A review of Radiohead’s ‘Give Up the Ghost’: Lyrics: Don’t haunt me don’t haunt me… Gather up the lost and sold In your arms In your arms Gather up the pitiful In your arms In your arms What seems impossible In your arms In your arms I think I have had my fill In your [...]

Question: How was the Buddha-to-be able to just let go of his worldly attachments to search for the path to True Happiness, which may not even exist? Answer: He was so overwhelmed by great compassion for all that it gave him the courage to search for what might or might not be there, and was [...]

Roach resting on her image’s crown I freak out but she* smiles on Namo Guanshiyin Pusa! * not the roach!

I’m always somewhat skeptical about books that mention various religions under one breath. This often results in generalisations and misinterpretations. True to my ‘suspicion’, the author made these mistakes. It’s probably true that most religions teach us to be good but to equate them as being exactly the same does no justice to their true [...]

It’s okay, such nonsense, this (somewhat) nonsensical place with (some) nonsensical people with (some) nonsensical matters, because I’m leaving this behind. It’s okay, such nonsense, not that I’m condescending or heartless, as I’m going to Pure Land to better my compassion and wisdom to return better transform this nonsense later. In the mean time, I’m [...]

From TheZena56: ‘I had a nightmare once. I was walking down a snowy road and the full moon was blood red. And I swear I heard something like this (Digital Daggers’ cover version of Tears for Fears’ Head Over Heels) playing in the background. And I had the biggest urge to run because I felt [...]

S: Stonepeace said, ‘One who says many to be evil might be the one most evil.’ (常说人人不好的人可能是最不好的人.) Is the monkey that points at evil instead of seeing, hearing and saying nothing about evil always evil? C: 某些反對黨常説執政黨不好可能是最不好的黨？哈哈！而執政黨常説反對黨不好也可能是最不好的黨？嘿嘿！最好無黨派之分，大家都存好心，常説好話，做好事！ L: ‘Look at yourself in the mirror before speaking ill of others.’ V: 来说是非者，必是是非人! S: Hmmm… Guess it’s [...]

There is already a dirt track formed along the shortcut (on the slope). Why not use it? Because it will deepen and broaden it, because it would promote creation of dirt tracks at the expense of more plants and insects. Related Article: Longer Route of Compassion http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/10/longer-route-of-compassion

An extended dialogue: S: Is it possible to use soy milk as one of the auspicious offering items instead of cow milk for the Tara retreat? I’m making this request due to the plight of milk cows these days: ‘Cattle reared for milk production are exploited and made to suffer, just like animals reared for [...]

Wolverine’s adamantium claws are at times extensions of his heroism, of the fight for justice. But at other times extensions of his rashness and rage too. What claws do we have and use? Manjusri’s sword is the extension of his perfect wisdom in action severing ignorance out of compassion. Truly adamantine (‘diamond’), indestructible ultimate truth, [...]

In ‘The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’, Johnny Depp plays a character who says this to a lady in her imaginary world: Prepare to be reborn. And remember: Nothing is permanent. Not even death. Sounds like the stuff of the Heart Sutra, which goes a step further and says that there is no birth and death [...]

Maybe we are imperfect, which is why we love the imperfect. [1] Is this a sickness or a virtue? Maybe we love the perfect, [2] though those already perfect don’t really need our love? [3] Is this a sickness or a virtue? The truth is, we love the imperfect [4] but  we love the perfect [...]

Email subject header: Diabetes Alert? Hi Everyone, Recently, I noticed that there are black ants on the rim of the toilet bowl in the south wing toilet, that most male colleagues use. From observation, ants usually stay away from urine. In ancient days, ants were used to detect if a person has diabetes, as they [...]

I always wondered what is the moral of the story of ‘The Princess and the Pea’. Does it sing the ‘virtues’ of being sensitive to even a single pea under twenty mattresses? But to have such hyper physical sensitivity is to be liable to have great personal suffering instead. Royalty should instead have hyper spiritual [...]

From ‘Grimmer Tales: A Wicked Collection of Happily Never After Stories’ by Erik Bergstrom, is ‘The Ugly Truth’, which I think is the best in the book - ‘There once was an ugly duckling. None of the other ducks would hang out with him. One day the duckling changed into a beautiful swan! Turns out that he’s [...]