This is one of the best yet most underrated vegan stalls in Singapore. They whip up delicious dishes in a flash, and I really mean in a flash. I timed how long it took the chef to prepare a plate of Hokkien noodles. 50 seconds! This is beyond the usual definition of ‘fast food’! Visit [...]

Question: Bother to catch the mistakes about Buddhism in the article at ___________? Answer: You know… if i spend my time surfing to look for stuff to clarify, it could be more than a full-time job. I used to do that quite a bit but realised it is often not very fruitful – as the [...]

A Tit for a Tat (300) Tat: If it’s so important, you shouldn’t depend on me to remind you! Tit: It’s so important that I need to depend on you to remind me! Next aT4atT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2011/05/cleaned-dirty Previous aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2011/04/good-question-answer About aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/02/logo-for-a-tit-for-a-tat-series

A Tit for a Tat (299) Tit: When will you eat lunch? Tat: When I’m hungry. Tit: That’s not a good answer! Tat: Well, is was a good answer, though it wasn’t a good question. Tit: How can there be a good answer without a good question? Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2011/04/reminder-needed Previous aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2011/04/tears-of-sorrow About aT4aT: [...]

It’s hard to know for how long animals’ consciousness can linger after being slaughtered. If an animal is attached to his own dead body, and does not depart in time, he or she might even feel the magnified pain of being cut and cooked. If the consciousness is not in the carcass, it can be [...]

A Tit for a Tat (298) Tit: (Looking at TV) Look! The animals about to be killed are sad! Tut: How do you know? Tit: They are crying! Tut: Maybe they are tears of joy, because they are about to meet their maker? Tit: If animals are made by a maker to be killed for [...]

A Tit for a Tat (297) Tit: Sometimes I wish I’m pronounced to have a terminal illness. Tat: Gosh! Why? Tit: So that I’ll be more motivated to immedately fulfil my dreams! Tat: But you already have a terminal illness! Tit: What’s that? Tat: Life! Tit: Yeah… but the problem is I don’t know how [...]

Models too skinny on the catwalk might promote over-dieting? Models too plump on the catwalk might promote over-eating? Models must be models of walking the Middle Path on the catwalk? Pic: Kate Moss as an extreme ascetic?

A review of Radiohead’s ‘Give Up the Ghost’: Lyrics: Don’t haunt me don’t haunt me… Gather up the lost and sold In your arms In your arms Gather up the pitiful In your arms In your arms What seems impossible In your arms In your arms I think I have had my fill In your [...]

If you focus only on the bad things in your life, you’ll miss the good things in your life, and you’ll experience endless bad things because after the bad things comes the good things. Yet, to focus on the bad things is to recognise the First Noble Truth of Dukkha, in order to truly transform [...]

Learnt and expanded from a Dharma talk: 放下不是放弃。 Right ‘letting go’ is not ‘giving up’; it is acceptance of things as they are for now, till they can be bettered later. 放下贪嗔痴；提起菩提心。 Let go of greed, hate and delusion; Embrace Bodhicitta to guide others to do the same. 自寻的苦最痛苦。 Self-created suffering is more painful. E.g. [...]

Question: Do you know what has happened to Shakyamuni Buddha’s clan descendants? Answer: I don’t know… But there are some people in Nepal and India today who claim to be descendants. So far, it seems that there are no very prominent ones that we hear of. Anyway, a descendant of a great person is not always great. [...]

Question: How was the Buddha-to-be able to just let go of his worldly attachments to search for the path to True Happiness, which may not even exist? Answer: He was so overwhelmed by great compassion for all that it gave him the courage to search for what might or might not be there, and was [...]

Part 1: True Happiness as an attained goal (of Buddhahood) is not conditioned by anyone (including one’self’),* or it would not be unconditional. But the path to True Happiness is conditioned by guiding others to attain True Happiness (as the Bodhisattva path). Part 2: Even after attaining True Happiness, one continues to unconditionally guides others [...]

PT: By the way, there’s something so befitting about your name linking with your personality… 似乎时时刻刻都是这么心安平静. This must be what you said about power embedded in names due to the workings of perception. SA: I don’t think my name had any special meaning when given. Just hope to be able to live up to it, to be 时时安安 [...]