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

Yah: I’m apolitical.
Jat: More like apathetic.
Yah: Apathetic to politics… yes!
Jat: How so?
Yah: Because politics has too many shades of grey. So I would rather spend time on something more real, like studying the Pureland sutras.
Jat: And Pureland is more real than our world?
Yah: A world without the complexity of three poisons (greed, hate, delusion) at [...]

A Tit for a Tat (58)
Tit: Can you hear the humming?
Tat: Yes.
Tit: I’m surprised you can hear such a high frequency.
Tat: It’s true that I can’t hear very high frequencies.
Tit: How can you hear the humming then?
Tat: Well, it’s not at a very high frequency. As mentioned, if it’s really high, I won’t be able [...]

We jail and fine those who abuse and torture pets, but isn’t culling harmless animals the extreme form of abuse and torture?
A good friend sent an email asking signatures for an on-going petition to help stop the extermination of all stray cats in Singapore. It is really sad to know that in this age, some [...]

A Tit for a Tat (51)
Tit: You are both Buddhists – how can you fall out over the Dharma?
Tat: Well, we are just Buddhists; not Buddhas.
Tit: But still, the Dharma is supposed to bring peace and harmony.
Tat: Actually, no one can fall out over the Dharma – it was just our delusion about what is [...]

In the movie ‘Whiteout’, a U.S. marshal, being the only one assigned to Antarctica, makes it a point to solve a murder case there… a mere three days before the merciless winter which lasts for six months in darkness begins howling. The more she investigates, the darker a conspiracy gets. Before the darkness of night [...]

No one wants to be unhappy due to being greedy.
Some might not know how to be content.
Why not generously share how with them, best you can?
No one wants to be unhappy due to being unkind.
Some might not know how to be kind.
Why not kindly share how with them, best you can?
No one wants to be [...]

A Tit for a Tat (48)
Tit: Why is it that we seem more clear-minded that others?
Tat: Is it so? It’s no big deal because we are more clear-minded on some matters only.
Tit: What do you mean?
Tat: There are other matters we are so unclear of, that we don’t even know we are unclear about them!
Tit: [...]

The film ‘Thirst’ (which won the 2009 Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival) is another story that uses the vampire genre to address interesting issues. The personification of evil in Buddhist cosmology is Mara, who is synonymous with desire and death… which is in turn synonymous with indulgence in sex (as the melting pot [...]

In ‘Fables: Animal Farm’ by Bill Willingham et al, Weyland Smith fashions a key to help unlock Snow White’s shackle. Due to a spell cast on him, he cannot, however make a key to unlock his own shackle, or even suggest how it can be made. It turned out that the key that unlocked Snow’s [...]