From the 1957 movie ‘The River’directed by Jean Renoir - Same But Different Nan: Why can’t you be good like Elizabeth? Harriet: It’s easy for her to be good because she is good. Comments: We all have Buddha-Nature, the potential to be pure within. In this sense, it is...

Empathy instead of disgust arises when one realises that another’s horrible behaviour, could have arisen from horrible suffering. - Stonepeace In the movie ‘Confessions’, a mother meticulously plots to exact vengeance on the two killers of her daughter. It is surely ...

Why is it that the noblest people are the ones most troubled by conscience? - Lois Lane (‘Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow’ by Alan Moore) This reminds me of how Guanyin Bodhisattva’s body, before he became a full-fledged Bodhisattva, shattered into pieces...

What happens when you trust an authority other than yourself to be the source of truth? You tend to lose the truth – to varying extents, as dependent on your source of (mis)information. The Buddha’s advice of personal investigation to know and see the truth makes great sense. In...