Tag: wisdom
S: Stonepeace said, ‘One who says many to be evil might be the one most evil.’ (常说人人不好的人可能是最不好的人.) Is the monkey…
Amulets might offer some protection – but they cannot protect anyone from eventual death. Amulets might offer some blessings –…
Wolverine’s adamantium claws are at times extensions of his heroism, of the fight for justice. But at other times extensions…
In ‘The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’, Johnny Depp plays a character who says this to a lady in her imaginary…
The Buddha is also called ‘The Blessed One’. But who blesses the Blessed One, who blesses us with the Dharma?…
From ‘Grimmer Tales: A Wicked Collection of Happily Never After Stories’ by Erik Bergstrom, is ‘The Ugly Truth’, which I think…
To my aghast, I once heard a monk say that the path of attaining Nirvana is like pushing a button…
There is a tension between learning and expressing, between internalising and ‘externalising’. There is so much to learn, while there…
The ushnisha refers to the protuberance on the crown of the Buddha. It is one of the 32 special physical…
In the movie ‘(Avatar): The Last Airbender’, one of the baddies shouts to his henchmen who capture him, ‘Do not…
A friend visited a monastery in China, and came across a monk who told her that a couplet at a…
Someone asked if I was more left-brained or right brained. Not that I’m no-brained, but I couldn’t really say. Are…
A donkey’s strength renders him trapped, to be a beast of burden, fed and used. (Two of his hooves bound…
Question: Does the Buddha teach a systematic way of cultivating wisdom? Answer: The Buddha’s teachings are valuable precisely because they…
From His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, ‘Compassion is not a luxury, it is a necessity for human beings to…
Q: Is helping my enemies the right thing to do? A: It is right, provided that it doesn’t harm anyone, and…
If the lotus symbolises spiritual purity, as it blossoms despite roots in mud (which represents defilements), does the offering of…
About once or twice a year, I get calls from strangers, directed from people who don’t know the answer, who…
Q: Some Buddhists like to cast lots, e.g. at Guanyin temples. Are these lots’ words from Guanyin Bodhisattva? A: There…
(Thank you, Scorpio East, for the premiere tickets!) Though ‘Aftershock’ retells the terrible tragedy of the 1976 Tangshan earthquake which…
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