A Tit for a Tat (109)
Tit: What is True Love?
Tat: That which does not become hate.
Tit: Huh?
Tat: Love that is not true enough easily becomes hate.
Tit: How can love become hate?
Tat: Because it is based on attachment, when it is unrequited, it can become aversion!
Tit: What about True [...]

A Tit for a Tat (92)
Tit: I don’t like him.
Tat: How well do you know him?
Tit: Not very well.
Tat: Then what you don’t like is just your incomplete and possibly wrong perception of him.
Tit: So?
Tat: Since you don’t like your perception of him, why cling to it?
Tit: Huh?
Tat: Why not keep your mind open to know [...]

There is a view that horrible scenes from films which get imprinted onto human minds will be fleshed out accordingly if one goes to hell. Because of this, such films should not be seen. However, here are some alternative views:
1. If one watches horror films to rejoice or relish in suffering of others, despite them [...]

In one of the stories within the movie ‘New York, I Love You’, we see a very old couple bickering all the way as they made their way towards the beach – just to see it. At first, the audience is likely to have empathy for them. Well, it is more sad to see the [...]

In ‘Highlander: The Search for Vengeance’, Colin the ‘immortal’s’ attachment to his lost lover drives him on a vengeful streak to stalk and kill her ‘immortal’ murderer… over the course of 2000 years. In the process, he fights in various wars of many eras in different lands to pursue him. Too blinded by hate to [...]

A Tit for a Tat (85)
Tit: Still don’t see what I want. I hate shopping!
Tat: No, you don’t hate shopping. You hate ‘not shopping’!
Tit: Huh?
Tat: What you hate is not being able to shop what you’re looking for!

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People often asked me what i think about the plight of Tibet, I’m sympathetic but have not much to comment. The true is I did not know China and Tibet’s histories well enough to say much. Each seems to have their own side of the story and I lacked the true wisdom to judge. In [...]

A Tit for a Tat (56)
Tit: Why is it so difficult?
Tat: You.
Tit: Huh?
Tat: Because you refuse to learn properly!
Tit: But I’m trying…
Tat: … while refusing to accept that it’s not going to be as easy as expected!
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A Tit for a Tat (49)
Tit: If you meet someone exactly like you, would you like you?
Tat: I’m not sure…
Tit: Well?
Tat: I think I will dislike myself.
Tit: You should change yourself now then… for the better.
Tat: Wait… I think I will like myself.
Tit: You should still change yourself now…. for the better.
Tat: But why? I [...]

The film ‘Thirst’ (which won the 2009 Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival) is another story that uses the vampire genre to address interesting issues. The personification of evil in Buddhist cosmology is Mara, who is synonymous with desire and death… which is in turn synonymous with indulgence in sex (as the melting pot [...]