Super Short Story (120): Distance He appreciated that the cleaner he frequently encounters in the restaurant never saw himself to be very different, despite his business suit and all. The cleaner never kept a distance and maintained his jovial attitude to everyone. Knowing this, he felt...

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...

In the light of some debate over the questionable integrity of a so-called ‘monastic’, she said, ‘Sometimes, I feel so ashamed to be a Buddhist!’ No need to feel shame as a lay Buddhist, I said, just because a so-called ‘monastic’ is shameless. Just take...

Japan Adventures (11) : Killing Attachment to the Ego We visited a temple where there was a room that once hosted the suicide of a political figure. In ancient Japan, there was the practice of committing ritual suicide (seppuku) by disembowelment. According to Wikipedia, ‘Seppuku was...