Tag: compassion

Learnt from Geshe Damdul’s talk tonight, in my own words: Actualisation of Bodhicitta brings about tenderness (an aspect of compassion)….

J: 想做的事多了，但做好的事少了，有时觉得自己能办到的，但更多时候却是“有心无力”的状况… 该放下？还是持续？有时很迷惑，别说方向，连自己也找不到。怎么办呢？我相信其实每个人都有无穷待开发的力量，只是… 只是… 易发愿，却难持续，怎么办？:'( S: How about finding your passion, and focusing on it as much as you can?…

Please don’t mistaken you are lovely because you think you have lovely hair, for hair is but dead cells. Please…

I’m generally not supportive of domestication as it is a often form of exploitation but in the documentary ‘The Monk…

I know very little about politics but I know a good government should work for the people and not for…

Just before polling day, I wrote this on http://www.facebook.com/shen.shian/posts/10150189984054001 To my surprise, more than 30 friends ‘liked’ it, and many…

A review of Radiohead’s ‘Give Up the Ghost’: Lyrics: Don’t haunt me don’t haunt me… Gather up the lost and…

Question: How was the Buddha-to-be able to just let go of his worldly attachments to search for the path to…

Roach resting on her image’s crown I freak out but she* smiles on Namo Guanshiyin Pusa! * not the roach!

I’m always somewhat skeptical about books that mention various religions under one breath. This often results in generalisations and misinterpretations….

It’s okay, such nonsense, this (somewhat) nonsensical place with (some) nonsensical people with (some) nonsensical matters, because I’m leaving this…

From TheZena56: ‘I had a nightmare once. I was walking down a snowy road and the full moon was blood…

S: Stonepeace said, ‘One who says many to be evil might be the one most evil.’ (常说人人不好的人可能是最不好的人.) Is the monkey…

There is already a dirt track formed along the shortcut (on the slope). Why not use it? Because it will…

An extended dialogue: S: Is it possible to use soy milk as one of the auspicious offering items instead of…

Wolverine’s adamantium claws are at times extensions of his heroism, of the fight for justice. But at other times extensions…

In ‘The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’, Johnny Depp plays a character who says this to a lady in her imaginary…

Maybe we are imperfect, which is why we love the imperfect. [1] Is this a sickness or a virtue? Maybe…

Email subject header: Diabetes Alert? Hi Everyone, Recently, I noticed that there are black ants on the rim of the…

I always wondered what is the moral of the story of ‘The Princess and the Pea’. Does it sing the…