Category: Photojournal

31
Mar
2009

All We Have is One Another?

Great still above from ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ with wonderful colours and composition. (I snapped this off the TV while preparing…

29
Mar
2009

Our Wants Vs Our Needs

Pic: Pureland Retreat at Dharma Drum Singapore Sometimes, you don’t really need a meditation cushion. Sometimes, you don’t really need…

28
Mar
2009

Are You a Stray in Samsara?

The stray cat that is more fretful of uncertainty than free of all suffering reminds me that… we are all…

28
Mar
2009

The Pureland Way Is My Highway

Photo: On Nicoll Highway, while strolling to a bus-stop after Coldplaying The Buddhadharma is… a path lit with smaller lamps…

28
Mar
2009

The Only Ticket I Need

On Monday this week, though it was a working day, we made sure we left home hands-free of any baggage,…

25
Mar
2009

Silhouette or Shadow?

Are you in the shadows or are you a silhouette on the brink of illumination?

14
Mar
2009

The Sun that Shines for All

Lamp light A midnight sun One is not enough to pierce the darkness of space Dharma light An eternal sun…

14
Mar
2009

So Many Films, So Little Time!

So many fine films watched. So little time to review them all. Looking at scribbled notes some time later, I…

11
Mar
2009

A Virtual Shrine for Offering Dharma

When my wallpaper is the Buddha, is when my notebook becomes my shrine, at which I mindfully make Dharma offerings……

10
Mar
2009

The Transience Haunted World

Worldly glowing nights Bleakly burning lights Ghostly flitting sights (St. Andrew’s Cathedral’s spire almost a moonpointer)

10
Mar
2009

Prepositions of Compassion

Looking at Looking over Looking after (Guanyin Bodhisattva image at Kong Meng San)

09
Mar
2009

From Worldly Blue Lights to Pure Golden Light

Walking near Stirling Road, strange blue lights on a long and incredibly zig-zag walkway in the dark caught my eye….

08
Mar
2009

Infinite Shades of Blue

Infinity within finity Infinite layers of sky Infinite shades of blue Related Articles: Limited But Unlimited http://www.moonpointer.com/index1.php?itemid=1784 Everything Finite Tells…

08
Mar
2009

Fingers Pointing at Fingers

Words on a Dharma text like fingers pointing at the moon of Truth. Fingers on a Dharma text like fingers…

08
Mar
2009

As the Buddha Would Be

Photo: A Sri Lankan-styled Buddha image atop an office cubicle Settled but upright Silent but mindful Still but radiant

02
Mar
2009

It’s Okay… Just Do Your Best!

Above: [Stele with a Buddha & two Bodhisattvas, Eastern Wei (534–50 CE), Limestone, overall height 310 cm, Collection of the…

27
Feb
2009

Why My Wanderlust, I So Wonder?

Who would not like to travel around the world? I would! When we have friends sharing their travel experiences and…

25
Feb
2009

Our Many Splendoured Rainbow Things

Leaving Kong Meng San monastery in the evening, I happened to turn around and saw a rainbow arching towards the…

25
Feb
2009

What the Middle Way Is (Not)

The Middle Path is… not to sit on the fence, neutral, not to be ambivalent, uncertain, not to be apathetic,…

23
Feb
2009

Afflictions : To Cut

The bones from our bodies of our past lives would pile higher than the highest mountain. Why am I still…