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Jun
2017

Cause & Effect

诸法因缘生, 诸法因缘灭。

27
Jun
2017

Own Self

The Buddha didn’t word it exactly that way. However, indeed, we don’t even truly own our ‘selves’ in terms of…

27
Jun
2017

Think Free

Remain one of the crowd. Follow mainstream media religiously. Just kidding! Look wider, closer and deeper. Always think freely.

27
Jun
2017

Escape The Ordinary

欣求极乐,了脱生死,转凡成圣,速成佛道,广度众生。

27
Jun
2017

Shoes?

Wonder if such shoes that look abandoned come from abrupt dumping due to preference for new ones, or generosity to…

27
Jun
2017

Leaf

There is truly no randomness; there is truly only cause and effect. Even how a leaf falls exactly; even how…

27
Jun
2017

Journeying

Journeying is not just going to a goal. Journeying is already go(al)ing.

11
Jun
2017

Start Writing: Super Short Story: #437

Super Short Story: #437: Start Writing If the important lessons you have learnt in life are not too many to…

11
Jun
2017

Story: Super Short Story: #436

Super Short Story: #436: Story At the (beginning and) end of the day, there is only one story worth writing…

11
Jun
2017

Sunset: Super Short Story: #435

Super Short Story: #435: Sunset Sunsets, he argues, are intriguing because they are transient, and because they vary each time….

11
Jun
2017

Cause Or Effect? : Super Short Story #434

Super Short Story #434: Cause Or Effect? She woke up, saw the light, and said she was woken up by…

11
Jun
2017

Avoid Evil

EVIL: As the first step of spiritual cultivation, the Buddhas teach that ‘all evils [i.e. due to greed, hatred and…

11
Jun
2017

Stream-Drain

Let me call this in-between thing a stream-drain (by the Esplanade).

11
Jun
2017

Asian Sisyphuses

Of Asian Sisyphuses and human ostriches. The cure for cyclical suffering due to voluntary ignorance? Buddhadharma!

11
Jun
2017

Flowering Weed?

Flowers become ‘weeds’ when not grown as wished. Weeds become ‘flowers’ when grown as wished. Flowers wither to become weeds…

11
Jun
2017

Prediction: Super Short Story #433

Super Short Story #433: Prediction As the greater fortune-teller accurately predicted that all the other fortune-tellers  cannot predict what he…

11
Jun
2017

Flickering Now

Look! A candle labelled ‘Be Here Now’, though even the now ‘flickers’ and slips away as we speak, as can…

06
Jun
2017

Night Stuff

Some scenes seen… More at https://www.facebook.com/shen.shian/posts/10154738434504001

06
Jun
2017

Meeting Paradox

MEETING: A discussion about work, that is part of actual work, yet not actual work, at the same time!

06
Jun
2017

Life-sized Amituofo!

Life-sized Amituofo image to be used for a coming Nianfo retreat. Namo Amituofo! 阿弥陀接引图! Picture of Amituofo’s receiving and guiding…