Category: Mix

04
Oct
2010

To Empathise is to Civilise

To empathise is to civilise. To civilise is to empathise. – Jeremy Rifkin As mentioned in the video, ‘We are…

04
Oct
2010

Mysterious Chanting Heard

Q: I have been attending a weekly group chanting regularly. On two mornings of these days, I heard the chanting…

04
Oct
2010

True Positive & Realistic Thinking!

Sometimes, there are positive thinking ideas that are simply based on a slanted way of thinking, which makes it unrealistic….

04
Oct
2010

Significance of Offerings

If the lotus symbolises spiritual purity, as it blossoms despite roots in mud (which represents defilements), does the offering of…

04
Oct
2010

Are We Mad?

A friend sent an old news link about how a girl killed and cut her parents into pieces due to…

04
Oct
2010

Longer Route of Compassion

I never take the obvious shortcut across the grass. Some might imagine this to be unwise, rigid in using the…

03
Oct
2010

My Buddhist Journey

A friend asked for my testimonial of how I become a Buddhist for sharing. Below is a short account… If…

29
Sep
2010

India Adventures (20) : Exaggerated Liking

During one of the revision classes of HHDL’s teachings, the Geshela said attachment is an exaggerated form of liking. The…

29
Sep
2010

Egoism Is Weakness

Everyone has weaknesses… which can be magnified if in denial of them… due to ego. Strong ego ironically is a…

29
Sep
2010

Medical Analogy of Triple Gem

A message written for Singapore Buddhist Free Clinic’s magazine: There is a famous medical analogy in Buddhism used to describe…

29
Sep
2010

How to Be a Monk?

About once or twice a year, I get calls from strangers, directed from people who don’t know the answer, who…

29
Sep
2010

Towards Equanimous Sobriety

A bipolar student wasn’t sure he liked being his more ‘sober’ self. Perhaps he is used to swinging between highs…

29
Sep
2010

The Clinging Claw of Attachment

During the animal liberation, he seemed particularly angry in the box of many crabs. Using a pair of tongs to…

29
Sep
2010

Curse Your Lack of Blessings?

A man raised a ruckus at a food stall, claiming that he had waited half an hour, that he patronises…

29
Sep
2010

Dharma Riddle Me This

During the recent mid-autumn festival night, I was in charge of handling lantern riddles. I came up with 100 English…

28
Sep
2010

The Inconceivable Compassion Of The Enlightened

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…

27
Sep
2010

Angry Birthday!

A Tit for a Tat (166) Tit: How was your birthday? Tat: Was it a happy birthday? Tot: (frowning) I…

22
Sep
2010

Why Balance Good and Evil?

A Buddhist friend whom I did not know too well commented during a group chat that just as the universe…

22
Sep
2010

Time That Didn’t Flow

To her own surprise, a friend who broke up with someone about eight years ago felt that it was only…

21
Sep
2010

Shortest Bowing Session

The last bowing session in the Pureland retreat lasted the shortest as there was the least fret, as there is…