Question: How do I cultivate loving-kindness for someone I dislike? Answer: It helps to remember that just as you suffer from…
Question: I’m impatient who say ‘nonsense’ as I have a strong sense of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’. Answer: If you know what is…
A lesson learnt from ‘Anya’s Ghost’ by Vera Brosgol. There is an unseen ghost behind every seen or unseen ghost…
An unnerving passage by Steven Grant, in Warren Ellis’ ‘Scars’. ‘If they weren’t there and I saw them, there’s something drastically…
A cylinder seen from the top is just a circle, but just a rectangle when seen from the side. Only…
To fret over doing what has to be done many times before doing it is to suffer that many times…
May I be free from enmity and danger May I be free from mental suffering (e.g. fear, hatred, jealousy) May…
H: There is this guru in town (Geshe Michael Roach) who claim to use Buddhism to teach people how to…
Struck me that Muhammad Ali’s boxing philosophy of ‘Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee’ seems somewhat aligned to…
A friend forwarded to me an email from a Buddhist teacher, who advocated that evangelists should simply be ignored. I replied…
A: When you lose something in, you gain something else. There’s always balance in life. S: Actually, it’s not always…
To a Buddhist friend on disseminating news of a forum (slightly extended): ‘Even though the topic is of universal interest,…
If the world looks to economic sustainability in terms of contentment with the minimum over growth in terms of greed…
Sometimes, when I encourage Buddhist friends to go easy on eating animals and their produce, I’m asked to ‘let go’….
Q: I sometimes speak harshly to one who keeps arguing with nonsensical views, to shut the person up, and not waste…
S: Message to friend discussing about 2012: “We might die the next second! Between now and 2012 or beyond, many…
The Self-Defeating God (How God Proves He Does Not Exist By Not Proving He Does Exist) Reasoning: It is the…
There are too many ungrounded assumptions in Pascal’s Wager. Firstly, one must believe there is a God [who must be believed…
‘The Lord [God] was with the men of Judah. They took possession of the hill country, but they were unable…
The foreign man suddenly extended his phone to me, instructing me to listen, in a matter of fact way, as he…
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