Tag: evil

02
May
2012

Good & Evil-Knowing Advisors

颠倒众生因视善知识为恶知识, 自己则退转成其他众生恶知识! As inverted beings see good-knowing advisors as evil-knowing advisors, they thus backslide to become other beings’ evil-knowing advisors…

16
Jan
2012

More Evil & Less Good

To be unapologetic for one’s evil done makes one more evil. To be ungrateful for others’ goodness done makes one…

08
Nov
2011

Just Karma

The law of karma is perfectly just because it is perfectly natural and unbiased; not created or directed by any…

13
Sep
2011

Visible Litter By Invisible Litterbugs

Above is a scene at IT Show 2011 There are many visible flyer givers. There are many visible flyer takers. There…

26
Jul
2011

Don’t Spoil The Book!

I heard a Mother scolding her child for folding across a page of a library book. She said, ‘Don’t spoil…

19
Jul
2011

Good Or Not?

Edmund Burke said, ‘All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.’ Methinks,…

27
Jun
2011

Nevertheless Important

Even though there is no absolute good or evil in this worldly world, it is nevertheless important to be relatively…

21
Mar
2011

Snakey Stuff

Not that I believe in God, Eden or the Devil, but… If good St. Patrick could drive all the snakes…

24
Jan
2011

To Align & Awaken

Amituofo! I chant this for you to hear, not to condemn you for the evil you do, but to urge…

17
Jan
2011

Do the Good Die Young?

Question: Is it true that ‘good people die young’ and that “good deeds do not beget got endings’? Answer: Not…

10
Jan
2011

Watching ‘Night Watch’ & ‘Day Watch’

Different from the run-of-the-mill concept of there being a supreme and extreme good guy versus a supreme and extreme bad…

21
Dec
2010

Balance of Good & Evil

A Tit for a Tat (193) Tit: I think good and evil is balanced in this world. Tat: If so,…

14
Dec
2010

A Chat on Criticism

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…

06
Dec
2010

Confessions

Empathy instead of disgust arises when one realises that another’s horrible behaviour, could have arisen from horrible suffering. – Stonepeace…

27
Oct
2010

The Need for Repentance

If a ‘Buddhist’ teacher does evil, despite knowing it is evil, one probably does not really believe in karma. If…

22
Sep
2010

Why Balance Good and Evil?

A Buddhist friend whom I did not know too well commented during a group chat that just as the universe…

24
Aug
2010

Sliding on the Scale of Good & Evil

I like to watch cops-and-robbers flicks – not to see the plainly good guys chasing after one-sided bad guys, but…

02
Aug
2010

Passive Acceptance of Karma?

Some espouse this idea – ‘…他是真的欺骗我们,我们随他…’ (If they really bully or cheat us, we let them do it.) The idea…

26
Jul
2010

Are You Secretly Invaded by the Skrulls?

In ‘Secret Invasion’ by Brian Michael Bendis, it is realised that the alien Skrull race, which is capable of shape-shifting…

20
Jul
2010

Is Free Will Good or Evil?

A God-believing guest speaker mentioned something interesting but illogical at a Buddhism and Science seminar. He said that because there…