Author: Shen Shián

Recently, when I pay attention to the lyrics of love songs, I discover many logical errors in them. The chorus…

Patients with mental illnesses often stop taking medication when they assume they have gotten better… only to suffer from relapses….

‘Assault Girls’, from the makers of ‘Ghost in the Shell’, is quite a letdown, lacking the usual profound philosophising. Its…

Bad news: Songs can get stuck in your head – even those which marry unworthy emotions with unworthy reasoning. Good…

‘It’s Kind of a Funny Story’, simply put, is an ode to life. An ode to living itself: He who…

The dismal state of the Dharma in the world is the collective karmic effect of inadequate practice and propagation. It…

The Dharma is ‘destroyed’ by those who claim they are protecting and promoting it, who are harming and distorting it…

From Ghostoplis by Doug TenNapel, Love is in the acts, not in the feels. – Uncle Werewolf Better still, love…

A blog reader urgently wanted to use the second poem at https://moonpointer.com/new/2010/02/the-famous-funeral-poem for a real funeral, and asked for the…

Usual advice: Life is short. Dream hard, and fulfil your dreams. Don’t waste your life. Less usual advice: Life is…

In the movie ‘Already Famous’, we see the classic tension between struggling to be recognised by others to be talented…

These are some scenes from lesson #7 of this 10-lesson class: http://thedailyenlightenment.com/2011/07/understanding-amituofo-via-the-amitabha-sutra-8th-run at Buddha of Medicine Welfare Society. [The 9th run…

The worldly admired tend to be more imperfect than hoped upon a closer look [because defilements are there], yet more…

From the movie ‘Win Win’: Coach: Now, did you guys see what Kyle did the other day? He exploded up…

Talking at length about perfecting compassion is inadequate if one does not even think of sparing animals from meals as…

The worldly see lust for one to be a factor of True Love for that one. The spiritual see lust…

How do you love truly, when the essence of that loved, is a certain look and expression? How do you…

One’s love might not be perfectly true right now, but one’s love can be more and more true, starting from…

If your love was true, how can you be heartbroken beyond salvation? If your love was true, how can it…

If your heart has not broken, your love is not true yet, because you have yet to love deeply. If…