Category: Quotes

24
Jan
2017

Philosophise Well!

‘When someone says philosophy is useless, pay attention to what they say next: it’ll probably be some philosophy that they…

16
Jan
2017

Write Purposefully

Me write much because there is much essential to share with more. And that is all! Any other form of…

16
Jan
2017

Better Fail To Better Succeed

Samuel Beckett’s double ‘haikus’: ‘Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.’ My extended ‘haiku’: Then…

16
Jan
2017

How Best To Be

To be or not to be, that WAS the question. How best to be, this is NOW the question.

04
Jan
2017

Moral Of The Story Of Life

(Thus spake the Duchess to Alice.)   A meaningful life is but the learning and sharing of its ‘hidden’ morals…

04
Jan
2017

Start Listening

The 三慧 Three Wisdoms begin with listening… 闻慧:Wisdom of Listening (and reading) for learning 思慧:Wisdom of Contemplation for internalisation 修慧:Wisdom…

29
Dec
2016

Liberation

Rebirth means recurring redeath too, if liberation is not attained in time by the end of this life. May all…

29
Dec
2016

Review

Why not review your life now, to make amends now, to do better now, since you might not live to…

29
Dec
2016

Message

Anyone of any age, unless yet to learn anything, or refuses to reflect… has no message to share. May we…

29
Dec
2016

Matter

Why should what does not matter at all right at the end be seen to matter so much now? Should…

29
Dec
2016

Preparation

Challenging might it be when facing the end of days, prepared and thus courageous we must be, to face the…

29
Dec
2016

Naivety

Why keep pining for more to come later? Why not go for more of what you truly want now? (Of…

29
Dec
2016

Essentials

About middle age, it is surely time to decide what are the essentials for focusing the rest of this life…

29
Dec
2016

Change

We still do change and still can change, so do change for the better now despite your young, middle or…

29
Dec
2016

Maturity

We truly mature and start to live our lives when we realise the main problem with our lives are our…

29
Dec
2016

Facts

Dream on, yes, but realise realisable dreams too, sooner than later… for this fleeting life is like a dream, too…

29
Dec
2016

Mortality

The truth is, the ‘too young’ already die ‘too often’, which makes the idea of being younger or older hardly…

29
Dec
2016

Wonder

When there is more wonder than exasperation at the passing of days and nights, when there is still no sense…

29
Dec
2016

Goal

Aiming to share all important Pure Land sutra and treatise teachings by translation, and worthy reflections by writing in this…

13
Dec
2016

Partly Mad

Am surely partially ‘insane’ to be someone samsaric in Samsara. Only partially because this is admitted!