PY: Art is too abstract. No wonder I always failed at art. SA: The trick is being able to justify your creations as art! Exactly because art can seem abstract, it is easy to pass if you can come up with a more exact and thoughtful philosophy about your ‘abstactly’ done pieces. The...

There is music you grow into, you grow up with, you grow out of. But more important than finding an anthem for your life is composing your own meaningful music and lyrics. May it sound...

Super Short Story (95): Work He used to be bored with his mundane work, while looking forward to retirement. But after he retired, he was so bored that he returned to work. It never crossed his mind that life is not just about being busy or doing nothing, that there are many thing in...

When the Buddha speaks literally, he doesn’t say it is figurative. There is no two ways about it. When the Buddha speaks figuratively, he says it is figurative. It is not to be taken literally. It’s interesting how scriptures are sometimes twisted from their literal (or...

Me suspect much of the essential worth of my life is in these pages. (More about TDE Book 5 @ http://thedailyenlightenment.com/2012/04/get-tde-book-5...

From Woody Allen’s movie ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona’: Cristina: Are you very religious? (They are gazing at a image of the crucified Jesus.) Juan: No. No, I’m not. The trick is to enjoy life, accepting it has no meaning whatsoever. Cristina: No meaning? You don’t...

As the game had no time-out, no lasting rewards, no lasting consequences, I decided it was game over for me. It was pointless and meaningless, a waste of time, energy and most of...

If the meanings of words are totally arbitrary, how can anyone communicate? Beware of those, who discuss the Dharma, using Buddhist terms, in their own vague terms. Beware of those, who discuss the non-Dharma instead, abusing Buddhist terms, in their own deluded terms. If the meanings of...

I left the cinema wondering exactly what that was all about. Maybe there was nothing exact about it, to be known. Maybe it was meant to be abstract, to be interpreted. Maybe that’s life too. Maybe that’s our past lives too. Life and death is what you make of it. ‘Ghosts...

A Tit for a Tat (200) Tit: I notice you don’t wear T-shirts with wordings. Tat: Yeah… Tit: Why so? Tat: Most wordings are not very meaningful. Wouldn’t want to waste others’ time reading them! Tit: What about multi-coloured T-shirts with various designs? Tat: I...

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...

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...

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...