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To empathise is to civilise. To civilise is to empathise. – Jeremy Rifkin As mentioned in the video, ‘We are…
Q: I have been attending a weekly group chanting regularly. On two mornings of these days, I heard the chanting…
Sometimes, there are positive thinking ideas that are simply based on a slanted way of thinking, which makes it unrealistic….
If the lotus symbolises spiritual purity, as it blossoms despite roots in mud (which represents defilements), does the offering of…
A friend sent an old news link about how a girl killed and cut her parents into pieces due to…
I never take the obvious shortcut across the grass. Some might imagine this to be unwise, rigid in using the…
A friend asked for my testimonial of how I become a Buddhist for sharing. Below is a short account… If…
During one of the revision classes of HHDL’s teachings, the Geshela said attachment is an exaggerated form of liking. The…
Everyone has weaknesses… which can be magnified if in denial of them… due to ego. Strong ego ironically is a…
A message written for Singapore Buddhist Free Clinic’s magazine: There is a famous medical analogy in Buddhism used to describe…
About once or twice a year, I get calls from strangers, directed from people who don’t know the answer, who…
A bipolar student wasn’t sure he liked being his more ‘sober’ self. Perhaps he is used to swinging between highs…
During the animal liberation, he seemed particularly angry in the box of many crabs. Using a pair of tongs to…
A man raised a ruckus at a food stall, claiming that he had waited half an hour, that he patronises…
During the recent mid-autumn festival night, I was in charge of handling lantern riddles. I came up with 100 English…
From the Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra (http://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Reln260/Vimalakirti.htm) are lesser known but some very surprising and illuminating teachings: ‘… Then the Licchavi…
A Tit for a Tat (166) Tit: How was your birthday? Tat: Was it a happy birthday? Tot: (frowning) I…
A Buddhist friend whom I did not know too well commented during a group chat that just as the universe…
To her own surprise, a friend who broke up with someone about eight years ago felt that it was only…
The last bowing session in the Pureland retreat lasted the shortest as there was the least fret, as there is…
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