Posted in Wisdom of the Day by amituofo on March 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
from The Cause and Effect Sutra
To understand your previous life,
look at what you have in your present life;
To have a preview of your next life,
examine your daily act in this life.
Posted in Buddhism by amituofo on March 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Several citizens ran into a hot argument about God and different religions, and each one could not agree to a common answer. So they came to the Lord Buddha to find out what exactly God looks like.The Buddha asked his disciples to get a large magnificent elephant and four blind men. He then brought the […]
Posted in Wisdom of the Day by amituofo on March 20, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
- Unknown Source
Posted in Buddhism by admin on March 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Once there was a king who was so deeply moved by the suffering of beings in the world that he gave up his throne and became a monk named Dharmakara which means ‘Treasury of Dharma’.
Dharmakara was heavily influenced by the then Buddha Lokesvaraja and vowed to become a Buddha himself. He studied & observed at […]
Posted in Buddhism by amituofo on March 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Buddha said, “There are 20 difficult things to attain in this world:
(1) It is hard for the poor to practice charity.
When someone is living from hand to mouth, what else can he do beside putting food on the table? It’s really difficult though not impossible.
(2) It is hard for the strong and rich to […]
Posted in Buddhism by amituofo on March 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
First of all, this idea of how to blog like a Buddhist? is not my original idea. Andrew G. R. from Blog Tutorial wrote it. Since mine is a blog on Buddhism I couldn’t help but to borrow & share his article. Pardon me but the credit still goes to you, Andrew.
The Five Precepts […]
Posted in Buddhism by amituofo on March 16, 2008 # No Comment Yet
There was a time during the Dharma-Image Age - at the time when images were used for worship lived an arhan who had instructed many people little by little with his fortunate merits. This arhan met a woman, Bright Eyes, who prepared sacrificial offerings for him. The arhan asked her what she wanted. Bright Eyes […]
Posted in Buddhism by admin on March 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Jesus said:
“Ask and thou shall be given.”
In Buddhism:
“Ask and thou shall be always given provided that it is not for self-interest.”
Finally after more than 2-month since I contacted the domain’s [www.amituofo.com] owner, I have an email this morning from someone by the name of Edmund Chan who was willing to offer me the said domain […]
