There is no cure for the common cold because the symptoms are part of the cure itself, where the body purges itself of mucus and such toxins. Sometimes, simply accepting suffering leads to its...

Dukkha is suffering from Birth Ageing Sickness Death Departure from who/what we like, Being with who/what we dislike, Failing to achieve what we like or to be with who we like, Form, feeling, perception, mental formations, consciousness (Five Aggregates) subject to clinging Dukkha is from...

A surprise email arrived on a mediation case between two people I helped some time ago. Here is my abridged reply: My apologies for any perceived and actual misgivings from my side. Reflecting on this, I sincerely believe I did the best I could back then to help, foolish and inadequate as I...

Here’s some counterintuitive thought… There are whiners with genuine complaints. And there are genuine whiners who complain about those whiners, as if their complaints aren’t valid. Who is worse? (Of course, there are those who really over-whine, whose complaints are really...

E: Perhaps, what Prince Siddhartha’s (the Buddha-to-be) Father did was right! Provided him only with the best of best things since young. Thus, when he saw the extent of suffering, he became so disturbed that he sought the truth out of compassion. S: Interesting take on how the...

What do you do if you have a horrible boss who is making life hell for you, while you need the job due to complex reasons? ‘Horrible Bosses’ is a slightly dark comedy that paints such a scenario. Three friends each suffer under a horrible boss. So horrid their bosses are that...

A good journalist is supposed to just record and report an event, and not be part of the action?  But in times of need, how about being part of proactive action while recording it? If a journalist remains indifferent, is this journalist really ‘good’, in the moral (instead of...

You cry when you are born. Because returning painfully is suffering. How much more tears? You cry when you are here. Because living unhappily is suffering. How much more tears? You cry when you are dying. Because leaving fearfully is suffering. How much more tears? (The irony? Your parents...

Advice to a reader, who lost money unfairly in a deposit: If you feel that the time wasted and unhappiness caused is not worth the $200 lost, just let it go instead of pursuing it further endlessly, especially if you feel you have done reasonably enough already to right this wrong. It’s...

True love is so wonderful, that it brings joy, that it relieves suffering. True love is so wonderful, that if it brings suffering instead [to the loving or beloved ones], that means the love is not really true...

If one loves another truly, one would truly not suffer at all, as true love is completely unconcerned with self-suffering, as true love is completely concerned with self-sacrificing. If we all love one another truly, we would truly not suffer at...

The law of karma is perfectly just because it is perfectly natural and unbiased; not created or directed by any imperfect supernatural and biased lawmaker. - Stonepeace  Question: If karma exists to punish the evil and reward the good, who assigns karma? Shouldn’t there be God doing...

‎ ‘Hi guys, i need to ask you a huge favor. Please circulate this photo on your Facebook profiles and send it to your friends. We need to find these people and make them pay for the abuse and pain they are inflicting on innocent animals. We don’t know what country they are at,...

Woody Allen said this - To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one...

Above is Ni Andong’s cover of Damien Rice’s ‘The Blower’s Daughter’, whose original version is below. Ni’s take sent some shivers down my spine (in a resonant, not creepy way), more so than Rice’s version, which is moving too. But what’s more...

George Michael’s ‘Waiting for That Day’ is also known as ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want’, as that line recurs in the song as its last words, becoming it most memorable ones (while the real title only appears once in the lyrics). Actually the longer...

What happens when a guru blesses you? Does he or she passes over some special force of goodness or merits, that is so special, so subtle, that it can’t be seen, or even felt? Maybe, sometimes? But the truest blessing is one that is heartfelt, that you are mindful of, that transforms...

In ‘Pride of Baghdad’ by Brian K. Vaughan and Nikko Henrichon, this posed question is central to the story - ‘True meaning of freedom - can it be given, or earned only through determination and sacrifice?’ The Buddhist take on this is unique… True freedom must...

A Tit for a Tat (326) Tit: My handphone just broke down! Why does this have to happen on my birthday? Tat: Expecting well wishes? Here’s one, if it can be called one… See this as a reminder that a birthday is not so much to celebrate over, but your rebirth-day to reflect over!...

From ‘Paying For It’ by Chester Brown: Chester: I’m not in any way suffering… Friend 1: You’re repressing. On a subconscious level, you’re suffering. Chester: Freudian nonsense. If I’m not consciously suffering, then I’m not suffering. Friend...