The point of life is simply nothing more than “your” opinion of yourself and or your spiritual beliefs. I also believe that the “here and now” is not all there is. I believe that we all have a purpose as long as we draw breath and it is up to the individual to decide or sear...
If all these become your new troubles, then what is the point of practicing Buddhism? Every day, you should practice, vow, and live with Bodhicitta, and then you live for the day. If you really can’t finish your daily practices because you think they are too many, you don’t push...
The point is, for scholars to enter sectarian debate over what is and is not really Bud-dhism boxes us in and shutters from our view the contexts and contours of Buddhism as it is practiced. We bring enough of our preconceptions and biases to the table already; we would do best to ...
for there is no first cause possible as, according to Buddhism, everything is relative and inter-dependent. 因为按佛法说,一切都是相对的、相互依存的。 Even this 'thirst', tanha, which is considered as the cause or origin of dukkha, 这苦之根源的渴(爱), depends for its arising (samudaya)...
Westerners of being racist, but racism is also an institution in Asia. At least in the West there are laws against racism, and it is publicly condemned. A Singaporean girl cannot bring her Belgian husband home to meet the family. Ethnic Chinese and Indians in Malaysia cannot have the status...
In countries (where there is high unemployment most pupils should be offered only primary education; there is no point in offering secondary education to those who will have no hope of finding a job. To what extent do you agree or disagree? 社会与家庭类 In recent years, young people in ma...
For example, take a flight to Xining, which is a good starter point for acclimatizing. Spend 2 nights there, taking day trips to local Tibetan monasteries. Take the Tibet train to get a tiny more acclimatization. (But don’t expect the train in itself to be enough. See The Biggest ...
” I am revisiting this section because I have found new parallel material written in Sanskrit concerning some of these passages. This finding will allow us to reread the VyY and, by extension, clarify an aspect of Vasubandhu’s views on the Buddha’s word. This point of “purpose” is ...
Bruce R. McConkie said, "What is the church of the devil in our day, and where is the seat of her power?... It is all of the systems, both Christian and non-Christian, that perverted the pure and perfect gospel... It is communism; it is Islam; it is Buddhism; it is modern...
Language is created and used by masses of human beings 语言是人类所创造 to express things and ideas experienced by their sense organs and their mind. 以表达他们由感官与心灵 所经验到的事物与意象的。 A supramundane experience like that of the Absolute Truth is not of such a category. ...