretty soon you’ll start imagining another time was really your,...

Detail from Segantini’s ‘The last task of the day’. Reminds me of the Dukkha of life’s routine burdens and dreariness, and the setting sun signifying it’s time to go home at the end of the day. Towards the Western Pure Land for me....

The best teachers must eventually teach ultimate Compassion and Wisdom. To encourage perfect Compassion, they must eventually advocate veganism, which is not just a way of consumption, but a way of life, of being helpful and harmless. To encourage perfect Wisdom, they must eventually advocate...

I remember, in school’s history class, the textbooks did not really spell out why communism as an idea was destined to fail. The teacher did not teach clearly too. It was quite a mystery to me, and it made me wonder if I was a communist for a short while. Of course, I am not one and...

Feng Zikai’s satirical comic ‘Creating oneness of thought’. The dumbing of the masses according to political preferences; the direct opposite of mass ascension to oneness of perfect wisdom in Pure...

If this is 100% true, this is another good reason to migrate to Pure Land, the land of no greed and currency, where all thrive on self and shared spiritual merits, where material well-being is already abundant for all without the concept of...

Meritocracy sounds fair at first – the idea that may the ones who work the hardest shine, but the truth is, everyone starts on unequal grounds – the more well-to-do ones tend to shine more easily as they have better living conditions, education and connections, while the poorer...

轮回路险，生生世世， 反目成仇，反仇成目。 何不大家厌离娑婆，欣求极乐， 与诸上善人，俱会一处， 修菩萨道，共成佛道？ 阿弥陀佛！ The rounds of rebirth are dangerous. From life to life, love becomes hate, hate becomes love. Why not,...

These are some scenes from lesson #9 of this 10-lesson class: http://thedailyenlightenment.com/2011/07/understanding-amituofo-via-the-amitabha-sutra-8th-run at Buddha of Medicine Welfare Society. The class is practising guided mindfulness of Amituofo (Amitabha Buddha’s name). [The 9th...

‘Assault Girls’, from the makers of ‘Ghost in the Shell’, is quite a letdown, lacking the usual profound philosophising. Its premise is predictable, though nevertheless unnerving and possible in the near future. It speaks of the world in the future, when the global...

These are some scenes from lesson #7 of this 10-lesson class: http://thedailyenlightenment.com/2011/07/understanding-amituofo-via-the-amitabha-sutra-8th-run at Buddha of Medicine Welfare Society. [The 9th run will be next year :-] In the pictures are a past participant sharing his Pure Land...