Author: Shen Shián

‘The Daily Enlightenment 3: Reflections for Practising Buddhists’ is now available free at Singapore’s Awareness Place at Bras Basah Complex…

A Tit for a Tat (11) Tit: Hey! You misspelled ‘mispelled’! Tat: Hey! Not me! I saw you erase an…

A Tit for a Tat (10) Tit: Are you too full for this great snack? Tat: For now. Tit: Too…

From the chorus of ‘Only When I Lose Myself’ by Depeche Mode: ‘It’s only when I lose myself in someone…

Inspired by the existentialist novel, The Outsider (L’Étranger) by Albert Camus: Sometimes we remark that someone is strange, as if…

Despite the reflection, I snapped this picture of a Buddha image through the display window of an antique and furniture…

Some interesting quotes below to share from ‘Stillness Speaks’ by Eckhart Tolle. The book’s ideas are not totally about Buddhism,…

In the movie ‘Blood: The Last Vampire’, it was suggested to Saya (the half-vampire human) by her teacher that (vampirical)…

After collecting about a dozen ‘Batman Black & White’ statues, which are released periodically into the market, I decided to…

Because ‘I’ am part of this world, Because ‘I’ am interconnected with this world, Because ‘I’ am seamless with this…

Not too hard or it would be painful Not to soft or it would be sagging Not too high or…

A Tit for a Tat (9) Tit: Do you think my sms reply was okay? Tat: Well, it depends on…

A Tit for a Tat [8] Tit: Oh… how convenient it is, to communicate through email, to let others take their…

True confidence arises only when one becomes one with the true/truth.* – Stonepeace * Total confidence is attained by realising…

Haunted by ‘Ghosts of Girlfriends Past’ ‘Ghosts of Girlfriends Past’ is about a fickle guy, who is so scrooge-ly with…

Whoever you are, you were my… dearest mother dearest father  dearest brother dearest sister  dearest son  dearest daughter Whoever we are, we are one…

A student asked a Vegetarian Society friend, ‘If animals are not here to be eaten, what are they here for?’ I…

I was chatting with someone from another faith, who asked about the Buddhist perspective of the end of the world…

Guanyin to Me My Mother is Guanyin to me because she prays to Guanyin for me. She isn’t really aspiring…

During a Dharma discussion at Awareness Place (after screening of ‘The Woodsman’), a participant remarked about how difficult is was…