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Learning Buddhism is about knowing yourself

When you say you are learning Buddhism, it is equal to say that you are ready to know yourself – metaphysically, to know about the essence of self; psychologically, to know about the operation of self; socially, to know about the construction process of self. When you say you are practising Buddhism, it is equal…

Violence exists everywhere

I see violence exists everywhere…it exists within a person, within a relationship, between human and its environment. Sometimes it exercises brutally, but sometimes it dresses up itself in a very attractive outlook, we call it ‘love’ and/or ‘justice’. What does violence come from? I would say it comes from fear! Fear breeds violence.

偷天火的故事

天地初開,提坦神族 (Titans)的後裔,普羅米修斯(Prometheus)隨手抓起一把軟土上使之難成人形,並把不同動物的性格特質如獅子的勇猛、小狗的忠誠、馬匹的勤快、巨熊的碩壯、鴿子的順良、狐狸的狡詐、白兔的怯弱、野狼的貪婪等糅合並灌注入泥人身上,使人類擁有了複雜的情緒。其後女神雅典娜對泥人吹了一口氣,為沒有呼吸和靈魂的泥人帶來了生命。