Tag: Pure Land

Sharing the Dharma in person is great spiritual training for me. Through it, I learn to be more generous, patient…

A Tit for a Tat (44) Tit: Why do you do the things you do, that others might misunderstand as…

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

< Dust of the X-Men An SMS conversation with a friend: Sophie: Monday… Arghhh… Shi’an: How about this… Monday might…

From the movie ‘Fanboys’ is the dialogue below. The guys were planning to steal a copy of Star Wars Episode…

For supper last night, I reheated a prepacked naan using a microwave oven. To my shock, when it was ready,…

This life, this suffering, this Samsara, is nothing but a springboard to Pureland. Pureland is nothing but a springboard to…

A friend remarked that he was feeling angry during the day, but when he arrived at the temple in the…

Class: We often hear Buddhists greet each other with ‘Amituofo’, aspiring to be reborn in the Land of Ultimate Bliss…

A friend remarked that in this Dharma-ending age, he was surprised that a recent Pureland retreat was not as well…

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

If there is an almighty perfect creator, the universe would be a perfect work of art. If the universe is…

Thank goodness that we can only have one thought at a time. Imagine if 84,000 thoughts assault you at the…

Logo: The golden rays represent Amitabha Buddha’s light of compassion shining via his 48 great vows, which radiate in all…

If only Samsara does not has… Piles of laundry to wash Piles of trash to throw Piles of dishes to…

Yup, Depeche Mode does slow and sentimental songs too. The above is the moving studio version of ‘Come Back’ from…

I once had an acquaintance in school. She had long straight flowing hair and big round eyes. The usual attributes…

In ‘The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor’, the first emperor of China (Qin Shihuang), after his conquest of the…

Pic: Dharma Hall at Kong Meng San After lunch, just before the next round of the Pureland retreat recitation, I…

In Mahavaipulya-mahasanni-pata Sutra, a verse says: In the Dharma Ending Age [which we’re about 10% into now], when 100 million…