A Tit for a Tat (335) Tat: Why the little left over? Tit: You don’t know how much I already ate! Tat: Why…
A Tit for a Tat (334) Tat: Usually, we think it is hygienic to wash our hands after flushing the loo at home….
Some lament of not finding a dream partner, of not getting the one one wants now. Some lament of losing…
Woody Allen said this – To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one…
Saw this story online. I shortened it to its essentials: A tortoise family decided to go on a picnic. Being…
Question: If farmed animals are not bred in farms and wild animals are not caged in zoos, will they be…
Question: On the article ‘The Cabbage & the Cow’ at http://thedailyenlightenment.com/2011/09/the-cabbage-the-cow , I think we should simply be grateful to have food to…
Personally speaking, I have learnt not to trust my intuition from experience – because gut feelings are often just irrational…
Here is the original Hippocratic Oath taken by ancient Greek doctors, from which modern versions of doctors’ moral conduct is…
She immersed in Dharma research work, and used it to avoid human contact, even with those whom she should help….
Unfortunately, due to unskilfulness in reconciling or separating the two, increase in worldly proximity between Dharma friends, including teachers and…
I saw someone wearing this t-shirt. It’s meant to be a ‘fun’ way of re-interpreting what ‘fast food’ is, but…
Q: What is the Buddhist basis of trust? A: The truth is, despite mustering the best of our wisdom, but because…
Read the two below stories online… Following them are my comments… What is Love? One day, Plato asked his teacher,…
Some friends comment that some relics (sairira) of great Buddhist masters look quite ordinary, in the sense that they can’t even…
Honour (loyalty) is honoured even amongst organised criminals, especially amongst them, for them to be truly organised! But for them…
Some choose to believe they are stuck, in existential dilemmas, unable to move in any direction. Some choose to believe…
A friend posted this on Facebook on 9/11: ‘Remembering those who were lost in 911, and many others who were lost…
修行须放下贪嗔痴, 而无住生心地提起 悲智双运的菩萨行. The letting go (renunciation) of greed, hatred and delusion, and the giving rise of the (Bodhicitta) aspiration…
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