I always wondered what is the moral of the story of ‘The Princess and the Pea’. Does it sing the…
Do you see the big picture? no no no… not that big picture on the wall, but the real big…
I went too see ‘The Last Exorcism’ because I thought the premise of the story was interesting. But it was…
One of the methods to ‘combine’ Pure Land and Zen practice is that the one who practise mindfulness of Amituofo’s (Amitabha…
From a Facebook discussion, a friend got this reply from his friend when he said he’s going to learn what…
Below is the Japanese version of ‘Call Us By Our True Names’, as featured in the e-newsletter of Japan Vegetarian Society…
From ‘Grimmer Tales: A Wicked Collection of Happily Never After Stories’ by Erik Bergstrom, is ‘The Ugly Truth’, which I think…
To my aghast, I once heard a monk say that the path of attaining Nirvana is like pushing a button…
A Tit for a Tat (174) Tit: I cringe whenever I hear his bad English! Tat: I cringe whenever you…
A Tit for a Tat (173) Tit: I’m very mindful. I never accidentally kill a single ant when I do…
I found this re-blogged on another blog: Be careful when you sing a song of broken love, a song of…
Seeing an old man walking slowly, holding up the walkway, I hope I will never hold anyone up similarly. Yet,…
There is a tension between learning and expressing, between internalising and ‘externalising’. There is so much to learn, while there…
What happens if a religion insists that it is the only true religion? How is inter-religious harmony to be upheld…
To Be Truly All-Embracing He presented himself to be free, free even to eat anything, open in an all-embracing way. But…
Buddhist Views on Cat-Neutering 从佛教观点谈为猫绝育 The below email dialogue with a fellow reader is about the ethics of neutering cats to…
Oscar Wilde said that ‘Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six…
The ushnisha refers to the protuberance on the crown of the Buddha. It is one of the 32 special physical…
Before we returned home, we spent a night at the district called the Tibetan Refugee Colony in Delhi. We had…
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