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Thanks for this wonderful reminder to be ever mindful in our meditation training.

I always enjoy and look forward to your weekly reflections for inspiration. (15 Sep 2008)

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Thank you for all your weekly kind messages which had served as:

1. reminder to be a good person

2. an encouragement to overcome life's hardships

3. and last but not least: hope to be awakened in this life itself (31 Dec 2009)

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I want you to know that the Sutta Study emails that you have been sending out regularly

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them one by one and cogitate (meditate) the dharma

underlying the words and try to put them into practice.

Like other recipients, I appreciate the time and effort

you have taken in putting them together

for everyone's benefit.

Thank you. (14th Jan 2009)

RE-VISIONING DHARMA

These weekly reflections are mostly inspirational by nature. Occasionally, Piya writes open critiques of the social and religious realities of Buddhism today. The language here are likely to be free-ranging, and the ideas sometimes challenging. If you wish to receive such reflective critiques, please email us.

4. WEEKLY REFLECTIONS by Piya Tan

Index according to topic.

Love:

Love is Blind (20 Feb 08)
Love is (16 Jul 08)
The Chickduck (1 Oct 08)
God is love and more (24 Dec 08)
Unconditional love (7 Jan 09)

Life & Death:

So you want to kill yourself? (8th Apr 2009)

Friends:

True-hearted Friend (12 Nov 2008)

Wealth/worldly life:

Buddhist Prophecies for Our Times (29 Oct 2008)
The Five Precepts are Universal (24th Sep 08)
Ways of Enjoying Your Wealth (10th Sep 2008)
2008 Priorities (31 Dec 2007)
Life's three highest priorities (31 Dec 2008)
8 winds of life (14th Jan 2009)

Meditation:

What is given is not lost (15th Apr 2009)
Timelessness and meditation (1st Apr 2009)
Something to sit on (25th Mar 2009)
Two kinds of pain (4th Mar 2009)
Dogmas (4th Feb 2009)
Getting the best from your mind (3rd Dec 2008)
Lovingkindness is simply healing (19th Nov 2008)
Lesson from a flower (22 Oct 2008)
How Mindfulness Strengthens Us (17th Sep 08)
Unchained Peace (20 Aug 08)
Meditation Goes Beyond The Brain (06 Aug 08)
Failure and Giving up (070926)

Personal Development:

It's Okay to Have a Big Ego (11th Mar2009)
Two kinds of pain (4th Mar 2009)
Making sense of things (25th Feb 2009)
Is Buddhism a religion, a philosophy, or what? (18th Feb 2009)
Bowing (11th Feb 2009）
Dogmas (4th Feb 2009)
Questions That Answer (26th Nov 2008)
Opening our eyes to the Dharma (5 Nov 2008)
Why Buddhism is Boring (for some) [15 Oct 08]
Puja (02 Jul 08)
Self-discovery through Sutta Study (04 Aug 07)
Effective Listening (9 Apr 08)
Buddhism with Feeling (12 Mar 08)
The True Relics are the Early Suttas (24 Jan 08)
Say no, say yes, be silent (26 Mar 08)
The Best Stories are Unfinished (27 Feb 08)
What is the most difficult thing to give up? (28 Feb 07)
Failure and Pain ((9 Jan 08)
Religious Arrogance and Spiritual Openness (07 Nov 07)
Hindrance to Spiritual Progress (19 Sep 07)
Let go of the I (04 Feb 2007)
There are Ghosts Amongst us (17 Oct 07)
Learning from others (4 Jun 08)
Belief and Knowledge in Religion (12 May 07)

Purpose of Buddhism:

Nothing is Worth Clinging to (17 Dec 2008)
Bus-ride to Nirvana (30 Jul 08)
Two Kinds of People (21 May 08)
Who Really is Guanyin? (23 Apr 08)
Buddhism is About Patterns (16 Mar 08)
Buddha Dharma is for all religions (1 Apr 08)
The Clear Light of Dharma (13 Feb 08)
Keeping Buddhism Simple and Effective (071010)
Buddhism is as Easy as Walking (a parable) (18 Jun 2008)
You Can Still Meet the Buddha (26 Jun 2008)
Final Reflections (13 May 08)

Dharma work:

Be a Dharma Heir (10 Dec 2008)
GO FORTH (to Fire Fly Mission, 23 Oct 2008)
Five cycles (27 Aug 08)
Translating Suttas is Very Enjoyable (30 Apr 08)
Phra Khru Ba Neua Chai, a true "social worker" (31 Jan 08)
The days of Dharma (19 Mar 08)
Has the Dharma come to Singapore (071126)
Stand up for the Dharma (071121)
An Act of Faith (4 Jun 2008)

Monastics:

The Laity and Monastics (3rd Sep 2008)
Phra Khru Ba Neua Chai, a true "social worker" (31 Jan 08)
False "false monks and nuns" & True "false monks and nun" (31 Oct 07)
Money and Monastics (071114)

Buddhist Holy Days:

Happy Dharma Day (23 Jul 2008)
Vesak Aspirations (14 May 08)
The True Meaning of Vesak (7 May 08)
25 Dec Buddhist Renewal Day (26 Dec 2007)

Interfaith:

How the Bible make me a better Buddhist (13 Aug 08)

The Temple of Gods is Within us (5 Mar 08)

Buddha Dharma is for all religions (1 Apr 08)

Feeling is the root of religion (23 Jan 08)

The Buddha Reaches to All (16 Jan 08)

Buddha and "Allah" (2 Jan 08）

Baptism in Early Buddhism (19 Dec 07)

Minum Kopi-lah! (9 Jul 2008)

Forewarned, Forearmed (for some) (2007)

The Future:

Will the world end in 2012? (8th oct 08)

Buddhist Prophecies for Our Times (29 Oct 2008)

Animals:

Animals Go To Heaven (21st Jan 2009)

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