Year: 2010

The HP printer at home starts printing pictures mysteriously, from apparently ‘nowhere’. How does it do that? Via my iPhone’s…

‘Hulk not monster!’ So yells the Hulk, as he slams stuff… monstrously… In ‘Hulk: Gray’ by Jeph Loeb and Tim…

Above is a vegetable bun (bao) bought at an airport in Taiwan. I love it when stuff like these surprise…

In ‘Secret Invasion’ by Brian Michael Bendis, it is realised that the alien Skrull race, which is capable of shape-shifting…

A scene in Taiwan’s Danshui’s Starbucks: A student’s T-shirt reads, ‘There is no rule without exceptions.’ (E.g. Most but not…

Q: I have always thought that the Buddha’s Parinirvana was the end and that he would not be subjected to…

Q: We continue to have delusions, and fail to see the truth, because the truth hurts. A: This is why…

Sometimes, ‘the others’ whom we demonise are really harmless, while the really harmful ‘demons’ are us, because we demonised them….

Q: If one is reborn as an animal, say an ant, how would the ant be able to practise the…

A student asked a Zen Master, ‘If I work very hard, how long will it take for me to realise…

Q: Why eat plants? Don’t plants feel pain too? A: Plants are life forms but not sentient life – in…

(Thank you, Scorpio East, for the premiere tickets!) Though ‘Aftershock’ retells the terrible tragedy of the 1976 Tangshan earthquake which…

If I were to summarise our mini pilgrimage to Taiwan, it would be 悲欣交集 (intertwinement of sadness and happiness). The…

A reason why I write a lot is to record my ideas to share with others, and even myself. If…

Q: I was not aware that the purpose of life is to realise True Happiness (via enlightenment). I thought all along…

Q: How do I convince my father to observe the Five Precepts, when they don’t ‘buy’ karma readily? A: The…

You are what you do. A butterfly flutters by. What are you doing now? From urbandictionary.com, ‘the original name of…

Q: I once watched a Buddhist TV programme in a Taiwan in which the Master said that we should avoid…

The maniacal Joker in ‘Batman: The Killing Joke’ by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland tries to make Commissioner Gordon snap…

These ideas came to mind on which leadership model to use for Buddhist organisations… 1. We should use the Dharma…