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Funny how she winks and flutters with her thick and fake lashes, as if they make her pretty, for even…

Q: How do you know that the Buddha’s teachings is the truth? A: Through active learning, practising, testing and questioning the teachings….

Dukkha is suffering from Birth Ageing Sickness Death Departure from who/what we like, Being with who/what we dislike, Failing to…

A surprise email arrived on a mediation case between two people I helped some time ago. Here is my abridged…

Advice to a Dharma student: If you don’t stick to a proper practice group with continual learning and guidance, these problems…

There is no soul, as in an unchanging mental entity. If it is there, why did we change to be…

C: A young lady came looking for a job in a Buddhist organisation. Do you happen to know of any?…

Those we encounter, are seldom totally good or evil. If so, we choose to have gratitude for their goodness or to…

A:I find 老实人 (honest; forthright persons) irresistible. S: A very 老实 comment! We all prefer 老实人. Ironically, even the 不老实的人 prefer…

颠倒众生因视善知识为恶知识， 自己则退转成其他众生恶知识！ As inverted beings see good-knowing advisors as evil-knowing advisors, they thus backslide to become other beings’ evil-knowing advisors…

A name I came up with some years ago. Happy to see it still being in use… MaitriPals – Pals…

Yes, I should stagger my classes once in a while to reach out to different people with different day and time…

The Buddha definitely didn’t encourage premarital sex, probably as it can lead to many problems like heartbreak when there is…

P: Thank you for your elaboration (on your earlier answer). I am impressed and inspired by your enthusiasm. 向您看齐! S:…

Here’s some counterintuitive thought… There are whiners with genuine complaints. And there are genuine whiners who complain about those whiners,…

When the teacher gives up on a student, the student usually gives up on the teacher, and possibly the teaching…

I heard a Dharma teacher saying she encountered another Dharma teacher, who was supposedly an expert in teaching about emptiness,…

I find it amusing when I encounter folks jotting notes of winning lottery numbers. How will they ‘analyse’ such records?…

C: How I wish I can be born during the golden days when the Buddha is around, when there are…

When the Buddha speaks literally, he doesn’t say it is figurative. There is no two ways about it. When the…