A letter sent to the press: I refer to the 2 June 2010 article in The Straits Times, ‘Pray, let’s live and let live’ by Lee Wei Ling, which defined Vesak Day as the celebration of ‘the birth, enlightenment and death (or passing on to Nirvana) of Buddha’. However, enlightenment itself already is Nirvana, while [...]

Why is it that the noblest people are the ones most troubled by conscience? – Lois Lane (‘Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow’ by Alan Moore) This reminds me of how Guanyin Bodhisattva’s body, before he became a full-fledged Bodhisattva, shattered into pieces due to his anguish at not being able to help [...]

On how to find one’s Guru? You just need to keep your mind and heart open and learn the Dharma from whoever you can. Everyone who is able to benefit us with the Dharma is like our Guru in the moment. With this approach, coupled with a questioning mind, you will encounter many Gurus, unless [...]

From ‘A Spacious Path to Freedom: Practical Instructions on the Union of Mahamudra & Atiyoga’ by Karma Chagme, Commentary by Gyatrul Rinpoche, Translated by B. Alan Wallace: (This excerpt continues from the excerpt at http://thedailyenlightenment.com/enewsletter/43.php) [Teachings from Machik Labdron (11th century Tibetan Buddhist yogini, emanation of Yeshe Tsogyel)]: There is a Tibetan aphorism that it [...]

Last night, on ‘The Noose’, there was a TV clip spoofing the Rony Tan video saga. Instead of talking about Buddhism, the subject was laughing at vegetarianism. It’s funny, but it unfortunately perpetuates some misconceptions. An interviewee spoke of how he asked his family why they were vegetarians. It turned out that it was not [...]

A Tit for a Tat (141) Tit: How do you know which brow hair to pluck? Tat: If it’s not part of the brow. Tit: But isn’t all brow hair part of the brow? Tat: Not when it’s a stray hair. Tit: Brow hair or stray hair… sounds like discrimination! Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/06/isnt-it-more-interesting Previous aT4aT: [...]

Jehu [King of Israel] assembled all the people and said to them, “Ahab worshiped Baal a little; Jehu will worship him with great devotion. So now, bring to me all the prophets of Baal, as well as all his servants and priests. None of them must be absent, for I am offering a great sacrifice to Baal. Any of [...]

A note about mindfulness, that happened to be about the word ‘mindful’: Thank you for using publishing my review, which you found online at http://buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=12,6163,0,0,1,0 I read through it and saw an amendment. The word ‘mindful’ in the sentence - ‘In their course of guerrilla filmmaking, the buddies go bumbling around with shabby makeshift props, half-witted scripts and [...]