07
Jun
2010

Horseshoe Logic

A sophisticated yet funny story that Niels Bohr liked to tell: One of our neighbors in Tisvilde once fixed a…

07
Jun
2010

Sacred Duty

Please don’t ask me to speak against animal liberation. Just as it is seen as a sacred duty for some…

07
Jun
2010

Possessed by Mara

Dit: Look at his greed! I think he’s ‘possessed’ my Mara! Dot: Don’t be daft! Of course he is! Dit:…

07
Jun
2010

Karma Verses

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…

07
Jun
2010

Talk & Walk

It is best if everyone walks good the good talk. Usually, only some walk the talk. Still, it is better…

07
Jun
2010

Everything is Hyperlinked

Due to the law of interdependence, everything is hyperlinked to everything else… which is hyperlinked to everything else, even if…

07
Jun
2010

Isn’t It More Interesting?

A Tit for a Tat (142) Tit: Swear that you will do the chore! Tat: Don’t worry – I will….

07
Jun
2010

Of Gods & Demons

As long as there is an ego, there are demons. When there is no more ego, there are no more…

07
Jun
2010

What the Buddha Really Taught

A letter sent to the press: I refer to the 2 June 2010 article in The Straits Times, ‘Pray, let’s…

07
Jun
2010

A Training Bodhisattva’s Conscience?

Why is it that the noblest people are the ones most troubled by conscience? – Lois Lane (‘Superman: Whatever Happened…

07
Jun
2010

How to Find Your Guru?

  On how to find one’s Guru? You just need to keep your mind and heart open and learn the…

03
Jun
2010

The Importance & Urgency for Focused Pure Land Practice

From ‘A Spacious Path to Freedom: Practical Instructions on the Union of Mahamudra & Atiyoga’ by Karma Chagme, Commentary by…

01
Jun
2010

To Each Its Own?

A Tit for a Tat (141) Tit: How do you know which brow hair to pluck? Tat: If it’s not…

01
Jun
2010

How a Religion Destroyed Another

Jehu [King of Israel] assembled all the people and said to them, “Ahab worshiped Baal a little; Jehu will worship him…

01
Jun
2010

Editing the Edited

A note about mindfulness, that happened to be about the word ‘mindful’: Thank you for using publishing my review, which…

31
May
2010

The Chicken & Egg Came Together

Which came first? The chicken or the egg? But the chicken is in the egg, But the egg is in…

31
May
2010

What are Mantras?

Mantras are words, which are supposed to mean as much as possible in as few words as possible. So concise…

31
May
2010

Lose Less By Having Less Stuff

From Robert Greene’s ‘The 48 Laws of Power’ is some counter-intuitive advice – ‘The key to picking a pocket is…

31
May
2010

Agreeable Disagreeability

If you want to know someone who is always agreeable with yourself, you might as well converse with a mirror, whose…

31
May
2010

Chopping Unneeded Chopsticks

Japanese restaurants are known for their prevalent, wasteful and environmentally-unfriendly use of disposable wooden chopsticks. We visited one recently and…