Author: Shen Shián

Co-founder of Moonpointer.com
14
Nov
2011

Friendship Precedes Love

对一个被暧昧影响的朋友说的话: 潇洒点,干脆做好朋友吧! 如果连好朋友都做不成, 更本不能作好情侣。 太过暧昧就连朋友都做不好。 朋友!平常心看着办吧! 友谊万岁!

14
Nov
2011

Do You Really Love?

Do you really love who another is, or do you really love who you imagine that person is? Do you…

14
Nov
2011

Wonderful True Love

True love is so wonderful, that it brings joy, that it relieves suffering. True love is so wonderful, that if…

14
Nov
2011

Love Will Save Us All

If one loves another truly, one would truly not suffer at all, as true love is completely unconcerned with self-suffering,…

14
Nov
2011

Love Someone Perfect

We imagine we would perfectly love someone perfect to us, but if someone truly perfect like the Buddha is before…

14
Nov
2011

Love is a Strange Word

Love is a strange word, because we define it in contradicting ways, because the love you say is not always…

08
Nov
2011

Bucket List

While hosting a game of setting deadlines for our bucket lists, one participant listed becoming a vegan in a few…

08
Nov
2011

The Terrorless Bang

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. – Alfred Hitchcock S: Dukkha (suffering) is…

08
Nov
2011

Message Or Messenger?

If you are able to accept it if the Buddha reprimands, but are unable to accept it if an unenlightened…

07
Nov
2011

Wise Or Foolish?

The wise are happy in discovering hard truths about themselves, as they realise they can be wiser. The foolish are…

07
Nov
2011

Works In Progress

As a Buddhst, should you avoid all evil? Of course! As a Buddhist, should you do all good? Of course! As a Buddhist,…

07
Nov
2011

Never Underestimate Anyone

我不敢轻于汝等, 汝等皆当作佛。 – 常不轻菩萨 (法华经) ‘I do not dare to belittle you all, for you all will become Buddhas.’ –…

07
Nov
2011

Some Discomfort

Some discomfort is good. That from recognising Dukkha drives us to Nirvana. Some discomfort is not good. That from denying…

07
Nov
2011

Are You An Annoying Hipster?

‘The worst [annoying hipsters] are the ones who complain about all the other annoying hipsters while not realizing that they…

07
Nov
2011

Don’t Overeat

This might come across as a little crude, but it is nevertheless true… If you often defecate too much, you…

07
Nov
2011

Sharing the Dharma on Sharing the Dharma

Was also sharing ideas with Sunday School Dharma teachers at Pujisi yesterday, on sharing the Dharma with kids. Gave an…

07
Nov
2011

A Buddha Mindfulness Lesson

Pujisi class participants practising guided mindfulness of Amituofo’s name, in the room set up for Ven Miaodeng’s 96th birthday buffet…

01
Nov
2011

Why Not Fully Vegetarian (Vegan)?

I heard from a Buddhist friend, who professes to be vegetarian every day except for a single weekday, when he…

01
Nov
2011

Deep Peace Or Deep Sleep

One of the most deluded kind of meditators are those who imagine they were in deep peace, when they were…

01
Nov
2011

Dharma Eagerness

Please be mindful not to let your eagerness to share the Dharma overtake your eagerness to learn and practise the…