It’s quite scary, when I find myself ordering the same old dishes, as I did the last time I was…
I’m reminded that it is good to leave my email address when I comment online… so that I can receive…
Q: I have tried to avoid the killing of insects but realise that this is impossible. I therefore consider that…
From ‘The Art of Meditation’ by Matthieu Ricard We have all, to varying degrees, had the experience of profound altruistic…
The ingenious film that is ‘Inception’ begins with the assumption that it is possible for multiple persons to enter someone’s…
A Tit for a Tat (155) Tit: I don’t like the world generally. Tat: Why? Tit: Because it is crappy….
The film ‘Monga’ is unnerving because it is realistic – as what featured could really happen in real life, if…
The HP printer at home starts printing pictures mysteriously, from apparently ‘nowhere’. How does it do that? Via my iPhone’s…
‘Hulk not monster!’ So yells the Hulk, as he slams stuff… monstrously… In ‘Hulk: Gray’ by Jeph Loeb and Tim…
Above is a vegetable bun (bao) bought at an airport in Taiwan. I love it when stuff like these surprise…
In ‘Secret Invasion’ by Brian Michael Bendis, it is realised that the alien Skrull race, which is capable of shape-shifting…
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…
Q: I have always thought that the Buddha’s Parinirvana was the end and that he would not be subjected to…
Q: We continue to have delusions, and fail to see the truth, because the truth hurts. A: This is why…
Sometimes, ‘the others’ whom we demonise are really harmless, while the really harmful ‘demons’ are us, because we demonised them….
Q: If one is reborn as an animal, say an ant, how would the ant be able to practise the…
A student asked a Zen Master, ‘If I work very hard, how long will it take for me to realise…
Q: Why eat plants? Don’t plants feel pain too? A: Plants are life forms but not sentient life – in…
(Thank you, Scorpio East, for the premiere tickets!) Though ‘Aftershock’ retells the terrible tragedy of the 1976 Tangshan earthquake which…
If I were to summarise our mini pilgrimage to Taiwan, it would be 悲欣交集 (intertwinement of sadness and happiness). The…
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