Tag: respect

03
Aug
2020

Self-Respectablity Comes Before Others’ Respect

  You will earnthe respect of all menif you beginby earningthe respect of yourself. — Musonius Rufus(Fragments: 30)

11
Jul
2019

Status: Super Short Story #578

Status: Super Short Story #578 He was extra respectful to her only due to her extra high status, not due…

15
Jan
2019

Self-Respect: Dharmagram #334

Self-Respect: Dharmagram #334 Self-respect is to know how you should be, and to be how you should be, even if…

09
May
2017

Flower Respect

Er… I respect the rose too… so much that I would never buy a plucked or cut flower of any…

28
Feb
2015

Fault-Finding

To a Dharma friend: ‘I used to be like you, to look at faults more than virtues of others. The…

20
Jan
2015

8 ‘Koans’ On Freedom Of Speech

#1: Mindfulness What is the right measure for your freedom of speech, with how much mindfulness of motivations and consequences,…

04
Aug
2014

Respect: Wandering Thought #39

Wandering Thought #39: Respect One who does not expect more respect to be earned by demanding it from another immediately…

20
Sep
2012

Super Short Story (50): Respect

Although he expects respect, he expects it so much that the moment someone expresses what he perceives to be disrespect,…

04
Jun
2012

Respect Dead Or Alive

From the movie ‘Peepli (Live)’, which is social tragedy of about how a poor farmer was tempted to kill himself…

22
Feb
2012

Repentance & Respect

If one is constantly apologetic, one has never been truly apologetic. If one keeps saying sorry, one is simply not…

14
Dec
2010

Healthy Monastic & Lay Interdependence

From Itivuttaka 4.8:  This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: “Monks, brahmans…

08
Nov
2010

To Be Truly All-Embracing

To Be Truly All-Embracing He presented himself to be free, free even to eat anything, open in an all-embracing way. But…

03
Nov
2010

The Happy Buddhist Card

More on these cards

16
Sep
2010

The Happy Buddhist Card

While chatting with friends on the ‘Agree to Disagree: Conversations on Conversion’ project (http://conversion.buddhists.sg) much earlier, I suggested doing something…

10
May
2010

Should Kids Know about Ghosts?

I heard of a Mother who had a kid who was frightened about ghosts. She dismissed them, telling him that…

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…

05
May
2010

Not That I Disrespect

It is not that I disrespect your offering that I refuse to take your meat, but that I respect animals…

02
Mar
2009

Don’t Walk Over a Sutra!

A Dharma friend recounted the first time she stepped into a Chinese Buddhist temple out of interest to learn chanting….

19
Jan
2009

Victory : Winning Peace

The Unseen ‘Ip Man’ Behind Bruce Lee? http://buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=12,7663,0,0,1,0 The mild-mannered ‘Ip Man’ (pronounced ‘eep-mun’: Bruce Lee’s martial arts master) is…