Tag: Anatta

22
Nov
2010

Ease

自不在 而自在. [As one realises] there is no self, there is ease with one’self’. – Stonepeace Total realisation of non-self,…

27
Oct
2010

Three Spheres of Emptiness

Question: While the three spheres (of self, other and connecting action) are interdependent of each other, how does emptiness come…

22
Sep
2010

Time That Didn’t Flow

To her own surprise, a friend who broke up with someone about eight years ago felt that it was only…

24
Aug
2010

Which is the Real You?

When I visit some relatives semi regularly, I’m unfortunately not much of a conversation-maker in terms of small talk. I…

13
Jul
2010

Who Inherits Karma?

If There Is No Self, Who Owns My Karma? Just as there are thoughts without a thinker, there is karma…

31
May
2010

Rain

It is raining? Raining? Rain! No ‘it’. No ‘raining’. Just ‘rain’. Because there is no rainer, Because there is no…

24
May
2010

What Am I?

‘I’ am an experiment experimenting with this ‘I’. ‘I’ am change changing this ‘I’. ‘I’ am (r/d)evolution* evolving this ‘I’….

17
May
2010

You Don’t Really Believe…

If you really think you and I can’t change, you don’t really believe in Anicca. If you really think you…

07
Apr
2010

The Dust is Your Life Too

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. – John Lennon From ‘Astonishing X-men: Unstoppable’ by…

01
Apr
2010

Humanity, Humility, Honesty

Visited St. Patrick’s School again, a couple of days ago, to give a presentation on the Buddhist perspective of life…

30
Mar
2010

What is Not Cat about the Cheshire Cat?

Alternative Alice (2): What is Not Cat about the Cheshire Cat? Cheshire Cat: Which part of me is not like…

08
Mar
2010

This is a Bad Time

From ‘This is a Bad Time’ by Bruce Eric Kaplan: But why do we choose to be attached to the…

08
Mar
2010

Who is the Real One?

A Tit for a Tat (108) Tit: I don’t understand her. Tat: Why? Tit: Sometimes, she is difficult. Tat: So?…

03
Feb
2010

Our Scramble Suits

In ‘A Scanner Darkly’, undercover cops wear a ‘scramble suit’ which covers them from head to toe. Now, this suit…

11
Jan
2010

Who am I?

‘Who am I?’ ‘I’ am nothing but constant change, yet while our mind and matter change, there is always to…

06
Jan
2010

Not Totally Different or Same

In the film ‘Don’t Look Back’ (Ne Te Retourne Pas), Jeanne (played by Sophie Marceau) realises that small but definite…

18
Dec
2009

Tiger Baby Anyone?

Question: In Chinese horoscope, the next year is that of the tiger. Some say it’s not a ‘good’ animal. How…

30
Nov
2009

Attached to Being Vegetarian?

Meatguy: I think you are too strongly attached to being vegetarian. Shi’an: I’m not. I’m just aware that animals are…

30
Nov
2009

More Unpredictably than My Dogs

Daoni and company (my soft toy dogs) look different from different angles. They might look sad from one, but glad…

23
Nov
2009

Not Sure Now

A Tit for a Tat (63) Tit: What do you think of her? Tat: Oh! She IS a …… person!…