Possibly more potentially troubling than a thought troubling you now is what is not troubling you now. For example, you might have something stuck between teeth, that goes undetected, that leads to decay. Ignorance in the long run isn’t bliss. Worse than undetected physical trouble is undetected mental trouble, the delusion that keeps us from [...]

Think the most convoluted ways possible, believe in improbable theories, clutter yourself with imaginary worries. Say the most useless stuff possible, spread many unprovable rumours, confuse others with unfounded fears. Do the most meaningless things possible, live with near or total nonsense, waste life with crazed tension.

If one only looks for things done wrong, all the things done right does not seem to matter. If one only looks for things done right, all the things done wrong does not seem matter. Let us see each matter as it is, as how each really matters. – Stonepeace (About the picture, if how [...]

If there is universally accepted reasoning, there would be not a single conflict in the world. The question is whether the deluded can or are willing to acknowledge sound reasoning to be reasonable, whether the less deluded can or are willing to show why it is reasonable. (I used to think there’s no delusion more [...]

A Tit for a Tat (347) Tit: You can never win a seriously deluded person in argument – even if you have good reasoning! Tat: I just hope I am not the deluded one, who imagines myself having good reasoning! Tit: Most of us alternate between being the more deluded and the less deluded one! Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2012/01/tell-that-to-the-pig Previous [...]

Struck me that Elmo is the opposite of Emo! Emo: One who has negative emotions often. Elmo: One who has positive emotions often,  such has loving-kindness, compassion, rejoice and equanimity.  If Oscar’s the snobbish grouch, then Elmo’s the cheery! The littlest but best monster from Sesame Street ever. If Oscar stands for the poison of hatred, [...]

S: Sometimes, the most agreeable teacher is the worst [or least appropriate] – because you learn nothing new from him or her, that challenges your delusions, that spurs growth in your compassion and wisdom. (If everybody thinks alike, many might not be thinking enough. Groupthink!) C: I have no patience for teachers who mislead. S: [...]

Question: Sometimes, I feel tired and worried. Despite diligence in Dharma learning, I seem to still be in the darkness of delusion, uncertain of whether I am improving or backsliding. Answer: I think it could be because you lack a clear unshakable direction. In terms of the diligence, maybe you’re going towards multiple sources of [...]

Either you are not aware of your self-contradictions, or are aware but contradict yourself – which is doubly self-contradicting! Who are you trying to fool? Yourself?

While the humans try to nip the problem in the bud by preventing Skynet from forming, why doesn’t the robots just nip the problem in the bud by time-travelling to the past to terminate John Connor at birth? They can try endlessly. Then again, the humans can time-travel back to defend Connor endlessly too. The Terminator series is essentially endless, a fight against [...]

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 [...]

Learnt and expanded from a Dharma talk: 放下不是放弃。 Right ‘letting go’ is not ‘giving up’; it is acceptance of things as they are for now, till they can be bettered later. 放下贪嗔痴；提起菩提心。 Let go of greed, hate and delusion; Embrace Bodhicitta to guide others to do the same. 自寻的苦最痛苦。 Self-created suffering is more painful. E.g. [...]

An old friend suddenly turned up in one of my regular classes. When I asked an open question to all, he gave a wrong answer. When I said something else, he added irrelevant comments. When I asked him later, as to why he suddenly decided to come, he confidently said he had an intuitive thought [...]

‘Independence Day’ re-screening on TV tonight reminds me of how simplistic the idea is, of being able to write a computer virus to disable alien invaders’ spaceships. (What programming language do they use anyway?) That said, alien or human, we suffer from the same triple virus of the three poisons (greed, hate, delusion). The cure [...]

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, [...]