With such thoughts make efforts in the refuge and live as best as you can in the five lifelong precepts, praised by the Buddha as the basis of lay life. Take the eight one-day precepts at times and guard them dearly.The eight Mahayana precepts are just like the five... read more
As you are doing refuge practice, what you want to aim for is to deepen your wisdom and your compassion. The purpose of the practice is not just to generate a lot of emotional faith, but it is to really understand the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha, what they are, what our... read more
If people are really practising, when they saw themselves getting mad at the person who left the dirty dish in the sink, they would say, “I’m angry. Why? What am I thinking? Oh, I have this whole story I’m telling myself, that people are deliberately wanting to harm... read more
The Dharma is the real refuge. What we need to do first is take refuge in the causal three refuges: the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha that are at the moment external to us. Only when we had realised the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha inside of us, then we would already be... read more
If somebody is telling me about some other people, “Oh they’re this and this,” I want to get to know them so I can see what they really are like. That is because in the religion I grew up with a lot of holy figures who had a lot of excellent qualities, but what I was... read more
