Author: Shen Shián
Whoever you are, you were my… dearest mother dearest father dearest brother dearest sister dearest son dearest daughter Whoever we are, we are one…
A student asked a Vegetarian Society friend, ‘If animals are not here to be eaten, what are they here for?’ I…
I was chatting with someone from another faith, who asked about the Buddhist perspective of the end of the world…
Guanyin to Me My Mother is Guanyin to me because she prays to Guanyin for me. She isn’t really aspiring…
During a Dharma discussion at Awareness Place (after screening of ‘The Woodsman’), a participant remarked about how difficult is was…
In ‘Cairo’ by G. Willow Wilson & M.K. Perker: Asaad: How much is too much to sacrifice? For someone you…
If taking a leak, to purge our physical wastes is so much a relief… What a greater relief it would…
Batman, as a comic book character, was created in 1939. That makes 2009 the 70th anniversary of his creation! It’s…
Something written for an interreligious publication… A Buddhist charity was giving out aids to the needy in terms of cash…
I helped to move a huge framed Buddha picture by a friend’s van. While placing it in the back of…
Walter, an ex-convict charged for pedophilia, experiences apprehensive uncertainty as he re-enters the society 12 years later. He is seemingly…
If you never know what is enough, you will never have enough. – Stonepeace Look out for Stonepeace quotes on…
Naked we come Naked we are Naked we go We come empty of possessions. Stripped even of ‘self’. Even our…
Here is an analysis of the poll question ‘Should Rats that Wreck Havoc in a Marketplace be Culled?’ As of today, the…
In ‘Timbuktu’ by Paul Auster (illustrated by Julia Goschke for an abridged graphic novel), the author explores human homelessness via…
Friend: I read your recent article about ’small & big cars’ (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thedailyenlightenment-realisation/message/358). Sometimes its ‘difficult’ to practise the Dharma. For example,…
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Snail-mailed slightly more than 100 copies of ‘The Daily Enlightenment 3: Reflections for Practising Buddhists’ so far – to generous…
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