Tag: Bodhisattva
From ‘The Dark Knight Returns: Part 1’, a news feature says this, ‘[Bruce] Wayne [who is Batman], who sponsored Dent’s…
Question: A shelf above my desk gave way and broke my Bodhisattva image. Can I glue the pieces and continue…
‘Your mission, should you choose to accept it…’ So goes the line after the mission is spelt out. But as…
From the movie ‘Precious’ – Here Precious: And, I never really talked in class before. Ms Rain: How does that…
A surprise email arrived on a mediation case between two people I helped some time ago. Here is my abridged…
The best teachers must eventually teach ultimate Compassion and Wisdom. To encourage perfect Compassion, they must eventually advocate veganism, which…
我不敢轻于汝等， 汝等皆当作佛。 – 常不轻菩萨 (法华经) ‘I do not dare to belittle you all, for you all will become Buddhas.’ –…
Question: Would you say that reciting Om Mani Padme Hung is similar to the practice of metta meditation in that it…
Here is the original Hippocratic Oath taken by ancient Greek doctors, from which modern versions of doctors’ moral conduct is…
I’ve no intentions of being a killjoy when it comes to others’ gastronomical pleasures. But I do find it as…
A friend is compiling teachings by Rinpoche for publication, and asked me to check the below, which I sent years…
A short review of the movie ‘DMC (Detroit Metal City)’: Acting as a demon from hell, and singing the dark and…
In the first ‘Gantz’ movie (see trailer below at around 46 seconds), a Vajrakumara (Dharma Protector guardian diety), a thousand…
A review of Radiohead’s ‘Give Up the Ghost’: Lyrics: Don’t haunt me don’t haunt me… Gather up the lost and…
Part 1: True Happiness as an attained goal (of Buddhahood) is not conditioned by anyone (including one’self’),* or it would…
A Chinese new year text greeting I received and forwarded: 愿佛法的人生伴随你， 观音菩萨的慈悲充满你， 文殊菩萨的智慧带领你， 地藏菩萨的愿力加持你， 普贤菩萨的行愿成就你 ！ 愿您在十方佛菩萨的加持下一切如意，法喜充满。 合十敬祝您在新的一年里万事吉祥，如意安康，一切圆满。 阿弥陀佛! It…
Different from the run-of-the-mill concept of there being a supreme and extreme good guy versus a supreme and extreme bad…
To my aghast, I once heard a monk say that the path of attaining Nirvana is like pushing a button…
‘When two paths open up before you, always choose the hardest one.’ As uttered by a monk in the film…
I never really watched ‘Survivor’ until I came across the recent episodes on the tube. I think I finally found…
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