Mistake: Dharmagram #378 When mistakes are mindfully exhausted, perfection is...

BELIEF: We must have faith in who we want to be, not necessarily believing that such a person already exists, but that we can strive to become better and better, till we are like that ideal person in mind – who is perfect in every way, in compassion, wisdom and all other virtues. Thank...

A class participant passed me a card by a pseudo ‘Buddhist teacher’. How do we know that taught misrepresents the Buddha’s teachings? The small card is packed with lines, but the first line is already wrong – ‘一心清净自然入道’ which means ‘With one’s...

Super Short Story #378: Shoes Many bought things are like shoes – be they houses, cars, clothes, books and such… They are first bought because they seem a perfect fit, but later discover to be too tight or loose, or just not quite right, less than perfect. And even if they truly...

Even the Buddha could not please everyone with his perfect virtues and perfect teachings. Not because they are actually imperfect, but that the severely unenlightened are. (From ‘Vincent’ by Barbara...

Perfect the good stuff of course, stuff good for all! This is how being ‘slow’ yet steady can lead to...

Wandering Thought #144: Perfection Becoming a perfect person is not by embracing only the perfect. It is by perfecting your concern for everyone, including those who are far from perfect, accepting them as they are, while seeing their potential to become perfect. Thus, to perfect oneself is...

Wandering Thought #125: Perfection You do not have to be perfect to be perfect. In fact, you must be imperfect to become perfect. If not, you would be perfect already. However, you will need to know how imperfect you are now, while having the potential to be perfect later, and you must want...

Super Short Story (129): Perfection In the vast reaches of the universe, he imagines there ought to be another version of himself… Someone similar to him, but not exactly so, who is very likely to exist… Someone who is at least slightly a better person, whom he can surely...

The worldly admired tend to be more imperfect than hoped upon a closer look [because defilements are there], yet more perfect than expected upon a deeper look [because Buddha-nature is there...