Year: 2009

05
Aug
2009

Upgrade is Downgrade?

Want the latest handphone? Want the newest car? Want the limited edition? Want the special model? Less you want, and…

05
Aug
2009

New Temples, New Gods, New Offerings

There’re some major changes going on along one of our busiest streets in town. Strange-looking supposedly avant-garde buildings are replacing…

05
Aug
2009

End Karmic Viral Mutation

Karma can mutate, along with viruses. Disease pervades Samsara as long as it is not a Pureland. To end plagues…

04
Aug
2009

Lock & Chain

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Just because a chain is old, doesn’t mean it is…

03
Aug
2009

Layers Upon Layers

Layers upon layers of shops at the new Ion Orchard mall. Even the American guy behind exclaimed – ‘Look at…

03
Aug
2009

Not Zen Not Zen

Yet another example of the countless commercial abuses of the word ‘Zen’.  In fact, a case of double abuse –…

03
Aug
2009

Our Dusty Samsara

< Dust of the X-Men An SMS conversation with a friend: Sophie: Monday… Arghhh… Shi’an: How about this… Monday might…

03
Aug
2009

Open to Everything Happy & Sad

Here are some lyrics in part from Moby’s bittersweet song ‘Slipping Away’ from his album ‘Hotel’: Open to everything happy…

03
Aug
2009

Why We Probably Were Serial Killers

In the movie ‘Murderer’, the protagonist model detective suffers from lapses in memory (due to an injury and another reason…

03
Aug
2009

Not a Case for God?

I read in a Buddhist mailing list that Karen Armstrong’s new book ‘The Case for God’, which is somewhat apologetics…

01
Aug
2009

I’m a Virgo Too?

The haunting song ‘I Believe’ from ‘Tears for Fears’… I was ‘bristling’ somewhat when I first heard it years ago….

31
Jul
2009

Is this Review ‘Enough’?

‘A cheerfully likeable manifesto for lifestyle change.’ – Guardian ‘A liberating and wry take on the treadmill of modern life.’…

30
Jul
2009

The Dandelions of Gossip

A group of friends went lunching together at a food court. As they sat to eat, as if it’s the…

30
Jul
2009

Why Bad Monks Are Good… on Film

I used to wonder why most movies featuring Buddhist monks show them going astray – at some point… Then it…

30
Jul
2009

Why Did You Become…

Here is an aT4aT contributed by fellow vegan reader Louche. It’s probably the briefest so far, yet super punchy! Thanks!…

29
Jul
2009

Live One Day Every Day & Eat Mindfully!

Hi readers, you know… moonpointer.com is meant to be Buddhist blog community, though over the years, there are few contributors….

28
Jul
2009

Rewriting the Book of Destiny

In ‘The Brave and the Bold: The Lords of Luck’ by Mark Waid et al, ‘The Book of Destiny‘ from…

28
Jul
2009

When You Sing with So Much Feeling

Am recalling some of the songs I grew up with… Above is the video for ‘You Only Tell Me You…

28
Jul
2009

Disease of Lousiness

Nic: What’s worse than having a lousy big boss? Nac: Er… a lousy middle management boss? Nic: Yup – the…

28
Jul
2009

What are You Supposed to Look Like?

When I was younger, during my adolescent years, there was a period of time, which felt like two years, when…