Author: Shen Shián

Empathy instead of disgust arises when one realises that another’s horrible behaviour, could have arisen from horrible suffering. – Stonepeace…

Even as you think you are sitting still, wherever you are, You are moving at 1,000 miles per hour, as…

Wolverine’s adamantium claws are at times extensions of his heroism, of the fight for justice. But at other times extensions…

Ubuntu (Zulu): People become people through other people. Humanity (English): Human beings are humanised through being humane to one another….

In ‘All Star Superman: Volume 1’ by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, Superman tries to convince Lois Lane that he…

Explorers are discovering more and more wonderfully ‘weird’-looking deep sea creatures day by day. Reminds me of how the karma…

A Tit for a Tat (182) Tit: You should had said so more clearly! Tat: You should have asked me…

What is the difference between an actual flower and a dream flower? That’s the only difference… The first is an…

If you believe everything is predestined, there is no need to convince me so, because whether I believe it or…

In ‘The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’, Johnny Depp plays a character who says this to a lady in her imaginary…

Some Stonepeace ideas related to teachings from Geshe Dorji Damdul’s talk yesterday ‘The Secret of Joy’: ‘If we all dislke…

True Happiness arises only with Right Effort based on realistic optimism. – Stonepeace A hungry father decided to abandon his…

When one trips and falls, it’s easier to look for someone to blame, than to realise one was unmindful, as…

Put your left hand in cold water. How cold! Put your right hand in hot water. How hot! Put both…

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 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

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…