Saw this story online. I shortened it to its essentials: A tortoise family decided to go on a picnic. Being slow, they took two years to find an ideal spot. Then, they realised they forgot the salt. After a long discussion, the fastest tortoise was chosen to get it from home. He agreed to go...

From ‘The Twilight Zone: The Monsters are Due on Maple Street’ by Rod Serling (adapted by Mark Kneece), a mysterious blackout strikes the suburbs. The townsfolk gather and a boy suggests that it might be the work of invading aliens, who are simply waiting in the dark to grab...

Fai: My casual observation: both ‘practice’ and ‘studies’ seems to work well as means for ego inflation. I have met both ‘serious meditators/ practitioners’ as well as Buddhist scholars who have very big egos and think the world of themselves.  Me:...

Q: Some believe couples are married because ‘they owe each other in their previous lives’, while ‘children are born to either collect or pay parental debts’. Is this true? A: If the first idea above is absolutely true, it is to pessimistically say that there can never...