Category: Movies
_ From ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’: ‘All you can take with youis that whichyou’ve given away.’ Give your generosity,give your…
_ Me[mento] Mori Reminders Latin: Memento MoriEnglish: Remember you must die. Spanish: Me MoriEnglish: I died / I die / I’m…
_ Reply For Kuchisake-onnaTo the slit-mouthed woman(Kuchisake-onna, if real),to whom saying ‘yes’ or ‘no’ is unwise,just say ‘Āmítuófó’(for protection and…
_ Just Keep Waking Up (Further) To know if youhave already awakened fully,keep trying to awaken further. (Pic from ‘1899’)
_ Strength Let go of all the thoughtsthat don’t make you strong. (Realising your weaknessesdoesn’t make you weak –if you…
The following few posts are with thoughts inspired by ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee (as adapted and illustrated…
Force: Dharmagram #323 ‘Rogue Ones’ are those not one with the force and others harmoniously.
Fist: Dharmagram #255 The fist and Zen are alike as one. (From ‘The Empty Hands’)
Homage: Dharmagram #234 Screenshot from ‘Icarus’. (Homage to truth, truth-sayers, truthseekers and the truthful.)
Darkness: Dharmagram #233 Screenshot from ‘Icarus’. (Yes, in the Pure Land of the Buddha of Immeasurable Light. Amituofo.)
Here: Dharmagram #222 Not here either, ultimately; just here relatively.
When do worldly thieves become enlightened saints? When their gang name gets dramatically mistranslated into Chinese (which says ’11 Arhats’)!
Interesting line from Pacino’s cop character in ‘Heat’. If we are nothing other than our shifting tendencies, may we aspire…
A screenshot from ‘Okja’! ‘Translations are sacred.’ A line I agree entirely with due to sutra translation work. To know…
Danny Rand of ‘Iron Fist’ sharing a Zen saying (in episode 1), so he claims. The closest Chinese equivalent I…
Weak twisted reasoning in a liner in ‘The Magnificent Seven (2016)’, when the robber baron said of those he bullied…
It is a rule, as if, in horror movies and stories, that no matter how terrified the protagonists are, of…
Translation: ‘Persistence does not definitely lead to success. Giving up definitely leads to failure.’ But of course, never persist to…
From ‘Mockingjay Part 2’, Plutarch Heavensbee’s letter to Katniss says, ‘The war is over. We’ll enter that sweet period where…
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