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Selfishness Vs Selfl...
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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. -...
Interesting Find
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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 (A...
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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? -...
How Each Matters
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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...
Struggle To Live To ...
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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...
Be Wise & Kind
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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...
Gratitude & Rep...
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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...
A ‘Better̵...
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It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson When one wishes to better another’s life, one has to better oneself. When one acts to better another’s life, one will better...
Beginning Of Bodhici...
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I am only one, but still I am one [and not 'no one']. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. - Helen Keller You cannot do everything now, but you can do everything you can do now. -...
‘The Others...
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‘The Others’ present a taut horror story of the extremes of demonisation (without demonic ‘demons’). The protagonists, whose roles we always play to ourselves too see demonise strange happenings in the house to be due to restless spirits and become jumpy. Yet, it...
Would You Like Your ...
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If you don’t like yourself, why don’t you change yourself? If you can change yourself, who is really your ‘self’? - Stonepeace Reflections from watching ‘A Ton Image’: If your clone vies for attention of your beloved, would you be jealous – of your...
A Chat on Criticism
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S: Stonepeace said, ‘One who says many to be evil might be the one most evil.’ (常说人人不好的人可能是最不好的人.) Is the monkey that points at evil instead of seeing, hearing and saying nothing about evil always evil? C:...
Confessions
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Empathy instead of disgust arises when one realises that another’s horrible behaviour, could have arisen from horrible suffering. - Stonepeace In the movie ‘Confessions’, a mother meticulously plots to exact vengeance on the two killers of her daughter. It is surely ...
Some Quotes
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Some Stonepeace ideas related to teachings from Geshe Dorji Damdul’s talk yesterday ‘The Secret of Joy’: ‘If we all dislke suffering, why should anyone give it to anyone? If we all like happiness, why should everyone not give it to everyone?’ ‘Though...
Taiji Lesson #6
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To know if your moves happened to be right due to unmindful beginner’s ‘luck’, keep practising them, to repeat the right moves mindfully. To know if you have perfected a Dharma practice, keep practising the Dharma perfectly. -...
A Perfect Sickness O...
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Maybe we are imperfect, which is why we love the imperfect. [1] Is this a sickness or a virtue? Maybe we love the perfect, [2] though those already perfect don’t really need our love? [3] Is this a sickness or a virtue? The truth is, we love the imperfect [4] but we love the perfect...
Ease
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自不在 而自在. [As one realises] there is no self, there is ease with one’self’. - Stonepeace Total realisation of non-self, not just of inner self (of internal phenomenon), but also of outer self (of external phenomenon) brings about complete...
Thoughts on Exorcism
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I went too see ‘The Last Exorcism’ because I thought the premise of the story was interesting. But it was quite a letdown. The ‘scene’ in the above poster doesn’t even appear in the film. Is that a form of lying in marketing? Still, while seeing the trailer on...









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