Tag: Buddha-nature

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…

I used to be quite a severely unforgiving person. (Fortunately, things have improved greatly since.) The slightest bit of evil…

A Tit for a Tat (100) Tit: Everyone should see someone as special. Tat: Only one? Tit: If not, that…

Seeing a cleaner dusting a stupa that housed the Buddha’s relics. I wondered what would happen, should it be left…

The story by Maaike Hartjes in ‘Go Home: 12 Moving Stories’ tells of a baby bird born a little different….

‘Who am I?’ ‘I’ am nothing but constant change, yet while our mind and matter change, there is always to…

From ‘Wonderland’, which is a spin-off story based on ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ by Tommy Kovac and Sonny Liew are…

The main story arc of the movie PTU (Police Tactical Unit) is about a cop who slips and falls in…