Year: 2010

To know if your moves happened to be right due to unmindful beginner’s ‘luck’, keep practising them, to repeat the…

A Buddhist friend shared a mystery with me. For twenty years, he had offered an oil lamp, that uses a…

Question: I think I will still attend my friend’s gathering [at what is considered a cult by orthodox Buddhism] but…

Question: I was having a practical test and there was a candidate who did very badly. Immediately, I chanted silently,…

Anxiety inspires. Angst inspires. Pain inspires. Dukkha inspires. 烦恼即菩提 Afflictions are Bodhi Related Article: Troubling-ness https://moonpointer.com/new/2010/12/troubling-ness

Tips are abound these days… on how to make your eyes look ‘more expressive’ using various make-up techniques. But… ‘more…

The best Dharma lessons don’t always sound the most pleasing to one’s ears. For what you already know you don’t…

Adorning glossy magazine covers are photographs of faces mostly photoshopped to ‘perfection’. Nothing new really, for our ancestors too conceal…

Maybe we are imperfect, which is why we love the imperfect. [1] Is this a sickness or a virtue? Maybe…

The magical ulcer in my mouth seems to come from nowhere, to grow and grow. It doesn’t seem to go,…

A Tit for a Tat (181) Tit: Remember that to-do? Tat: Yes? Tit: Can you do it now? Tat: Why…

A Tit for a Tat (180) Tit: I think it’s okay to see pirated movies – if I don’t plan…

A Tit for a Tat (179) Tit: When will it get better?  Tat: When you get used to it! Tit:…

From Sarah Blasko’s ‘We Won’t Run’: Cos we won’t run, we can fight, all that keeps us up at night….

自不在 而自在. [As one realises] there is no self, there is ease with one’self’. – Stonepeace Total realisation of non-self,…

The Buddha is also called ‘The Blessed One’. But who blesses the Blessed One, who blesses us with the Dharma?…

The best pithy one-liner on TV in a long time. Amanda tells Alex in Nikita: ‘Home is where you stop…

As generally defined, seven kinds of refuge. Which one are you? Generally, any form of refuge missing Dharma is spiritually…

A Tit for a Tat (178) Tit: Can we eat at that restaurant every day? Tat: If we have enough…

A Facebook dialogue: Shian: Struck me that the Facebook live feed question is a good one – ‘What’s on your…