Author: Shen Shián

Co-founder of Moonpointer.com
09
Mar
2011

Count Your Blessings

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

03
Mar
2011

The Mysterious Brown Cloth

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

03
Mar
2011

Attention Please!

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

03
Mar
2011

(Non-)Confidence

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

03
Mar
2011

Ugly Paradox

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

01
Mar
2011

Expectations

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

01
Mar
2011

He Is Like Death

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

01
Mar
2011

Book-Buying Excuse

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

01
Mar
2011

The Everyday Song On The Last Day

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

01
Mar
2011

The Cockroach of Death

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

01
Mar
2011

What’s Up?

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

01
Mar
2011

Get To Lose

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

01
Mar
2011

Short & Unpredictable Life

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

01
Mar
2011

How to Meet a Buddha

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

01
Mar
2011

What Kind?

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

15
Feb
2011

Buddha in a Bunny Suit

Bunny In A Bunny Suit Lyrics by Richy Vesecky, Music by Frank Bango, Sung by Simone White pretending to be…

14
Feb
2011

Let the Right One In

Is an endangered species (vampires) that endangers another species (humans) justified? If vampires exist and are endangered, would humans strive…

14
Feb
2011

Be the Blessed

A Chinese new year text greeting I received and forwarded: 愿佛法的人生伴随你, 观音菩萨的慈悲充满你, 文殊菩萨的智慧带领你, 地藏菩萨的愿力加持你, 普贤菩萨的行愿成就你 ! 愿您在十方佛菩萨的加持下一切如意,法喜充满。 合十敬祝您在新的一年里万事吉祥,如意安康,一切圆满。 阿弥陀佛! It…

14
Feb
2011

What Comes Next?

Cris Johnson in ‘Next’ says: ‘Here is the thing about the future. Every time you look at, it changes, because…

14
Feb
2011

Feigning Ignorance?

A Tit for a Tat (223) Tit: Did you see him? Tat: Who? Where? Tit: Him over there. Tat: Oh……