15
Mar
2010

More or Less a Haiku?

Less is more Les is mor Lesismor

15
Mar
2010

To Lend Money or Not

A Tit for a Tat (114) Tit: Should I lend money to him? Tat: I wouldn’t lend a huge amount…

15
Mar
2010

Why Look at the Time?

A Tit for a Tat (113) Tit: Why look at the time if you don’t know how long to cook…

15
Mar
2010

Your Karma is Yours

A Tit for a Tat (112) Tit: Yikes! This fruit is too sour for me! Tat: It’s just nice for…

15
Mar
2010

Strange Cab Phenomenon?

A Tit for a Tat (111) Tit: When I’m not looking for a cab, there would be available. But when…

11
Mar
2010

Why Not Cop Out?

In the movie ‘Cop Out’, a cop goes all out to retrieve his robbed valuable baseball card for the sake…

11
Mar
2010

From Asanga to Maitreya, Shantideva to Nagarjuna

Talking about compassion, how can we not mention how Acharya Asanga had carefully licked the maggots out of a dog’s…

10
Mar
2010

How Vegan is Your Organic Food?

Though a large organic farm I visited doesn’t use pesticides, it uses fly paper and blue UV light insect-killers to…

10
Mar
2010

Two Monks Too Different

Thus have I heard, the below poignant and hilarious accounts are based on actual concurrent incidents… The old abbot of…

10
Mar
2010

An Easy Gauge of Your Good & Evil

To avoid all evil, To do all good, And to purify the mind – These are the teachings of all…

08
Mar
2010

‘A Serious Man’ with Serious Doubts?

‘A Serious Man’ is a seriously quirky yet enjoyable award-winning black comedy that centres on the nature of faith in…

08
Mar
2010

This is a Bad Time

From ‘This is a Bad Time’ by Bruce Eric Kaplan: But why do we choose to be attached to the…

08
Mar
2010

The Invisible Colour of Attachment

From ‘The Color of Earth’ by Kim Dong Hwa, a young monk poignantly thinks to himself when he realises he…

08
Mar
2010

Buddha Astray?

Some wordplay below on a string of words that stand for what might arise sequentially while one practises mindfulness of…

08
Mar
2010

Forgot What to Remember

A Tit for a Tat (110) Tit: I forgot to remind you something. Tat: About what? Maybe I can help…

08
Mar
2010

Wisdom of Forgiveness

I used to be quite a severely unforgiving person. (Fortunately, things have improved greatly since.) The slightest bit of evil…

08
Mar
2010

Unchanging Love

A Tit for a Tat (109) Tit: What is True Love? Tat: That which does not become hate. Tit: Huh?…

08
Mar
2010

Who is the Real One?

A Tit for a Tat (108) Tit: I don’t understand her. Tat: Why? Tit: Sometimes, she is difficult. Tat: So?…

04
Mar
2010

Inconceivable Cosmic Proportions

The last cosmic scene of ‘Men in Black’ (which is the only part that stuck to me) reminds me of…

03
Mar
2010

India Adventures (12) : More Photos

Hi everyone, sorry for the long wait… Here are some of the photos, with more coming up :canny: Album :…