Tag: attachment

24
Jan
2017

Hipster Stuff

Hilarious Ladybird satire series. This one on the hipster phenomenon. Check out the ‘nostalgic sub-trending’ bicycle bar moustache. Why struggle…

28
May
2016

Awesome Castle

Attachment to romanticising the moment can lose immediacy of the moment. (From Tom Gauld’s ‘You’re All Just Jealous Of My…

12
Apr
2016

Lamentations: Wandering Thought #275

Lamentations: Wandering Thought #275: Even if those whom we had good times with do not remember or treasure them like…

17
Jun
2015

The Cinderella Koan

In the musical movie, ‘Into The Woods’, which retells the Cinderella story (among other fairy tales), her shoes got stuck…

13
Jun
2015

Library: Super Short Story #347

Library: Super Short Story #347 As he was attached to his expectation of silence in the library, every little sound…

03
May
2015

Surrogate Attachment

Samsara: The process of transitioning from one subject or object of surrogate attachment to another… ad infinitum… until there is…

20
Nov
2014

Monster: Wandering Thought #150

Wandering Thought #150: Monster The greatest and most immediate monsters in our lives are always the most powerful and devious,…

14
Aug
2014

Ghosts: Wandering Thought #46

Wandering Thought #46: Ghosts All ghosts are manifestations of attachment – ours and others’. We are haunted by our attachments…

04
Aug
2014

Partiality: Wandering Thought #43

Wandering Thought #43: Partiality Any one form of partial and worldly love is not superior to any other form of…

26
Jan
2014

OCD: Super Short Story #301

Super Short Story #301: OCD The more she read about OCD, the more obsessive and compulsive she became, in wanting…

31
Dec
2013

Rail: Super Short Story #285

Super Short Story #285: Rail The left rail was sadly crucified to a thousand bridges while it could not cross…

08
Nov
2013

Fall (1) : Super Short Story (262)

Super Short Story (262): Fall (1) He reckoned that if he never falls in love, he will never fall out…

30
Aug
2013

Practicality: Sam & Sara #405

Sam & Sara #405: Practicality Sara: Can you not eat from the pot? Sam: I can’t. I’m just not impractical…

21
Jul
2013

Smoking: Super Short Story (219)

Super Short Story (219): Smoking He says he can’t quit smoking. She says it’s not true, because others can even…

20
Jul
2013

Coffee: Super Short Story (218)

Super Short Story (218): Coffee If you quit coffee now, he suggested, she can still reward herself with a cuppa…

14
Jul
2013

Plagiarism

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

07
Jul
2013

Nomophobia: Super Short Story (212)

Super Short Story (212): Nomophobia He learnt a new term today – ‘Nomophobia’: the fear of being out of mobile…

13
Jun
2013

Lock: Super Short Story (203)

Super Short Story (203): Lock He created a lockless door lock – an unturnable door knob without a real lock. He…

06
Apr
2013

Is Compassion Attachment?

Question: About these words… ‘Seeing Form itself as Emptiness produces great Wisdom so one does not dwell in birth and death;…

21
Mar
2013

Slipping Sands

We are born empty-handed come, and we die empty-handed. Yet, most of us are born with clenched fists, and some…