Category: Travelogue

Always surreal returning from overseas, to the somewhat familiar yet somewhat changed. Even the one who returns has changed. That’s…

K: We don’t smile as much to strangers when we’re not travelling overseas. S: If we realise we’re all travellers…

A mountain casting a shadow on a mountain A mountain in the light ‘creating’ a mountain in the dark Reminds me…

As amusing as it is somewhat bizarre, many temple devotees in China like to deposit their cash donations in the meditative mudras (sacred…

While preparing for a a Zen course: http://thedailyenlightenment.com/2011/05/course-the-magic-of-zen-origins-stories-essence I did research on the Flower Sermon, which is briefly this… When…

Before we returned home, we spent a night at the district called the Tibetan Refugee Colony in Delhi. We had…

A donkey’s strength renders him trapped, to be a beast of burden, fed and used. (Two of his hooves bound…

A friend found what (Khadi) seems to be a more ethical form of silk available in India, made from silk…

Scenes like abstract paintings at the guesthouse called ‘The Pink House’ after some rain. (The slugs are paradoxically slimy yet…

Here is my mini sharing of His Holiness Dalai Lama’s 2010 Southeast Asia teaching tour. I felt very fortunate to…

I remember when I first visited a primary school built by Tzu Chi Foundation many years ago, the Buddhist volunteer…

I slipped and fell in the bathroom of the guestroom where we stayed in Dharamshala… and hit my back on…

Despite a domestic flight delay at Delhi airport towards Dharmashala, we accidentally but surely, karmically ‘bumped’ into His Holiness the…

Om Mani Padme Hung a – a Buddhist mantra to generate great compassion. Such stone cravings are seen placed around…

In a taxi at Dharamshala, we told a cabbie that he was going the wrong way. If I heard him…

Turning these defenseless animals into egg-producing machines with no consideration for their welfare whatsoever is a degradation of our own…

I make a long list of stuff to bring to India, before I departed. Don’t forget the toothbrush, the torch…

Death as release from suffering, as being for the better, is not always true. Death as entry into hell, as…

Above is a vegetable bun (bao) bought at an airport in Taiwan. I love it when stuff like these surprise…

A scene in Taiwan’s Danshui’s Starbucks: A student’s T-shirt reads, ‘There is no rule without exceptions.’ (E.g. Most but not…