Tag: faith

__ Western Bridge 信愿念佛即极乐桥 With Faith and Aspiration being mindful of Āmítuófóis to walk the bridge to his Pure Land…

True Faith After doubting all you can,and resolving these doubts best you can,what remains is true faith… Truth and faith…

Hitchens’ Razor: What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. Thought: The burden to create faith must…

More on these terms at http://purelanders.com/2015/12/30/往生净土三资粮-the-three-provisions-for-rebirth-in-pure-land #ssCalligraphy

Above is a page from ‘Jerusalem: Chronicles From The Holy City’ by Guy Delisle, that reminds us of how much…

Super Short Story (199): Saved By God? He saved her because he believed they are children of the same God,…

Super Short Story (173): Placebo Having heard that a certain food is supposed to be chock-full of nutrients, it has…

Super Short Story (146): Arguments After The Predictably Uneventful 21.12.12 He claimed it was those who believed there was likely…

Interesting dialogues from the movie ‘Verbo’: Sara: Our history teacher told us something. A big mess in the Church a…

Why be a homewrecker, she thought, by being a third-party? And why risk being with him, who wrecks his own…

Q: How do you know that the Buddha’s teachings is the truth? A: Through active learning, practising, testing and questioning the teachings….

From the graphic novel ‘Americus’ by MK Reed and Jonathan Hill is this amusing frame. According to the Bible, everything arose…

This is a chat on the article ‘Whose Buddhism is the Truest’ at http://www.tricycle.com/feature/whose-buddhism-truest : J: Who cares? These scholars are…

In the movie ‘Priest’, the heroes are the denounced priests who go against the church, despite the repressive ones in…

Q: Some Buddhists like to cast lots, e.g. at Guanyin temples. Are these lots’ words from Guanyin Bodhisattva? A: There…

‘A Serious Man’ is a seriously quirky yet enjoyable award-winning black comedy that centres on the nature of faith in…

Here is an analysis of the poll question ‘Would You Marry Someone of Another Religion?’ As of today, the results…

In the graphic novel version of ‘Kidnapped’ by Robert Louis Stevenson (adapted by Alan Grant, illustrated by Cam Kennedy), the…

I don’t have faith that there is an all-forgiving God because the last time he lost faith in us… he…

Venerable Faxian is one of the great pilgrim translators who travelled from China to India to retrieve many precious sutras….