Category: Mix

28
Jan
2016

Untitled: Wandering Thought #258

________: Wandering Thought #258 Let your thoughts wander just a little, and instead of reading mine, fill in your wandering…

28
Jan
2016

A Fully Awakened One

Question: Why does the Buddha sleep so little, supposedly just an hour a night? Answer: I would like to think…

20
Jan
2016

Repetition: Wandering Thought #257

Repetition: Wandering Thought #257 Negative consequences of continually ignoring lessons that we should have learnt long ago will only keep…

20
Jan
2016

Mosquito & Meat

Story:  ‘A student was meditating in Ajahn Fuang’s presence when – in a spasm of mindlessness – she slapped a…

20
Jan
2016

Lottery Paradox

The lottery queue today is especially long, due to the prize money which is especially much, due to the prize…

09
Jan
2016

Stonepeace (646-655)

[646] We sometimes play ‘karma police’, but karma is always policing us. [647] To realise essential truths is to become one with…

09
Jan
2016

Stonepeace (635-645)

[635] The status quo is often improved greatly and swiftly by those perceived as rebellious at first; seldom by conformists…

08
Jan
2016

Light Saber Haiku

(Far-reaching) Laser guns will do, instead of short light sabers, though am against guns. (Why light sabers don’t make practical…

08
Jan
2016

Semicolon

A semicolon is a punctuation mark stronger than a comma, but weaker than a period; the subtlest of all punctuation…

08
Jan
2016

GE2015 & SG50 Haikus

‘Beware the man of a single book (homo unius libri).’ – St. Thomas Aquinas Always read widely and investigate deeply…

08
Jan
2016

Affirmation: Wandering Thought #256

Affirmation: Wandering Thought #256: To make assumptions is to imagine knowing what one might not know properly, or at all….

08
Jan
2016

Perseverance: Wandering Thought #255

Perseverance: Wandering Thought #255 Before you give up helping anyone, including yourself, reflect on whether there is anyone else who…

23
Dec
2015

Bystander Syndrome Haiku

Journalist Clark Kent or transform as Superman? News or life at stake?

16
Dec
2015

Why Bodhisattva Precepts?

[再受菩萨戒,为提醒自己以下,要加油。阿弥陀佛。] ‘心无尽故,戒亦无尽。’ – 菩萨璎珞经 ‘[As the] mind [of aspiration to not harm any and to help all is] inexhaustible thus,…

16
Dec
2015

Publications Consultative Panel(ist)

As an independent teacher and author, just shortlisted as a member of the Publications Consultative Panel (PCP) under MCI. The…

16
Dec
2015

Action: Wandering Thought #254

Action: Wandering Thought #254: Don’t just sigh and sigh, as if sighing is what you ought to do, as if…

16
Dec
2015

Tangibility: Wandering Thought #253

Tangibility: Wandering Thought #253: We need the physically tangible without, such as spiritual teachers, events, places and objects as instruments…

16
Dec
2015

Dream: Wandering Thought #252

Dream: Wandering Thought #252: Yesterday, when much younger, we should had realised that life is too short, not to have…

16
Dec
2015

Wandering: Wandering Thought #251

Wandering: Wandering Thought #251: We wander with wonder, to learn and discover not just other people, places and matters, but…

25
Nov
2015

Growth: Wandering Thought #250

Growth: Wandering Thought #250 A DAY without any growth in any virtue, be it compassion, generosity, morality, patience, diligence, wisdom……