From the movie ‘The Perks Of Being A Wallflower’: Charlie: Why do nice people choose the wrong people to date? Mr Anderson: … We accept the love we think we deserve Charlie: Can we make them know that they deserve more? Mr Anderson: We can try. While Charlie wonders about...

Super Short Story (168): Phantom She didn’t realise that she was secretly responding to every guy met with a sense of interest or disgust, with the few in between simply ‘skipped’. She didn’t realise that that was precisely why she hasn’t met a...

Traditional saying: 路遥知马力，日久见人心 With the far road, the horse’s strength is known. With many days, the person’s character is seen. My alternative saying: 路遥知自力，日久见自心 With the far road, your strength is known. With many days, your...

The worldly see lust for one to be a factor of True Love for that one. The spiritual see lust for no one to be a factor of True Love for...

He described his plight to be a hungry man, who has no food at home, yet unable to eat outside. He was describing his situation of often being with sexual need, while his wife was uninterested, while he should not fulfill it with anyone else. Sounds like an apt analogy, but it is not, because...

Q: Can a Buddhist couple who are in love have pre-marital sex if they do not have any plans to commit themselves for marriage in the future? A: What represents ‘commitment’ differs over time in different cultures. Marriage is supposed to signify commitment, but even so, married...

I saw her holding the catalogue like a new found treasure. As she sat down in the train, happily, she started to flip through the catalogue of Death. But Death is cunning, he portrayed death in the nicest way possible, with no blood or gore, but with utmost exquisite beauty. Death (another...

If you learn to love one properly, you will learn to love all equally. - Stonepeace [Notes: The notion of love in this article is love in general, as in loving-kindness (Metta: the wish for all to be well and happy), that excludes lust as a complicating worldly factor. The following are some...