Tag: Pure Land
These are some scenes from lesson #9 of this 10-lesson class: http://thedailyenlightenment.com/2011/07/understanding-amituofo-via-the-amitabha-sutra-8th-run at Buddha of Medicine Welfare Society. The class is practising…
‘Assault Girls’, from the makers of ‘Ghost in the Shell’, is quite a letdown, lacking the usual profound philosophising. Its…
These are some scenes from lesson #7 of this 10-lesson class: http://thedailyenlightenment.com/2011/07/understanding-amituofo-via-the-amitabha-sutra-8th-run at Buddha of Medicine Welfare Society. [The 9th run…
I’m interpreting ‘You’ve Got The Love’ by Florence + the Machine my way, with ‘Lord’ standing for Lord Buddha, and…
She’d say, ‘oh, ohohohoh… I know the sun must set to rise.’ – Coldplay (Paradise) She expected the world, but…
A genie appeared to three in a boat and granted each of them a wish. A: I want to go…
Lost a good idea within a finger snap Arghhh! Imagine if this happens on the deathbed. Arghhh! Not a good…
His bipolar swinging of reason and emotion in this life is just like a compression of my ‘bipolar’ swinging of…
Question: We went to exhume of one of our long-time ancestors’ graves for cremation and discovered some ornaments with the…
Just before polling day, I wrote this on http://www.facebook.com/shen.shian/posts/10150189984054001 To my surprise, more than 30 friends ‘liked’ it, and many…
A reply to a Pure Land course participant, who decided to attend the next round due to a relative’s passing…
Tim: I read a teacher saying that to meet the future Buddha, who comes a long time later, simply don’t…
J.D Salinger wrote this in ‘The Catcher in the Rye’: ‘Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some…
It’s okay, such nonsense, this (somewhat) nonsensical place with (some) nonsensical people with (some) nonsensical matters, because I’m leaving this…
He spent $200,000 to change his kidneys via the black market. He spent 1 second to fall and die. What…
A live band played Auld Lang Syne at his ‘Buddhist’ funeral. Way too sentimental a parting gift. Is it supposed to…
click to enlarge Register: http://thedailyenlightenment.com/events/amituojingform.doc Here’s more feedback from past participants of the 5th run to share. (Hope you can…
There is much talk these days, of mindfulness of many things, connected to life… From relationships, to work, to finances……
In ‘The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’, Johnny Depp plays a character who says this to a lady in her imaginary…
Adorning glossy magazine covers are photographs of faces mostly photoshopped to ‘perfection’. Nothing new really, for our ancestors too conceal…
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