Ted in ‘How I Met Your Mother’ says to his buddies, ‘Look we’ve all been searching for the five doppelgangers [of ourselves], right? But eventually, over time, we all become our own doppelgangers, you know, these completely different people who just happen to look like...

If the second hand is fleeting moment to moment, the minute hand is also fleeting moment to moment, with the hour hand also fleeting moment to moment. A past moment fleets to become a present moment. A present moment fleets to become a future moment. A future moment fleets to become a past...

Super Short Story (91): Performance The investment ad’s disclaimer reads, ‘Past performances are not indicative of future performances.’ This is the fickle way of the material world. Much more volatile is our mental world, our state of mind, that fluctuates up and down in...

Super Short Story (81): Change She was surprised that he had changed since they last met years ago, while he was surprised that she expected him not to change at all. Wouldn’t it be much more surprising if he didn’t changed a single bit? He would be a character out of a horror...

Although she was beside him, she was thinking of someone else - the past version of him. She wondered if she was having a mental affair, betraying him now, by preferring the old him. Or was she simply being faithful to a truer version of...

He stopped reading her stuff because he thought he could already read her like a book, forgetting that she is not a static book, but one with changing and growing...

Forgetting that death is eventual, that it can come all too sudden, he was contented that he was ‘completely healed’, that he had come across a ‘masterful’ healer, who could not even heal his own terminal ‘illness’ of...

多年以前有一位朋友到楚布寺去覲見剛剛坐床的大寶法王。 不知道是怎樣的因緣，他突然問了小法王一句： “我可以抱你嗎？” 只有七歲的小法王靜靜地回答：“你可以抱住天空嗎？”...

S: Message to friend discussing about 2012: “We might die the next second! Between now and 2012 or beyond, many will definitely die of various karmic reasons, and there is no guarantee it might not be us. Amituofo!’ (‘To live fully in this moment, assume that death is...

S: ‎Depeche Mode in ‘Lilian’ sung, ‘Pain and misery always hit the spot. Knowing you can’t lose what you haven’t got.’ The truth is, nothing can be grasped on to. Not even enlightenment, for it is a state of non-grasping freedom. J: *Gasp!* S: When...

He sits idly at the coffee shop, with an already empty cup, Just looking around… He had spent so many years working to reach these days of not needing to work. Is this now his full-time work? Old man! No more time to lose with wandering thoughts! Time for spiritual work! Enough worldly...

I love how this piece of news is flipping perceptions around: http://independent.co.uk/news/science/candles-shine-new-light-on-diamonds-2339499.html Diamond dust forged in candle flames ‘Magical’ transmutation An unlikely haiku. Another wonderful reminder of how forms deemed...

Sunyata (Emptiness) = Anicca (Impermanence) + Anatta (Unsubstantiality; Non-self) Anicca refers to all physical and mental phenomena not being with solid fixed nature at any time as they change from moment to moment. Anicca describes phenomena in terms of nothing physical and mental enduring...

I find shows featuring makeovers for glamour shots on TV amusing… not that it’s a joke that these makeovers do give some greater practical social confidence. The shows would depict the subject struggling with new hairdos, clothes, and most of all, trying to pose well, such that...

Nothing is more surreal than the shimmering lights of the city, and its colourful cars and people fleeting by. Nothing is more surreal than reality itself, than this scene of swift change. Thank goodness this is seen as such, for I wouldn’t want any hard and harsh ‘reality’...

There is a stranger in the house. There is an uninvited guest in the house. There is a phantom cockroach in the house. I don’t know where he came from. I don’t know where he’s going. I don’t know if he’s still around. He appeared suddenly one night. He...

A reply to a Pure Land course participant, who decided to attend the next round due to a relative’s passing and the need to attend to prayers on the first lesson of ten: My condolences… Amituofo. May he have a good rebirth, the best of which in Pure Land. Sometimes, these are...

A Tit for a Tat (218) Tit: He used to be a muscular weight-lifter. Now he’s so fat. Tat: Well, no matter what we used to be, we will all be skinny one day. Tit: Huh? Tat: Skinny skeletons rotting in coffins, or even skinner as cremated ashes! Next...

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:...

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...