Author: Shen Shián

Co-founder of Moonpointer.com
07
Mar
2012

The Journalist Paradox

A good journalist is supposed to just record and report an event, and not be part of the action?  But…

07
Mar
2012

Free Yet Purposeful (The Groundhog Day Paradox)

When things get routine, we wish for the non-routine. When things get routinely non-routine, we wish for the routine. A…

07
Mar
2012

Can You Hug The Sky?

多年以前有一位朋友到楚布寺去覲見剛剛坐床的大寶法王。 不知道是怎樣的因緣,他突然問了小法王一句: “我可以抱你嗎?” 只有七歲的小法王靜靜地回答:“你可以抱住天空嗎?” ~摘自噶瑪噶舉之家 我們就是為了幻化的事物忙一輩子,以為可以抓住什麼, 但就是留不住,終其空空忙碌一生。 A summary of the above in English: Someone visited the then seven year…

07
Mar
2012

The Trick Is To Enjoy Life

From Woody Allen’s movie ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona’: Cristina: Are you very religious? (They are gazing at a image of the…

07
Mar
2012

The Hope Paradox

I notice that the poor in many countries tend to have more kids. Perhaps it is due to lack of…

01
Mar
2012

Make Aspirations & Take Action

Saw an online chat between Buddhist friends about the possibility of doing a Dharma project. One said, to ‘make aspirations’….

29
Feb
2012

Getting In Sync

As am currently teaching the Dharma 5 evenings a week, and 6 for this one, I end up training myself…

29
Feb
2012

Pros & Cons

Question: What do you do if you don’t know whether to give up or hang on to something? Answer: How…

29
Feb
2012

Books & Readers Keeping Each Other Alive

I like the scene of reviving the old book – simply by reading it. Just as books give us a…

22
Feb
2012

The Cloudian Scowl or Smile

Like a cloud that shapeshifts, the object, issue or person we perceive changes too, along with our angle of perception,…

22
Feb
2012

How to Overcome Anger?

Q: How to overcome anger? A:  Look deeply for the reason why you are angry. If the reason is external,…

22
Feb
2012

The Other End Of Freudian Slips

I don’t know if there is already a term for the receiving end of Freudian slips, but I have been…

22
Feb
2012

Are You Like Your Moniker?

S: It’s funny when some claim that you don’t resemble your pseudonym, because the very point of using pseudonyms is…

22
Feb
2012

Same Same But Different

A: I feel that I am very different from others. B: Everyone feels they are different from others. A: Er……

22
Feb
2012

Repentance & Respect

If one is constantly apologetic, one has never been truly apologetic. If one keeps saying sorry, one is simply not…

22
Feb
2012

How Much More Tears?

You cry when you are born. Because returning painfully is suffering. How much more tears? You cry when you are…

22
Feb
2012

Unequal Grace

If you are more gracious to the more wealthy and powerful, even if you are not also wealthy and powerful,…

15
Feb
2012

The Adele Dilemma

‘Never mind, I’ll find someone like you…’ who I will fall in love with again, who will break my heart…

15
Feb
2012

Super Short Story (2): She’s The Boss!

As the company failed her stringent interview, she sacked it, boss and all, to interview another. She might not be…

15
Feb
2012

The Child Actor Paradox

A good child-actor ‘acts maturely’ like a child.