Imagine this book morphing into a real-life friend: it will make for an earnest and sincere Buddhist companion, never preachy, though with a tendency to ramble on at times – understandably, like many well-intentioned people. For it is a book that comes to life, made accessible to...

From Channel TitTatTot @ http://www.youtube.com/user/tittattot, the love-hate relationship between humans and machines, adapted from...

A Tit for a Tat (198) Tit: (Sipping) This lemonade is very sour! Tat: Stir it then! Tit: That would make it more sour! Tat: Not really more sour – just more evenly sour. Tit: It’ll still be more sour than now! Tat: Better evenly sour now than super sour at the end! Next...

A Tit for a Tat (197) Tit: I wonder if I should teach more teachers or more students. Tat: Why? Tit: Because teachers can be harder to teach than students! Tat: But these teachers can better teach more students! Tit: Only if these teachers are good students! Next...

A Tit for a Tat (196) Tit: I wonder if I should teach some teachers. Tat: When they teach some stuff wrongly? Tit: Yes. Tat: Why not try? Tit: Because some are so attached to being teachers that they are no longer students! Next...

A Tit for a Tat (195) Tit: If you enter the packed train at the last second, you might not get in in time! Tat: If you enter the packed train too immediately, you might not get out in time! Tit: Only if you enter the packed train at the right time, you can get in and out in time! ...

A Tit for a Tat (194) Tit: How do you judge a book? Tat: Er… by its cover… at first! Tit: How superficial! Tat: How do you judge a book then? Tit: By its contents of course. Tat: In a bookshop with countless books, how do you pick a book to browse? Tit: Er… by its...

A Tit for a Tat (193) Tit: I think good and evil is balanced in this world. Tat: If so, for every murder, someone is saved? Tit: Er… why not? Tat: If so, for everyone saved, someone is murdered too? Tit: Er… Tat: Why save anyone then? Next...

A Tit for a Tat (192) Tit: Let’s compose a haiku! Tat: … says Tit… Tit: How about this? Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/12/balance-of-good-evil Previous aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/12/more-surreal About aT4aT:...

A Tit for a Tat (191) Tit: Normal bright white lights make everything look so real. Tat: What about the many colourful shimmering Christmas lights then? Tit: They make things more surreal! Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/12/gimme-a-haiku Previous aT4aT:...

A Tit for a Tat (189) Tit: When I listen more intently to songs I liked in the past… Tat: … you relish them even more? Tit: Yes, as I appreciate them more mindfully. Tat: For me, some great hits become less great… Tit: … because you hear them more clearly too! Next...

A Tit for a Tat (188) Tit: What’s wrong now? Tat: I don’t know. Must there be something wrong? Tit: There must be something wrong… Tat: Why? Tit: Even if there is really nothing wrong, me thinking ‘there must be something wrong’ is already something...

A Tit for a Tat (187) Tit: Humans are sometimes unreliable. Tat: What about machines then? Tit: Well, they are made by humans… Tat: Which makes them also sometimes unreliable? Tit: Yeah… In fact, they can fail any time! Tat: Yeah… In fact, just like humans! Tit: But...

A Tit for a Tat (186) Tit: To prevent unfair demonisation by generalisation, I try to use ‘some’ instead of ‘all’. Tat: But in ‘some’ cases, it’s really about ‘all’! Tit: Yes, so my rule of generalisation applies only to ‘some’ cases! Next...

A Tit for a Tat (185) Tit: Look at that amazing car number! Tat: Wow! So… what can it do? Tit: Er… It can impress us… like it just did? Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/12/demonisation-by-generalisation Previous aT4aT:...

A Tit for a Tat (184) Tit: One fried dumpling left. You want it? Tat: Since you like it, you can have it! Tit: One soup dumpling left. You want it? Tat: Since I don’t like it, you can have it! Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/12/car-number Previous aT4aT:...

A Tit for a Tat (183) Tit: What happens if I fall off this slope? Tat: The many trees will break your fall. Tit: And break my bones too! Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/12/like-dislike Previous aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/12/say-it-more-clearly About aT4aT:...

Supposed to know something - but forgot what? Do you let it trouble you, or let it slide? Truth is, we all are supposed to know something - enlightenment. Existential ‘troubling-ness’ is alright, if it drives us to the light. Related Article: Dukkha...

There is much talk these days, of mindfulness of many things, connected to life… From relationships, to work, to finances… It is good to be mindful of these things in life, but which form of mindfulness is the most important? Mindfulness of Buddha, because this can lead to being...

Open-hearted communication is the lifeblood of any relationship. Without the Buddha’s communication of the Dharma to the Sangha, of the Sangha to us, we would have no spiritual relationship with the Triple Gem, and no spiritual friends...