From ‘The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse’ by Charlie Mackesy: If home is where the heart is,and the heart of our heartsis our Buddha-nature,to get homeis to return to our Buddha-nature,and mindfulness of Buddhato reach Amituofo’s Pure Landis the easiest way to do...

Reference: Dharmagram #337 May all take reference to their Buddha-nature and all Buddhas. (From Marcus Aurelius’...

  Cycles: Dharmagram #299 Nature and nurture go in cycles. Only by nurturing Buddha-nature’s potential do we break...

Clarity: Dharmagram #276 If the Buddhas already see us clearly, it is us who need to see our Buddha-nature...

Hope: Dharmagram #154 In Buddhism, there is always hope as there is always Buddha-nature awaiting to be realised in all, even...

Alienation: Dharmagram #70 From the title card of ‘The Alienist’… We too are alienated from our true nature, which is Buddha-nature, thus with suffering, spiritually ill. Yet, our Buddha-nature is always there, for us to awaken...

Nature: Dharmagram #60 Unnerving opening quote of ‘Scarface’. The consolation is that the opposite is true too, that no one is really bad, and can do right, as all have Buddha-nature, be it discovered or...

The removed public phone and sign reveal how white the wall was. An unexpected case of ‘out with the old’ that revives the older… that seems newer. What more old yet new discoveries can we make around us? May we clear our ‘old’ defilements, that we are too used...

BELIEF: We must have faith in who we want to be, not necessarily believing that such a person already exists, but that we can strive to become better and better, till we are like that ideal person in mind – who is perfect in every way, in compassion, wisdom and all other virtues. Thank...

This quote might be ‘natural’ for many humans, but it is not the point. The key point is that we can become more natural – more in tune with our Buddha-nature, that is free from sadness, anger, fear and such. It is not about being positive or negative, but becoming more...