Year: 2010

Q: Some Buddhists like to cast lots, e.g. at Guanyin temples. Are these lots’ words from Guanyin Bodhisattva? A: There…

In the movie ‘The Cave’, a parasite takes upon host humans, gradually taking over their bodies and minds entirely. A…

A fool, even though he is associated with a wise man all his life, does not understand the Dhamma, just…

Some espouse this idea – ‘…他是真的欺骗我们，我们随他…’ (If they really bully or cheat us, we let them do it.) The idea…

The singing duo ‘Everything But the Girl’ (EBTG) adopted their name from the slogan of furniture which had a window sign…

It struck me that the occasional ant that crawls by my office desk is not a bother… Because I don’t…

The truth is the truth. What does it matter… that someone said it?* The truth is the truth. What does…

Read this in a mailing list: ‘Speaking for myself, I’ve always thought that the impossible task of the Bodhisattva to…

Q: If my boss asks me to comment on a colleague’s work, should I tell the truth, when I know…

A friend had cultivated such powerful sensitivity to the slightest relatively unhealthy foods, that we often take for granted, that…

To know if a masked vigilante is really who he is supposed to be, he needs to unmask regularly, for…

The girl standing, chatting with her friend at the bus-stop stamps her feet once a while, because ants crawl up…

From Wikipedia is a description of the video of Owl City’s ‘Vanilla Twilight’ – ‘Various people and a dog witness and…

It’s quite scary, when I find myself ordering the same old dishes, as I did the last time I was…

I’m reminded that it is good to leave my email address when I comment online… so that I can receive…

Q: I have tried to avoid the killing of insects but realise that this is impossible. I therefore consider that…

From ‘The Art of Meditation’ by Matthieu Ricard We have all, to varying degrees, had the experience of profound altruistic…

The ingenious film that is ‘Inception’ begins with the assumption that it is possible for multiple persons to enter someone’s…

A Tit for a Tat (155) Tit: I don’t like the world generally. Tat: Why? Tit: Because it is crappy….

The film ‘Monga’ is unnerving because it is realistic – as what featured could really happen in real life, if…