Tag: practice

29
Nov
2011

Spiritual Medicine

Patients with mental illnesses often stop taking medication when they assume they have gotten better… only to suffer from relapses….

01
Nov
2011

Missing The Dharma

If you do not learn the Dharma accordingly during a Dharma discussion session, you are being untrue to yourself and…

29
Nov
2010

Taiji Lesson #6

To know if your moves happened to be right due to unmindful beginner’s ‘luck’, keep practising them, to repeat the…

21
Sep
2010

Shortest Bowing Session

The last bowing session in the Pureland retreat lasted the shortest as there was the least fret, as there is…

07
Jun
2010

Talk & Walk

It is best if everyone walks good the good talk. Usually, only some walk the talk. Still, it is better…

22
Oct
2009

Yes, No & Dunno!

Once there are three friends – Yes, No and Dunno. Yes is full of enthusiasm, who believes that many high…

31
Aug
2009

Pilgrimage to Pure Land

Venerable Faxian is one of the great pilgrim translators who travelled from China to India to retrieve many precious sutras….

15
Jun
2009

An Inconvenient Truth about Inconvenience

Wyn: What do you do on Friday? Yah: I attend Pureland practice and study sessions (Pureland Practice Fellowship) every Friday….

30
Mar
2009

Like Fish Running Out of Water!

是日已过命已随减, 如少水鱼斯有何乐, 大众! 常勤精进如救头燃, 但念无常慎勿放逸。 The above verse was chanted just before we concluded our 1-day Pureland retreat at Dharma…

25
Mar
2009

The Stuff that Requires Faith

< Sri Lankaramaya Temple When it comes to the stuff that requires faith, most of us are naturally skeptical. Modern…

23
Feb
2009

Adventures : Japan Tales (21)

Reflections on Shinran’s Pure Land Teachings I just finished viewing an animated film titled ‘Shinran-sama: His Wish & Light’, which…