Talking about compassion, how can we not mention how Acharya Asanga had carefully licked the maggots out of a dog’s wound with his tongue and moved them safely to his freshly sliced thigh flesh? For many of us, we would have chosen to kill the maggots in order to save the dog’s life. Compared to [...]

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 [...]

From one of the last page of David Small’s autobiographical graphic novel ‘Stitches: A Memoir’:
‘My mother died in 1970, age 58. Maturity, reflection and some family research have unearthed a few facts, which gave a slightly different picture of this taciturn and difficult person. Her physical problems were beyond what I could imagine or understand [...]

In ‘Batman: Gotham After Midnight’ by Steve Niles and Kelley Jones, Batman says this to Comissioner Gordon, ‘This is the second time she [a police officer] took credit for my work. I don’t like it. You know how important it is for criminals to know that it’s me taking them down.‘ Sounds like an [...]

From ‘Prince of Persia’ by A. B. Sina et al:
Guiv: (Injuring a lion that almost killed him in defence; without killing him) No one gave me the power to take life.
Peacock: (When lion pounces on Guiv again and is slashed dead) No one gave you power to spare life.
Comments: We give ourselves the [...]

Good intentions are not good enough if they arise from delusion.
This is why Buddhism pays attention to both
goodness (compassion; the opposite of evil intentions, speech and actions)
and truth (wisdom; the opposite of delusion).
- Sisyphusian

This is one of my favourite Batman scenes from the 1966 TV series. Watch and listen carefully. It’s side-splittingly hilarious! It made me think…. this could had been pretty cool in its time, but is now seen as mostly as super camp. Now look at how much darker Batman has become in our times. Even [...]

A Tit for a Tat (96)
Tit: Why don’t you help more readily?
Tat: Because it’s not so easy to do so readily!
Tit: Because it’s too easy to think so readily!

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The most urgent matter,
upon attaining this precious but brief human rebirth,
is to safeguard one’s future rebirth.
- Stonepeace
From (1) Wikipedia and (2) The Phrase Finder: (1) ‘The Vulcan salute is a hand gesture consisting of a raised hand, palm forward with the fingers parted between the middle and ring finger, and the thumb extended. Often, the [...]

‘The Blind Side’ tells the touching true story of how the once underprivileged and racially discriminated Michael Oher became a successful football player by proving his worth in various aspects of life – beyond just the sport. What is the blind side? It refers to that side opposite of the direction a player is facing. As an example [...]