Category: Buddhism

We start this week with a simple chinese sentense. 你好，我喝啤酒 你好 is a greeting and means something like “Hello”. 我 means I 喝 means drink 啤酒 means beer So the sentense means: Hello, I drink beer. As simple as this sentense is as much meaning comes with it. So how much beer do you drink…

Yesterday we learned an old Chinese saying: 前人栽树，后人乘凉。 – Blog: Daily Light (earthlykingdom.org). This means that we can rest in the shadows of a tree because our predecessors planted the seed of a tree. The literal meaning is that the efforts of the predecessors bring some success to the decendants. So all we do will…

Today we end this week and at the same time we start into a new month. As every week I summarize this week in the sunday’s daily light article. Also as every month the articles of August 2024 will find their way into a PDF document that I call a light chain. So you have…

I recently invited Olivia from Hong Kong to our study group and she watched the clash we had the last few days in that group. All in all she was not too much interested in the text of that group and thought the translation effort is not worth it. Actually the concept should include a…

The lessons of buddha teachings tell you to have some equanimity (~stoicism) whenever you face challenges. You can either stay in your own balanced center or you can fall into the snakepit that is prepared for you with lots of snakes that wind around your center. The snakes cannot do you any harm when you…

We have a buddhist sangha, I am part of that sangha and we share common wisdom. Although we share common wisdom and believes everyone is individual and everyone has his own perspective and his own background. Some might come into a sangha with christian background, some have hindu background, others followed no other religion before.…