Author: Shen Shián

Didn’t he proclaim her to be his ‘one true love’? How could he love someone else after her passing away?…

This is not a love story. This is a story about love. – Movie tagline “This is a story of…

Every time I come to hear the poignant opening lines of Erasure’s ‘Piano Song’, I’m reminded of how the Buddha’s…

Literally using ‘illegal aliens’ for addressing multiple socio-political issues such as xenophobia (irrational fear of strangers), ‘District 9’ is a…

The graphic travelogue ‘French Milk’ by Lucy Knisley is mostly about her good times during her six week vacation in…

Question: I’m helping to run a meditation group. Are there any ways to help create spiritual friendship within the group?…

(How to Create Your Own Time Machine Moments) In the charmingly creative film ‘The Science of Sleep’, a guy invents…

‘Funny People’ is largely a comedy, but it is also a serious movie with elements of tragedy too. Okay, a…

Used to wonder what’s so wonderful about the beach… Till I realised it is the meeting point of many things……

‘Human’ is probably  ‘Human League’s’ most haunting song ever. It used to always gave a sense of solace… till I…

A Dharma friend sent me this Youtube link on meditation. He felt that it’s a very good way to introduce…

If you think you are haunted by real ghosts, you should exorcise them, by sending them off for a better…

From ‘A Heart Full of Peace’ by Joseph Goldstein are many thought-provoking quotes, with elaborations on what their significance. Below…

A Tit for a Tat (53) Tit: I think he looks superficial. Tat: Looks are superficial! Tit: Huh? Tat: I…

Voted song of 2008 by Rolling Stone, The Killers’ ‘Human’ has an interesting line, that seems grammatically incorrect – ‘Are…

A Tit for a Tat (52) Tit: You’re so stubborn! Tat: Am not! Tit: See what I mean? Tat: You…

A Tit for a Tat (51) Tit: You are both Buddhists – how can you fall out over the Dharma?…

A Tit for a Tat (50) Tit: Wedding day is a girl’s most happy and beautiful day… Tat: Why can’t…

In the movie ‘Inglourious Basterds’, Colonel Hans Landa tells Perrier LaPardite the following in an unnerving scene – ‘I love…

In the movie ‘Whiteout’, a U.S. marshal, being the only one assigned to Antarctica, makes it a point to solve…