Category: Mix

If one had created a misunderstanding with inappropriate words, one should just clarify with appropriate words. (Sometimes, no other action…

From ‘The Straits Times’, ‘In TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine), the heart is believed to control the mind and hence all…

A good journalist is supposed to just record and report an event, and not be part of the action?  But…

Heard of a Dharma student thinking of giving up attending one of his teachers’ classes due to embarrassment over some…

多年以前有一位朋友到楚布寺去覲見剛剛坐床的大寶法王。 不知道是怎樣的因緣，他突然問了小法王一句： “我可以抱你嗎？” 只有七歲的小法王靜靜地回答：“你可以抱住天空嗎？” ～摘自噶瑪噶舉之家 我們就是為了幻化的事物忙一輩子，以為可以抓住什麼， 但就是留不住，終其空空忙碌一生。 A summary of the above in English: Someone visited the then seven year…

I notice that the poor in many countries tend to have more kids. Perhaps it is due to lack of…

Saw an online chat between Buddhist friends about the possibility of doing a Dharma project. One said, to ‘make aspirations’….

As am currently teaching the Dharma 5 evenings a week, and 6 for this one, I end up training myself…

Question: What do you do if you don’t know whether to give up or hang on to something? Answer: How…

I came across a someone who is supposed to teach the Dharma via video clips online. I say ‘supposed’ because…

Like a cloud that shapeshifts, the object, issue or person we perceive changes too, along with our angle of perception,…

Q: How to overcome anger? A:  Look deeply for the reason why you are angry. If the reason is external,…

I don’t know if there is already a term for the receiving end of Freudian slips, but I have been…

S: It’s funny when some claim that you don’t resemble your pseudonym, because the very point of using pseudonyms is…

If one is constantly apologetic, one has never been truly apologetic. If one keeps saying sorry, one is simply not…

You cry when you are born. Because returning painfully is suffering. How much more tears? You cry when you are…

If you are more gracious to the more wealthy and powerful, even if you are not also wealthy and powerful,…

While attending a Pure Land retreat, it struck me that there is a wide variety of differences in what participants…

It is sad, but true, that some teachers (monastics or laity), having gathered some fame and status, become less active…

H: Overheard – ‘Arlow! Have you read my email ? Can you read and reply me?’ Why not just ask…