Category: Books
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…
A Dharma friend sent me this Youtube link on meditation. He felt that it’s a very good way to introduce…
From ‘A Heart Full of Peace’ by Joseph Goldstein are many thought-provoking quotes, with elaborations on what their significance. Below…
Excavations at Jetavana, now Saheth Finally Venerable Faxian and a fellow monk reached Jetavana monastery… but it had since become a…
Adapted from the bestseller, ‘The Time Traveller’s Wife’ tells of a man’s peculiar condition, of being involuntarily subject to fading…
The Daily Enlightenment 1: http://issuu.com/tdebook/docs/tde1 & The Daily Enlightenment 3: http://issuu.com/tdebook/docs/tde3 can now be read online in an interactively way…
Guy: Why do you shop? Gal: When I shop, the world gets better, and the world is better, but then…
Horror stories illustrate not how horrifying imaginary monsters can be, but how horrible real humans can be. – Stonepeace I…
This is a doodle to share, as contributed by moonpointer reader Jetty (http://tinyurl.com/pg3mrx) Thanks! The view atop the mountain might…
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eKYyD14d_0 The documentary movie ‘Food Inc.’ has many important messages indeed, though vegetarians and vegans might be disappointed that…
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