13/07/2013 10:39 (GMT+7)
The task of each and every Buddhist is first to make the Buddha-Dhamma a living reality, by studying it and practicing it in everyday life. When we live in accordance with the Dhamma we can speak about it with authority. Secondly, a Buddhist’s task is to spread the pure Buddha-Dhamma, or to help the Sangha who devote their whole lives to the study, practice and spreading of the pure Dhamma – which is excellent in the beginning, in the middle and in the end. Thereby we become helpers of humanity and messengers of peace and happiness. |
09/07/2013 15:27 (GMT+7)
Our life is what we make it by our own thoughts and deeds, thus it is thoughts that a man rises or falls. |
28/06/2013 20:11 (GMT+7)
The wisdom that perceives the object in a way completely opposed to ignorance is not just any wisdom. It perceives the ultimate nature of phenomena, that which is emptiness, the absence of inherent existence; that things are devoid of, or empty of, existing from their own side. |
15/06/2013 19:53 (GMT+7)
Just as a tree with roots undamaged and firm grows again even though cut down, so also, if latent craving is not rooted out, this dukkha (of birth, ageing and death) arises again and again. |
22/05/2013 16:59 (GMT+7)
“Monks, for one whose awareness-release through good will is cultivated, developed, pursued, handed the reins and taken as a basis, given a grounding, steadied, consolidated, and well-undertaken, eleven benefits can be expected. Which eleven? |
12/05/2013 15:30 (GMT+7)
We have come to a couple of related ideas which are common in Buddhism and they are the ideas of karma and rebirth. These ideas are closely inter-related, but because the subject is a fairly wide one, we will begin to deal with the idea of karma today and rebirth in another lecture. |
10/05/2013 15:50 (GMT+7)
The Eight Laws Relating to the Vicissitude of Life (Pali: “Labho alabho, Ayaso yaso, Ninda pasansa cha, Sukhancha dukkhan, Ethe anichcha manujesu dhamma,Asassatha vipparinama dhamma.”) Profit & loss, fame & anonymity, humiliation & honor, happiness & sorrow are called the ’Eight Laws Relating to the Vicissitude of Life’. |
07/05/2013 19:27 (GMT+7)
Today, my talk is especially addressed to the sick and old persons. The reason for this talk is that there was a Buddhist layperson who came and asked if I could give a small Dharma talk to his parents who were old and dying – and because he wanted his parents to be alert, clear-minded when the time came. I sympathized with him and also in order to help the sick, old persons during this critical time, we are giving you today’s talk. |
06/05/2013 16:10 (GMT+7)
“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.” |
05/05/2013 12:31 (GMT+7)
It is Perfect View, Perfect Thought, Perfect Speech, Perfect Action, Perfect Livelihood, Perfect Effort, Perfect Mindfulness and Perfect Concentration. |
25/03/2013 22:26 (GMT+7)
Many Westerners, when new to Buddhism, are struck by the uncanny familiarity of what seem to be its central concepts: interconnectedness, wholeness, ego-transcendence. But what they may not realize is that the concepts sound familiar because they are familiar. To a large extent, they come not from the Buddha’s teachings but from the Dharma gate of Western psychology, through which the Buddha’s words have been filtered. They draw less from the root sources of the Dharma than from their own hidden roots in Western culture: the thought of the German Romantics. |
20/03/2013 13:59 (GMT+7)
According to Buddhism free dom of thought and exercising ones free will are boundless. One need not be a slave to a philosophy, book, tradition, any leader or teacher and super power. All human beings are potential Buddhas and can develop their minds even to the extent of attaining Buddhahood. In the Dhammapada the first stanza itself declares that the mind is the fore-runner in every action. All evidence suggests that our sense of free will is deeply ingrained. In a study involving around 40,000 people from 34 countries more than 70 per cent of the respondents answered in positive terms to the question “Do we make our own fate?”. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1998). |
15/03/2013 14:56 (GMT+7)
When Zopa Rinpoche stayed in Singapore in May 1988, he stayed at the home of a happy and very devoted family. Before leaving, Rinpoche, with his great compassion dictated the following to me to compile for the Lim family, especially the mother, to practice. He suggested it also be included in this book, so that others could learn how to transform daily life activities into the path to enlightenment. |
07/03/2013 15:12 (GMT+7)
Some people say Buddhism is a religion; some say it is a philosophy. But it is none; but the realization of the truth. You will understand this when you go through the definitions of the words ‘religion’ and ‘philosophy’. |
02/03/2013 10:16 (GMT+7)
People often talk about spirituality and materialism, but what do these terms really mean? You'll find that, as individuals, each of us has a different view. |
20/02/2013 19:06 (GMT+7)
Christian Thomas Kohl dissects key terms in the teachings of Nagarjuna and transposes these ideas with Quantum Physics. The following is a summary of his thesis on the subject. |
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