29
Nov
2010

Free Will Logic

If you believe everything is predestined, there is no need to convince me so, because whether I believe it or…

29
Nov
2010

Beyond ‘Pure’ Imagination

In ‘The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’, Johnny Depp plays a character who says this to a lady in her imaginary…

29
Nov
2010

A Fool Too

From afoottoo: Reminds me of this, “Fools try to contradict every teaching, as if they are wiser than every teacher,…

29
Nov
2010

Some Quotes

Some Stonepeace ideas related to teachings from Geshe Dorji Damdul’s talk yesterday ‘The Secret of Joy’: ‘If we all dislke…

29
Nov
2010

Realistic Instead of Blindly Optimistic

True Happiness arises only with Right Effort based on realistic optimism. – Stonepeace A hungry father decided to abandon his…

29
Nov
2010

Ego Trip & Fall

When one trips and falls, it’s easier to look for someone to blame, than to realise one was unmindful, as…

29
Nov
2010

You’re Hot & You’re Cold!

Put your left hand in cold water. How cold! Put your right hand in hot water. How hot! Put both…

29
Nov
2010

Taiji Lesson #6

To know if your moves happened to be right due to unmindful beginner’s ‘luck’, keep practising them, to repeat the…

29
Nov
2010

Mystery of the Moving Wick

A Buddhist friend shared a mystery with me. For twenty years, he had offered an oil lamp, that uses a…

24
Nov
2010

Beware of Brainwashing

Question: I think I will still attend my friend’s gathering [at what is considered a cult by orthodox Buddhism] but…

24
Nov
2010

Self & Other-Reliance

Question: I was having a practical test and there was a candidate who did very badly. Immediately, I chanted silently,…

24
Nov
2010

Dukkha Inspires

Anxiety inspires. Angst inspires. Pain inspires. Dukkha inspires. 烦恼即菩提 Afflictions are Bodhi Related Article: Troubling-ness https://moonpointer.com/new/2010/12/troubling-ness

24
Nov
2010

More Expressive Of What?

Tips are abound these days… on how to make your eyes look ‘more expressive’ using various make-up techniques. But… ‘more…

24
Nov
2010

The Precious Disagreeable

The best Dharma lessons don’t always sound the most pleasing to one’s ears. For what you already know you don’t…

22
Nov
2010

Plato’s ‘Pure Land’

Adorning glossy magazine covers are photographs of faces mostly photoshopped to ‘perfection’. Nothing new really, for our ancestors too conceal…

22
Nov
2010

A Perfect Sickness Or Virtue?

Maybe we are imperfect, which is why we love the imperfect. [1] Is this a sickness or a virtue? Maybe…

22
Nov
2010

The Magical Ulcer

The magical ulcer in my mouth seems to come from nowhere, to grow and grow. It doesn’t seem to go,…

22
Nov
2010

Remember That Task?

A Tit for a Tat (181) Tit: Remember that to-do? Tat: Yes? Tit: Can you do it now? Tat: Why…

22
Nov
2010

Borrowing The Stolen

A Tit for a Tat (180) Tit: I think it’s okay to see pirated movies – if I don’t plan…

22
Nov
2010

Getting Used To The Inevitable

A Tit for a Tat (179) Tit: When will it get better?  Tat: When you get used to it! Tit:…