Do the anonymous have too much ego to hide, or too little ego to show? Are their egos with shamefulness or shamelessness (or in between), pridefulness or pridelessness (or in between)? Is there a larger purpose, to share the impersonal truth, without fixations on any particular...

Heard of a Dharma student thinking of giving up attending one of his teachers’ classes due to embarrassment over some miscommunication on his own side. He even thought of forgetting whatever worthy Dharma learnt from her. This is what happens, unfortunately, when even the pure Dharma...

In ‘Ip Man 2’, Ip Man (pronounced as Ye Wen in Chinese) shares some counter-intuitive wisdom on the arts of fighting (and not fighting): 1. When facing many enemies out for blood, it is best to run. But if running is not possible, fight. 2. Winning an opponent is not as important as...

‘Pride and Prejudice’ tells the tale of how the aloof Mr. Darcy came to be with the feisty Ms. Elizabeth Bennet. As usual, for classic romances, it would be wrong to call it wholly a love story per se, because theirs was a love-hate relationship before they finally decide to...

In the movie ‘Cop Out’, a cop goes all out to retrieve his robbed valuable baseball card for the sake of cashing it in to foot the bill for his daughter’s $48,000 dream wedding. The card gets accidentally shot through in the end though – in a dangerous shootout. He...

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...

Last Saturday, after giving an almost full day course to guides on guiding in a Buddhist temple, I had about two and a half hours’ break before teaching lesson two of a Pureland class. At first, I was apprehensive of how my voice might be affected, by how tired I might be when...

Is one who suffers fools gladly one who is gladly a fool? Q:  What if someone is unreasonable? Should we suffer fools gladly? Should we speak up? I spoke up once but was disturbed that it displeased the person, while there was some anger in me. After that, I simply did things my way, against...

My English is not perfect, but I know some friends with worse English. Knowing there is a need for them to do some Dharma translation work from Chinese to English now and then, I offered to help check for accuracy… not just once, not just twice, but at least thrice… in an...