During the recent mid-autumn festival night, I was in charge of handling lantern riddles. I came up with 100 English…
From the Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra (http://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Reln260/Vimalakirti.htm) are lesser known but some very surprising and illuminating teachings: ‘… Then the Licchavi…
A friend did something interesting. Noticing that there are many flyers messily placed at her gate and doorstep, she made…
A Tit for a Tat (166) Tit: How was your birthday? Tat: Was it a happy birthday? Tot: (frowning) I…
From Hurts’ ‘Blood, Tears and Gold’: Love goes cold Blood, tears and gold Won’t make it any better My interpretation:…
Just sent this to the press: I refer to the letter ‘”No meat, no fish” ideology can disturb eco balance’…
I remember when I first visited a primary school built by Tzu Chi Foundation many years ago, the Buddhist volunteer…
I slipped and fell in the bathroom of the guestroom where we stayed in Dharamshala… and hit my back on…
Despite a domestic flight delay at Delhi airport towards Dharmashala, we accidentally but surely, karmically ‘bumped’ into His Holiness the…
Om Mani Padme Hung a – a Buddhist mantra to generate great compassion. Such stone cravings are seen placed around…
I watched the 2010 version of ‘The Karate Kid’ on the plane to India. It’s better than I expected. (It’s…
In a taxi at Dharamshala, we told a cabbie that he was going the wrong way. If I heard him…
A Buddhist friend whom I did not know too well commented during a group chat that just as the universe…
At a wedding lunch of a friend, two of us were served vegetarian food. We took a peek at the…
In ‘Valley of Flowers’, which might appear to be a Tibetan Buddhist movie at first, there is a scene of…
To her own surprise, a friend who broke up with someone about eight years ago felt that it was only…
The last bowing session in the Pureland retreat lasted the shortest as there was the least fret, as there is…
Turning these defenseless animals into egg-producing machines with no consideration for their welfare whatsoever is a degradation of our own…
A friend confessed that he believes in the Buddhist teachings, while believing there is a creator God (which clashes with…
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