Tag: humility
Humility: Dharmagram #395 The humble learn and improve.The proud learn not and stagnate.
From: ‘How To Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life’ by Seneca, edited, translated, and introduced by James…
Alternation: Super Short Story #542 He could sense arrogance arising when he recovered slightly. He could sense humility arising when…
To a Dharma friend on humility: ‘As long as yet to be great like the Buddhas, we have no reason…
Super Short Story #426: Shyness He always knew that his so-called shyness was a subtle form of egoism – of…
Scissors > Paper > Stone > Scissors > Paper… Know the ‘strength’ of the ‘weakness’ too.
Humility: Wandering Thought #247 The middle path between being arrogant and being unsure is to always be a realistic, humble…
Wandering Thought #140: Pride There is false pride and there is true pride. False pride arises from attachment to the ego,…
Drewscape’s short story in ‘Monsters, Miracles, Mayonnaise’. Reminds me of how, as much as we are anonymous to one another,…
The above is a 1995 photo by a school senior. This was how the library of Singapore Polytechnic Buddhist Society…
He, a stone-cutter, saw a rich man gathering many luxuries, and wished to be like him. Suddenly, he became him….
She assumed he had let go of the matter, so she let it go, not further resolving it, not realising…
I am partly blind because I cannot see everything yet. May I be humble to remember this. I am partly deaf because…
From Itivuttaka 4.8: This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: “Monks, brahmans…
It is better to stand humbly low while moving stably than to stand tall and proud while moving rashly.
When one trips and falls, it’s easier to look for someone to blame, than to realise one was unmindful, as…
Another random lesson from Taiji class: To master Taiji faster, forget all your preconceptions… and even doubts, and accept the…
It is heartening to see Dharma teachers attending talks and classes of other teachers, instead of just attending to their…
A good translator can be both satisfied and unsatisfied: unsatisfied with other translations seen, which urges one to come up…
Here is my mini sharing of His Holiness Dalai Lama’s 2010 Southeast Asia teaching tour. I felt very fortunate to…
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