Author: Shen Shián

DHARMA@CINEMA: Little Miss Sunshine Movie Screening cum Sharing by Shen Shian The movie ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ (Winner of 2 Oscars…

Boarding the southbound train at around 9.45pm after work, an uplifting sight caught my eye. The man with outstretched legs…

Are you in the shadows or are you a silhouette on the brink of illumination?

The photo above shows a man holding a pack of branded toilet paper rolls placed in a plastic bag. Here…

Last Saturday, after giving an almost full day course to guides on guiding in a Buddhist temple, I had about…

Last Saturday, I conducted what was almost a full-day class (from 9am to 4pm) for a group of thirty-plus Singapore…

The film ‘Coming Soon’ explores what could be the real horror behind truly ‘horrible’ movies. That is, what if it’s…

If someone gossips to you, there’s no need to respond enthusiastically. If someone else gossips to you, there’s no need…

This was written in the burb of ‘The Walking Dead Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye’ by Robert Kirkman – ‘How…

Is one who suffers fools gladly one who is gladly a fool? Q:  What if someone is unreasonable? Should we…

Photo: A Catholic Sister reading the Declaration of Religious Harmony: “We, the people in Singapore, declare that religious harmony is…

From ‘Civil War: Front Line: Embedded’ by Paul Jenkins… Speedball: Believe me, I would do anything to go back and…

It’s totally normal that many personal blogs are generous with photographs of the bloggers themselves, since they are visual as…

We believe what we want to believe. Be careful! What we believe might be believed into ‘reality’ like a self-fulfilling…

Panel Discussion @ NTU Buddhist Society What is Suffering? Suffering is very subjective in one’s own way and it exists…

Photos: At Citylink & Suntec City We made a ‘grave’ mistake today, of assuming that the last day of the…

While on a cab with two colleagues to AMK Hub after today’s Pure Land class, we were chatting among ourselves…

Lamp light A midnight sun One is not enough to pierce the darkness of space Dharma light An eternal sun…

So many fine films watched. So little time to review them all. Looking at scribbled notes some time later, I…

For the second time this week, I was at St. Joseph’s Institution International, invited to give an hour’s presentation to…