From ‘The Dark Knight Returns: Part 1′, a news feature says this, ‘[Bruce] Wayne [who is Batman], who sponsored Dent’s [Two-Face the villain] rehabilitation, had this to say just days before Dent’s release: “As a city, we have to give Harvey every chance to...

Please don’t mistaken you are lovely because you think you have lovely hair, for hair is but dead cells. Please don’t mistaken you are lovely because you think you have lovely skin, for skin is but skin-deep. Please don’t mistaken you are lovely because you think you have...

The most enlightening part of ‘The Losers’ was when the cornered Jensen uttered something ‘true to bluff’ those pointing guns at him… (Yes, it’s paradoxical) - ‘In the words of Ancient Tibetan [Buddhist] masters, “Don’t start none…...

I used to be quite a severely unforgiving person. (Fortunately, things have improved greatly since.) The slightest bit of evil that I see others do I would condemn so greatly that I would slap a label of ‘evil-doer’ on the person for life. I would shun this person for ...

Part 1: http://moonpointer.com/new/2009/11/appeal-to-drop-appeal Part 2: http://buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=22,8764,0,0,1,0 (as below): In reply to the letter ‘Buddhism not damaged by wayward monastics, but lay support for their misdeeds’...

The award-winning graphic novel ‘Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic’ (actually ‘Funeral Home’) is a bittersweet tale, of how the author Alison Bechdel grew up with a father, who seemed distant, yet demanding in expecting obedience from his children – especially in...

Guy: I think girls are evil. I know some guys are as well, but girls are more evil. What do you think? Gal: I think we are generally equally ‘evil’. Guy: You think so? Well, I still think girls are evil. Gal: (thinking) Gosh, some gals must have really hurt him. Hurting is...

I don’t have faith that there is an all-forgiving God because the last time he lost faith in us… he sent a flood. I do have faith that there are all-loving Buddhas because the recent one had faith in us… he said we have...

While on a cab with two colleagues to AMK Hub after today’s Pure Land class, we were chatting among ourselves when the cabbie suddenly gestured violently at the driver of the car that he drew up to. He wound down his window, yelling while pointing to the front – ‘It’s...

A Dharma friend recounted the first time she stepped into a Chinese Buddhist temple out of interest to learn chanting. The chanting session was probably about to start, and there were rows of prayer cushions for kneeling. While navigating around, she straddled over a cushion with a Sutra...

If you are deluded that the deluded are so, are you not similar? - Stonepeace When you are petty towards the petty just because they are petty towards you, how are you different from them? When you are angry towards the angry just because they are angry towards you, how are you different from...

In the backdrop story of the movie ‘Cape No. 7′ set in the post WWII era, a Japanese man leaves the Taiwanese girl he loves on her shores. So painful was the departure that he didn’t even have the courage to wave goodbye to her at the harbour… even though he saw her...

Ki: He bumped into you? Ti: Yes, when he stepped backwards. It was accidental. Ki: Are you okay with that? Ti: Of course! I totally forgave him as I totally forgave myself since I did something similar...