Author: Shen Shián

Co-founder of Moonpointer.com
10
Nov
2010

Thoughts on Exorcism

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

10
Nov
2010

Who is Mindful of Buddha?

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

10
Nov
2010

Is Meditation Dangerous?

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

09
Nov
2010

What Are Their True Names?

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

08
Nov
2010

An Ugly Truth?

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

08
Nov
2010

The Language Is Not The Message

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

08
Nov
2010

Mindful Enough?

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

08
Nov
2010

Song of Samsara

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

08
Nov
2010

Two Wishes

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

08
Nov
2010

Inputting Vs Outputting

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

08
Nov
2010

To Be Truly All-Embracing

To Be Truly All-Embracing He presented himself to be free, free even to eat anything, open in an all-embracing way. But…

03
Nov
2010

The Happy Buddhist Card

More on these cards

03
Nov
2010

Buddhist Views On Cat-Neutering 从佛教观点谈为猫绝育

Buddhist Views on Cat-Neutering 从佛教观点谈为猫绝育 The below email dialogue with a fellow reader is about the ethics of neutering cats to…

03
Nov
2010

Truth of Fashion

Oscar Wilde said that ‘Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six…

03
Nov
2010

The Unsurpassable Top

The ushnisha refers to the protuberance on the crown of the Buddha. It is one of the 32 special physical…

03
Nov
2010

India Adventure (26): We Refugees All

Before we returned home, we spent a night at the district called the Tibetan Refugee Colony in Delhi. We had…

03
Nov
2010

Relatively Pure Land

More than ten years ago, I visited Buddha Kasetra School (佛陀园地: http://www.buddhakasetra.org). Based at Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, Buddha…

01
Nov
2010

May All Be Well… Without Harming Any

I used to take western medicine in general when I got sick, before I became vegan. After I became vegan,…

01
Nov
2010

Some Wake Advice

Question: Why do some say it is not advisable for the pregnant to visit wakes? Answer: This is probably in…

01
Nov
2010

The Hidden Moon

Below is a passage I helped to translate to Chinese for Buddhist Library’s newsletter: Brightly shining, luminous is this mind,…