Tag: Anatta

Super Short Story (250): Photo He feels existentially estranged whenever he needs to have his photo snapped, unsure of how…

In ‘Hitchcock’, the imagined biographical movie of the inventive Alfred Hitchcock, he utters this line to his wife – ‘Self-plagiarism…

Super Short Story (215): Change Since he had changed much over the years, she wondered which person she really loves….

Ted in ‘How I Met Your Mother’ says to his buddies, ‘Look we’ve all been searching for the five doppelgangers…

‘Wu wo’ (无我) means ‘non-self’ (Anatta), which means that as there is no enduring (unchanging) entity in our body and…

Is a dog with one leg less a lesser dog? Is a dog with two legs less a lesser dog?…

Super Short Story (135): Nobody He hasn’t read it yet but of all the some 50 Mr. Men books, he’s…

Super Short Story (81): Change She was surprised that he had changed since they last met years ago, while he…

He stopped reading her stuff because he thought he could already read her like a book, forgetting that she is…

What is good only for you is seldom really good for you, as it arises from selfishness. What is good…

There is no soul, as in an unchanging mental entity. If it is there, why did we change to be…

多年以前有一位朋友到楚布寺去覲見剛剛坐床的大寶法王。 不知道是怎樣的因緣，他突然問了小法王一句： “我可以抱你嗎？” 只有七歲的小法王靜靜地回答：“你可以抱住天空嗎？” ～摘自噶瑪噶舉之家 我們就是為了幻化的事物忙一輩子，以為可以抓住什麼， 但就是留不住，終其空空忙碌一生。 A summary of the above in English: Someone visited the then seven year…

One of the most deluded kind of meditators are those who imagine they were in deep peace, when they were…

Sunyata (Emptiness) = Anicca (Impermanence) + Anatta (Unsubstantiality; Non-self) Anicca refers to all physical and mental phenomena not being with…

I find shows featuring makeovers for glamour shots on TV amusing… not that it’s a joke that these makeovers do…

Bunny In A Bunny Suit Lyrics by Richy Vesecky, Music by Frank Bango, Sung by Simone White pretending to be…

A Tit for a Tat (208) Tit: How are you? Tat: Same old, same old. Tit: How so? People change!…

If you don’t like yourself, why don’t you change yourself? If you can change yourself, who is really your ‘self’?…

Question: How does the concept of the Collective Unconscious (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_unconscious) fit in Buddhist philosophy? Answer: Commenting based on the definition…

What is the difference between an actual flower and a dream flower? That’s the only difference… The first is an…