Year: 2010

22
Sep
2010

India Adventures (19): Heavy Misgiving Light Result

I slipped and fell in the bathroom of the guestroom where we stayed in Dharamshala… and hit my back on…

22
Sep
2010

India Adventure (18): Flying with HHDL

Despite a domestic flight delay at Delhi airport towards Dharmashala, we accidentally but surely, karmically ‘bumped’ into His Holiness the…

22
Sep
2010

India Adventure (17): An Offering Cast In Stone

Om Mani Padme Hung a – a Buddhist mantra to generate great compassion. Such stone cravings are seen placed around…

22
Sep
2010

Everything is Kungfu!

I watched the 2010 version of ‘The Karate Kid’ on the plane to India. It’s better than I expected. (It’s…

22
Sep
2010

India Adventure (16): No Wrong Way

In a taxi at Dharamshala, we told a cabbie that he was going the wrong way. If I heard him…

22
Sep
2010

Why Balance Good and Evil?

A Buddhist friend whom I did not know too well commented during a group chat that just as the universe…

22
Sep
2010

Fin, Maw or Flesh, It’s Death

At a wedding lunch of a friend, two of us were served vegetarian food. We took a peek at the…

22
Sep
2010

No Bodhisattva’s Way of Death

In ‘Valley of Flowers’, which might appear to be a Tibetan Buddhist movie at first, there is a scene of…

22
Sep
2010

Time That Didn’t Flow

To her own surprise, a friend who broke up with someone about eight years ago felt that it was only…

21
Sep
2010

Scenes from Pureland Practice Fellowship

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21
Sep
2010

Shortest Bowing Session

The last bowing session in the Pureland retreat lasted the shortest as there was the least fret, as there is…

21
Sep
2010

India Adventure (15): Real Fresh Chicken

Turning these defenseless animals into egg-producing machines with no consideration for their welfare whatsoever is a degradation of our own…

21
Sep
2010

There is No Almighty Good Creator God

A friend confessed that he believes in the Buddhist teachings, while believing there is a creator God (which clashes with…

21
Sep
2010

Always Needs a Clean Up

A Tit for a Tat (165) Tit: Clean up the room now! Tat: Why? Tit: Because it’s messy! Tat: But…

21
Sep
2010

A Mistake is a Mistake

But a monk wrote the article! But so what? A mistake is a mistake. Poor editors don’t go enough for…

17
Sep
2010

Some Support Is Better Than None

A conversation via instant messaging… Wyi: http://www.veganburg.com Wya: Yup, I know about it, but I have not got time to visit…

17
Sep
2010

In & Out of Control

A wonderful one-liner from ‘The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift’: ‘When you drift, you’re in control and out of…

17
Sep
2010

The Moment of Non-Truth

Just because the lie-detector says you’re telling the truth doesn’t make what you tell the truth because you might have…

17
Sep
2010

Can I Repent Again… and Again?

Question: If I have committed observe the Five Precepts but repeatedly break one of them despite having practised repentance, can…

17
Sep
2010

Join the Kinder Side

Question: Though it is wrong to kill animals for meat, isn’t it the karma of these animals to be killed?…