Year: 2010

Q: It doesn’t matter whether one calls oneself a Buddhist when one is practising the Buddha’s way. Often, we are…

A Tit for a Tat (177) Tit: The deliveryman just called. He wants to come now! Tat: Wow, this is…

A Tit for a Tat (176) Tit: This bun tastes dry – not like the ones before! Tat: Don’t compare…

Email subject header: Diabetes Alert? Hi Everyone, Recently, I noticed that there are black ants on the rim of the…

Then again, yet another random lesson from Taiji class: The mirror for checking your moves is half your teacher, but…

From the chorus of ‘One of Us’ by Joan Osbourne, as covered in an episode of Glee recently too. These…

A Tit for a Tat (175) Tit: I enjoy sleeping. Tat: But ‘you’ are not there when you’re asleep! You’re…

I always wondered what is the moral of the story of ‘The Princess and the Pea’. Does it sing the…

Do you see the big picture? no no no… not that big picture on the wall, but the real big…

I went too see ‘The Last Exorcism’ because I thought the premise of the story was interesting. But it was…

One of the methods to ‘combine’ Pure Land and Zen practice is that the one who practise mindfulness of Amituofo’s (Amitabha…

From a Facebook discussion, a friend got this reply from his friend when he said he’s going to learn what…

Below is the Japanese version of ‘Call Us By Our True Names’, as featured in the e-newsletter of Japan Vegetarian Society…

From ‘Grimmer Tales: A Wicked Collection of Happily Never After Stories’ by Erik Bergstrom, is ‘The Ugly Truth’, which I think…

To my aghast, I once heard a monk say that the path of attaining Nirvana is like pushing a button…

A Tit for a Tat (174) Tit: I cringe whenever I hear his bad English! Tat: I cringe whenever you…

A Tit for a Tat (173) Tit: I’m very mindful. I never accidentally kill a single ant when I do…

I found this re-blogged on another blog: Be careful when you sing a song of broken love, a song of…

Seeing an old man walking slowly, holding up the walkway, I hope I will never hold anyone up similarly. Yet,…

There is a tension between learning and expressing, between internalising and ‘externalising’. There is so much to learn, while there…