09
May
2012

Dharma Work

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

09
May
2012

Gratitude Or Grudge

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

02
May
2012

Being Assertive

A Tit for a Tat (358) Tit: Can you decide what to have for dinner? Tat: You decide! Tit: Can’t you be more…

02
May
2012

Heavy Rain

A Tit for a Tat (357) Tat: If you can hear the rain, it’s heavy rain. Tit: I can hear it, but…

02
May
2012

Deliver Me

He believes his meat-eating teacher can ‘deliver’ the beings eaten to Pure Land. If this is true, shouldn’t he eat…

02
May
2012

Honest Forthright Persons

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…

02
May
2012

Good & Evil-Knowing Advisors

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…

02
May
2012

About MaitriPals

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

02
May
2012

Dharma Class Scheduling Koan

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

02
May
2012

Balanced View On Premarital Sex

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

02
May
2012

Dharma Enthusiasm

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

02
May
2012

On Whining

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

02
May
2012

How Not To Teach (2)

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

02
May
2012

How Not To Teach (1)

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

02
May
2012

What’s The Next Winning Number?

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

02
May
2012

Just One Lifetime Away

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

02
May
2012

Literal Or Figurative?

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

26
Apr
2012

Delusion & Wisdom (Stonepeace Saying)

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26
Apr
2012

TDE Book Series

Me suspect much of the essential worth of my life is in these pages. (More about TDE Book 5 @…

26
Apr
2012

Why Give Up?

As they have perfect and immeasurable compassion, and as we have Buddha-nature like them, the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will never…