If you really think you and I can’t change, you don’t really believe in Anicca. If you really think you and I can’t change, you don’t really believe in Anatta. If you really think you and I can’t change, you don’t really believe in our Buddha-nature.

One of the most memorable films ever is a film in a film – in the movie ‘American Beauty’ called by fans as ‘the plastic bag scene’. As commented by the young filmmaker in the story, who shot it… Ricky Fitts: You want to see the most beautiful thing I’ve ever filmed? It was one [...]

Another wonderful short dialogue from ‘Flash Forward’: Mark: We’re running out of time! Dyson: The whole world is! With or without a flash forward or backward, we are all running out of time, due to impending death, whether you are old or not, sick or not. Related Articles: Fate and Free Will http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/03/fate-free-will The Most [...]

From ‘The Resident Tourist: Otah Tree’ by Troy Chin in ‘Liquid City: Volume One’: Mint: It’s funny. Don’t you think, Troy? Troy: What is? Mint: If I hadn’t come here, I’d still believe that my tree’s standing alive. Would that have been better or worse? Troy: I… I’m not sure… (In the six months since [...]

From the movie ‘Greenberg’: Ivan: Youth is wasted on the young. Roger: I’d go further. I’d go: ‘Life is wasted on people.’ Yet, part of growing up is to realise how youth was squandered, in order to realise the value of life in the moment. Yet, part of living is to spend time with people [...]

Release from being bound by what you wrongly assume to be true happiness brings even greater happiness. – Stonepeace This is a wonderful short film on the joys of mindful appreciation of everyday things in the moment. However, from a Dharma point of view, the ideas portrayed are imperfect due to the below. The meaning [...]

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. – John Lennon From ‘Astonishing X-men: Unstoppable’ by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday, Kitty Pryde (Shadowcat) says, “Everything is so fragile. There’s so much conflict, so much pain… you keep waiting for the dust to settle and then you realize this is it; [...]

A Tit for a Tat (120) Tit: Look! You have a little tummy! Tat: No worries… It’s not real. Tit: Huh? Tat: It comes and goes with big meals taken and digested! Tit: What makes your tummylessness any more real then? Tat: It’s not real either! Because it comes and goes too! Tit: What’s real [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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! Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/02/bizarre-baby-love Previous aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/02/help-more-readily

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 [...]

‘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 [...]