Adapted from the bestseller, ‘The Time Traveller’s Wife’ tells of a man’s peculiar condition, of being involuntarily subject to fading away, only to manifest in another time and place. It is suspected to be a medical anomaly, though Buddhism would see it essentially as karmic. Time-travel is impossible though – as it would mess up [...]

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Here are some lyrics in part from Moby’s bittersweet song ‘Slipping Away’ from his album ‘Hotel’: Open to everything happy and sad Seeing the good when it’s all going bad Seeing the sun when I can’t really see Hoping the sun will at least look at me Focus on everything better today All that I [...]

In ‘The Brave and the Bold: The Lords of Luck’ by Mark Waid et al, ‘The Book of Destiny‘ from DC comics’ universe makes another prominent re-appearance. I’m ambivalent about the purpose of it cos it’s much ado about nothing to me. It’s a mythological book with the past, present and future written in it. [...]

An associate of my boss called me today. He was supposed to meet my boss and the latter was supposed to bring two printouts along. Just three days ago, I had slipped them under his office door (as he was not in), after which I texted him this – ‘Just slipped documents in office. Please [...]

An Awareness Place (Well-being Centre) customer wanted to have a copy of The Daily Enlightenment Book 1 and 2 each. Since I have some copies left, I arranged for them to be sent there via a colleague (1), who will deliver them with other items to AP next week. I then emailed the AP colleague [...]

A Tit for a Tat (11) Tit: Hey! You misspelled ‘mispelled’! Tat: Hey! Not me! I saw you erase an ‘s’ while editing my article! Tit: Did I? Tat: You did! Tit: Must be an accident. Not my fault! Tat: Why? Tit: As ‘I’ was unmindful, ‘I’ wasn’t really there. Since ‘I’ didn’t really do [...]

A Tit for a Tat (10) Tit: Are you too full for this great snack? Tat: For now. Tit: Too bad! Tat: Only ‘for now’! Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2009/06/not-my-fault Previous aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2009/06/depends-on-how-you-read-reality

Because ‘I’ am part of this world, Because ‘I’ am interconnected with this world, Because ‘I’ am seamless with this world, ‘I’ am an illusion in the world. Notes: (On CPR Picture) Where do ‘you’ begin? Without the world, ‘you’ cannot be. E.g. Without your interconnection to the air in the world, ‘you’ will ‘cease’ [...]

It is partly due to the ‘endless’ clinging to self-delusion, to constant wondering about the nature of the ‘self’, which is really an illusion, that perpetuates our rebirths in Samsara (via attachment to this non-existent ‘self’). The subtlest attachment we have to the idea of ‘self’ will lead to rebirth because rebirth is due to [...]

Shakespearean English, unless spoken at plays, sounds like bad English in our times. Modern English, unless spoken in our times, sounds like bad English too. Even the rules of grammar change along with vocabulary, as words are dropped in and out of dictionaries. Only the Dharma remains unchanging, only the letter and spirit of the [...]

Every time I recall how I got over trouble in mind (and health) in the past, it never fails to amaze me how I somehow got through those tough times. Sometimes, we trudge through the difficulties. (We change.) Sometimes, the difficulties trudge through us. (The obstacles change.) But actually, everything changes. And what else can [...]

Worldly glowing nights Bleakly burning lights Ghostly flitting sights (St. Andrew’s Cathedral’s spire almost a moonpointer)

A Tit for a Tat (2) Tit: Are you full now? Tat: Yup… for the time being. Tit: Of course it’s only for now! It’s not permanent. Tat: Oh yes. I forgot! I keep expecting meals to fill me once and for all forever. No wonder I’m never satisfied. Tit: Don’t become a constantly craving [...]

Whether the weather be fine Or whether the weather be not Whether the weather be cold Or whether the weather be hot We’ll weather the weather Whatever the weather Whether we like it or not. – Whether the Weather (A rhyme for kids) Last evening, while rushing home for my family reunion dinner, the cabbie [...]