Tag: rebirth

11
Aug
2017

Close Ones

Some beings we are close to in this life we were already close to in a previous life, thus the…

03
Aug
2017

Rebirthday Candles

Re-lighting candles for rebirthdays? Instructions say they will re-light on and on when blown ‘out’, till put in water. Sounds…

11
Jun
2017

Asian Sisyphuses

Of Asian Sisyphuses and human ostriches. The cure for cyclical suffering due to voluntary ignorance? Buddhadharma!

03
May
2017

Rebirthday

Me: Happy rebirthday? Amituofo :-] Friend: Journeying closer towards dissolution [of this life] :-[ Me: No no no… journey to…

13
Dec
2016

Break Free

Enlightenment is liberation from pointless cycles. (Picture: Joy on Demand)

19
Oct
2016

End Repeat Of Bad History

From ‘Mockingjay Part 2’, Plutarch Heavensbee’s letter to Katniss says, ‘The war is over. We’ll enter that sweet period where…

09
Mar
2016

Enter ‘The Matrix’ Here…

Unnerving… Humans have begun hooking themselves collectively into the ‘matrix’ of virtual reality. There will come a day when virtual…

04
Feb
2016

Moment: Wandering Thought #260

Moment: Wandering Thought #260 Whether you believe in the existence of countless past lives or finite past years, months, days,…

20
Jan
2016

Repetition: Wandering Thought #257

Repetition: Wandering Thought #257 Negative consequences of continually ignoring lessons that we should have learnt long ago will only keep…

15
Apr
2015

How Buddhists View The Seventh Lunar Month

From July 4, 2006  In the papers some years ago. (Have left since 2011 to go independent.)

10
Jan
2015

Rebirth: Wandering Thought #193

Wandering Thought #193: Rebirth You either grow spiritually wiser with each passing day, or just physically older. Every new day is…

18
Apr
2014

Live A Good Life

In Marcus Aurelius’ ‘Meditations’: ‘Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how…

01
Mar
2014

Bizarre ‘Byzantium’

In the movie ‘Byzantium’, there was the suggestion that ‘sometimes death releases people’. Well, that’s the way a vampire seemingly…

31
Dec
2013

Walk: Super Short Story #296

Super Short Story #296: Walk He tries to never walk the same way twice, because life already has many standard…

31
Dec
2013

Green Man: Super Short Story #292

Super Short Story #292: Green Man Laughing at the scrambling green man who could never walk away, he forgot that…

31
Dec
2013

Horse: Super Short Story #290

Super Short Story #290: Horse He galloped with all his heart, not knowing it was just a carousel, a roundabout.

31
Dec
2013

Down: Super Short Story #281

Super Short Story #281: Down It struck her that it is equally true that when you hit the rooftop, the…

14
Jul
2013

Plagiarism

In ‘Hitchcock’, the imagined biographical movie of the inventive Alfred Hitchcock, he utters this line to his wife – ‘Self-plagiarism…

26
Apr
2013

Doppelganger Buddhas

Ted in ‘How I Met Your Mother’ says to his buddies, ‘Look we’ve all been searching for the five doppelgangers…

21
Mar
2013

Slipping Sands

We are born empty-handed come, and we die empty-handed. Yet, most of us are born with clenched fists, and some…