If he does not work towards a greater goal that transcends life and death, that makes the world a better place, with the betterment outliving himself, he would be doing nothing but working towards the deadend of death, a be-all and end-all, for nothing much at...

With no higher purpose, she toiled at work, dreading the dreariness, while looking forward to retirement. With no higher purpose, after work each day, and even after retirement, she misses work. What she needs is a higher purpose, beyond work and rest, to make the cycle worthwhile, to...

She’s super resilient, always readily bouncing back despite all kinds of obstacles. However, she’s unsure why she bounces back. She feels like a purposeless rubberband ball, nothing but a bundle of bounciness, with no inner core to protect or...

When things get routine, we wish for the non-routine. When things get routinely non-routine, we wish for the routine. A friend has an interesting take on Groundhog Day the movie. You can read her review at http://tinyurl.com/77gqk9d As she was free from work for a few months after her...

In a bus… Where to? For what conventional reasons do you journey? So what when you get there? In a life… Where to? For what ultimate reasons do you journey? So what when you get there? Notes: Mahayana Buddhists see the conventional journeys in life as part of the larger ultimate...

In the movie “Tokyo!”, the first story is called “Interior Design”, where a girl felt so pressurised of not having found her vocation in life in seemingly purposefully bustling Tokyo, that something bizarre happens… She starts to morph into a an ordinary-looking...