People often asked me what i think about the plight of Tibet, I’m sympathetic but have not much to comment….
Early during the pilgrimage, our Indian Hindu ‘sub-guide’ (who isn’t the main guide, who is instead Buddhist) introduced God (Trimurti) as…
The story by Maaike Hartjes in ‘Go Home: 12 Moving Stories’ tells of a baby bird born a little different….
‘The Walking Man’ by Jiro Taniguchi is an everyman, except that he takes many walks and pays more attention to…
A Tit for a Tat (83) Tit: It’s so difficult to choose between the two because they are so alike!…
In the movie ‘Turning Point’, a baddie becomes an undercover cop, who is told to become an undercover baddie. It’s…
Falling asleep readily in the night, may I swiftly let go of the world(ly). Waking up readily in the morning,…
Q: Whenever I face any challenges at work, I’ll tell myself I’m ‘paying’ for my past negative karma. If we…
‘Who am I?’ ‘I’ am nothing but constant change, yet while our mind and matter change, there is always to…
How can you save all beings from suffering, if you keep eating some of these beings? – Stonepeace Every once…
It is easy for the good person to do good deeds, but for the evil one it is difficult to…
What happens when you trust an authority other than yourself to be the source of truth? You tend to lose…
Free your secret and become who you are. – PostSecret tagline Sometimes when we think we are keeping a secret,…
En route to the first Buddhist holy place of worship, we dropped by the famed Taj Mahal. The brief of…
In the film ‘Don’t Look Back’ (Ne Te Retourne Pas), Jeanne (played by Sophie Marceau) realises that small but definite…
As I missed the movie ‘Accident’ accidentally when it was screening, I purposely (i.e. ‘not accidentally’) made a point to…
From http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DharmaNews/message/5321 : Controversy Over Display of Buddhist Relics Yen Feng, The Straits Times, 2 January 2010 Five prominent Buddhist…
In a scene of the movie ‘Sherlock Holmes’, the famed super sleuth makes sharp observations and astute deductions on the…
The PostSecret postcard from ‘PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death and God’ reads: ‘I wanted him so badly that I slept…
The above is a picture of a juzu (nianzhu; mala; prayer beads) holder we previously bought from Japan’s Daiso. (Yes,…
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