In ‘The Waiting Place’ by Sean Kelley McKeever, Scott says, ‘Do you know what new year’s day is? It’s just another day. Everyone thinks, like when the clock strikes midnight, you’ve suddenly entered a new chapter in your life, but it’s nothing like that, you know? You still have the same bills [...]

I came up with 20 multiple-choice questions for a quiz given at the end of a course I give for guides from Singapore Tourism Board on Buddhism. Some of these questions have two possible answers – to urge them think deeper. They are all reviewed and explained at the end, even though ample clues were [...]

In ‘Batman: Gotham After Midnight’ by Steve Niles and Kelley Jones, Batman says this to Comissioner Gordon, ‘This is the second time she [a police officer] took credit for my work. I don’t like it. You know how important it is for criminals to know that it’s me taking them down.‘ Sounds like an [...]

A friend once asked me
to never forget her,
to remember to ’save’ her,
to lead her to Pure Land,
should I reach there first.
I didn’t promise her
because me being mindful of her
cannot bring her to Pure Land,
while it is her mindfulness of Amituofo [Amitabha Buddha]
that can lead her to Pure Land.
Amituofo is already her best friend,
instead of me,
whether [...]

From ‘Prince of Persia’ by A. B. Sina et al:
Guiv: (Injuring a lion that almost killed him in defence; without killing him) No one gave me the power to take life.
Peacock: (When lion pounces on Guiv again and is slashed dead) No one gave you power to spare life.
Comments: We give ourselves the [...]

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‘A Tit for a Tat’ series!
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There are now more than 100 aT4aT entries,
all of which aim to be pithy dialogues marrying wit with wisdom.
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From http://buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=22,8959,0,0,1,0 &
http://kmspks.org/download/clear_misconceptions.pdf (slightly different version)

[This is a concise version of the article at http://tinyurl.com/ronytan]
With regards to the article at http://buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=57,8912,0,0,1,0 on Pastor Rony Tan’s misconceptions on Buddhism, this article hopes to rectify the misrepresentations of Buddhism in his online videos. (The videos can be seen at http://youtube.com/user/miraculoustv)
1. Last Words of the Buddha: [...]

Good intentions are not good enough if they arise from delusion.
This is why Buddhism pays attention to both
goodness (compassion; the opposite of evil intentions, speech and actions)
and truth (wisdom; the opposite of delusion).
- Sisyphusian

This is one of my favourite Batman scenes from the 1966 TV series. Watch and listen carefully. It’s side-splittingly hilarious! It made me think…. this could had been pretty cool in its time, but is now seen as mostly as super camp. Now look at how much darker Batman has become in our times. Even [...]