Super Short Story: #436: Story At the (beginning and) end of the day, there is only one story worth writing…
Super Short Story: #435: Sunset Sunsets, he argues, are intriguing because they are transient, and because they vary each time….
Super Short Story #434: Cause Or Effect? She woke up, saw the light, and said she was woken up by…
EVIL: As the first step of spiritual cultivation, the Buddhas teach that ‘all evils [i.e. due to greed, hatred and…
Of Asian Sisyphuses and human ostriches. The cure for cyclical suffering due to voluntary ignorance? Buddhadharma!
Flowers become ‘weeds’ when not grown as wished. Weeds become ‘flowers’ when grown as wished. Flowers wither to become weeds…
Super Short Story #433: Prediction As the greater fortune-teller accurately predicted that all the other fortune-tellers cannot predict what he…
Look! A candle labelled ‘Be Here Now’, though even the now ‘flickers’ and slips away as we speak, as can…
Some scenes seen… More at https://www.facebook.com/shen.shian/posts/10154738434504001
MEETING: A discussion about work, that is part of actual work, yet not actual work, at the same time!
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…
PHONE-‘PRIVILEGE’: A self-given ‘right’ imposed upon others, by being mindless about the moving crowd behind. This is the ‘right’ to…
The nuanced stern no-nonsense expressions of Daiso’s Daruma dolls! Homage to Bodhidharma.
(IN)EFFICIENCY: In the rush hour crowd of commuters walking to switch subway lines, the person in front walks unnaturally slowly,…
This is generally true in Defiled Lands like ours. A Buddha arises once in a long while, one at a…
The occasional human allowed extended strife of nature in an otherwise concrete and metallic jungle. But how much farther can…
Beware of fakegan (vaguen) stuff… FAKEGANISM (VAGUENISM): A ‘fakegan’ or ‘vaguen’ (pronounced ‘fake-gan’ or ‘vague-en’) is a ‘fake or vague…
Not sure what this book is about but what a fantastic title, which happens to be one of the first…
The removed public phone and sign reveal how white the wall was. An unexpected case of ‘out with the old’…
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