09.05.25 : Choose Well | All Buddhas' Dharma Door | Why Good Is More Powerful | Hurried Eating | Enlightened Beings As Cartoons? | White Lotus' Drops Of Water

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Buddhist Inspirations (since 1997)  THOUGHT  Choose Well Choose what decreases the three poisons, not what sustains or increases them. Choose to decrease the three poisons, not to sustain or increase them. — Shilashanti  QUOTE  All Buddhas' Dharma Door 诸佛之法门 反闻闻自性，性成无上道， 圆通实如是。此是微尘佛， 一路涅槃门，过去诸如来， 斯门已成就；... 诚如佛世尊，询我诸方便， 以救诸末劫，求出世间人， 成就涅槃心，观世音为最。... 文殊师利菩萨 《楞严经》 Reverse hearing to hear your self-nature, and with this nature accomplish the unsurpassable path, for the perfect penetration truly is thus. This is fine dust motes of Buddhas‘ one same road to Nirvāṇa’s door, of all past Thus Come Ones, who are with this door already accomplished... It is exactly as the Buddha World-Honoured One, asked me, about all skilful means, that for saving all in the Dharma-Ending Age’s disaster, and persons seeking to transcend the world, for accomplishing Nirvāṇa‘s mind, with Contemplator Of The World’s Sounds Bodhisattva‘s perfect penetration as the foremost. Mañjuśrī Bodhisattva Śūraṅgama Sūtra Related Article: 文殊菩萨之观世音菩萨耳根圆通的推荐如何与大势至菩萨念佛圆通章连接 How Mañjuśrī Bodhisattva’s Recommendation Of Contemplator Of The World’s Sounds Bodhisattva’s Ear Root Perfect Penetration Connects To Great Power Arrived Bodhisattva’s Mindfulness Of Buddha’s Perfect Penetration https://purelanders.com/2025/03/07/manjusri-bodhisattvas-recommendation-of-the-ear-root-perfect-penetration  FEATURE  How Do We Know Good Is More Powerful Than Evil? Goodness is stronger than evil because its meritorious virtues can be dedicated to benefit all. Evil is weaker than goodness because its demeritorious non-virtues cannot be ‘dedicated’ to harm anyone. [...] Read more...    EXCERPT  [69] The Parable Of Copying That Ancestor’s Hurried Eating From The Sūtra Of A Hundred Parables《百喻经》之效其祖先急速食喻 昔有一人从北天竺至南天竺，住止既久，即娉其女共为夫妇。 In the past, there was a person, from Northern India arriving at Southern India. Having stayed already for long, he then married this woman, to together be husband and wife. [...] Read more...    EVENTS  [VEGAN CLASSES] @ ReJoyce NEW CLASS Wholesome Tarts and Pies (24 May Sat) OTHERS Online Baking / Cooking Classes ****** VEGAN CAKES by ReJoyce Mother’s Day Special: Kaya and Coffee Cake (Vegan) Click Here For More  LETTER  Can Enlightened Beings Be Portrayed As Cartoons? Question: Does it accord with the Right Dharma (正法) to portray images of the enlightened in simplified and even cartoonish (e.g. manga: 漫画) ways? Answer: This is alright, as long as there are also presentations in the traditional majestic forms available. [...] Read more...    MOVIE  Still Drops Of Water In ‘White Lotus’ A ‘monk’ (acted by a non-monk) wrongly explains to a man that when born, we are like ‘drops of water’ going upwards, separated from ‘oceanlike consciousness’, and that we descend back when we die, to become one with the ocean, with no more separation and suffering. Thus, death is like a ‘happy return, coming home’. [sic] [...] Read more...   The Daily Enlightenment TDE-Weekly is a free independent Buddhist inspiration e-newsletter. You can support us by contributing articles, running costs and encouraging friends to join. Contributions, suggestions and queries are welcomed at tde[@]TheDailyEnlightenment.com. The copyrights of the articles belong to the authors. Get TheDailyEnlightenment Telegram: https://t.me/tdegram Get Purelanders Telegram: https://t.me/purelanders Get Stonepeace Telegram: https://t.me/stonepeace