The waitress served the pie with an empty smaller plate for putting slices of it. I put it aside, as I could use the big plate I will finish eating pasta from. A few minutes later, the waitress asked if she could clear my used plate. But I already started using it for the pie, while the...

A Tit for a Tat (139) Tit: How do you tell a clock is telling the right time? Tat: By checking it with another clock. Tit: I asked, ‘How do you tell a clock is telling the right time?’ Tat: I said, ‘By checking it with another clock!’ Tit: I asked, ‘How do you tell a clock is...

‘I’ am an experiment experimenting with this ‘I’. ‘I’ am change changing this ‘I’. ‘I’ am (r/d)evolution* evolving this ‘I’. * Evolution or Devotion...

The notion of Buddhas retiring forever after manifesting parinirvana once is ridiculous as they have endless compassion. They are the most hardworking ones; not the laziest ones. Why project our laziness onto the most diligent ones? Maybe the Buddhas manifest their physical passing, not...

Four Reasons for Goodness Firstly, if there is afterlife, and if there’s karma, I’ll have a good rebirth as I do good. Secondly, if there is no afterlife, and if there’s no karma, I’ll live happily now, as I’m free of ill will. Thirdly, if evil befalls the...

With the ever-expanding Internet, with its information up-and-overload, we have less and less reasons to be ignorant about stuff. But the problem is that many are still ignorant about how to find (and share) the right stuff online! In short, ignorant about how to resolve...

When I was asked about what I thought of some text on a series of small pictures, I commented that the words are okay but that the font used is not ideal – because it looks messy and inconsistent, which does not gel well with the meticulously drawn pictures. The defensive reply I...

A Tit for a Tat (138) Tit: You should try the mock sashimi. Tat: Why? Tit: Because it tastes amazingly like the real thing. Tat: Well, I wouldn’t know. Tit: Of course not – if you don’t try it. Tat: I won’t know even after trying! Tit: Why not? Tat: Because I never tasted real...

Lisa says an accidental haiku in the film ‘Little Buddha’: I’m just upset with myself being upset. Here is another haiku to reply that: We need to make peace with not being at peace. (I put Nietzsche’s pic because he seemed pretty upset most of his life for being...

A Tit for a Tat (137) Tit: Now that I don’t have a printer, I can’t print stuff any time, which is why I haven’t! Tat: (A month later) Have you printed anything yet? Tit: Now that I have a printer, I can print stuff any time, which is why I haven’t! Tat: I knew it! If you ...

A single long strand of white hair sprouting from my left brow. Fascinating Mysterious Became a hot topic But so what? It’s just… A single long strand of white hair sprouting from my left...

Word can be so powerful as the same ones can mean so much to different people. Word can be so powerless as the same ones can mean so different to different...

(The first verse is somewhat a haiku!) The most important parts of Iron Man are not made of iron - his heart and mind. With a vulnerable heart, yet full of strong compassion, along with a sharp mind of wit. Related Article: Stark Dharma from ‘Iron...

Would you rather sleep longer and live longer, due to having improved health, or sleep less and have more waking hours, and in effect live and do more? Am not sure myself, though I’m inclining towards the latter. What do you think? The enlightened sleep little, if at all, probably...

Give a fool access to the net, and he searches for nonsense. Give the wise access to the net, and he discovers paths to wisdom. Some use the Internet to enlighten themselves. Some use the Internet to confuse themselves. Some use the Internet to share the truth. Some use the Internet to spam...

All instances of being peeved in the past came to pass. Phew! All instances of being peeved in the present will pass too. Phew! But if all such instances come only to pass, why get peeved at all? Why invest even an iota of energy, time and emotion in senseless peeved-ness? Without any...

The teaching that ‘we should not simply adhere blindly to scriptures’ is itself in a scripture, in the Kalama Sutta. Which means that we should not adhere blindly to this teaching too, and also question if it makes sense. Of course, it makes great sense to intelligently question, both...

If you are on a time-limited quest for truth, and come across countless schools of thought, each of which claims to be the only true path, except one… which welcomes you to doubt it, which welcomes you to ask about it, which school of thought would you learn from first? The real quest...

Was thinking of ranting against someone’s senseless stupidity when I realised it would be senseless and stupid, especially if it would have no effect. There must be another solution. Why hold on to the rage in this moment, when you might die in the next, when it can lead to a negative...

If you choose not to see the truth, are you good as blind then? If you choose not to hear the truth, are you good as deaf then? How blind and deaf are we to the truth? We must be both to some extent, or we would see and hear the whole truth, or we would be true to it always. There are none...