Category: Mix

06
Dec
2010

Haiku?

What is this… without seven syllables – here? Haiku? What is this… that needs not rhyme? Haiku? What is this……

06
Dec
2010

Taiji Lesson #12

Begin stationary, symmetrically with balance. Move in between, asymmetrically with balance. End stationary, symmetrically with balance. Balance is already a…

06
Dec
2010

Taiji Lesson #11

Every good attack move is also a good defence move. Better to attack while better defending. Every poor attack move…

06
Dec
2010

Taiji Lesson #10

While in motion during sparring, your arms should never cross the virtual line the divides your left from the right,…

06
Dec
2010

Taiji Lesson #9

The taller and slimmer use swords to extend their reach as their strength, The shorter and stouter use sabres to extend…

06
Dec
2010

Taiji Lesson #8

It is better to stand humbly low while moving stably than to stand tall and proud while moving rashly.

06
Dec
2010

Taiji Lesson #7

… The posture of the mind affects the posture of the body which affects the posture of the mind… (This…

06
Dec
2010

The Moving Here

Even as you think you are sitting still, wherever you are, You are moving at 1,000 miles per hour, as…

02
Dec
2010

Ubuntu for Humanity & Buddhahood

Ubuntu (Zulu): People become people through other people. Humanity (English): Human beings are humanised through being humane to one another….

01
Dec
2010

Deep Sea Karma

Explorers are discovering more and more wonderfully ‘weird’-looking deep sea creatures day by day. Reminds me of how the karma…

01
Dec
2010

Say It More Clearly

A Tit for a Tat (182) Tit: You should had said so more clearly! Tat: You should have asked me…

29
Nov
2010

Dream-like But Not A Dream

What is the difference between an actual flower and a dream flower? That’s the only difference… The first is an…

29
Nov
2010

Free Will Logic

If you believe everything is predestined, there is no need to convince me so, because whether I believe it or…

29
Nov
2010

A Fool Too

From afoottoo: Reminds me of this, “Fools try to contradict every teaching, as if they are wiser than every teacher,…

29
Nov
2010

Some Quotes

Some Stonepeace ideas related to teachings from Geshe Dorji Damdul’s talk yesterday ‘The Secret of Joy’: ‘If we all dislke…

29
Nov
2010

Realistic Instead of Blindly Optimistic

True Happiness arises only with Right Effort based on realistic optimism. – Stonepeace A hungry father decided to abandon his…

29
Nov
2010

Ego Trip & Fall

When one trips and falls, it’s easier to look for someone to blame, than to realise one was unmindful, as…

29
Nov
2010

You’re Hot & You’re Cold!

Put your left hand in cold water. How cold! Put your right hand in hot water. How hot! Put both…

29
Nov
2010

Taiji Lesson #6

To know if your moves happened to be right due to unmindful beginner’s ‘luck’, keep practising them, to repeat the…

29
Nov
2010

Mystery of the Moving Wick

A Buddhist friend shared a mystery with me. For twenty years, he had offered an oil lamp, that uses a…