Tag: karma

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

If we don’t have the karma to be infected by a disease, we will not be? Yes. If you have…

The worst gift can be the best gift. The quality of a gift does not depend on it(self), but on…

To empathise is to civilise. To civilise is to empathise. – Jeremy Rifkin As mentioned in the video, ‘We are…

I never take the obvious shortcut across the grass. Some might imagine this to be unwise, rigid in using the…

I slipped and fell in the bathroom of the guestroom where we stayed in Dharamshala… and hit my back on…

Despite a domestic flight delay at Delhi airport towards Dharmashala, we accidentally but surely, karmically ‘bumped’ into His Holiness the…

In ‘Valley of Flowers’, which might appear to be a Tibetan Buddhist movie at first, there is a scene of…

A wonderful one-liner from ‘The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift’: ‘When you drift, you’re in control and out of…

Question: Though it is wrong to kill animals for meat, isn’t it the karma of these animals to be killed?…

Q: Does a meat-seller (not a butcher), say a chicken rice hawker break the First Precept of not killing? He…

Q: Abortion is against the First Precept of not killing. But due to great advance in medical science, doctors are…

Something learnt from ‘American Pie: The Naked Mile’ is that there is no such thing as a guilt-free trip without…

A Dharma class participant asked me about the nature of doing full-time Dharma work. This is my summary…  How is…

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…

Q: If one is reborn as an animal, say an ant, how would the ant be able to practise the…

Q: I was not aware that the purpose of life is to realise True Happiness (via enlightenment). I thought all along…

Q: How do I convince my father to observe the Five Precepts, when they don’t ‘buy’ karma readily? A: The…

If There Is No Self, Who Owns My Karma? Just as there are thoughts without a thinker, there is karma…

Q: Sometimes, suffering may not be a bad thing. A: Suffering is ‘useful’ only if it spurs one to advance…