Important cautionary tales should be told, be it in writing or even film, but they might offer evil suggestions too. Which is more worth it? Sharing the possible good or evil effects? It’s a matter of focus – for the storyteller and...

Super Short Story (108): Direction When young, he wondered why it seems so hard for adults to be good; to not be evil… until he grew up and realised that life has many complex grey areas. Yet, this only reminds him more, of how knowing what is black and white since young is incredibly...

Sam & Sara #373 Sam: Even the evil prefer the good. Sara: What do you mean? Sam: Even a wicked gangster chief doesn’t want henchmen or enemies worse than himself! Sara: Why? Sam: Because he would be at their mercy! Sara: Wouldn’t he need wicked henchmen to help him? Sam: Yes,...

Those we encounter, are seldom totally good or evil. If so, we choose to have gratitude for their goodness or to bear grudges against their evil. The first rewards oneself. The latter punishes oneself. Do choose...

颠倒众生因视善知识为恶知识， 自己则退转成其他众生恶知识！ As inverted beings see good-knowing advisors as evil-knowing advisors, they thus backslide to become other beings’ evil-knowing advisors...

To be unapologetic for one’s evil done makes one more evil. To be ungrateful for others’ goodness done makes one less good. - Stonepeace Another instance on the importance of acknowledging one’s misgivings and acknowledging others’ gifts (of...

The law of karma is perfectly just because it is perfectly natural and unbiased; not created or directed by any imperfect supernatural and biased lawmaker. - Stonepeace  Question: If karma exists to punish the evil and reward the good, who assigns karma? Shouldn’t there be God doing...

Above is a scene at IT Show 2011 There are many visible flyer givers. There are many visible flyer takers. There are many invisible flyer litterers. Is there lots of invisible subtle evil (litterbugs) around? Is there lots of invisible great unsung good (non-litterbugs) too? I think both...

I heard a Mother scolding her child for folding across a page of a library book. She said, ‘Don’t spoil the book! You can just fold a little dog ear like so!’ Hmmm… Is a little evil more okay, more permissible? How about using a bookmark? What if more readers fold more...

Edmund Burke said, ‘All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.’ Methinks, ‘And if one does not what should be done, is one really still a good man?’ Related Articles: Heartless & Mindless...

Even though there is no absolute good or evil in this worldly world, it is nevertheless important to be relatively more and more good, to be relatively less and less evil, because if not, anything goes, and everything goes [down the drain]. (Do you see the word ‘good’ or...

Not that I believe in God, Eden or the Devil, but… If good St. Patrick could drive all the snakes from Ireland, as according to legend, why did almighty God not drive one serpent from Eden, as according to the Bible? Why would a perfectly good, wise and powerful creator God allow a...

Amituofo! I chant this for you to hear, not to condemn you for the evil you do, but to urge you to awaken to your Buddha-nature. Amituofo! I chant this for you to hear, not to flatter you for the good you do, but to urge you to align it to your...

Question: Is it true that ‘good people die young’ and that “good deeds do not beget got endings’? Answer: Not all the good die young. Some live to a ripe old age. And if one is really good and really dies young, it’s simply to be reborn quickly to a better...

Different from the run-of-the-mill concept of there being a supreme and extreme good guy versus a supreme and extreme bad guy, who keep the forces of good and evil in balance, the ‘Night Watch’ and ‘Day Watch’ movies suggest that there is a powerful leader of...

A Tit for a Tat (193) Tit: I think good and evil is balanced in this world. Tat: If so, for every murder, someone is saved? Tit: Er… why not? Tat: If so, for everyone saved, someone is murdered too? Tit: Er… Tat: Why save anyone then? Next...

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:...

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 ...

If a ‘Buddhist’ teacher does evil, despite knowing it is evil, one probably does not really believe in karma. If one probably does not believe in karma, how can others learn from one, when even one’s basic morality is unsound? If a ‘Buddhist’ teacher does evil...

A Buddhist friend whom I did not know too well commented during a group chat that just as the universe has balanced energies of the Yin and the Yang, it is necessary for  individuals to have balanced positive and negative aspects too, in terms of character. I think he is one of those ...