Category: Mix

06
Jul
2011

Do You Get Zen?

A Tit for a Tat (322) Tat: Because he didn’t get it, he says it’s very Zen! Tit: Because she got…

06
Jul
2011

Flower Haiku?

The silent Buddha’s silent flower… What was he saying? Or ‘not saying’?

06
Jul
2011

Red Riding Hood

Lessons from ‘Red Riding Hood’: Anyone can be a werewolf in disguise. Even yourself, with a hidden beast inside. With…

06
Jul
2011

Disappointment

A Tit for a Tat (321) Tat: I think she’s disappointed with me. Tit: And… Tat: And I’m disappointed with her…

06
Jul
2011

More Or Less A Paradox?

Less is More… which is Less is More… which is Less is More…

06
Jul
2011

Time-Travel Paradox

If you can time-travel to the past to change the future, what if you change it such, that you cannot…

06
Jul
2011

His Bipolar Swinging

His bipolar swinging of reason and emotion in this life is just like a compression of my ‘bipolar’ swinging of…

29
Jun
2011

Problem With Words

The problem with words, of how they are perceived differently, even if they are exact but few!

27
Jun
2011

Nevertheless Important

Even though there is no absolute good or evil in this worldly world, it is nevertheless important to be relatively…

15
Jun
2011

Is Ennui Karmic?

  X: Tomorrow, I have to face a black face at work… U: Show a black face too! X: The…

09
Jun
2011

A Robot Buddha?

Not that it is definitely possible, if humans create a robot that is unerringly humane, in comparison to the average…

31
May
2011

Pro-Choice Is Pro-Life

Pro-choice must be pro-life, as all lives should be given the power of choice to live or not – even…

28
May
2011

Every Moment Matters

A hospice flyer read, ‘To them, every moment matters.’ But wait… we are all the dying. The important question is……

26
May
2011

Teaching Teens

A reply given when invited to teach Dharma classes for Sunday School: Hmmm… on and off, I’ve been thinking of…

24
May
2011

A Grave Issue

Question: We went to exhume of one of our long-time ancestors’ graves for cremation and discovered some ornaments with the…

20
May
2011

Karmic or Divine?

During a short talk I gave to some 800 students at Catholic Junior College to offer the Buddhist opinion on the…

20
May
2011

Bad Enough for Buddhism

‘Maybe I’m too bad to learn the Dharma!’ Nonsense! Everyone is bad or good enough to learn the Dharma. Besides,…

20
May
2011

Terror of Killing

On the death of Osama Bin Laden without trial, you can’t really kill terrorism – you have to transform terrorist…

09
May
2011

Best Of Both Worlds

He is a Buddhist, who wants the best of both worlds, as he struggles to be a worldly success, while…

09
May
2011

How Should A Buddhist Vote?

Just before polling day, I wrote this on http://www.facebook.com/shen.shian/posts/10150189984054001 To my surprise, more than 30 friends ‘liked’ it, and many…