Month: March 2011

Roach resting on her image’s crown I freak out but she* smiles on Namo Guanshiyin Pusa! * not the roach!

Not catnip, not eucalyptus, not anything I know, that shoos him away. Nothing seemed to deter the cockroach. Like death,…

A Tit for a Tat (233) Tit: She has time to chat with colleagues but no time to answer my…

A Tit for a Tat (232) Tit: The ATM is so far away. How inconvenient! Tat: Not as inconvenient as…

Before the retreat began, there was already a mysterious brown cloth placed on each meditation cushion. Many wondered what it…

A Tit for a Tat (231) A texting dialogue during a talk: Tit: Stop looking at your phone! Tat: Hey…

A Tit for a Tat (230) Tit: I’m so confident I’ll win that I see no need to join the…

A Tit for a Tat (229) Tit: Be ‘wary’ of those who look good with heavy make-up! Tat: Why? Tit:…

A Tit for a Tat (228) Tit: Isn’t it strange? Tat: What is? Tit: We like to see good-looking people…

A Tit for a Tat (227) Tit: He passed me your stuff already. Tat: But I’m supposed to pick it…

There is a stranger in the house. There is an uninvited guest in the house. There is a phantom cockroach…

I finished reading the two books on the day I bought them. Why did I bother to buy them then?…

Almost everyday I hear the same busker singing the same few lovelorn love songs in the same few ways. I…

A Tit for a Tat (226) Tit: Is it safer and more realistic to assume there is a cockroach lurking…

A Tit for a Tat (225) Tit: Busy? Tat: What’s up? Tit: Nothing much… Tat: That’s the problem, isn’t it?…

The endlessly greedy are like one who gathers fallen coins into pockets with holes, walking in circles, getting richer yet…

A reply to a Pure Land course participant, who decided to attend the next round due to a relative’s passing…

Tim: I read a teacher saying that to meet the future Buddha, who comes a long time later, simply don’t…

A Tit for a Tat (224) Tit: I saw a heavy man sit in a plastic chair in a restaurant….