Explorers are discovering more and more wonderfully ‘weird’-looking deep sea creatures day by day. Reminds me of how the karma…
A Tit for a Tat (182) Tit: You should had said so more clearly! Tat: You should have asked me…
What is the difference between an actual flower and a dream flower? That’s the only difference… The first is an…
If you believe everything is predestined, there is no need to convince me so, because whether I believe it or…
In ‘The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’, Johnny Depp plays a character who says this to a lady in her imaginary…
From afoottoo: Reminds me of this, “Fools try to contradict every teaching, as if they are wiser than every teacher,…
Some Stonepeace ideas related to teachings from Geshe Dorji Damdul’s talk yesterday ‘The Secret of Joy’: ‘If we all dislke…
True Happiness arises only with Right Effort based on realistic optimism. – Stonepeace A hungry father decided to abandon his…
When one trips and falls, it’s easier to look for someone to blame, than to realise one was unmindful, as…
Put your left hand in cold water. How cold! Put your right hand in hot water. How hot! Put both…
To know if your moves happened to be right due to unmindful beginner’s ‘luck’, keep practising them, to repeat the…
A Buddhist friend shared a mystery with me. For twenty years, he had offered an oil lamp, that uses a…
Question: I think I will still attend my friend’s gathering [at what is considered a cult by orthodox Buddhism] but…
Question: I was having a practical test and there was a candidate who did very badly. Immediately, I chanted silently,…
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
Tips are abound these days… on how to make your eyes look ‘more expressive’ using various make-up techniques. But… ‘more…
The best Dharma lessons don’t always sound the most pleasing to one’s ears. For what you already know you don’t…
Adorning glossy magazine covers are photographs of faces mostly photoshopped to ‘perfection’. Nothing new really, for our ancestors too conceal…
Maybe we are imperfect, which is why we love the imperfect. [1] Is this a sickness or a virtue? Maybe…
The magical ulcer in my mouth seems to come from nowhere, to grow and grow. It doesn’t seem to go,…
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