Buddhism

[Behappyalways]

aiyoh......

http://news.cntv.cn/2014/07/08/PHOA14047....shtml#g=1



This is funny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8Mfpevt1RA

[Behappyalways]

(Stupid guy in a monk robe)

Hated speech by BBS secretary Galabodatthe Nanasara Tero (With English Subtitels)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fPMWD8f9lE

'Fascists' in saffron robes? The rise of Sri Lanka's Buddhist ultra-nationalists
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/17/world/...?hpt=hp_c5

[chialc88]

Too many . . . do not understand the necessity for present action in realizing the vision and bringing the thought-form into manifestation.
Two things are necessary.
First, the making of the thought-form, and,
second, the actual appropriation to yourself of all that goes into and around the thought-form
. . . .
When you have made your thought-form, you are already, in your interior, and
what you want to be;
next you must become externally what you want to be.

by Wallace D. Wattles

Love Compassion

Each day, I'm alive, I'm grateful to those who had help me to be alive. Thank you very much.

[stam]

many interesting information and videos, thanks for sharing.

amituofo.

[chialc88]

我得
我幸
不得
我命 如此而已





Love Compassion

[specuvestor]

^^ hi chia based on your logic why bother to learn investment?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl-p6yUz6ig

I just feel sad that a lot of people still don't believe...But one day, everyone will have the chance.....

I am a believer. I am in the same boat with Towkay.

Towkay is not God, he is human like you and me, he can screw up too, I hope you keep that at the back of your mind....

Neither do i believe Buffett or Towkay can bring me to financial nirvana key is to understand the why and their principles rather than follow man

NB I chose to post here to increase the irony of the topic

It is rather strange for me that people like to focus on one heuristically simple thing and go extreme. As usual 中庸之道 is the way to go. Take the positives, learn the lessons and move on in search of other positives instead of camping there.

PS I'm not even sure if pure Buddhism or 道 promote or encourage the worship of entity or admiration of individuals, else how to attain 无

[chialc88]

^^ Spec
I cannot foresee the results of even my most trivial act;
I do not know the working of all the forces that have be set moving in my behalf.
Much may be depending on my doing some simple act;
it may be the very thing which is to open the door to great possibilities.

This is what I did:
As long as I can remember, every time when I received a plea for donation, I'll just send back the donation form with some amount of $$$.

I feel rich I donate more and when I feel poor I donated less.

Each and everytime until I read about those bad people who mis-used donation $$$.

Then, I thought that a simple way to prevent mis-use of my donation is to do DD on the organisation and donate lump sum instead of many many small amount.

I am not happy.

After a while, I realised that I am not donating at all.

The lump sum remains in my bank.

Then, I thought that if I do small small donation and even if only a portion of it reached someone who need the $$$ then it already make sense to me.

So, you can guess what I had been doing...



We need love, without love we will die.
Love Compassion

[Temperament]

My personal logic is no human being should worship another human as GOD. You can worship him as your investment idol or anything except as GOD.

[Behappyalways]

hi yewkim,

depends on your needs.....
if you want to learn about Buddhism, you can start with this course...
http://www.basicbuddhism.org/index.cfm?GPID=85
http://www.basicbuddhism.org/index.cfm?GPID=6

If you want to 'expedite' negative karma....
you can try this. Personally I find vipassana the best way for liberation. But you need to take up a 10 day course for a start. No religion involved, no mantras and etc....just meditation....
http://www2.dhamma.org/en/schedules/noncenter/sg.htm

(Like what Dalai Lama said....he is just an 'ordinary' monk. In Buddhism, no one is 'allowed' to claim to be messiahs, boddhisattvas and etc.....the only time they can claim so is when they are about to leave this world. So for those who claimed to have deep 'cultivation', I leave it to individuals to interpret. By the way, which one of us has not 'cultivated' for many lifetimes.....just that we 'cultivate' money, fame, sex and etc....money money follow me home ^^)

[Behappyalways]

many years ago, a dhamma brother said that 小房子 is a tool to 'possess'. That's why when my friend told me about a 'great master' a few years ago, my advice to him is that you can chant or whatever but don't use the 小房子