Tag: Nirvana

Àn instance of how pop culture ruined the name and image of the actual Nirvana. Got the first album though….

When should one let go and when should one hang on? That’s the big question the movie ‘Gravity’ continually posed to…

Question: About these words… ‘Seeing Form itself as Emptiness produces great Wisdom so one does not dwell in birth and death;…

Some discomfort is good. That from recognising Dukkha drives us to Nirvana. Some discomfort is not good. That from denying…

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiparticle : … This leads to the question of why the formation of matter after the Big Bang resulted…

If you focus only on the bad things in your life, you’ll miss the good things in your life, and…

To my aghast, I once heard a monk say that the path of attaining Nirvana is like pushing a button…

Q: I have always thought that the Buddha’s Parinirvana was the end and that he would not be subjected to…

A letter sent to the press: I refer to the 2 June 2010 article in The Straits Times, ‘Pray, let’s…

Form is emptiness; (色即是空) Emptiness is form. (空即是色) Form is not different from emptiness;（色不异空） Emptiness is not different from form. …

From ‘Essex County’ by Jeff Lemire, Annie the nurse says, ‘I lost a patient today… Humph!… I know what you’d…

Anicca… is the truth of impermanence. From the perspective of time, nothing is unchanging, while Nirvana is timeless. Dukkha… is…

It is partly due to the ‘endless’ clinging to self-delusion, to constant wondering about the nature of the ‘self’, which…

Jen: Your ‘imaginary funeral parlour notice’ [see below] is well written, seemingly depicting dying. Is it due to the way…

There is a full page in ‘Invincible: Ultimate Collection, Vol. 1’ (by Robert Kirkman) which seems to accidentally portray the…

If we do not try, we will not know. -Ayya Khema (Be An Island) Is there Nirvana or not? Can…

If you are invulnerable to harm, seemingly able to live forever, what would you do? Would you become a great…

Japan Adventures [8] : Up to be Buddhas, Down to be Bodhisattvas After climbing a tall and steep flight of…