People in general are more concerned about themselves than about anyone else, especially their own fate. Some assume that they...
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Su Shi (1037-1101) wrote a short poem titled “Written on the Wall of Xilin Temple” (see Note 1), describing the...
Buddhism teaches us that there are eight types of suffering in human life: birth, aging, sickness, death, separation from a...
A friend asked, “Why should believers in Buddhism be vegetarian? My religion believes that animals have no spirituality. If so,...
A younger brother repaying grievances with compassion In the times of Sakyamuni Buddha, there was a farmer in Benares, India,...
Two scholars, born on the same day but with different destinies According to An Ancient Mirror for Moral Education, there...
Human beings continue to develop science and technology while advancing material civilization by leaps and bounds. At the same time,...
“A worldly life is like a boat with a low awning. To the west coast or the east, it keeps...
Edited by Ven Shan Ci Respectable practitioners, I wish every one of you a good new year. May you...
When practitioners of Zen (or Chan), reached a high level in meditative contemplation, this state cannot be expressed in words,...
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