Super Short Story (66): Tension Having seen many heartbreak movies with the similar theme, he still doesn’t understand why precious friendship has to be tense or easily torn apart due to inability to be just good friends. Why let sexual tension spoil what could remain noble? Why must...

From the movie, ‘An Education’: Jenny: David, if tomorrow night does happen, it’s only ever going to happen once. David: Why will it only ever happen once? Jenny: Because the first time can only ever happen once. (She loses her virginity to him later.) David: It wasn’t...

The Buddha definitely didn’t encourage premarital sex, probably as it can lead to many problems like heartbreak when there is betrayal, indulgence, unwanted pregnancy… but he didn’t speak strongly against it either – if it’s an agreement between consenting adults...

He described his plight to be a hungry man, who has no food at home, yet unable to eat outside. He was describing his situation of often being with sexual need, while his wife was uninterested, while he should not fulfill it with anyone else. Sounds like an apt analogy, but it is not, because...

Q: Can a Buddhist couple who are in love have pre-marital sex if they do not have any plans to commit themselves for marriage in the future? A: What represents ‘commitment’ differs over time in different cultures. Marriage is supposed to signify commitment, but even so, married...

I don’t really understand what the film ‘The Warrior and the Wolf’ is trying to say. (I think the only thing that makes the film worth watching are the handful of picturesque stills of the wilderness. Trust me… the rest is actually quite a bore – even if this...

In the movie ‘Fling’, the subject of open relationships is explored. According to Wikipedia, ‘An open relationship is a relationship in which the participants are free to have emotional, spiritual and/or physical relationships with other partners, often within mutually...

The award-winning movie ‘Humpday’ has a thought-provoking semi-serious yet semi-funny premise… Is it possible for two heterosexual guys to have homosexual sex? Wouldn’t it not be an amazing feat that is ‘mind over matter’? Spoiler ahead! The two guys who...

The film ‘Thirst’ (which won the 2009 Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival) is another story that uses the vampire genre to address interesting issues. The personification of evil in Buddhist cosmology is Mara, who is synonymous with desire and death… which is in turn...