Category: Books

Alternative Alice (3): Why Does the Cheshire Cat Grin? Alice: My Daddy told me to beware of those who smile…

I heard of a Mother who had a kid who was frightened about ghosts. She dismissed them, telling him that…

One of the most memorable films ever is a film in a film – in the movie ‘American Beauty’ called…

From ‘The Power and the Pain: Transforming Spiritual Hardship Into Joy’ by Andrew Holecek – There are teachers who proclaim…

I finished reading ”Becoming Enlightened’ by His Holiness the Dalai Lama (translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins, PhD) a few…

‘Pride and Prejudice’ tells the tale of how the aloof Mr. Darcy came to be with the feisty Ms. Elizabeth…

Question: A temple is promoting beliefs that some Buddhas and Bodhisattvas protect people born in certain years. They have booklets…

Alternative Alice (2): What is Not Cat about the Cheshire Cat? Cheshire Cat: Which part of me is not like…

A dialogue inspired by the writing style of Lewis Carroll. I’ve been wanting to write a book called ‘The Alternative…

Based on the book, the ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ movie reminds me of a phase of growing up that…

In the graphic novel ‘The Nobody’ by Jeff Lemire, a man arrives in a small town bandaged from head to…

‘The Serpent and the Rainbow’, which is supposedly based on a true story (By Wade Davis) tells of a terrifying…

One of the most poignant poems I ever read, followed by some related sentiments: (The above is a scene from…

In ‘A Scanner Darkly’, undercover cops wear a ‘scramble suit’ which covers them from head to toe. Now, this suit…

A passage from Philip K. Dick’s science fiction (graphic) novel and movie ‘A Scanner Darkly’, which I arranged into the following…

From Thich Nhat Hanh’s book ‘The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology’: The food we eat…

Free your secret and become who you are. – PostSecret tagline Sometimes when we think we are keeping a secret,…

The PostSecret postcard from ‘PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death and God’ reads: ‘I wanted him so badly that I slept…

I saw this as the ‘blurb’ of the new PostSecret book – ‘PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death and God’. I…

I notice that though many long-time Buddhists are aware of the significance of the practice of circumambulation in Buddhism (See…