Tag: compassion

(The first verse is somewhat a haiku!) The most important parts of Iron Man are not made of iron –…

Give a fool access to the net, and he searches for nonsense. Give the wise access to the net, and…

Don’t talk about your ‘great wisdom’ if you do not have the slightest compassion for the weakest beings. Don’t talk…

When it comes to sharing the Dharma, how do we know what, and how to share, and if what we…

Something interesting about some nature-lovers is that they protect certain animals while eating other animals. It’s speciesism, partial compassion. Something…

为培养慈悲心而吃素即是修行一部分。 吃荤又不培养培养慈悲非修行一部分。 Being a vegetarian to nurture compassion makes it part of Dharma practice. Being a meat-eater while not nurturing…

I finished reading ”Becoming Enlightened’ by His Holiness the Dalai Lama (translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins, PhD) a few…

Form is emptiness; (色即是空) Emptiness is form. (空即是色) Form is not different from emptiness;（色不异空） Emptiness is not different from form. …

Question: I contributed money for a group gift, but later realised that it wasn’t an animal-friendly gift. Do I create…

Happiness is a kind of look in the eyes, a way of looking at life, a wisdom embodied. Happiness is…

Your karma makes your world go round. Our karma makes our world go haywire too. [i] We All Create Karma…

The classic ‘Mad World’ by Tears for Fears seems to be a poignant string of world-weary haikus. In between its…

In ‘Halo: Uprising’ by Brian Michael Bendis, a captured soldier saves the Earth using the key of Osanalian, which is…

Question: A friend says my caring for stray cats is due to me ‘owing’ them karmically, though I feel that…

Visited St. Patrick’s School again, a couple of days ago, to give a presentation on the Buddhist perspective of life…

A friend is getting married. But like many non-vegetarians, she’s offering a feast of many sentient beings. Me being the…

Talking about compassion, how can we not mention how Acharya Asanga had carefully licked the maggots out of a dog’s…

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

From one of the last page of David Small’s autobiographical graphic novel ‘Stitches: A Memoir’: ‘My mother died in 1970,…

In ‘Batman: Gotham After Midnight’ by Steve Niles and Kelley Jones, Batman says this to Comissioner Gordon, ‘This is the…