Author: Shen Shián

A friend posted this on Facebook on 9/11: ‘Remembering those who were lost in 911, and many others who were lost…

修行须放下贪嗔痴, 而无住生心地提起 悲智双运的菩萨行. The letting go (renunciation) of greed, hatred and delusion, and the giving rise of the (Bodhicitta) aspiration…

Either you are not aware of your self-contradictions, or are aware but contradict yourself – which is doubly self-contradicting! Who…

A king tastes better food not merely because his subjects take more efforts in preparing good dishes, not merely because…

The picture is a shred of toilet paper that I accidentally tore off while in the loo. As it was…

Wrote the below comment on a friend’s Facebook post on her ego, which seems to be the main subject for…

Here is a wonderful old video of Alan Watts introducing Buddhist meditation. It’s still very relevant. I’ve not read Watts’…

Above is Ni Andong’s cover of Damien Rice’s ‘The Blower’s Daughter’, whose original version is below. Ni’s take sent some shivers…

Above is a scene at IT Show 2011 There are many visible flyer givers. There are many visible flyer takers. There…

For some singles, to have or not have a spouse, that is the question. But to have a spouse does…

人不为己,  天诛地灭？ 人人为己,  人人共灭！ 为人为己,  人人共悦！ If one does not benefit oneself, will heaven and earth destroy one? If everyone…

Question: I find it hard not to lie in my line of work, which is sales. Answer: There’s no need…

  A ‘root guru’ is the main teacher you learn from, or the root teacher of your lineage of teachers….

I can’t remember which comic the above panel is from. A vampire (if I remember correctly) laments to a vampire…

She assumed he had let go of the matter, so she let it go, not further resolving it, not realising…

Carl Jung is supposed to have said, ‘Life is not about being good. It is about being real.’ My take…

‘A good car doesn’t makes one a good driver. A good camera doesn’t make one a good photographer , Good…

‘If slaughterhouses have glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian.’ (Paul Mc Cartney) Loudspeakers too please! If slaughterhouses have no walls,…

True that shark fin is quite tasteless and lacking in nutrition. 1. Every animal that is killed needlessly was in…

For someone (or anyone) suffering from bipolar disorder and/or schizophrenia: To be frank, it is tedious reading your mails which…