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Friend: I read your recent article about ’small & big cars’ (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thedailyenlightenment-realisation/message/358). Sometimes its ‘difficult’ to practise the Dharma. For example,…

[It’s weird when you discover you’re ‘supposed’ to be Cambodian monk when you are not. What would you do? This…

Sent this to a remarkable friend who is unrelentingly involved in charity work for the greater good, to the extent…

Whenever I got bumped into by unmindful and unapologetic pedestrians in the past, the natural tendency was to give rise…

A friend asked me a couple of interesting questions. I thought I would share them with their answers here –…

It is partly due to the ‘endless’ clinging to self-delusion, to constant wondering about the nature of the ‘self’, which…

If a chubby child, who already should have had his fill cries for more and refuses to stop, what do…

Here’s a re-telling of a Jataka Tale, with additional commentary at the end… Once upon a time, the Bodhisattva (future…

Capital Tower* catching the setting sun, glowing like a pillar of gold. Reminds me of Amituofo, that supreme beacon of…

A Tit for a Tat (7) Tit: (Closing windows) Woah! What strong winds tonight! (Opening windows a few minutes later)…

Thank goodness that we can only have one thought at a time. Imagine if 84,000 thoughts assault you at the…

A colleague I sat near apologised for her work desk being messy. I grinned and replied that it doesn’t matter,…

Pic: Which is scarier – a grinning Cheshire Cat or a scowling one? I saw two stationary stray cats gazing…

If only Samsara does not has… Piles of laundry to wash Piles of trash to throw Piles of dishes to…

If there is no car around, would you wait for the light to turn green before crossing? As a pedestrian…

I once had an acquaintance in school. She had long straight flowing hair and big round eyes. The usual attributes…

In Mahavaipulya-mahasanni-pata Sutra, a verse says: In the Dharma Ending Age [which we’re about 10% into now], when 100 million…

Pic: Mahakala Re: You cannot always be an ‘angel’. Sometimes you have to be a mara. Me: The constant ‘angel’…

Retelling of a Tibetan folk story: Brother One has 99 horses. Brother Two has 1 horse. None feel they have…

In the movie ‘Minority Report’, the featured world of the near future is such that wherever you go to, your…