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Icarus & Daedalus

By Shen Shi'an under Comics & Graphic Novels | Your Comment | Tags: forgiveness, gratitude

The award-winning graphic novel ‘Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic’ (actually ‘Funeral Home’) is a bittersweet tale, of how the author Alison Bechdel grew up with a father, who seemed distant, yet demanding in expecting obedience from his children – especially in helping out his countless meticulous handcraft projects for ‘improving’ the house. She likened him [...]



You Versus Yourself

By Shen Shi'an under Movies/TV | Your Comment | Tags: fear, Mara, mindfulness, reflection, self

‘The Broken (Reflexion Trouble)’ is an unconventional thriller. I was interested in it as it seemed to be about doppelgangers, of how some seem to see doubles of themselves, which foretells of something unfortunate going to happen. It’s hard to comment on whether this strange phenomenon is real, though it seems possible – if the [...]



A Heartfelt & Heartbreaking Paradox?

By Shen Shi'an under Odds & Ends | 3 Comments | Tags: Bodhisattva, compassion, sickness, vow

An imaginary verse on how a Bodhisattva might think: The only reason my heart is broken is because so many hearts are broken. There is no time to indulge in being heartbroken, when there are so many broken hearts to heal. From the Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra: Manjusri: Householder, whence came this sickness of yours? How [...]



One Who Flings Gets Flung

By Shen Shi'an under Movies/TV, Relationships | 1 Comment | Tags: attachment, love, marriage, sex

In the movie ‘Fling’, the subject of open relationships is explored. According to Wikipedia, ‘An open relationship is a relationship in which the participants are free to have emotional, spiritual and/or physical relationships with other partners, often within mutually agreed limits. If a couple in an open relationship are married, it can be called an [...]



Attached to Being Vegetarian?

By Shen Shi'an under Vegetarianism & Veganism | 8 Comments | Tags: Anatta, attachment, compassion, Vegetarianism & Veganism

Meatguy: I think you are too strongly attached to being vegetarian. Shi’an: I’m not. I’m just aware that animals are attached to their lives, and that my choice of diet prevents more deaths. Meatguy: Didn’t the Buddha teach that all mind and matter is without self? Shi’an: Yes, but all the parties involved have not [...]



I Hope You Have the Time of Your Life

By Shen Shi'an under Music | Your Comment | Tags: mindfulness, now

Time of Your Life (Green Day) Another turning point; a fork stuck in the road. Time grabs you by the wrist; directs you where to go. Comments: ‘Now’ is always a turning point for the rest of our lives, that eternal fork between the past and the future. Time is the river we must flow [...]



Silence is First Prayer

By Shen Shi'an under Odds & Ends | 1 Comment | Tags: prayer

During the silent prayer of nine religions during the ‘Voices of Harmony’ concert, I heard a child cry in the background. Silence is first prayer, so that you can hear your plea. Silence is first prayer, so that you can hear others’ pleas. Silence is first prayer, so that you can hear ‘your divine one’ [...]



Less Ground for Liberation

By Shen Shi'an under Odds & Ends | Your Comment | Tags: karma, repentance, truth

Beware of one, who is slow to apologise, for one might believe in pride, that under the power of Mara, more than in karma, that aligned with goodness and truth. With less faith in moral consequences (karma), there is less ground for shamefulness and repentance, there is less ground for virtue (morality), which leads to [...]



More Unpredictably than My Dogs

By Shen Shi'an under Odds & Ends | 3 Comments | Tags: Anatta, Anicca

Daoni and company (my soft toy dogs) look different from different angles. They might look sad from one, but glad from another. But that’s just physical. People’s characters too, look different from different views. They might seem bad from one, but good from another. And they change too… more unpredictably than my dogs.



Have You Learnt the Dharma Long?

By Shen Shi'an under Odds & Ends | 2 Comments | Tags: karma, Pure Land

Part 1: Shi’an: To the temple please. Cabbie: Are you a Buddhist? Shi’an: Yes, are you one too? Cabbie: Yes. Have you been learning the Dharma long? Shi’an: I don’t know how long is considered long, but as long as I’m not yet a Buddha, it’s not long enough! Part 2: Cabbie: I think it’s [...]



Don’t Die Too Rich

By Shen Shi'an under Quotations | Your Comment | Tags: Stonepeace, wealth

Financial planning is not just about amassing as much as possible. but giving as much as possible that which is ‘precious’, that can’t be brought over to the next life. As long as we die with an extra cent in our pocket, we die with an extra cent too rich. – Stonepeace



14 Articles on Dharma Teachers

By Shen Shi'an under Odds & Ends | Your Comment | Tags: guru

This is special entry is an extension of the ‘Realisation’ article in the latest issue of TheDailyEnlightenment-Weekly: When a Dharma Teachers are Not Yet One with the Dharma: http://thedailyenlightenment.com/enewsletter/20.php [01] If a Leper Holds the Torch of Truth (What If Someone ‘Diseased’ Points the Way?) http://moonpointer.com/index.php?itemid=2041 [02] How to Know If You are Attached to [...]



The Best Sacrifice

By Shen Shi'an under Vegetarianism & Veganism | Your Comment | Tags: animal welfare, Vegetarianism & Veganism

I came across the Kutadanta Sutta (on ‘a bloodless sacrifice’), which records how the Buddha taught about the superior and ultimate spiritual sacrifice not being that of any sentient being’s life, but the sacrifice (giving up) of one’s defilements. As the sutta is quite long, I summarised the second half of it into prose form, [...]



Two Ways to End Animal Sacrifice

By Shen Shi'an under Current Affairs, Vegetarianism & Veganism | 2 Comments | Tags: animal welfare, Vegetarianism & Veganism

This is a message from Human Society International. It might be belated, but it’s important and we can work towards ending the next round of killing… We urgently need your help [by signing the petition here] to stop the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of animals [some say half a million] next week during the [...]



The Four Reliances

By Shen Shi'an under Quotations | Your Comment | Tags: wisdom

The Four Reliances Do not rely on the individual, but on the Dharma Do not on the words, but on the meaning Do not rely on the provisional meaning, but on the definitive meaning Do not rely on the ordinary mind, but rely on wisdom Mipham Rinpoche says in The Sword of Wisdom: If you [...]



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