Author: jianxie

In the movie ‘Priest’, the heroes are the denounced priests who go against the church, despite the repressive ones in…

Question: Do you know what has happened to Shakyamuni Buddha’s clan descendants? Answer: I don’t know… But there are some people in…

Is continual and indirect paying of others to break the first precept (to kill animals for you to eat) itself…

He described his plight to be a hungry man, who has no food at home, yet unable to eat outside….

Not that I believe in God, Eden or the Devil, but… If good St. Patrick could drive all the snakes…

Below is my reply to an email that proposes disasters happen on the 26th of months. You can see the…

A Buddhist centre with ‘Bodhicitta’ in its name barbecued dead animals during its gathering after its annual general meeting. Maybe…

Why do we sometimes encounter poor Dharma teachers who seem to teach inadequately and incoherently? We get who we karmically…

A Tit for a Tat (212) Warning, this is a little crappy… Tit: This is crap. Tat: Don’t worry… All…

J.D Salinger wrote this in ‘The Catcher in the Rye’: ‘Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some…

Something funny I came across online: Question: How can Atheism be true when there is no evidence of Atheius? Answer:…

The universe is so complex, that for there to be a single creator, ‘he’ has to be super complex. But…

From Itivuttaka 4.8:  This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: “Monks, brahmans…

A mistake that many make is to ask non-specialists questions that require specialised knowledge. E.g. Why ask a Theravada teacher…

In the light of some debate over the questionable integrity of a so-called ‘monastic’, she said, ‘Sometimes, I feel so…

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

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

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

What happens if a religion insists that it is the only true religion? How is inter-religious harmony to be upheld…

A dialogue below, set in the medieval times, from the latest ‘Robin Hood’ movie, that reminds me of more than…