Tag: pride

26
Dec
2023

What Significance?

__ What Significance? Realise your significancein the big scheme of things,but realise your insignificance too. Have healthy pridewith no ego….

16
Oct
2023

Holding And Releasing | Verse On Getting And Letting Go

_ Holding And Releasing Receive without pride,let go without attachment. – Marcus Aurelius得舍偈 因缘具足,得时无慢。因缘散灭,舍时无执。 Verse On Getting And Letting GoWith…

23
Nov
2016

Shyness: Super Short Story #426

Super Short Story #426: Shyness He always knew that his so-called shyness was a subtle form of egoism – of…

16
Nov
2014

Pride: Wandering Thought #140

Wandering Thought #140: Pride There is false pride and there is true pride. False pride arises from attachment to the ego,…

20
Sep
2014

Pride : Wandering Thought #90

Wandering Thought #90: Pride There is a world of difference between gladness and proudness (pride). The first has gratitude and…

26
Jan
2014

Confidence: Super Short Story #300

Super Short Story #300: Confidence He was proud and over-confident that he was not proud; just confident.

04
Jul
2012

Too Much Or Little Ego?

Do the anonymous have too much ego to hide, or too little ego to show? Are their egos with shamefulness…

07
Mar
2012

Why Let Faults Win?

Heard of a Dharma student thinking of giving up attending one of his teachers’ classes due to embarrassment over some…

05
May
2010

The Best Fight is No Fight

In ‘Ip Man 2’, Ip Man (pronounced as Ye Wen in Chinese) shares some counter-intuitive wisdom on the arts of…

30
Mar
2010

Do You Have Pride & Prejudice?

‘Pride and Prejudice’ tells the tale of how the aloof Mr. Darcy came to be with the feisty Ms. Elizabeth…

11
Mar
2010

Why Not Cop Out?

In the movie ‘Cop Out’, a cop goes all out to retrieve his robbed valuable baseball card for the sake…

16
Oct
2009

Evil, who?

Guy: I think girls are evil. I know some guys are as well, but girls are more evil. What do…

24
Mar
2009

Just Astonishment & Gladness

Last Saturday, after giving an almost full day course to guides on guiding in a Buddhist temple, I had about…

19
Mar
2009

Do We Suffer Fools Gladly Or Rage Against Them?

Is one who suffers fools gladly one who is gladly a fool? Q:  What if someone is unreasonable? Should we…

28
Dec
2008

Humility : Check Your Pride

My English is not perfect, but I know some friends with worse English. Knowing there is a need for them…