02
Aug
2010

Being Truthful at Work

Q: If my boss asks me to comment on a colleague’s work, should I tell the truth, when I know…

02
Aug
2010

Not Oversensitive

A friend had cultivated such powerful sensitivity to the slightest relatively unhealthy foods, that we often take for granted, that…

02
Aug
2010

Another Superhero Paradox

To know if a masked vigilante is really who he is supposed to be, he needs to unmask regularly, for…

02
Aug
2010

Stamping Feet

The girl standing, chatting with her friend at the bus-stop stamps her feet once a while, because ants crawl up…

02
Aug
2010

What Does It Mean?

From Wikipedia is a description of the video of Owl City’s ‘Vanilla Twilight’ – ‘Various people and a dog witness and…

02
Aug
2010

Same Old Dishes

It’s quite scary, when I find myself ordering the same old dishes, as I did the last time I was…

02
Aug
2010

Being Contactable

I’m reminded that it is good to leave my email address when I comment online… so that I can receive…

02
Aug
2010

Minor Suffering from Killing?

Q: I have tried to avoid the killing of insects but realise that this is impossible. I therefore consider that…

29
Jul
2010

Meditations on Altruistic Love, Compassion, Joy & Impartiality

From ‘The Art of Meditation’ by Matthieu Ricard We have all, to varying degrees, had the experience of profound altruistic…

28
Jul
2010

Dharma@Cinema: The ‘Inception’ of Illusion or Reality?

The ingenious film that is ‘Inception’ begins with the assumption that it is possible for multiple persons to enter someone’s…

26
Jul
2010

What Crap?

A Tit for a Tat (155) Tit: I don’t like the world generally. Tat: Why? Tit: Because it is crappy….

26
Jul
2010

A Murderer ‘Monk’

The film ‘Monga’ is unnerving because it is realistic – as what featured could really happen in real life, if…

26
Jul
2010

Remote Controlled Universe?

The HP printer at home starts printing pictures mysteriously, from apparently ‘nowhere’. How does it do that? Via my iPhone’s…

26
Jul
2010

Greyness of the Hulk

‘Hulk not monster!’ So yells the Hulk, as he slams stuff… monstrously… In ‘Hulk: Gray’ by Jeph Loeb and Tim…

26
Jul
2010

Taiwan Adventure (14): Beyond Convention

Above is a vegetable bun (bao) bought at an airport in Taiwan. I love it when stuff like these surprise…

26
Jul
2010

Are You Secretly Invaded by the Skrulls?

In ‘Secret Invasion’ by Brian Michael Bendis, it is realised that the alien Skrull race, which is capable of shape-shifting…

26
Jul
2010

Taiwan Adventure (13): Paradox of Rules

A scene in Taiwan’s Danshui’s Starbucks: A student’s T-shirt reads, ‘There is no rule without exceptions.’ (E.g. Most but not…

26
Jul
2010

Of Nirvana & Samsara

Q: I have always thought that the Buddha’s Parinirvana was the end and that he would not be subjected to…

26
Jul
2010

Does Truth Hurts?

Q: We continue to have delusions, and fail to see the truth, because the truth hurts. A: This is why…

26
Jul
2010

The Other Unseen Demons

Sometimes, ‘the others’ whom we demonise are really harmless, while the really harmful ‘demons’ are us, because we demonised them….