E: Perhaps, what Prince Siddhartha’s (the Buddha-to-be) Father did was right! Provided him only with the best of best things since young. Thus, when he saw the extent of suffering, he became so disturbed that he sought the truth out of compassion. S: Interesting take on how the...

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...

With the ever-expanding Internet, with its information up-and-overload, we have less and less reasons to be ignorant about stuff. But the problem is that many are still ignorant about how to find (and share) the right stuff online! In short, ignorant about how to resolve...

A Tit for a Tat (102) Tit: There’s no need for you to know it. Tat: Why? Tit: Because it doesn’t matter to you. Tat: But how do you know it doesn’t matter? Tit: And how do you know it does matter? Tat: I don’t! I will know if it matters only after knowing what’s...

A Tit for a Tat (79) Tit: … Was it a stupid question? Tat: This itself is a stupid question! Tit: Why? Tat: Because if you know it’s not a stupid question, you wouldn’t ask if it was one! Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/01/zen-pants Previous aT4aT:...

A colleague was urging another colleague to give up pork by claiming that pigs eat everything and anything, including their own faeces. I told her that’s probably the case for many animals, as their living conditions before slaughter are horrifying – cramped up with little space to...

Q: If a child makes a mistake out of ignorance or delusion, that he is not aware of as wrong in the first place, the child will suffer from negative karma to a lesser degree, right? A: Whether driven by ignorance/delusion or not, the intensity of (un)wholesome karma created is determined by...

The Meaning of Meaning Zeph doesn’t consider himself a very ‘deep’ person. But he recognises that he contemplates on stuff more than most. While some feel that being asked ‘What is the meaning of life?’ is annoying enough, Zeph asks things like, ‘What is...