If you learn to love one properly, you will learn to love all equally. – Stonepeace [Notes: The notion of love in this article is love in general, as in loving-kindness (Metta: the wish for all to be well and happy), that excludes lust as a complicating worldly factor. The following are some of the [...]

Everyday is full of hope for everyone if everyone brings hope to everyone everyday. – Stonepeace Related Articles: Hope As Attachment http://moonpointer.com/index1.php?itemid=2115 Do What We Can http://moonpointer.com/index1.php?itemid=1395 Hope That’s Yours http://moonpointer.com/index1.php?itemid=1350 Personal Prayer of Hope http://moonpointer.com/index1.php?itemid=1930 The Buddhas’ Hope? http://moonpointer.com/index1.php?itemid=1961 Aspiration & Action http://moonpointer.com/index1.php?itemid=1986

Do check out three versions of the 2005 song ‘Fix You’, followed by some reflections on them in terms of how they were performed… By Coldplay:

Richard Dawkins at a bus with the billboard saying ‘There’s probably no god. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.’ There’s probably no phantom ‘rabbit horn’ out to gore you either. So stop worrying and enjoy your life? Beware the invisible claws of the long arms of karma! Free-thinkers probably do not really think deeply? [...]

While watching the final instalment of ‘Red Cliff (Part 2)’, I was hoping for the story to impart some major lessons to the general audience… other than the cunning ‘art’ of strategising in war. Thankfully, towards the end, there were two obvious lessons. Here’s the first one… Xiao Qiao warns Cao Cao of his over-confidence [...]

There is a hot drama serial on TV that just ended its run. I’m not really a follower of dramas because I’m too impatient to follow the multiple twists and turns…. even though that’s the way real life often is. So, as a disclaimer, I don’t really know what the fuss is about. There was [...]

La: Compare a luxury branded leather bag that costs over $2000 and a plain no-name organic cotton bag that cost the same amount. Which is more worth the price? Ra: Both seems too extravagant! La: Yup, but people are more affluent these days. Ra: I would think the no-name organic cotton bag is worthier. La: [...]

What’s the Meaning of Life? Once upon a time, there was a very small boy called Zeph, who wondered much about the very large world he lived in. After his first day at a new school (which he didn’t like), being surrounded by strangers in a strange land, it struck him that life could be [...]

Burning Our Environmental Blessings Away? In many of the temples I visited in Japan, there is a custom of writing your name on a chopstick-length (but broader) stick of wood with calligraphic ink. But nowadays, a black marker pen will do! This stick is then left with the temple, while you offer a small token [...]

Often, I cringe when I hear people say… ‘Maybe it’s not meant to be.’ Because if it’s really just a maybe, why even half-cling to such semi-fatalism?  ‘Maybe it’s not meant to be.’ Another classic oxymoronic expression! Most things are not meant to be anything… other than we we make or suppose them to be. ‘Maybe [...]

There is a full page in ‘Invincible: Ultimate Collection, Vol. 1′ (by Robert Kirkman) which seems to accidentally portray the nature of an existential crisis. The young and new superhero ‘Invincible’ was told to fight an alien in Earth’s orbit. He takes a deep breath and flies up up and away… Yes, the superheroes super-hold [...]

In ‘Eternals’ by Neil Gaiman, Sprite the immortal utters this about becoming human – ‘I can even die - Do you know how cool that is? Every moment can be my last. How amazing is that?’ Some of us want to live forever, while some who live forever want to die forever! A case of the [...]

Some time ago, I submitted an old article (from the book ‘The Daily Enlightenment 1′) to a Buddhist magazine. Yesterday, the editor sent me a Chinese translation of it, as below, to check if it’s okay. I read it with a smile. I think this is an excellent example of how some things (e.g. word [...]

Q: Some believe couples are married because ‘they owe each other in their previous lives’, while ‘children are born to either collect or pay parental debts’. Is this true? A: If the first idea above is absolutely true, it is to pessimistically say that there can never ever be any form of happiness in marriage [...]

Something funny happened when I was browsing the Buddhist magazines at Borders today. A man came to the same section I was standing at, arriving with a loud burp, followed by an ‘Excuse me’ at a lower volume. Okay…. no problem of course… though burps actually can be stifled instead of let out loud. I [...]