Moonpointer: Buddhist Blog of Everyday Dharma

The silent Buddha’s silent flower… What was he saying? Or ‘not saying’?

While the humans try to nip the problem in the bud by preventing Skynet from forming, why doesn’t the robots just nip the problem…

Lessons from ‘Red Riding Hood’: Anyone can be a werewolf in disguise. Even yourself, with a hidden beast inside. With…

A Tit for a Tat (321) Tat: I think she’s disappointed with me. Tit: And… Tat: And I’m disappointed with her…

I am only one, but still I am one [and not ‘no one’]. I cannot do everything, but still I…

Less is More… which is Less is More… which is Less is More…

If you can time-travel to the past to change the future, what if you change it such, that you cannot…

His bipolar swinging of reason and emotion in this life is just like a compression of my ‘bipolar’ swinging of…

The problem with words, of how they are perceived differently, even if they are exact but few!

Since life has no (fixed) meaning, what the meaning of life is, is to give life a (meaningful) meaning. Since life…

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…

A Tit for a Tat (320) Tit: [Glaring] How could you say that? Tat: Take it easy! Can’t you see…

A: I want chilli crab for dinner later!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! B: But no crab wants to be your chilli dinner ever!

Something funny because it was said seriously in the ‘Green Lantern’ movie: Bob: Watch your back. Hal: That’s impossible, Bob….

A Tit for a Tat (319) Tit: Why is it that you never take out the trash? Tat: I do!…

Even though there is no absolute good or evil in this worldly world, it is nevertheless important to be relatively…

A Tit for a Tat (318) Tat: This so-called place of interest is not even worth snapping! Tit: Why are…

A Tit for a Tat (317) Tit: Why is it that everyone keeps saying a subway station is just ahead?…