Tag: compassion

From ‘Grimmer Tales: A Wicked Collection of Happily Never After Stories’ by Erik Bergstrom, is ‘The Ugly Truth’, which I think…

To my aghast, I once heard a monk say that the path of attaining Nirvana is like pushing a button…

There is a tension between learning and expressing, between internalising and ‘externalising’. There is so much to learn, while there…

More than ten years ago, I visited Buddha Kasetra School (佛陀园地: http://www.buddhakasetra.org). Based at Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, Buddha…

Question: Why do some say it is not advisable for the pregnant to visit wakes? Answer: This is probably in…

In the movie ‘(Avatar): The Last Airbender’, one of the baddies shouts to his henchmen who capture him, ‘Do not…

Someone asked if I was more left-brained or right brained. Not that I’m no-brained, but I couldn’t really say. Are…

If we don’t have the karma to be infected by a disease, we will not be? Yes. If you have…

A donkey’s strength renders him trapped, to be a beast of burden, fed and used. (Two of his hooves bound…

We missed watching “The Unwinking Gaze” earlier due to our heavy work schedule. A friend had lent the DVD to…

From His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, ‘Compassion is not a luxury, it is a necessity for human beings to…

Q: Is helping my enemies the right thing to do? A: It is right, provided that it doesn’t harm anyone, and…

I never take the obvious shortcut across the grass. Some might imagine this to be unwise, rigid in using the…

A friend asked for my testimonial of how I become a Buddhist for sharing. Below is a short account… If…

Here is my mini sharing of His Holiness Dalai Lama’s 2010 Southeast Asia teaching tour. I felt very fortunate to…

A message written for Singapore Buddhist Free Clinic’s magazine: There is a famous medical analogy in Buddhism used to describe…

From the Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra (http://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Reln260/Vimalakirti.htm) are lesser known but some very surprising and illuminating teachings: ‘… Then the Licchavi…

I remember when I first visited a primary school built by Tzu Chi Foundation many years ago, the Buddhist volunteer…

Despite a domestic flight delay at Delhi airport towards Dharmashala, we accidentally but surely, karmically ‘bumped’ into His Holiness the…

Om Mani Padme Hung a – a Buddhist mantra to generate great compassion. Such stone cravings are seen placed around…