21
Apr
2011

Tears of Sorrow

A Tit for a Tat (298) Tit: (Looking at TV) Look! The animals about to be killed are sad! Tut:…

21
Apr
2011

Dream of Deathwish

A Tit for a Tat (297) Tit: Sometimes I wish I’m pronounced to have a terminal illness. Tat: Gosh! Why?…

21
Apr
2011

Models of Middle Path

Models too skinny on the catwalk might promote over-dieting? Models too plump on the catwalk might promote over-eating? Models must…

06
Apr
2011

Give Up The Ghost

A review of Radiohead’s ‘Give Up the Ghost’: Lyrics: Don’t haunt me don’t haunt me… Gather up the lost and…

06
Apr
2011

Good & Bad Things

If you focus only on the bad things in your life, you’ll miss the good things in your life, and…

06
Apr
2011

Dharma Snippets

Learnt and expanded from a Dharma talk: 放下不是放弃。 Right ‘letting go’ is not ‘giving up’; it is acceptance of things…

06
Apr
2011

Descendant Who?

Question: Do you know what has happened to Shakyamuni Buddha’s clan descendants? Answer: I don’t know… But there are some people in…

06
Apr
2011

How Did The Buddha Do It?

Question: How was the Buddha-to-be able to just let go of his worldly attachments to search for the path to…

06
Apr
2011

Paradox of True Happiness

Part 1: True Happiness as an attained goal (of Buddhahood) is not conditioned by anyone (including one’self’),* or it would…

06
Apr
2011

Perception Of Name

PT: By the way, there’s something so befitting about your name linking with your personality… 似乎时时刻刻都是这么心安平静. This must be what you said about…

06
Apr
2011

Precept Food for Thought

Is continual and indirect paying of others to break the first precept (to kill animals for you to eat) itself…

05
Apr
2011

Hunger?

He described his plight to be a hungry man, who has no food at home, yet unable to eat outside….

05
Apr
2011

Baseball Zen!

They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it. – Willie Mays Baseball is nothing…

05
Apr
2011

Time to Go

A Tit for a Tat (296) Tat: They accepted your resignation just like that? Tit: It’s okay as they don’t…

05
Apr
2011

I Don’t Know!

A Tit for a Tat (295) Tit: Stop asking! I said ‘I don’t know!’ Tat: How would I know how…

05
Apr
2011

How Would I Know?

A Tit for a Tat (294) Tit: Remind me to… Tat: Okay…. [Five minutes later] Remember to… Tit: Not now!…

05
Apr
2011

Real Fake

A Tit for a Tat (293) Tit: I think she’s quite fake. Tat: Come on… she’s an actress. Acting is…

05
Apr
2011

Expressway For How Long?

A Tit for a Tat (292) Tit: An expressway at last! Tat: But will it last? Tit: Huh? Tat: ‘Everyone’…

30
Mar
2011

The Only Traffic

A Tit for a Tat (291) Tit: Why did you cross before the lights changed? Tat: Because there was no…

30
Mar
2011

The ‘Beautiful’ Vase

A Tit for a Tat (290) Tit: Because the vase was so beautiful, it was bought. Tat: And? Tit: Because…