From the 1957 movie ‘The River’directed by Jean Renoir – Same But Different Nan: Why can’t you be good like…
As I quote Stonepeace often, I get these questions a lot… Who is Stonepeace? Is Stonepeace ancient or modern? Is Stonepeace dead…
Q: How do you know that the Buddha’s teachings is the truth? A: Through active learning, practising, testing and questioning the teachings….
From the graphic novel ‘Americus’ by MK Reed and Jonathan Hill is this amusing frame. According to the Bible, everything arose…
From the movie, ‘An Education’ Headmistress: Have you set a date? Have you decided on a church? Jenny: We won’t…
From the movie, ‘An Education’: Jenny: David, if tomorrow night does happen, it’s only ever going to happen once. David:…
What is good only for you is seldom really good for you, as it arises from selfishness. What is good…
Dukkha is suffering from Birth Ageing Sickness Death Departure from who/what we like, Being with who/what we dislike, Failing to…
Review of ‘Walking The Tiger’s Path – A Soldier’s Spiritual Journey in Iraq’ By Paul M. Kendel The war genre…
This is a response to Lee Yue Heng’s article ‘Fifty Steps Laugh At One Hundred Steps’ at http://ahhengwrites.blogspot.com/2012/05/fifty-steps-laugh-at-one-hundred-steps.html as on 21.05.12. It’s…
There is an interesting pro-vegetarian article (28.01.12) titled ‘Why Buddhists Should Be Vegetarian’ at http://sujato.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/why-buddhists-should-be-vegetarian-with-extra-cute It comes from a Theravada monk,…
Someone initiated a debate on vegetarianism on one of my pro-vegan Facebook posts: https://moonpointer.com/new/2012/05/all-mothers-deserve-respect-of-course Each non pro-vegan point from him…
Lee Yue Heng (L): [On his non pro-vegan link being deleted from S’s Facebook profile.] It seems like I was…
Here is a discussion initiated by L, which he claims to be robust, which isn’t, IMHO… At least, not from…
From ‘The Avengers’ movie: Steve Rogers: Doc… I think now is the perfect time for you to get angry. Bruce…
A surprise email arrived on a mediation case between two people I helped some time ago. Here is my abridged…
Advice to a Dharma student: If you don’t stick to a proper practice group with continual learning and guidance, these problems…
There is no soul, as in an unchanging mental entity. If it is there, why did we change to be…
At a Buddhist temple, there were prayers… that ended with the wish for all beings to be well and happy….
“Hundreds of thousands of baby male chicks are either ground up alive or discarded like trash to die more slowly,…
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