Smile: Dharmagram #148 Translation of French words by Death in picture: ‘My arrow [I promise you] spares no one. You will all dance the ballet of which I sing.’ From Maximus Decimus Meridius in the movie ‘Gladiator’: ‘I knew a man [supposedly Marcus Aurelius] who...

Seeing: Dharmagram #147 See the seeing, not just the...

Mindfulness: Dharmagram #146 On ‘eternal’ lookout, always be...

Mettle: Dharmagram #145 A gun loader of the same metal (and mettle) as the...

Worth: Dharmagram #144 Be sure what defending for is worthy. Be sure what fighting for is...

Gun: Dharmagram #143 For staring down the barrel of a gun. To face impending death of oneself or...

War: Dharmagram #142 Behind monuments of war, power and glory, often forgotten are pain, fear and suffering. Never again, humans say, yet ever again...

Door: Dharmagram #141 Every door a doorway to another time and place, to past or future, away from here and...

Tunnel: Dharmagram #140 Looking like an inverse grave, a sealed 1892 entrance to a munitions store, to a secret tunnel, both,...

Rabbit: Dharmagram #139 An unguarded golden rabbit guarding gold? Deemed not precious enough and thus abandoned under a tree, yet deemed possibly wanted by others and thus put...

Fence: Dharmagram #138 Nothing keeps out nature itself, including the nature of change....

Island: Dharmagram #137 Reserve some time for nature...

Island: Dharmagram #136 No one is an island, even if on an island-like boat out at sea, because one is still connected to the elements, still not free from everything...

Mimicry: Dharmagram #135 When modern architecture mimics ancient fragments of nature. Inspiration after all, has to arise from somewhere. As all are interconnected, nothing is wholly...

Post: Dharmagram #134 A gun post, like an immobile tank, armoured by concrete instead of metal. A reminder of once potential and actual war amidst current peace....

Elements: Dharmagram #133 Earth (as land), water (as sea), fire (as sun) and wind (as air). All pictures we take are but composed by the four great elements of change, frozen in...

Beacon: Dharmagram #132 And this is a sea-based beacon. A reminder to be anchored in the sea of change, to not lose your bearings, so as to provide bearings for yourself and...

Lookout: Dharmagram #131 Look out for the lookout point. A land-based...

Twister: Dharmagram #130 See another see-saw I saw by the seashore. Tongue-twister. As it doesn’t go very high, it doesn’t go very low either. Not very different from sitting on a flat...

See-Saw: Dharmagram #129 Perhaps the most unlikely place to find a see-saw, by a cliff of sorts, by the sea. So so...

Obelisk: Dharmagram #128 An obelisk by the sea, like a lighthouse without light, that can only be seen with...

Round: Dharmagram #127 Too many rounds and too fast on the existential merry-go-round becomes not so merry, even possible to get landsick, without becoming seasick, just by the...

Smoke: Dharmagram #126 There is much sky and just a little smoke? Even a little is too much in this climate...

Roots: Dharmagram #125 落地生根的榕树。 愿众生善根深厚，...

Wind: Dharmagram #124 Even with a stationary wind vane, air still moves. Even with invisible air without traces, it is still...

Teeth: Dharmagram #123 The other replica, more with glass and metal, of Dragon Teeth Gate...

Rock: Dharmagram #122 Rock replica of Dragon Teeth Gate...

Balcony: Dharmagram #121 A balcony towards the sea, to feel it without getting...

Sands: Dharmagram #120 Boulders become rocks that become pebbles that become the sands of...

Boardwalk: Dharmagram #119 A modest boardwalk that is what it should be, more of an alley through the thick of nature, to minimise...