Tag: Anicca

A reply to a Pure Land course participant, who decided to attend the next round due to a relative’s passing…

A Tit for a Tat (218) Tit: He used to be a muscular weight-lifter. Now he’s so fat. Tat: Well,…

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’?…

Don’t run out of time to express your appreciation. Not just love for a lover or care for a friend….

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…

All good things come to an end, in departure and death. All good things come to an end, if they…

The above is a page from Mitch Albom’s ‘Have a Little Faith’ (which I have not read fully). Te below…

She spoke of her fears of how he might not return. I consoled her that we all face the same…

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

In ‘The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’, Johnny Depp plays a character who says this to a lady in her imaginary…

The magical ulcer in my mouth seems to come from nowhere, to grow and grow. It doesn’t seem to go,…

Oscar Wilde said that ‘Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six…

Yet another random lesson from Taiji class: Taiji is ultimately about fluid movement; not rigid postures, even as we learn…

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

A fool, even though he is associated with a wise man all his life, does not understand the Dhamma, just…

The ingenious film that is ‘Inception’ begins with the assumption that it is possible for multiple persons to enter someone’s…

A scene in Taiwan’s Danshui’s Starbucks: A student’s T-shirt reads, ‘There is no rule without exceptions.’ (E.g. Most but not…

I turned the digital clock off before stepping out of the house. Since all will be away for some time,…

This is one of my favourite scenes from one of my favourite movies, where Bob (played Bill Murray) sings Roxy…