22
Nov
2010

We Won’t Run

From Sarah Blasko’s ‘We Won’t Run’: Cos we won’t run, we can fight, all that keeps us up at night….

22
Nov
2010

Ease

自不在 而自在. [As one realises] there is no self, there is ease with one’self’. – Stonepeace Total realisation of non-self,…

22
Nov
2010

Who Blesses The Blessed One?

The Buddha is also called ‘The Blessed One’. But who blesses the Blessed One, who blesses us with the Dharma?…

22
Nov
2010

Where Is Home?

The best pithy one-liner on TV in a long time. Amanda tells Alex in Nikita: ‘Home is where you stop…

15
Nov
2010

The Seven Kinds Of Refuge

As generally defined, seven kinds of refuge. Which one are you? Generally, any form of refuge missing Dharma is spiritually…

15
Nov
2010

A Day At A Time?

A Tit for a Tat (178) Tit: Can we eat at that restaurant every day? Tat: If we have enough…

15
Nov
2010

What’s On Your Mind?

A Facebook dialogue: Shian: Struck me that the Facebook live feed question is a good one – ‘What’s on your…

15
Nov
2010

Are Labels Useless?

Q: It doesn’t matter whether one calls oneself a Buddhist when one is practising the Buddha’s way. Often, we are…

15
Nov
2010

Such (In)flexibility!

A Tit for a Tat (177) Tit: The deliveryman just called. He wants to come now! Tat: Wow, this is…

15
Nov
2010

No Need to Compare?

A Tit for a Tat (176) Tit: This bun tastes dry – not like the ones before! Tat: Don’t compare…

15
Nov
2010

Sent to Colleagues

Email subject header: Diabetes Alert? Hi Everyone, Recently, I noticed that there are black ants on the rim of the…

15
Nov
2010

Taiji Lesson #5

Then again, yet another random lesson from Taiji class: The mirror for checking your moves is half your teacher, but…

15
Nov
2010

One Of Us

From the chorus of ‘One of Us’ by Joan Osbourne, as covered in an episode of Glee recently too. These…

15
Nov
2010

How to Enjoy Sleeping?

A Tit for a Tat (175) Tit: I enjoy sleeping. Tat: But ‘you’ are not there when you’re asleep! You’re…

10
Nov
2010

Be a Better Princess

I always wondered what is the moral of the story of ‘The Princess and the Pea’. Does it sing the…

10
Nov
2010

Big Picture

Do you see the big picture? no no no… not that big picture on the wall, but the real big…

10
Nov
2010

Thoughts on Exorcism

I went too see ‘The Last Exorcism’ because I thought the premise of the story was interesting. But it was…

10
Nov
2010

Who is Mindful of Buddha?

One of the methods to ‘combine’ Pure Land and Zen practice is that the one who practise mindfulness of Amituofo’s (Amitabha…

10
Nov
2010

Is Meditation Dangerous?

From a Facebook discussion, a friend got this reply from his friend when he said he’s going to learn what…

09
Nov
2010

What Are Their True Names?

Below is the Japanese version of ‘Call Us By Our True Names’, as featured in the e-newsletter of Japan Vegetarian Society…