Tag: harmony

15
Jul
2024

Come & Go Well (Jan 18)

__ Further Reflections 102: Live in peaceand be rebornwith greater peace and blissin Pure Land. 103: May our four elementsnourish…

28
Sep
2022

Naturalness

__ Naturalness It is surely unnaturalto destructively turn natureagainst harmonious nature.

15
Dec
2019

Harmony: Super Short Story #690

Harmony: Super Short Story #690 Idealistically thinking having a duet will harmonise awaythe off-key parts of the solo,it became a…

01
Jan
2019

Force: Dharmagram #323

  Force: Dharmagram #323 ‘Rogue Ones’ are those not one with the force and others harmoniously.

03
May
2014

Mag Congrats!

Happy to be invited to pen this for issue #300 of 佛友咨询 (For You). Wow! The magazine is 25 years…

06
Aug
2013

Differences: Sam & Sara #402

Sam & Sara #402: Differences Sara: I really believe that anyone can get along with anyone – as long as…

25
Apr
2012

The Importance of Inter-Religious Harmony

An important article I once wrote, resent for April 2012’s issue of ‘For You Information’ magazine – The Importance of…

06
Dec
2011

Tokyo Sonata

In the movie ‘Tokyo Sonata’, there is dissonance, hidden tension in a family, between every member of the family… that drives…

12
Oct
2011

Is Buddhism A Path To God?

At an inter-religious forum, after representatives of several religions introduced the gise of their ideology, someone in the audience hinted…

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…

15
Nov
2010

Are Labels Useless?

Q: It doesn’t matter whether one calls oneself a Buddhist when one is practising the Buddha’s way. Often, we are…

08
Nov
2010

Paradox of Religious Harmony

What happens if a religion insists that it is the only true religion? How is inter-religious harmony to be upheld…

03
Nov
2010

The Happy Buddhist Card

More on these cards

16
Sep
2010

The Happy Buddhist Card

While chatting with friends on the ‘Agree to Disagree: Conversations on Conversion’ project (http://conversion.buddhists.sg) much earlier, I suggested doing something…

14
Jun
2010

Agree to Disagree?

In Digha Nikaya (I,164), the Buddha taught, ‘Those things about which there is no agreement, let us put aside. Those…

01
Jun
2010

How a Religion Destroyed Another

Jehu [King of Israel] assembled all the people and said to them, “Ahab worshiped Baal a little; Jehu will worship him…

05
May
2010

Interreligious Similarities & Differences

Something I helped to answer for the press: Q: Is current interfaith work too skewed towards looking for commonalities? Is…

18
Mar
2009

Why I Skipped the Safest Supper

Photo: A Catholic Sister reading the Declaration of Religious Harmony: “We, the people in Singapore, declare that religious harmony is…

21
Jan
2009

Belief : Truth & Goodness

Beliefs of a ‘Non-Believer’ http://buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=8,7674,0,0,1,0 I watched the live telecast of Obama’s inaugural presidential speech last night. It was largely…