Thus have I heard, the below poignant and hilarious accounts are based on actual concurrent incidents…
The old abbot of a temple
had a terrible toothache.
So bad was it that it was debilitating…
affecting his nerves literally.
The hospital stay was humbling to him.
It made him reflect
about the importance of spiritual cultivation
before his time in this life ran [...]

From ‘This is a Bad Time’ by Bruce Eric Kaplan:

But why do we choose to be attached to the idea
that we are really our poor ’selves’,
since we do change and can change at will?

What’s terrifying about negative karma
is its compounding effects if left unchecked!

But enlightenment is also the end of all disappointment,
and the realisation of [...]

A Tit for a Tat (108)
Tit: I don’t understand her.
Tat: Why?
Tit: Sometimes, she is difficult.
Tat: So?
Tit: Sometimes, she is easy-going.
Tat: So?
Tit: So, who is she really?
Tat: Both yet neither! She is always changing. She is change itself!
Tit: But which is the real ‘her’?
Tat: Must there be one ‘her’?
Tit: Why not?
Tat: If there [...]

A Tit for a Tat (97)
Tit: How’s your sore throat?
Tat: It’s better but am not sure if it’s permanent.
Tit: As if you will never get a sore throat again in your life!
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In ‘A Scanner Darkly’, undercover cops wear a ’scramble suit’ which covers them from head to toe. Now, this suit does not just make you look like someone else – because it can endanger someone who really looks that way. Instead, it has the ability to let its wearer look like anyone and everyone – [...]

Seeing a cleaner dusting a stupa that housed the Buddha’s relics.
I wondered what would happen,
should it be left neglected?

It will become buried,
swallowed by the sands of time,
forgotten and lost in history.

Like a precious relic that is the Buddhadharma,
or our Buddhadhatu (Buddha-nature) too,
it will be obscured by dirt and such.

As stupas stand for the peak of [...]

‘Who am I?’ ‘I’ am nothing but constant change, yet while our mind and matter change, there is always to unchanging potential to become fully enlightened, perfect in compassion and wisdom.
Yesterday at 11:37pm ·
Raymund Lacson
Well said.. Thanks Shen Shi’an
Today at 4:40am ·
Leong Seng Chen
Well bros Shen & Ray, to me, sometime there seem to be [...]

In the film ‘Don’t Look Back’ (Ne Te Retourne Pas), Jeanne (played by Sophie Marceau) realises that small but definite changes seem to be taking place in her life in every aspect… from the arrangement of the furniture in her house, to the appearance of her family members. In fact, her own appearance begins to [...]

Bought a big box of biscuits…
at a great price.
Then it turned out…
that the expiry date is really close.
Can I finish them before they expire?
Why should I imagine I can?
Can I finish them before I expire?
Why should I imagine I can?
Surely, many die with unfinished biscuits,
‘biting’ off more than they can ‘chew’!
What other ‘biscuits’ have I [...]

Daoni and company (my soft toy dogs)
look different from different angles.
They might look sad from one,
but glad from another.
But that’s just physical.
People’s characters too,
look different from different views.
They might seem bad from one,
but good from another.
And they change too… more unpredictably than my dogs.