I used to be quite a severely unforgiving person. (Fortunately, things have improved greatly since.) The slightest bit of evil that I see others do I would condemn so greatly that I would slap a label of ‘evil-doer’ on the person for life. I would shun this person for indefinite time till [...]

A Tit for a Tat (100)
Tit: Everyone should see someone as special.
Tat: Only one?
Tit: If not, that person wouldn’t be special.
Tat: Isn’t it more special to see two or more than one to be special?
Tit: Sounds like promiscuity!
Tat: What if everyone is seen as equally special?
Tit: Sounds like equanimity!

While the unenlightened seek special ’someones’
for [...]

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 [...]

The story by Maaike Hartjes in ‘Go Home: 12 Moving Stories’ tells of a baby bird born a little different. He searches for acceptance, and tries to give up some of his unique physical features, while trying to take up ones similar to others. However, despite his efforts, he is repeatedly rejected by other birds. [...]

‘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 [...]

From ‘Wonderland’, which is a spin-off story based on ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ by Tommy Kovac and Sonny Liew are some interesting dialogues -
Feather: You’re late because you spent so much time bleaching, starching, and ironing this apron!
Mary Ann: There was a spot!
Feather: It was a shadow.
Comments: Some things, which protect other things from dirt, [...]

The main story arc of the movie PTU (Police Tactical Unit) is about a cop who slips and falls in an alley while chasing a gangster. Losing his consciousness, he awakes to find his gun missing. He then goes on a series of misadventures which implicate many others to retrieve his gun, which he believes [...]

Every time I come to hear the poignant opening lines of Erasure’s ‘Piano Song’, I’m reminded of how the Buddha’s teachings saved my life during my growing up years – both physically and spiritually, of how much existential resentment and estrangement I had learnt to let go…
Never get angry at the stupid people
Though I go [...]

Voted song of 2008 by Rolling Stone, The Killers’ ‘Human’ has an interesting line, that seems grammatically incorrect -
‘Are we human,
or are we dancer?’
Wikipedia: ‘There remains confusion and debate over the line “Are we human, or are we dancer?” in the song’s chorus. Debate raged across the internet over whether the lyrics said “denser” or [...]

There are many Buddha images around the world, and they come in all shapes, sizes and materials. We will always choose the one we feel close to for enshrining at home – one that is appealing to look at, that we feel close to. Non-Buddhists often accuse Buddhists of idol-worshiping. To them, paying homage before [...]