Tag: Buddha-nature

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…

A friend sent an old news link about how a girl killed and cut her parents into pieces due to…

A bipolar student wasn’t sure he liked being his more ‘sober’ self. Perhaps he is used to swinging between highs…

A Buddhist friend whom I did not know too well commented during a group chat that just as the universe…

Napolean Dynamite is one quirky comedy starring the amazing Jon Heder. He acted so believably as an ultra-nerd that the…

Pic: Mug at Dharma Drum Mountain’s Bookshop at Jinshan OMG! Oh my God? Ohmigosh? OMB! Oh my Buddha! My own…

Int he movie ‘Marie Antionette’, she quotes Rousseau in the open fields to her friends, after ‘breaking free’ of the…

If you really think you and I can’t change, you don’t really believe in Anicca. If you really think you…

Best words of wisdom from the third Shrek movies, by Arty: Just because people treat you like a villain, or…

I don’t understand how any deity is invoked by excitement, by songs, yells and cheers. Won’t overwhelming emotions get in…

In the latest movie depiction of the most turbulent years in the life of ‘Confucius’, there was a scene where…