Save your blessings – reduce wastage. Recycle your blessings – reuse and recycle. - Stonepeace This bag is for recycling your blessings, by reusing it, and to remind you to recycle every item put into it! Save Mother Earth with this environmentally friendly grocery tote made from...

Here is a discussion initiated by L, which he claims to be robust, which isn’t, IMHO… At least, not from his side. But I’ll leave whether this is really so for readers to decide. If you are already pro-vegan, you might just wish to skip his parts, though they do seem to...

An event’s marketing material: ‘Vesak Day Carnival: Loving the World!… Food Fun: … Vegetarian & Non-Vegetarian… let’s increase our awareness and efforts in… reducing our consumption to save our planet Earth…’ ‘Loving the...

Happy belated Valentine’s Day! Unique Valentine’s Day flower offering from Depeche Mode’s Facebook group, a virtual rose from the Enjoy the Silence single’s cover. Beats real flowers any time. (I noticed the flowers getting bigger in bunches this year.) If we love...

What a joke! What good is a green building if it serves the least green food – animal produce? What good is a green building if the owners and customers are not green in diet? What good is a green building in the news if this promotes more animal-eating? What good is a green building if...

The picture is a shred of toilet paper that I accidentally tore off while in the loo. As it was too small to use, I recycled it with the newspapers. An interesting thought struck me… I was able to use the rest of the toilet paper piece without that little shred. If so, how much, or...

True that shark fin is quite tasteless and lacking in nutrition. 1. Every animal that is killed needlessly was in its last moments an endangered one - even if not in terms of the species. (Applies to humans too.) 2. Every animal killed for any other parts or all of its parts is still a victim...

I’m wearing Croc cloth shoes. (An out-of production design) They’re pretty good … except that they are not totally waterproof. Here’s a paradox on consumer stuff - the tougher they (e.g. shoes) are, the longer they last, the less we have to buy, but the harder to...

A Buddhist organisation asked me to help write two short ‘politically correct’ statements on vegetarianism for a national documentary. This is what I came up with: ‘Where available and dependent on various conditions, lifelong or occasional vegetarianism is an optional but...

It was hard explaining to Mum why I wear my clothes till they become holey, when I can afford new ones, as I ask her to help me patch them, so that I can continue wearing them till they are too worn from wear and tear. Then I chanced upon stories of monks of old, who wear old and repatched...

To Be Truly All-Embracing He presented himself to be free, free even to eat anything, open in an all-embracing way. But doesn’t he see the animals to be not free, to not be killed and eaten, such that they all struggle to embrace life? To be truly free, to be truly all-embracing, is to...

A friend did something interesting. Noticing that there are many flyers messily placed at her gate and doorstep, she made a box that hangs at the door, that says ‘Please put flyers here.’ I joked that I would write this instead - ‘Please put flyers here - for recycling...

Just sent this to the press: I refer to the letter ‘”No meat, no fish” ideology can disturb eco balance’ (Sept 26) by Paul Chan in ‘The Sunday Times’, which stated that that ’we cannot survive on rice and vegetables alone’ and ’if...

For odd-sized packages of multiple The Daily Enlightenment books to be mailed to readers, we decided to use magazine pages to wrap them instead of using new envelopes or even purchased brown paper. That’s recycling at one level. And here’s more – the magazines themselves are...

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 ...

Japanese restaurants are known for their prevalent, wasteful and environmentally-unfriendly use of disposable wooden chopsticks. We visited one recently and came prepared – with our own washable chopsticks. When you throw away chopsticks, you are essentially throwing trees away. I...

Do watch this short video (only 4 min long) It presents a simple but powerful concept that can change your life and that of many others. Excerpt: ‘I realized that what I was being pitched was a binary solution. It was either you’re a meat eater, or you’re a...

The waitress served the pie with an empty smaller plate for putting slices of it. I put it aside, as I could use the big plate I will finish eating pasta from. A few minutes later, the waitress asked if she could clear my used plate. But I already started using it for the pie, while the...

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