Just because another stops arguing with you, it does not mean you have won. It might mean there is no reasoning with you. Just because you keep arguing with another, it does not mean you are winning. It might mean there is no reasoning with you. Just because another keeps arguing with you, it does [...]
A Tit for a Tat (360) Tit: Will you be going? Tat: Not sure. Tit: Well, it’s free! Tat: Well, even if it is free, I have to be free! Tit: Even if the event pays you, it can’t buy you time! Previous aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2012/06/the-dharma-is-so-good About aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/02/logo-for-a-tit-for-a-tat-series The aT4aT series will be featured in the first volume of ‘The [...]
If it is perfectly natural for there to be a perfect creator, it would be perfectly unnatural for this creator to create anything imperfect. As much is naturally imperfect, it is perfectly natural that there is no perfect creator, who was ‘created’ by imperfect minds.
A Tit for a Tat (359) Tit: If the Dharma is so good, why are you not practising it? Tat: Because I’m no good. Tit: If the Dharma is so good, why don’t you try practising it? Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2012/06/its-free Previous aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2012/05/being-assertive About aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/02/logo-for-a-tit-for-a-tat-series The aT4aT series will be featured in the first volume of ‘The Amazing [...]
Z: (After hearing about it from H) Gnostic Christianity, as with many things, is very interesting indeed. But life is too short to compare religious similarities and differences to no end. Life can end any time too. Good to 一门深入 (enter one Dharma door deeply) to practise towards substantial results before life expires. I have chosen the Pure [...]
Group-chanting session Sharing session by Purelander Chanting practice precedes Dharma discussion Sharing session by another Purelander Sharing session by yet another Purelander
Participants trying out the practice of mindfulness of Buddha. Sharing by past participant, on the benefits of practising Buddha mindfulness.
The first Stonepeace book is in production… Stay tuned!
A scene from Project Rebirth (Run 4), when participants try out basic meditation, after sharing the recommended physical and mental postures. Details on Run 5 (& Feedback on Past Runs) can be seen at http://thedailyenlightenment.com/2012/06/course-project-rebirth-rediscover-reflect-recharge-round-5
A participant of my latest Pure Land class (http://thedailyenlightenment.com/2012/01/course-understanding-amituofo-via-the-amitabha-sutra-9th-run) had an interesting experience. While chanting the name of Amituofo in class for five minutes, right after hearing instructions on how to do so, he said four digits appeared in his mind. Usually, he never buys lottery. He buys a ticket with $1… and voila, he wins $60. He wonders [...]
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The cleaner at the food court came to retrieve an empty tray, but with absent-mindedness. She lifts a tray off the table, without even looking, and misses the one stacked just below. She’ll have to return for other tray later, though it needn’t be at all, if she had more presence of mind before. This is [...]
Funny how she winks and flutters with her thick and fake lashes, as if they make her pretty, for even if a little, they look thick with fakeness, which makes her basis for flirting, her displayed confidence, thick with fakeness too.