Tag: Stonepeace

If you want to know someone who is always agreeable with yourself, you might as well converse with a mirror, whose…

Japanese restaurants are known for their prevalent, wasteful and environmentally-unfriendly use of disposable wooden chopsticks. We visited one recently and…

Do watch this short video (only 4 min long) It presents a simple but powerful concept that can change your…

For matters of truth and goodness, the harder it is to do what is right, the harder we must strive….

Was thinking of ranting against someone’s senseless stupidity when I realised it would be senseless and stupid, especially if it…

One who braces for the hard knocks of life will find them less shocking and painful. Not bracing for reality…

When friends tell me their various reasons for being ‘unable’ to be full vegans, despite ‘knowing’ its rationale, I reply…

Since we inadvertently kill some beings in daily life, such as accidentally stepping on ants, does it mean it is…

为培养慈悲心而吃素即是修行一部分。 吃荤又不培养培养慈悲非修行一部分。 Being a vegetarian to nurture compassion makes it part of Dharma practice. Being a meat-eater while not nurturing…

Form is emptiness; (色即是空) Emptiness is form. (空即是色) Form is not different from emptiness;（色不异空） Emptiness is not different from form. …

If what you find attractive in someone is the Dharma embodied and expressed, why be attached to the manner and…

Release from being bound by what you wrongly assume to be true happiness brings even greater happiness. – Stonepeace This…

From ‘The Amazing Spider-man: Family Ties’: Uncle Ben: Peter… you’ve never been in a fight in your entire life. Peter:…

With close reference to Buddhist scriptures, here are three interesting articles with the Buddha’s perspectives on the origin of humans…

Only Buddhas, who are perfect teachers, do not require [constructive] criticism from their students. – Stonepeace What do you do…

In the graphic novel ‘The Nobody’ by Jeff Lemire, a man arrives in a small town bandaged from head to…

Though a large organic farm I visited doesn’t use pesticides, it uses fly paper and blue UV light insect-killers to…

To avoid all evil, To do all good, And to purify the mind – These are the teachings of all…

From ‘The Color of Earth’ by Kim Dong Hwa, a young monk poignantly thinks to himself when he realises he…

A Tit for a Tat (110) Tit: I forgot to remind you something. Tat: About what? Maybe I can help…