Category: Mix

24
May
2010

Mindfulness Over Mala

Your mala is to facilitate the quality of your mindfulness. But the quality of your mala is not the quality…

24
May
2010

With Whatever Constraints We Have

An extended reply sent to someone who wishes to attend this course, but am unable to do it in full:…

24
May
2010

Perfectionism is No Fault?

It’s bizarre when some Buddhists see ethical perfectionism as a fault. It’s not that all are perfectionistic out of attachment…

24
May
2010

What Reference Point?

A Tit for a Tat (139) Tit: How do you tell a clock is telling the right time? Tat: By…

24
May
2010

What Am I?

‘I’ am an experiment experimenting with this ‘I’. ‘I’ am change changing this ‘I’. ‘I’ am (r/d)evolution* evolving this ‘I’….

24
May
2010

Don’t Project Your Laziness

The notion of Buddhas retiring forever after manifesting parinirvana once is ridiculous as they have endless compassion. They are the…

24
May
2010

Why Be Good?

Four Reasons for Goodness Firstly, if there is afterlife, and if there’s karma, I’ll have a good rebirth as I…

24
May
2010

Ignorant of Ignorance

With the ever-expanding Internet, with its information up-and-overload, we have less and less reasons to be ignorant about stuff. But…

24
May
2010

Dogmatism in Design

When I was asked about what I thought of some text on a series of small pictures, I commented that…

24
May
2010

No Way to Compare

A Tit for a Tat (138) Tit: You should try the mock sashimi. Tat: Why? Tit: Because it tastes amazingly…

18
May
2010

The Arbitrary Printer

A Tit for a Tat (137) Tit: Now that I don’t have a printer, I can’t print stuff any time,…

17
May
2010

But So What?

A single long strand of white hair sprouting from my left brow. Fascinating Mysterious Became a hot topic But so…

17
May
2010

Power(lessness) of Words

Word can be so powerful as the same ones can mean so much to different people. Word can be so…

17
May
2010

Is Being Asleep Being Alive?

Would you rather sleep longer and live longer, due to having improved health, or sleep less and have more waking…

17
May
2010

How Do You Use the Net?

Give a fool access to the net, and he searches for nonsense. Give the wise access to the net, and…

17
May
2010

Why Get Peeved?

All instances of being peeved in the past came to pass. Phew! All instances of being peeved in the present…

17
May
2010

Double Insurance for the Truth

The teaching that ‘we should not simply adhere blindly to scriptures’ is itself in a scripture, in the Kalama Sutta….

17
May
2010

How the Quest for Truth Begins

If you are on a time-limited quest for truth, and come across countless schools of thought, each of which claims…

17
May
2010

Senseless & Stupid

Was thinking of ranting against someone’s senseless stupidity when I realised it would be senseless and stupid, especially if it…

17
May
2010

You Don’t Really Believe…

If you really think you and I can’t change, you don’t really believe in Anicca. If you really think you…