Busy hands with multiplied actions. Busy with extended compassion. Calm palms with collected stillness. Calm with unified wisdom. (In each helping hand of compassion is the all-seeing eye of wisdom.) When I bow lower myself is when I see higher beings with a stronger sense of awe with a greater sense of humility (Picture snapped [...]

Economy of shape Economy of lines Economy of face But still expression But still compassion But still gracefulness (Picture of abstract Guanyin Bodhisattva statue at Mahaprajna Buddhist Society)

The first picture… the Buddha at rest (with eyes closed?) The Awakened One… always in peaceful repose. The second picture… the Buddha still awake (with eyes open?) The Enlightened One… forever with compassionate vigilance. (The two pictures are different perspectives of the same image.)

The super weight of ‘The (Daily) Planet’ on his super shoulders daily? [This article is somewhat on evolution, and somewhat in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin.] In ‘Superman: Camelot Falls’ by Kurt Busiek, Superman receives a grave warning from Arion the time-traveller, who gives him a stark vision of how humanity will [...]

Kindly Guanyin Homely Chenrezig Motherly Avalokiteshvara ‘My mother is Guanyin to me when she prays to Guanyin for me.’ – Stonepeace (Painting by Feng Zikai)

Penguin books’ designs are getting really clever and cool these days. Gone are the days of Penguin’s stuffy bookish image. Their designs are becoming increasingly fun. They are even revamping the covers of classics. Take for instance the left picture above, which is Benjamin Walter’s ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’. [...]

A Buddha image on the computer reminding me to blog with compassion and wisdom, reminding me to surf with compassion and wisdom. Related Article: The Back View of ‘iBuddha’ http://moonpointer.com/new/2009/01/i-without-capitals

Last week, we visited the Peranakan Museum for the ‘Serenity in Stone : The Qingzhou Discovery’ exhibition. Featured are 800 years’ worth of buried treasures only unearthed recently. This great discovery is the missing link that connects the evolutionary leap in Buddhist art between the Gandhara and Tang period. (The first is when Buddha images [...]

Bing: Why is there paint over forgotten masking tape on this wall? Ding: The renovation guy must had been sloppy… not having checked properly. Bing: Or maybe we were the sloppy ones… for not having checked his work properly. Ding: Guess all of us were sloppy! Who is kinder? The one responsible only for oneself [...]

If you learn to love one properly, you will learn to love all equally. – Stonepeace [Notes: The notion of love in this article is love in general, as in loving-kindness (Metta: the wish for all to be well and happy), that excludes lust as a complicating worldly factor. The following are some of the [...]

What’s the Meaning of Life? Once upon a time, there was a very small boy called Zeph, who wondered much about the very large world he lived in. After his first day at a new school (which he didn’t like), being surrounded by strangers in a strange land, it struck him that life could be [...]

There is a full page in ‘Invincible: Ultimate Collection, Vol. 1′ (by Robert Kirkman) which seems to accidentally portray the nature of an existential crisis. The young and new superhero ‘Invincible’ was told to fight an alien in Earth’s orbit. He takes a deep breath and flies up up and away… Yes, the superheroes super-hold [...]

After picking up Buddhism, I found my threshold of being able to withstand seeing others in suffering to have reduced significantly. I can’t sit long in front of the television watching people scheming against each other, even though I know it’s just a show. Well, scriptwriters don’t get their stories out of thin air – many are [...]

I was at a group dinner last weekend, during which the conversation centered mostly around food. That seen as ‘great food’ for most is but burnt carcasses to me, no matter how well masked the meat is with herbs and spices. I can no longer comprehend why anyone can be fascinated by meat, isn’t it [...]

A friend texted me a question – ‘How to have compassion for terrorists?’ He was asking about the recent Mumbai siege, which killed about 120. My answer would be this – ‘We can nurture compassion for terrorists by realising that they had created immense negative karma (which is likely to bear fruit as much suffering) [...]