He who, depraved, devoid of truthfulness and self-control, puts on the ochre [monastic] robe, doesn’t deserve the ochre robe. But…
There has been a email circulating for years already. Its subject header reads: ‘Siddharta [sic] Gautama Buddha (First Buddha) [sic]…
An easy way to clean dirty potatoes is to put them in a tub of water, and jiggle them about,…
At what point is technology too much? It seems inevitable that technology will not just be extensions of our bodies…
A Tit for a Tat (64) Tit: Why did you tell the cabbie ‘Great service’? Tat: What do you think…
A Tit for a Tat (63) Tit: What do you think of her? Tat: Oh! She IS a …… person!…
In the ‘Sutra of the Eight Realisations of Great Beings’, this is taught – ‘Wholeheartedly, day and night, disciples of…
What I learnt from the movie ‘The Informant!’, which is a true story, about lying… dramatised of course! (Is it…
Question: How do we discern if a self-improvement program is reliable or not, in line with the Dharma or not?…
A Tit for a Tat (62) Tit: Why didn’t you thank the waitress? Tat: Why should I? Her service was…
Kat put a live prawn on the BBQ pit and watched it jump and struggle for life. Lat put a…
A Tit for a Tat (61) Tit: Why didn’t you thank the waiter? Tat: Why should I? Tit: Why not?…
A Tit for a Tat (60) Tit: Why must you always have the last word? Tat: I don’t always have…
Q: l read a book, from which I gathered that anyone can go to heaven, that all religions are right…
Question: A teacher mentioned that the Lotus Sutra is fictional, that some of its contents do not accord with the…
I would like to share what I call the Chrysalis Effect… From everything ugly and even seemingly disgusting (e.g. a…
Fren: Watched the movie ‘2012’ – finally the world comes to an end! Gren: We are already living in the…
Date: This Sunday: 15 November 2009 Time: 9.00-11.30 am Speaker: Shen Shi’an Venue: Pu Ji Si Buddhist Research Centre (39…
Something strange happened. I discovered that the ‘same’ nails are never always the same. Physical stuff change… slowly sometimes but…
A Tit for a Tat (59) Tit: Why are you like that? I can’t stand it! Tat: It’s only because…
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