Great Compassion Mantra / Ani Choying Drolma

Ani Choying Drolma (born June 4, 1971, in Kathmandu, Nepal), also known as Choying Drolma and Ani Choying (Ani, "nun", is an honorific), is a Buddhist nun and musician from the Nagi Gompa nunnery in Nepal. She is known in Nepal and throughout the world for bringing many Tibetan Buddhist chants and feast songs to mainstream audiences.

Every Breath

Taxi drivers with hearts of gold

by Lim Weixiang  21 May 2014 11:39 AM

Lim Boon Kheng, 61, driving on the Seletar Expressway (SLE) from his home in Sengkang to pick up students in Jurong (Photo: Lim Weixiang)

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Meet taxi drivers who have big hearts of gold.

AJAHN CHAH

Ajahn Chah was born into a large and comfortable family in a rural village in Northeast Thailand. He was ordained as a novice in early youth and on reaching the age of twenty took higher ordination as a monk. As a young monk,he studied some basic Dhamma, Discipline and Scriptures. Later he practised meditation under the guidance of several of the local Meditation Masters in the Ascetic Forest Tradition. He wandered for a number of years in the style of an ascetic monk, sleeping in forests, caves and cremation grounds, and spent a short but enlightening period with Ajahn Mun, one of the most famous and respected Thai Meditation Masters of this century.

Tragedy!

Question: Was Buddha an Incarnation of God?

Answer from Ven Dr K Sri Dhammananda:

The Buddha never claimed that He was the son or messenger of any God.The Buddha was a unique human being who was self Enlightened. He had no one whom He could regard as His teacher. Through His own efforts, He practised to perfection the ten Paramitas—supreme qualities of generosity, discipline, renunciation, wisdom, energy, endurance, truthfulness, determination, goodwill and equanimity. Through His mental purification, He opened the doors to all knowledge. He knew all things to be known, cultivated all things to be cultivated, and destroyed all things to be destroyed. Indeed, it is difficult to compare other religious teachers to Him in terms of cultivation of the mind, mental purity and supreme wisdom.

4-Fold Sangha: Bhikkhu, Bhikkuni, Layman, Laywomen