Tag: compassion

Guan(shi)yin Bodhisattva, the true multi-tasker, with countless skilful means expressed through countless outstretched hands of perfect compassion guided by perfect…

Sam & Sara #428: Help Sam: I can’t help her as she must want to be helped! Sara: Can you then… help…

Story:  ‘A student was meditating in Ajahn Fuang’s presence when – in a spasm of mindlessness – she slapped a…

Wandering: Wandering Thought #251: We wander with wonder, to learn and discover not just other people, places and matters, but…

Growth: Wandering Thought #250 A DAY without any growth in any virtue, be it compassion, generosity, morality, patience, diligence, wisdom……

Sam & Sara #425: Friends Sara: He says it’s hard to go vege as many of his friends are meat-lovers….

Wandering Thought #233: Trueness  ‘Be true to yourself’. This is often said, taken to mean ‘to listen to your heart…

A Question For The Pope Glyzelle Palomar (12-year-old girl): Many children are abandoned by their parents. There are also many…

Wandering Thought #93: Compassion Compassion is so valuable and precious that we wish it to be as universal as possible,…

Wandering Thought #86: Generosity If we cannot carry even a single material thing along, to wherever we will be beyond…

Wandering Thought #59: Truth Be the bearer of truths, even if inconvenient ones, for the welfare of the downtrodden and…

Wandering Thought #48: Fight If you must ‘fight’ for anything, only do it with kindness and truthfulness, out of compassion…

Wandering Thought #42: Transience Since this physical life is already so transient, why overly pursue that which is equally materially…

Wandering Thought #19: Usefulness If someone remembers and comes to you only in times of need, you are at least…

From the movie ‘Better Living Through Chemistry’, You can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone. And sometimes, that someone…

Wandering Thought #13: Woes We might not need others to listen to our woes, but others might need us to…

Wandering Thought #5: Fortune Why should our bad fortune be also others’? Why should others suffer because we do? Why…

Super Short Story #322: OMG ‘Oh my God!’ she exclaimed, ‘He does not exists! Because if there is an all-good, all-knowing…

There is this half-bridge-half-ramp structure at the Toa Payoh train station underpass. It is a monument ‘celebrating’ witlessness. For some…

She said her main Dharma practice is based on Bodhicitta. Yet she can’t agree on animal liberation, non-animal-testing and working…