A Tit for a Tat (188) Tit: What’s wrong now? Tat: I don’t know. Must there be something wrong? Tit: There must be something wrong… Tat: Why? Tit: Even if there is really nothing wrong, me thinking ‘there must be something wrong’ is already something...

Supposed to know something - but forgot what? Do you let it trouble you, or let it slide? Truth is, we all are supposed to know something - enlightenment. Existential ‘troubling-ness’ is alright, if it drives us to the light. Related Article: Dukkha...

To empathise is to civilise. To civilise is to empathise. - Jeremy Rifkin As mentioned in the video, ‘We are soft-wired to experience another’s plight [or joy] as if we are experiencing it for ourselves.’  Interesting. The monkey experiment illustrates the power of empathy...

‘A Serious Man’ is a seriously quirky yet enjoyable award-winning black comedy that centres on the nature of faith in a man’s life, which became chaotic in multiple ways for no apparent cause on his part – despite trying his best to be a ‘serious man’....

Every time I come to hear the poignant opening lines of Erasure’s ‘Piano Song’, I’m reminded of how the Buddha’s teachings saved my life during my growing up years – both physically and spiritually, of how much existential resentment and estrangement I had...

Catch the new single from Depeche Mode’s new album ‘Sounds of the Universe’ (performed live in Berlin). After the lyrics below are my reflections on them. Wrong I was born with the wrong sign In the wrong house With the wrong ascendancy I took the wrong road That led to the...

You can change the side of the road that you walk down every day. Even if the road is the same, you can see new things. Isn’t that enough to live for? Or does that mean that it isn’t enough? - Kannam, one of the kildren From the makers of ‘Ghost in the Shell’ comes a...

While anticipating Coldplay’s March concert here, I re-listened to the song ‘Viva La Vida’ from their international bestselling album (of 2008) by the same name. It’s really a terrifically uplifting and catchy radio-friendly song. However, if its jubilant...

What’s the Meaning of Life? Once upon a time, there was a very small boy called Zeph, who wondered much about the very large world he lived in. After his first day at a new school (which he didn’t like), being surrounded by strangers in a strange land, it struck him that life...

There is a full page in ‘Invincible: Ultimate Collection, Vol. 1′ (by Robert Kirkman) which seems to accidentally portray the nature of an existential crisis. The young and new superhero ‘Invincible’ was told to fight an alien in Earth’s orbit. He takes a deep...

In the book ‘The Meaning of Life’ by Terry Eagleton is this passage – “… we are in something like the situation of the narrator of Henry James’ story ‘The Figure in the Carpet’, who is told by a celebrated author he admires that there is a...

A toddler nephew is undergoing a strange phase of growing up. Barely a month ago, his baby sister was born. Suddenly, his behaviour became a little incomprehensibly moody and anger-prone… even to himself! He seemed to experience a form of existential anguish that he couldn’t...

The Case of the Acccidental Cloud Meditation Other than the truth that you can realise this truth the clouds have the same nature* as you. - Stonepeace *Same nature of being impermanent and non-self With ample time to kill after finishing his tedious homework, Zeph heaved a deep sigh of...