Question: Do we need to 开光 (consecrate) Buddha/Bodhisattva images for veneration on a shrine? Answer: I recommend you to consecrate it every day with your Dharma practices like chanting, meditating, offering, circumambulation, sharing of merits… Question: Yes I will do that. But is...

J.D Salinger wrote this in ‘The Catcher in the Rye’: ‘Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody’s around – nobody big, I mean – except me. And I’m standing...

A Tit for a Tat (209) Tit: Oi! Tat: Why don’t you just say it? Tit: Say what? Tat: Whatever you wanted – without the ‘Oi!’ Tit: Okay… Tat: Oi! Tit: What? Tat: What did you want to say? Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2011/02/so-sick-of-this Previous...

A Tit for a Tat (208) Tit: How are you? Tat: Same old, same old. Tit: How so? People change! Tat: So? Tit: If you’ve not changed for the better, were the last few years wasted? Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2011/01/oi Previous aT4aT:...

Something funny I came across online: Question: How can Atheism be true when there is no evidence of Atheius? Answer: Of course its true. I bought a blank book and I wrote “Atheism is the only truth” on the first page. It is written in “the book” and therefore it must...

A dialogue from the movie ‘Up In The Air’: Ryan: Kara mentioned that you were having some thoughts. Jim: I don’t think I’m gonna be able to do this. Ryan:: Why would you say that today? Jim: Well, last night I was kind of laying in bed and I couldn’t get to ...

I am partly blind because I cannot see everything yet. May I be humble to remember this. I am partly deaf because I cannot hear everything yet. May I be humble to remember this. I am partly foolish because I cannot know everything yet. May I be humble to remember...

Squeezing some ice, he screams in pain. But he only had to let it go to end the needless pain. Crystal clear is the case of foolishness above. So should I stay here to suffer fools (to exhaust my negative karma), or am I a fool too for staying here (to perpetuate this negative karma), to...

It’s okay, such nonsense, this (somewhat) nonsensical place with (some) nonsensical people with (some) nonsensical matters, because I’m leaving this behind. It’s okay, such nonsense, not that I’m condescending or heartless, as I’m going to Pure Land to better my...

‘Independence Day’ re-screening on TV tonight reminds me of how simplistic the idea is, of being able to write a computer virus to disable alien invaders’ spaceships. (What programming language do they use anyway?) That said, alien or human, we suffer from the same triple...

The vegan restaurant is closing soon. (Vegsenz at Tekka Mall, at end of month) It’s my last chance to eat there (till they reopen at another place). Should I savour the dishes not yet tried? Should I savour the ones I’m familiar with already? Will I be glad? Will I regret? What if...

He spent $200,000 to change his kidneys via the black market. He spent 1 second to fall and die. What bitter irony! Wealth is no true refuge. Health is no true refuge. What is your true refuge? Amituofo… Amituofo… Amituofo… Amituofo is the name of the Dharmakaya of all...

Amituofo! I chant this for you to hear, not to condemn you for the evil you do, but to urge you to awaken to your Buddha-nature. Amituofo! I chant this for you to hear, not to flatter you for the good you do, but to urge you to align it to your...

Smile like you mean it. Frown like you mean it. Are these the only options? Half-smile like you mean it. : – ] Half-frown like you mean it. : – [ Is this another option? When I smile a smile of courtesy, I might frown a slight frown too, if I’m not sure I should smile all...

From TheZena56: ‘I had a nightmare once. I was walking down a snowy road and the full moon was blood red. And I swear I heard something like this (Digital Daggers’ cover version of Tears for Fears’ Head Over Heels) playing in the background. And I had the biggest urge to...

A Tit for a Tat (207) Tit: Who do you think is safer to marry – one who had a failed marriage or one who had not married? Tat: Well.. there is no guarantee that one who had a failed marriage will not fail again. Tit: Just like it is not guaranteed that one who never married will not...

Gee: Some might remember a toddler and his cruel murderers. Not less than 18 witnesses felt something was wrong but none did anything much. Was it simply his inevitable negative karma at play? Ess: While it is the karma of one to be victimised, the victim might also have the karma to be...

A Tit for a Tat (206) Tit: He is very angry! Tat: Yes, he is very ill. Tit: Is it? Tat: Isn’t anger an illness because it harms oneself and others? Tit: I see… I thought you meant he was really ill. Tat: Anger is his recurring disease! Tit: If he was ill conventionally, I might...

Question: Is it true that ‘good people die young’ and that “good deeds do not beget got endings’? Answer: Not all the good die young. Some live to a ripe old age. And if one is really good and really dies young, it’s simply to be reborn quickly to a better...

If you don’t like yourself, why don’t you change yourself? If you can change yourself, who is really your ‘self’? - Stonepeace Reflections from watching ‘A Ton Image’: If your clone vies for attention of your beloved, would you be jealous – of your...