Tag: rebirth
The cleaner at the food court came to retrieve an empty tray, but with absent-mindedness. She lifts a tray off…
C: How I wish I can be born during the golden days when the Buddha is around, when there are…
Mama, ooh, I don’t want to die. I sometimes wish I’d never been born at all. – Bohemian Rhapsody A…
Those attached to living well, who have aversion to death, might forget that death is always eventual, that death can…
When things get routine, we wish for the non-routine. When things get routinely non-routine, we wish for the routine. A…
You cry when you are born. Because returning painfully is suffering. How much more tears? You cry when you are…
Detail from Segantini’s ‘The last task of the day’. Reminds me of the Dukkha of life’s routine burdens and dreariness,…
Here’s something more confounding than the conventional concept of time-travel, that is ironically possible – somewhat… Question: How do you…
Since we are all one another’s parents due to many rebirths, parents should also practise filial piety to their children,…
轮回路险，生生世世， 反目成仇，反仇成目。 何不大家厌离娑婆，欣求极乐， 与诸上善人，俱会一处， 修菩萨道，共成佛道？ 阿弥陀佛！ The rounds of rebirth are dangerous. From life to life, love becomes hate, hate…
By Royston Sim [The Straits Times]: ‘For 40 minutes on Saturday morning, representatives from eight religions took turns to recite…
A friend sent by the Chinese text below, written by a Dharma teacher, for comments. My comments are in English,…
S: Project Rebirth: Rediscover, Reflect & Recharge!… More than 60 have signed up for this round. For those who missed this,…
From ‘Divide “between religions, not religious and non-religious”‘ in The Straits Times on 6 September 2011: ‘Mr Lee (Kuan Yew), whose…
Part 1: It is amazing… how a total stranger on the street can be all smiles, greeting you, offering a…
Friedrich Nietzsche wrote… “What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say,…
A Tit for a Tat (326) Tit: My handphone just broke down! Why does this have to happen on my…
Question: We went to exhume of one of our long-time ancestors’ graves for cremation and discovered some ornaments with the…
There is a stranger in the house. There is an uninvited guest in the house. There is a phantom cockroach…
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