19
Mar
2009

Do We Suffer Fools Gladly Or Rage Against Them?

Is one who suffers fools gladly one who is gladly a fool? Q:  What if someone is unreasonable? Should we…

18
Mar
2009

Why I Skipped the Safest Supper

Photo: A Catholic Sister reading the Declaration of Religious Harmony: “We, the people in Singapore, declare that religious harmony is…

18
Mar
2009

Then Change the Present

From ‘Civil War: Front Line: Embedded’ by Paul Jenkins… Speedball: Believe me, I would do anything to go back and…

17
Mar
2009

Look! No Looks!

It’s totally normal that many personal blogs are generous with photographs of the bloggers themselves, since they are visual as…

16
Mar
2009

We Are Our Self-fulfilling Prophesies

We believe what we want to believe. Be careful! What we believe might be believed into ‘reality’ like a self-fulfilling…

16
Mar
2009

What is Suffering?

Panel Discussion @ NTU Buddhist Society What is Suffering? Suffering is very subjective in one’s own way and it exists…

16
Mar
2009

Observers Are Also Participants

Photos: At Citylink & Suntec City We made a ‘grave’ mistake today, of assuming that the last day of the…

15
Mar
2009

Maybe He Just Didn’t Know

While on a cab with two colleagues to AMK Hub after today’s Pure Land class, we were chatting among ourselves…

14
Mar
2009

The Sun that Shines for All

Lamp light A midnight sun One is not enough to pierce the darkness of space Dharma light An eternal sun…

14
Mar
2009

So Many Films, So Little Time!

So many fine films watched. So little time to review them all. Looking at scribbled notes some time later, I…

13
Mar
2009

Are You a Buddha?

For the second time this week, I was at St. Joseph’s Institution International, invited to give an hour’s presentation to…

12
Mar
2009

Trudging Thru the Blues

Every time I recall how I got over trouble in mind (and health) in the past, it never fails to…

12
Mar
2009

Another Stinging Paper Cut

Sorting notes today, I got a long paper cut again. You can even die from a serious paper cut. Serious!…

11
Mar
2009

A Virtual Shrine for Offering Dharma

When my wallpaper is the Buddha, is when my notebook becomes my shrine, at which I mindfully make Dharma offerings……

11
Mar
2009

‘The Path’ of ‘Seeing Deep’

< click to enlarge Bodhicitta (Productions) has just released a compilation of their ‘greatest hits’ for free distribution, and will…

10
Mar
2009

The Transience Haunted World

Worldly glowing nights Bleakly burning lights Ghostly flitting sights (St. Andrew’s Cathedral’s spire almost a moonpointer)

10
Mar
2009

Prepositions of Compassion

Looking at Looking over Looking after (Guanyin Bodhisattva image at Kong Meng San)

09
Mar
2009

From Worldly Blue Lights to Pure Golden Light

Walking near Stirling Road, strange blue lights on a long and incredibly zig-zag walkway in the dark caught my eye….

09
Mar
2009

Pureland Practice Fellowship Articles

Here is an ‘index’ of the articles shared via the Pureland Practice Fellowship’s mailing list so far (as on 9…

09
Mar
2009

Dharma@Cinema : Groundhog Day

< click to enlarge DHARMA@CINEMA : Relive ‘Groundhog Day’ Today! Movie Screening and Sharing by Shen Shi’an Though ‘Groundhog Day’…