From ‘The Straits Times’, ‘In TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine), the heart is believed to control the mind and hence all mental activities. When a person engages in a lot of thinking or has a diet of fried and spicy food, excessive “fire” accumulates in the...

Question: While the three spheres (of self, other and connecting action) are interdependent of each other, how does emptiness come into this framework? Answer: Here is a simple illustration… First, we need to remember emptiness means being empty of a fixed unchanging self. Next, ...

M: If one were to mind, wouldn’t that translate to more ‘mindfulness’ And if one were to take a ‘never mind’ approach, wouldn’t that make one relatively ‘mindless’? S: Vaguely reminds me of this by George Berkeley, ‘What is mind? No...

Once there are three friends – Yes, No and Dunno. Yes is full of enthusiasm, who believes that many high ideals are possible, provided that they are accomplished with right understanding and effort. No is full of skepticism, who doesn’t believe he can accomplish much or that the goals...

The Myth of Pointing at the Moon? A strange urban legend(?) of no specific origin has it that if one points at the full moon, one will wake up the next day with a fine cut behind a ear. Though a small cut, one feels the stinging pain from it for a while. This article explores this belief...

While selecting films for a Buddhist film event, we sampled some movies. A friend wondered why many of the shortlisted films seem to end with some form of death. Someone else in the audience remarked that we all have to die anyway. Hmmm…. only half correct… some of us might be...