Category: Books

11
Jul
2009

Rushing a Dharma Delivery

An Awareness Place (Well-being Centre) customer wanted to have a copy of The Daily Enlightenment Book 1 and 2 each….

07
Jul
2009

‘The Daily Enlightenment 1’ in 3 Languages

English version of ‘The Daily Enlightenment 1’ in Flash: http://www.buddhanet.net/flash/the-daily-enlightenment/index.html German version of ‘The Daily Enlightenment 1’: http://kaikensho.blogspot.com/2008/01/ber-daily-enlightenment.html Indonesian version…

17
Jun
2009

How Should a Jedi Love?

Did you know that ‘Padme’ means ‘lotus’, as in ‘Om Mani Padme Hum’? Did you know that the Jedi Order…

12
Jun
2009

Get TDE 3 Online & Offline!

‘The Daily Enlightenment 3: Reflections for Practising Buddhists’ is now available free at Singapore’s Awareness Place at Bras Basah Complex…

10
Jun
2009

Stranger than L’Étranger?

Inspired by the existentialist novel, The Outsider (L’Étranger) by Albert Camus: Sometimes we remark that someone is strange, as if…

08
Jun
2009

Is Suffering Necessary?

Some interesting quotes below to share from ‘Stillness Speaks’ by Eckhart Tolle. The book’s ideas are not totally about Buddhism,…

12
May
2009

Do You Win When You Lose?

In ‘Timbuktu’ by Paul Auster (illustrated by Julia Goschke for an abridged graphic novel), the author explores human homelessness via…

08
May
2009

How About TDE Book 4?

Snail-mailed slightly more than 100 copies of ‘The Daily Enlightenment 3: Reflections for Practising Buddhists’ so far – to generous…

06
May
2009

Whose Rogue Behaviour?

[It’s weird when you discover you’re ‘supposed’ to be Cambodian monk when you are not. What would you do? This…

01
May
2009

Special Launch of TDE Book 3

Here is more about the book and how you get it: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheDailyEnlightenment/message/660 Get it while stocks last! The Daily Enlightenment…

30
Apr
2009

The Daily Enlightenment Book 3

Just out of the printing house is ‘The Daily Enlightenment 3’. Look out for news of its launch in TDE…

27
Apr
2009

Heartland ‘Attacked’ by Angels & Demons

The above billboard gives a hint of the heavy marketing for ‘Angels & Demons’, the prequel of ‘The DaVinci Code’…

26
Mar
2009

Be a Lamp Upon Yourself

Boarding the southbound train at around 9.45pm after work, an uplifting sight caught my eye. The man with outstretched legs…

09
Feb
2009

Design : Par Excellence

Penguin books’ designs are getting really clever and cool these days. Gone are the days of Penguin’s stuffy bookish image….

27
Jan
2009

Books : Some Bestsellers

Three intriguing reads from 2008, which remind me of Jianxie’s reviews: The Atheist Delusion: http://moonpointer.com/index.php?itemid=1738 The Beginning of Faith: http://moonpointer.com/index.php?itemid=1737…

03
Jan
2009

Meaning : Of Life

In the book ‘The Meaning of Life’ by Terry Eagleton is this passage – “… we are in something like…