From Dr. Michael Klaper, M.D., as featured in ‘What The Health’ – ‘Many people are given the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s…
肩有挂袋， 心无挂碍? 尽心尽力， 尽量自在！ Even as we shoulder worldly responsibilities, our minds should be free from attachments and obstacles
万德洪名 The Great Name Of Ten Thousand Virtues: 阿弥陀佛 Amituofo (无量[光]佛 Amita[bha] Buddha; 无量[寿]佛 Amita[yus] Buddha)
Mentioned this in class recently – that one of the most amazing things in the world, is that even when…
A slightly different book version found: 畜牲本是人来做， 人畜轮回古到今。 若不披毛并戴角， 劝君休使畜性心。 – 普庵禅师 Animals [including livestock] originally were humans, [who have]…
‘With time[liness], peace[fully] practise [thus]… With strength [there] should [be] protection [offered]. Of what should [be] given, [it should be]…
心魔不起，外魔不生。 If inner demons (of greed, hatred and delusion) do not arise, outer demons are not born. From 入川法師《助念實操講解》第3講 (全3講)…
First of two annual 1-hour talks introducing Buddhism to non-Buddhist students at St. Patrick’s School, as invited, as part of…
Second of two annual 1-hour talks introducing Buddhism to non-Buddhist students at St. Patrick’s School, as invited, as part of…
From ‘Meditations’, Book IV. 49 (Marcus Aurelius): ‘Be like the rock that the waves beat against but do not vanquish….
Page for the day from ‘The Daily Stoic’. Always be kind and wise to one and all.
Crossing: Dharmagram #77 Cross black and white to get to the other side. Cross birth and death to get to…
Complexity: Dharmagram #76 What seems simple can be complex up close. When seems complex can be simple up close.
Kimchi: Dharmagram #75 Maha-Vegan kimchi, free from animals (meat), their by-products, the five pungent roots and alcohol. More on understanding…
Glass: Dharmagram #74 Sunset via glass at Changi Airport Terminal 4, as reflected on more glass and seen through more…
Scream: Dharmagram #73 The screamer in the lithograph version of Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’, as if in shock, that he…
Wake: Dharmagram #72 When reminded of death, be it before, during and after WAKEs, may we further aWAKEn spiritually, to…
Frankenstein: Dharmagram #71 The poignant epigraph of the ‘Frankenstein (The Modern Prometheus)’, the classic novel by Mary Shelley, is a…
Alienation: Dharmagram #70 From the title card of ‘The Alienist’… We too are alienated from our true nature, which is…
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