Smile: Dharmagram #148 Translation of French words by Death in picture: ‘My arrow [I promise you] spares no one. You will all dance the ballet of which I sing.’ From Maximus Decimus Meridius in the movie ‘Gladiator’: ‘I knew a man [supposedly Marcus Aurelius] who...

Fence: Dharmagram #138 Nothing keeps out nature itself, including the nature of change....

Elements: Dharmagram #133 Earth (as land), water (as sea), fire (as sun) and wind (as air). All pictures we take are but composed by the four great elements of change, frozen in...

Beacon: Dharmagram #132 And this is a sea-based beacon. A reminder to be anchored in the sea of change, to not lose your bearings, so as to provide bearings for yourself and...

Rock: Dharmagram #122 Rock replica of Dragon Teeth Gate...

Sands: Dharmagram #120 Boulders become rocks that become pebbles that become the sands of...

Broken: Dharmagram #104 Even if your body and possessions are not yet so, they will be. Treasure them now then, but with less if any...

Who: Dharmagram #95 But who am ‘I’ still, if ‘I’ keep...

Plate: Dharmagram #87 Cloud plate (云板) under a clock. It is always time to spiritually wake...

Mentioned this in class recently – that one of the most amazing things in the world, is that even when we see others around us die, we still tend to think we ourselves will not die! Yet, death happens to everyone, unless we realise deathlessness in this life. Amituofo 轮回路险， 无常迅速。 老实念佛，...