19.12.25: Spiritualisation | Sands Of Time | Reception To Pure Land | Golden Weasel | Did Dharma Assemblies Exist In Buddha's Time? | Under The Skin

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Buddhist Inspirations (since 1997)  THOUGHT  Spiritualisation Spiritualise doing of the mundane with mindfulness of the Buddha at the same time. Stonepeace Read more...  QUOTE  How Few The Sands Of Time! I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand — How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep… Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream? — Edgar Allan Poe: A Dream Within a Dream Read more...  FEATURE  The Greatest Spiritual Reception To Pure Land Vs The Limited Worldly Reception Here 最殊胜生净土的接引与在此有限的世间接引之比较 Spiritual Reception ▶ Some might find it unbelievable at first, that we can reach Āmítuófó’s (阿弥陀佛) Western Pure Land Of Ultimate Bliss (西方极乐世界), despite it being a hundred thousand koṭis of Buddha lands (十万亿佛土) away, with this as if ‘too good and incredible’ to be true. (1 koṭi is about 10 million.) [...] Read more...    EXCERPT  [89] The Parable Of Getting A Golden Weasel From The Sūtra Of A Hundred Parables《百喻经》之得金鼠狼喻 昔有一人在路而行，道中得一金鼠狼，心生喜踊持置怀中，涉道而进至水欲渡，脱衣置地，寻时金鼠变为毒蛇。 In the past, there was a person on the road then travelling. In the middle of the path, getting a gold weasel, his mind gave rise to joy. Holding and placing it within his embrace, he set off on the path and advanced. Reaching water, desiring to cross it, he took off his clothes and placed them on the ground. In a moment, the gold weasel changed to be a poisonous snake. [...] Read more...    LETTER  Did Dharma Assemblies Exist In The Buddha’s Time? Question: Since Dharma assemblies (法会) did ‘not’ exist in the Buddha’s time, are they ‘not’ so important today? Answer: Dharma assemblies were founded by the Buddha personally! Each time there were beings assembling to hear him teach the Dharma, which later got recorded as a sūtra (经), that was already a Dharma assembly. With the Buddha having led thousands of assemblies, they are thus of central importance! [...] Read more...    MOVIE  Have You Seen The Unseen ‘Under The Skin’? If an alien were to observe humans, one of their characteristics readily seen would be that we seem superficial, rather physically surfacy creatures. [...] Read more...    EVENTS  [NEW CLASSES] Strawberries & Cream Cake (27 Dec 25) [VEGAN CLASSES] @ ReJoyce Online Baking / Cooking Classes ****** VEGAN CAKES by ReJoyce Click Here For More Get TheDailyEnlightenment Telegram: https://t.me/tdegram Get Purelanders Telegram: https://t.me/purelanders Get Stonepeace Telegram: https://t.me/stonepeace 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. 🙏南无阿弥陀佛🙏Namo Amituofo🙏