Year: 2009

07
Dec
2009

Tolerating Nonsense

A Tit for a Tat (68) Tit: Do I owe him a debt of negative karma, to have to tolerate…

07
Dec
2009

Hairdresser Discrimination

A Tit for a Tat (67) Tit: A kiddy-looking hairdresser! Next salon please! Tat: Why? Are young hairdressers not good?…

07
Dec
2009

Truth, Goodnesss & Beauty

In the story ‘Kiss of Death’ by Richard Starkings in ‘Popgun Volume 1’, the conclusion reads –  ‘… one should…

07
Dec
2009

The Bucket Dilemma

A Tit for a Tat (66) Tit: I don’t have enough strength or patience! Tat: Why not train your strength…

07
Dec
2009

A Visit to Vegsenz

The weekend before the last, we dropped by a newly opened organic vegan cafe/restaurant – Vegsenz @ The Verge for…

07
Dec
2009

Why the Appeal Against the Appeal?

Part 1: https://moonpointer.com/new/2009/11/appeal-to-drop-appeal Part 2: http://buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=22,8764,0,0,1,0 (as below): In reply to the letter ‘Buddhism not damaged by wayward monastics, but…

04
Dec
2009

An Eye for An Eye Makes All Blind

A Tit for a Tat (65) Tit: You know what’s karma? Tat: What? Tit: Someone punched me. Tat: And? Tit:…

03
Dec
2009

Hopenhagen Beckons Now!

Shen Shi’an has sent you the following message from http://www.hopenhagen.com: On December 7 (4 days away), leaders from 192 countries…

03
Dec
2009

Thrice the Goodness!

Live a good honourable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a…

02
Dec
2009

How Naming the Demons Work

In ‘Hellboy: Darkness Calls’ by Mike Mignola and Duncan Fregredo, Igor Weldon Bromhead invokes the demonic Ilsa Haupstein, binding her…

01
Dec
2009

Big Changes Start Small

From http://www.todayonline.com/Voices/EDC091123-0000166/Online-Only—Change-the-world-one-meal-at-a-time : I refer to “Go meatless one day a week“ (TODAYonline, Nov 22). It might seem that refraining…

01
Dec
2009

What Relief & What Grief

< Relief or grief? What relief, when we know we are not accomplices in murder, by demanding animals’ meat. Amituofo…

30
Nov
2009

You Versus Yourself

‘The Broken (Reflexion Trouble)’ is an unconventional thriller. I was interested in it as it seemed to be about doppelgangers,…

30
Nov
2009

A Heartfelt & Heartbreaking Paradox?

An imaginary verse on how a Bodhisattva might think: The only reason my heart is broken is because so many…

30
Nov
2009

One Who Flings Gets Flung

In the movie ‘Fling’, the subject of open relationships is explored. According to Wikipedia, ‘An open relationship is a relationship…

30
Nov
2009

Attached to Being Vegetarian?

Meatguy: I think you are too strongly attached to being vegetarian. Shi’an: I’m not. I’m just aware that animals are…

30
Nov
2009

I Hope You Have the ‘Time of Your Life’

Time of Your Life (Green Day) Another turning point; a fork stuck in the road. Time grabs you by the…

30
Nov
2009

Silence is First Prayer

During the silent prayer of nine religions during the ‘Voices of Harmony’ concert, I heard a child cry in the…

30
Nov
2009

Less Ground for Liberation

Beware of one, who is slow to apologise, for one might believe in pride, that under the power of Mara,…

30
Nov
2009

More Unpredictably than My Dogs

Daoni and company (my soft toy dogs) look different from different angles. They might look sad from one, but glad…