Tag: precepts
Still Breaking Precepts? If you are a Buddhist, who keeps breaking the precepts knowingly, with no intention to stop, does…
Take these two words to heart… PERSIST (in endurance) and RESIST (with self-restraint). — Epictetus
Better Your Precepts To Better Your Life How do you possibly better this human life if you do…
Be Better To Fare Better How do you better your life if you do not wish to be…
Rules: Dharmagram #56 Break only pointless rules though, while always upholding the precepts.
When do worldly thieves become enlightened saints? When their gang name gets dramatically mistranslated into Chinese (which says ’11 Arhats’)!
EVIL: As the first step of spiritual cultivation, the Buddhas teach that ‘all evils [i.e. due to greed, hatred and…
A class participant passed me a card by a pseudo ‘Buddhist teacher’. How do we know that taught misrepresents the…
那天不见了钱包。一时的疏忽，掉了也不知。回头去找时，已不在了。包里没什么钱，信用卡倒是好几张。麻烦的是要一间一间打电话到银行取消旧卡再要求新卡。再想还要去移民厅申报失身份证付罚款真是雪上加霜。但这些都是琐碎的小问题，不足让我茶饭不思。 真正让我担心和匪夷所思的是我的戒体。这个情况下，果真钱包被拿走，就意味着我的盗戒没守好。仔细想想，应该没犯过上品盗戒。自问记忆里没劫取、偷取、吓取或骗取过。也没自盗、教人盗、方便盗或咒盗。记得弘一大师说过，‘五戒中最为难持的，莫如盗戒’。我认为律师会有如此看法必定看得比我们这般凡人还要清细。但不记得的事可多了。或许是前世犯的，只能感叹自己守戒不够严谨，而受如此果报。 回到家时，门口有个字条。喔！原来有位好心人捡到了钱包，还亲自要送到我家。可惜我回来迟了一些，没碰着。不过留了电话，叫我和她联络。感恩这位菩萨慈悲，和她不辞劳苦的把钱包送到我家两次。不知怎么回报，也只能回向祝福她，希望有因缘再报恩。高兴的不是捡回了钱包，而是不盗戒应该‘犯’的没那么重。至少不至于失去钱包。不过经过这件事，也让我有机会反省和从新估计自己的修为。我当然还是要更加努力谨慎地守好戒律。因果丝毫不爽，不要等到报应来时，措手不及导致欲哭无泪。以下有则相关公案与大家分享： 文殊师利菩萨守戒谨严。一次，他对其他菩萨说：「我从一发心修行就持不盗戒，所以现在我所有的东西就没有人偷盗；不单没有人偷盗，我就是把最值钱的东西放在地上，也没有人会把它拿去。」 有的菩萨就不信，就说：「我们要实地的试验。你把你最值钱的东西拿出来，我们把它放在城门看，因为那儿来回的人最多。放在中间三天，如果没人拿，就证明你所说的是真实言。」 文殊师利菩萨说：「好啊！我们就试看！」于是他把最值钱的宝珠拿出来放。经过这城门的人很多，可是过了三天，果然没有人拿。所以菩萨们都信服了文殊师利菩萨。 真悯 合十
Having a ‘balanced mind’ does not mean never taking sides; it is to have no particular attachment or aversion, but…
Working in the government sectors are often known as having iron rice bowls. However, recent happenings in America say otherwise….
In the movie ‘Premium Rush’, there is the pseudo-cool idea that changeable (instead of fixed) gears and ‘brakes are death’…
Those who hold their liquor well think they are always in control but all it takes is a moment of…
The Middle Path means not to take extremes, while it is often mistaken to mean one should be moderate in…
Question: If I have committed observe the Five Precepts but repeatedly break one of them despite having practised repentance, can…
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…
Q: How do I convince my father to observe the Five Precepts, when they don’t ‘buy’ karma readily? A: The…
What if you said what you really want to say? What if you did what you really want to do?…
(Pic: Kites flying by Buangkok train station) A kite without a guiding string is a dangerous kite, that endangers itself…
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