A sophisticated yet funny story that Niels Bohr liked to tell: One of our neighbors in Tisvilde once fixed a…
Please don’t ask me to speak against animal liberation. Just as it is seen as a sacred duty for some…
Dit: Look at his greed! I think he’s ‘possessed’ my Mara! Dot: Don’t be daft! Of course he is! Dit:…
行善不昌，必有余殃，殃尽必昌； 行恶不殃，必有余昌，昌尽必殃。 If doing good does not lead to good fortune, there must be excess misfortune [due to past evil…
It is best if everyone walks good the good talk. Usually, only some walk the talk. Still, it is better…
Due to the law of interdependence, everything is hyperlinked to everything else… which is hyperlinked to everything else, even if…
A Tit for a Tat (142) Tit: Swear that you will do the chore! Tat: Don’t worry – I will….
As long as there is an ego, there are demons. When there is no more ego, there are no more…
A letter sent to the press: I refer to the 2 June 2010 article in The Straits Times, ‘Pray, let’s…
Why is it that the noblest people are the ones most troubled by conscience? – Lois Lane (‘Superman: Whatever Happened…
On how to find one’s Guru? You just need to keep your mind and heart open and learn the…
From ‘A Spacious Path to Freedom: Practical Instructions on the Union of Mahamudra & Atiyoga’ by Karma Chagme, Commentary by…
A Tit for a Tat (141) Tit: How do you know which brow hair to pluck? Tat: If it’s not…
Jehu [King of Israel] assembled all the people and said to them, “Ahab worshiped Baal a little; Jehu will worship him…
A note about mindfulness, that happened to be about the word ‘mindful’: Thank you for using publishing my review, which…
Which came first? The chicken or the egg? But the chicken is in the egg, But the egg is in…
Mantras are words, which are supposed to mean as much as possible in as few words as possible. So concise…
From Robert Greene’s ‘The 48 Laws of Power’ is some counter-intuitive advice – ‘The key to picking a pocket is…
If you want to know someone who is always agreeable with yourself, you might as well converse with a mirror, whose…
Japanese restaurants are known for their prevalent, wasteful and environmentally-unfriendly use of disposable wooden chopsticks. We visited one recently and…
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