Tag: Buddha-nature

I used to be quite a severely unforgiving person. (Fortunately, things have improved greatly since.) The slightest bit of evil…

A Tit for a Tat (100) Tit: Everyone should see someone as special. Tat: Only one? Tit: If not, that…

Seeing a cleaner dusting a stupa that housed the Buddha’s relics. I wondered what would happen, should it be left…

The story by Maaike Hartjes in ‘Go Home: 12 Moving Stories’ tells of a baby bird born a little different….

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

From ‘Wonderland’, which is a spin-off story based on ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ by Tommy Kovac and Sonny Liew are…

The main story arc of the movie PTU (Police Tactical Unit) is about a cop who slips and falls in…

Every time I come to hear the poignant opening lines of Erasure’s ‘Piano Song’, I’m reminded of how the Buddha’s…

Voted song of 2008 by Rolling Stone, The Killers’ ‘Human’ has an interesting line, that seems grammatically incorrect – ‘Are…

There are many Buddha images around the world, and they come in all shapes, sizes and materials. We will always…

… I saw something in your eyes I’m sure Something in your eyes I wanted it for myself You and I…

Question: Is there a need to be a full-time vegetarian if I pay homage to Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva (Dizang Pusa)? Am asking because…

In the graphic novel version of ‘Kidnapped’ by Robert Louis Stevenson (adapted by Alan Grant, illustrated by Cam Kennedy), the…

I don’t have faith that there is an all-forgiving God because the last time he lost faith in us… he…

Here are some lyrics in part from Moby’s bittersweet song ‘Slipping Away’ from his album ‘Hotel’: Open to everything happy…

I read in a Buddhist mailing list that Karen Armstrong’s new book ‘The Case for God’, which is somewhat apologetics…

When I was younger, during my adolescent years, there was a period of time, which felt like two years, when…

‘Who Is It?’ is one of Michael Jackson’s lesser known hits. With news of his tragic early demise, the song…

A Tit for a Tat (22) Tit: Do you believe me or yourself? Tat: I believe in Buddha. Tit: But…

The Terminator saga, as most would know, is about the anthropomorphism and demonisation of high technology. It is a series…