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Levels to benefiting others (unconditional loving-kindness )

It only requires a smile or a look to make people joyful and feel warm inside.

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How to transcend birth, aging, illness and death

Buddhism teaches that birth, aging, sickness, and death are all suffering in that they are changing, false image. Even when there is joy it is transient and not forever. To transcend samsara we sho...

Buddhist repentance rituals

The contents of different repentance rituals are compiled based on different Buddhist sutras. Repentance rituals can serve as a way of practice, help one cure one's karmic illness and achieve p...

The surnames of monastic

Buddhist monks in China all use the surname Shi derived from Shakya—Shakyamuni Buddha's clan name—which shows that they are children of Shakyamuni Buddha. We should only ask monasti...