Since we are all one another’s parents due to many rebirths, parents should also practise filial piety to their children,…
A Tit for a Tat (346) Tit: Look! They look perfectly incompatible for each other! Tat: If so, they are also equally…
He believed her to be hopelessly stubborn, not knowing that it is he who is hopelessly stubborn in his opinion…
If you look for things to buy, your window-shopping will take a long time. If you look for what you…
May those who wield the power of truth dispel doubts. May those with doubts wield the power of wisdom to…
At the beginning of the movie ‘Cracks’, the song ‘All Things Bright And Beautiful’ is sung in a boarding school….
A funny dialogue from the movie ‘Ghost Writer’ Teacher: Focus! Student: I can’t! I’m distracted What is the cure for…
A popular refrain asks, ‘Where is the love?’ The answer is simple. ‘Love is in the loving.’ The others definitions,…
If you do not drive to drink, you will not drink and drive. To not drink and drive, don’t drive…
A good student is always learning. A good teacher is always learning too, more in fact, to keep ahead of…
An ironical problem with Buddhist academia is that it often assumes study of limited ‘facts’ as the path to objectivity,…
K:My Dad struck lottery today but didn’t look happy. He said, it’s only a consolation prize. S: So the consolation prize…
四依 依法不依人， 依义不依语， 依了义不依不了义， 依智不依识。 Four Reliances Rely on the Dharma; rely not on persons. Rely on the meaning; rely…
Question: Some friends said Buddhists should refrain from playing badminton as shuttlecocks are made from bird feathers. What is your…
Morality is not a matter of whether one can do this or not, as based on others’ suggestions, but whether…
That criticised is usually… close enough to be worth criticising, but distant enough to be safe criticising. And beyond mere…
More than two years after the first sighting, another ‘Be a Lamp Upon Yourself’ reader on the subway. (The lady…
No one really wants to be greedy, hateful or deluded. Those who are simply do not realise that being so…
Struck me that Elmo is the opposite of Emo! Emo: One who has negative emotions often. Elmo: One who has…
I had requested feedback from a recently completed class: http://thedailyenlightenment.com/2011/07/understanding-amituofo-via-the-amitabha-sutra-8th-run This is a part of what I received, a nice commemorative Amituofo coin…
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