It is stated that when people do something, they like to think of what they will gain from their doing. Sometimes, they must think oppositely like what they will lose, when they do that. For example, some meditators said when they meditated, they gained nothing and wasted time. However, they lost anger, anxiety, depression, insecure feeling, fear of old age and death. This loss is greater than gain.
It is stated that human beings are always suffering, when they lost or departed from their beloved one. The master asked one lady, “How many friends and members of family do you have?” She answered, “Dear master, I have many.” The master remarked, “So, you will suffer many times then if you don’t learn to…
It is stated that we must understand that we really own nothing; everything that we have now is temporary. It won’t last forever. So, we should not too much attach to it, just use it as it is for using, not for belonging. Bear in mind that everything is temporary.
When a friend of mine firstly became a Buddhist and visited a Buddhist land, he wore a lot of Buddhist ornaments like a Buddha amulet, necklaces and beads. There, an old monk, who cannot speak any English, showed his body language to him: objects or ornaments (materialism) are not good, but mind (spiritualism) is the…
What’s the most important thing in the relationship? A new married couple’s walking in the garden, there they heard the sound of animal Quack quack! The wife said, “Darling, you hear the sound of chicken?” The husband responded, “No, darling, quack, quack must be the sound of duck.” The wife argued, “No darling Lenten to…
If ‘Life is like coffee’. How about a cup, which is a tool to hold or contain coffee. The cup is compared to job, money, success, status or position in life and society etc. There is a question, which one is more important, a cup or coffee? Of course, coffee is more important than the…
It is stated that life is not that complicated if we intentionally learn it. We would realize that old age, sickness, happiness, suffering, even death exists in this life. Without study, we will get confused with life, and have many questions of WHY? For example, why some people die young, why some people die old,…