No One Is An Island: The Buddha’s Wonderful Advice on Interdependence Buddhism doesn’t just talk about ‘emptiness’. Interdependence forms the core of the Buddha’s teachings too. It is the reality of how all people, the environment and even other sentient beings, such as animals are interconnected in an intricate web of inter-relationships. It was through [...]

Pro-choice must be pro-life, as all lives should be given the power of choice to live or not – even the unborn. As such, pro-choice must not be pro-death.

A hospice flyer read, ‘To them, every moment matters.’ But wait… we are all the dying. The important question is… What are you dying for, dying to do?

Saw a modern gangland movie version’s retelling of Macbeth, which I studied in school years ago… A case of listening to witches’ hearsay (or heresy?), hearing only what he wanted to hear, his heart’s desires spelled out, trapping and tripping himself with over-confidence. Did the witches tell his inevitable future, or did he make his [...]

A short review of the movie ‘DMC (Detroit Metal City)’: Acting as a demon from hell, and singing the dark and profane, he unexpectedly draws legions of fans. Yet, what he wanted to do was to sing sweet songs of hope, and gives up his unworldly fame. Upon realising the power of his reach, of how [...]

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I’ve been wanting to create such a picture for some time. While listening to an election rally talk recently, it struck me that it’s quite easy to make a picture of a picture within a picture indefinitely, as far as the eye can see. You just need two similar cameras. Very Avatamsaka huh?

A reply given when invited to teach Dharma classes for Sunday School: Hmmm… on and off, I’ve been thinking of helping to teach in Sunday School, but am more comfortable teaching young adults, because teenage trends change very rapidly, which makes teens harder to relate to skilfully! As for very young kids, I find demonstrating [...]

Linkin Park’s ‘In the End’ has a part that can ‘accidentally’ seem Zenny upon reinterpretation: I tried so hard And got so far But in the end It doesn’t even matter I had to fall To lose it all But in the end It doesn’t even matter If despite your many efforts, they don’t seem [...]

A Tit for a Tat (311) Tit: Sigh! Tat: Why? Tit: So much to do! Tat: No time to sigh then! If you got to do it, why soon do it gladly and swiftly? Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2011/06/zen-question Previous aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2011/05/where-for-dinner About aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/02/logo-for-a-tit-for-a-tat-series

Says on the box, 100% Veg Crunchy Veg Zinger (Burger). A friend ate this in India. For once, I see Colonel Sanders smiling for a good reason! For once, he does ‘chickens right’ – by giving another option. Elsewhere? www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com See also…

In the first ‘Gantz’ movie (see trailer below at around 46 seconds), a Vajrakumara (Dharma Protector guardian diety), a thousand arm Guanyin Bodhisattva and a Buddha statue in a museum were revealed to be aliens in disguise, who were disturbed by the Gantz corps, leading to a bloody battle to the death. Now this might [...]

In the movie ‘Priest’, the heroes are the denounced priests who go against the church, despite the repressive ones in charge continually reminding them of this self-concocted ‘mantra’ – ‘To go against the church is to go against God’. Yes, as usual, the ones assumed to have the mandate of ‘God’ are the erroneous ones. [...]

Question: We went to exhume of one of our long-time ancestors’ graves for cremation and discovered some ornaments with the remains. Some relatives suggested keeping them for remembrance and good luck. Is there any harm in doing so? Answer: It’s not likely that the items will bring good luck, especially since there is no such [...]

A Tit for a Tat (310) Tit: Where to for dinner? Tat: I dunno! Tit: Is it so hard to answer? Tat: As hard as it is for you, which is why you always ask me! Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2011/05/sigh-not Previous aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2011/05/taste-the-table About aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/02/logo-for-a-tit-for-a-tat-series