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Elmo Vs Emo

By Shen Shi'an under Movies/TV | Your Comment | Tags: compassion, delusion, equanimity, greed, hatred, loving-kindness, rejoice

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, [...]



True Equanimity

By Shen Shi'an under Odds & Ends | Your Comment | Tags: equanimity

Question: I am not very clear about equanimity as the last of the Four Immeasurable Minds. Does it mean being neutral, ‘not affectionate’ and ‘not averse’,  being calm and not feeling much? Answer: Equanimity means a broad encompassing mind that sees all beings as equally deserving of loving-kindness, compassion and rejoice. It’s not a neutral [...]



Socrates on Love & Marriage?

By Shen Shi'an under Relationships | 3 Comments | Tags: equanimity, marriage, True Love

Read the two below stories online… Following them are my comments… What is Love?  One day, Plato asked his teacher, “What is love? How can I find it?” His teacher answered, “There is a vast wheat field in front. Walk forward without turning back, and pick only one stalk. If you find the most magnificent stalk, then you have found [...]



The Larger the Worthier?

By shiqin under Odds & Ends | Your Comment | Tags: compassion, equanimity, speciesism

A reply to a Buddhist friend, who chose to get pest control to exterminate lice-like insects that plagued her house, which bit her family members badly too. They were traced to being centred on baby birds hidden in a pipe… Very often, struggle as we might to see all sentient beings as equal, we still need [...]



His Bipolar Swinging

By zyrius under Odds & Ends | Your Comment | Tags: emotion, equanimity, Pure Land, reason

His bipolar swinging of reason and emotion in this life is just like a compression of my ‘bipolar’ swinging of reason and emotion from life to life. Enough to sicken him, to want to end the cycle, to want to awaken. I too, should feel likewise, before I swing again in another life. Let us [...]



She Smiles On

By Shen Shi'an under Odds & Ends | Your Comment | Tags: aversion, compassion, equanimity

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



The Arbitrary Toilets

By zyrius under Odds & Ends | 2 Comments | Tags: attachment, aversion, equanimity

There are two unlabeled toilet cubicles in the office. Most males use one, that became the less clean one. It’s less clean, I guess, because males are generally less sensitive about cleanliness? But I’m not one of them! So now I use the other one, since there is no hard and fast rule that only [...]



Taiji Lesson #12

By Shen Shi'an under Odds & Ends | Your Comment | Tags: equanimity

Begin stationary, symmetrically with balance. Move in between, asymmetrically with balance. End stationary, symmetrically with balance. Balance is already a form of symmetry. Stationary meditation looks physically symmetrical though the mind is asymmetrical too, if it moves in any direction without equanimity.



Sent to Colleagues

By Shen Shi'an under Odds & Ends | Your Comment | Tags: compassion, equanimity, mindfulness

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 [...]



Towards Equanimous Sobriety

By Shen Shi'an under Odds & Ends | Your Comment | Tags: Amitabha Buddha, attachment, blessings, Buddha-nature, equanimity, self

A bipolar student wasn’t sure he liked being his more ‘sober’ self. Perhaps he is used to swinging between highs and lows? I advised that there is no need to cling to any self… Since there is no fixed self that stays high or low, especially in mundane way. Good to chant ‘Amituofo’ more, to [...]



Meditations on Altruistic Love, Compassion, Joy & Impartiality

By Shen Shi'an under Books | 2 Comments | Tags: compassion, equanimity, loving-kindness, rejoice

From ‘The Art of Meditation’ by Matthieu Ricard We have all, to varying degrees, had the experience of profound altruistic love, of a feeling of all-encompassing benevolence, of intense compassion for those who are suffering. Some of us are naturally more altruistic than others, sometimes to the point of heroism. Others are more turned in [...]



Even More Special

By Shen Shi'an under Odds & Ends | Your Comment | Tags: Buddha-nature, equanimity, Stonepeace, True Love

A Tit for a Tat (100) Tit: Everyone should see someone as special. Tat: Only one? Tit: If not, that person wouldn’t be special. Tat: Isn’t it more special to see two or more than one to be special? Tit: Sounds like promiscuity! Tat: What if everyone is seen as equally special? Tit: Sounds like [...]



India Adventures (9): Wish for the Same Sky

By zweiya under Photojournal, Travelogue | 4 Comments | Tags: Bodhisattvas, Buddhas, equanimity, pilgrimage, Pure Land

I still remember the crisp air and clear stars. From that night under the Kent’s wintry sky. This night, under India’s sky in the same season, I see mist and dust clouding lives of the poor. I always thought that we share the same sky. How could that night be so different from this one? [...]



The True One True Love

By Shen Shi'an under Relationships | 3 Comments | Tags: equanimity, True Love

Didn’t he proclaim her to be his ‘one true love’? How could he love someone else after her passing away? But do we expect him to mourn for the rest of his life? Would his ex ‘one true love’ want that? If she would, would her love for him be true? Seems like something’s terribly [...]



Is ‘District 9′ Fictitious?

By Shen Shi'an under Movies/TV | Your Comment | Tags: compassion, discrimination, equanimity, humanity

Literally using ‘illegal aliens’ for addressing multiple socio-political issues such as xenophobia (irrational fear of strangers), ‘District 9′ is a thought-provoking film indeed. A private military contractor (MNU: Multinational United) is tasked to police and forcibly evict 1.8 million aliens from their District 9 slums to District 10 – a new refugee camp some 240 [...]



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