07
Mar
2009

Are You Heeding the 6th Buddha’s Advice Yet?

The 17th Karmapa’s Kagyu office produced an impressive booklet called ‘Guidelines for Mitigating Climate Change’. I received it via email…

05
Mar
2009

Why Good is More Powerful Than Evil

Gee: You’re too skinny! Let me transfer some fat to you! (Reverse liposuction!!?) Cee: Nooo! Thank goodness only merits can…

04
Mar
2009

Try the Zen Diet for Better Physical & Spiritual Health!

Some eat to live, some live to eat, but you can eat towards enlightenment! Disclaimer: The diet described here has not yet…

04
Mar
2009

Poll Analysis: Do You Believe You Have a Soulmate?

Here is an analysis of the poll question ‘Do you believe you have a soulmate?’ As of today, the results…

04
Mar
2009

Are You a Very Serious Practitioner?

Fai: My casual observation: both ‘practice’ and ‘studies’ seems to work well as means for ego inflation. I have met…

04
Mar
2009

What If Someone Loves You Till He’ll Kill For You?

In the movie ‘Suspect X’, a brilliant mathematician plans an elaborate scheme that involves murder to help his love interest get…

03
Mar
2009

Understanding Amituofo via the Amitabha Sutra

Understanding Amituofo via the Amitabha Sutra We often hear Buddhists greet each other with ‘Amituofo’ and aspiring to be reborn…

02
Mar
2009

Don’t Walk Over a Sutra!

A Dharma friend recounted the first time she stepped into a Chinese Buddhist temple out of interest to learn chanting….

02
Mar
2009

It’s Okay… Just Do Your Best!

Above: [Stele with a Buddha & two Bodhisattvas, Eastern Wei (534–50 CE), Limestone, overall height 310 cm, Collection of the…

28
Feb
2009

Ya! Ya! Oh My God!

Something simple happened a couple of days ago, that upon hindsight, seems more significant than not. I was seated at…

27
Feb
2009

An Occasional ‘Haiku’ of Sorts

Maybe the occasional smoker is already addicted to the occasional smoking.

27
Feb
2009

Intense Intention Creates Intense Karma

Q: If a child makes a mistake out of ignorance or delusion, that he is not aware of as wrong…

27
Feb
2009

From Small Talk to Dharma Talk

I seem to be having a strange problem. But really, this problem has been there all along, only aggravated by…

27
Feb
2009

Why My Wanderlust, I So Wonder?

Who would not like to travel around the world? I would! When we have friends sharing their travel experiences and…

25
Feb
2009

Dedicating Some Beings to All Beings?

While chatting with Sophie over dinner at Yes Natural (a healthy vegetarian food restaurant) this evening, she asked if it…

25
Feb
2009

Our Many Splendoured Rainbow Things

Leaving Kong Meng San monastery in the evening, I happened to turn around and saw a rainbow arching towards the…

25
Feb
2009

What the Middle Way Is (Not)

The Middle Path is… not to sit on the fence, neutral, not to be ambivalent, uncertain, not to be apathetic,…

25
Feb
2009

Poll Analysis: What do you wish to attain by the end of this life?

Here is an analysis of the poll question ‘What do you wish to attain by the end of this life?’…

25
Feb
2009

Never a Need to Be Angry

‘Scold! Scold! Scold!’ Listen… listen… listen… Gosh! He’s right! May I accept the fault-finding graciously. No need to get mad…

23
Feb
2009

Adventures : Japan Tales (21)

Reflections on Shinran’s Pure Land Teachings I just finished viewing an animated film titled ‘Shinran-sama: His Wish & Light’, which…