Tag: Buddha-nature

The James Bond movie franchise had its 50th anniversary recently. Despite many themes of death in their titles, say, ‘You…

‘Wu wo’ (无我) means ‘non-self’ (Anatta), which means that as there is no enduring (unchanging) entity in our body and…

I think Charlie Chaplin’s movie, ‘The Great Dictator’ is really just his excuse to deliver what is one of the greatest inspirational speeches…

From the 1957 movie ‘The River’directed by Jean Renoir – Same But Different Nan: Why can’t you be good like…

There is no soul, as in an unchanging mental entity. If it is there, why did we change to be…

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…

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

In the trailer of ‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, this was uttered – ‘Everything will be alright in the end….

The worldly admired tend to be more imperfect than hoped upon a closer look [because defilements are there], yet more…

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.’ –…

I’m interpreting ‘You’ve Got The Love’ by Florence + the Machine my way, with ‘Lord’ standing for Lord Buddha, and…

I came across two strange sentiments about eating animals: 1. ‘As long as the Buddha is in my heart, eating…

From Chester Brown’s ‘Paying for It’: Jealousy is natural, but that doesn’t mean that not feeling jealous is not natural….

‎ S: Otto von Bismarck said, ‘When you say that you agree to a thing in principle, you mean that…

Here, Edward Monkton gets his ‘Zen’ right, though he doesn’t use the word ‘Zen. But Zen is Zen whether you…

Amituofo! I chant this for you to hear, not to condemn you for the evil you do, but to urge…

Question: How does the concept of the Collective Unconscious (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_unconscious) fit in Buddhist philosophy? Answer: Commenting based on the definition…

One of the methods to ‘combine’ Pure Land and Zen practice is that the one who practise mindfulness of Amituofo’s (Amitabha…

Below is a passage I helped to translate to Chinese for Buddhist Library’s newsletter: Brightly shining, luminous is this mind,…

To empathise is to civilise. To civilise is to empathise. – Jeremy Rifkin As mentioned in the video, ‘We are…