Category: Mix

27
Jul
2011

A Limbo Befriender?

Something written a long time ago… (Facebook has changed much since) Checking if a friend sees me as a friend,…

27
Jul
2011

Coast

How far away must I be to not be at the coast? A metre, ten, a hundred, more, or what?…

27
Jul
2011

Bless You

What happens when a guru blesses you? Does he or she passes over some special force of goodness or merits,…

26
Jul
2011

Three Takeaway Tips

A participant who completed Project Rebirth (Round 2) asked me what would be three key takeaway tips to sum up…

26
Jul
2011

The Limitations & Cycle Of ‘Sincerity’

Part 1: It is amazing… how a total stranger on the street can be all smiles, greeting you, offering a…

20
Jul
2011

Where Is ‘Buddha-ness’?

How do we recognise a Buddha image to be a Buddha image? Is it the twirls of hair? But where…

20
Jul
2011

Mere Mindfulness?

Was asked to circulate an event about mindfulness via the www.TheDailyEnlightenment.com newsletter. S: Hmmm… TDE publicises only Buddhism-related events. Mindfulness…

20
Jul
2011

Curse Of Eternal Recurrence?

Friedrich Nietzsche wrote… “What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say,…

20
Jul
2011

Reborn Every Day

Day or Birthday or Rebirthday or Re-birthday or Rebirth-day or…

20
Jul
2011

Smelly Skin Bag

Stonepeace said, ‘Beauty is only skin deep and the skin is not very deep.’ A Buddhist saying says, ‘This body…

19
Jul
2011

Constant With Constant

‎ S: Otto von Bismarck said, ‘When you say that you agree to a thing in principle, you mean that…

19
Jul
2011

New Star?

I saw at 4.24am a new blue star outside the window From where I lay on the bed. But of…

19
Jul
2011

(Com)passion

J: 想做的事多了,但做好的事少了,有时觉得自己能办到的,但更多时候却是“有心无力”的状况… 该放下?还是持续?有时很迷惑,别说方向,连自己也找不到。怎么办呢?我相信其实每个人都有无穷待开发的力量,只是… 只是… 易发愿,却难持续,怎么办?:'( S: How about finding your passion, and focusing on it as much as you can?…

19
Jul
2011

Paradox of Shades

Shades can tint and impair your true vision. But… Shades can block excess light for better vision.

13
Jul
2011

Interview with Shen Shi’an

This is a little dated, from November 2007, but am reposting here for linking in this same site to my…

12
Jul
2011

Never Let You Down

She says, ‘I think I can’t handle lies or betrayal well. It’s hard for me to trust anyone now.’ ‘Trust…

12
Jul
2011

How Lovely Are You?

Please don’t mistaken you are lovely because you think you have lovely hair, for hair is but dead cells. Please…

12
Jul
2011

Peak Hour Paradox

At peak hour, there are more cabs, which means it is easier to hail a cab. At peak hour, there…

06
Jul
2011

Karmic Disaster

The moment a natural or man-made disaster affects sentient lives, it is also a karmic disaster for those very sentient…

06
Jul
2011

For Whom?

For whom the phone rings, if there is no one there to hear, to pick it up? For you the…