Tag: compassion

Kindly Guanyin Homely Chenrezig Motherly Avalokiteshvara ‘My mother is Guanyin to me when she prays to Guanyin for me.’ –…

Penguin books’ designs are getting really clever and cool these days. Gone are the days of Penguin’s stuffy bookish image….

A Buddha image on the computer reminding me to blog with compassion and wisdom, reminding me to surf with compassion…

Last week, we visited the Peranakan Museum for the ‘Serenity in Stone : The Qingzhou Discovery’ exhibition. Featured are 800…

Bing: Why is there paint over forgotten masking tape on this wall? Ding: The renovation guy must had been sloppy……

If you learn to love one properly, you will learn to love all equally. – Stonepeace [Notes: The notion of…

What’s the Meaning of Life? Once upon a time, there was a very small boy called Zeph, who wondered much…

There is a full page in ‘Invincible: Ultimate Collection, Vol. 1’ (by Robert Kirkman) which seems to accidentally portray the…

After picking up Buddhism, I found my threshold of being able to withstand seeing others in suffering to have reduced…

I was at a group dinner last weekend, during which the conversation centered mostly around food. That seen as ‘great…

A friend texted me a question – ‘How to have compassion for terrorists?’ He was asking about the recent Mumbai…

Jon: As an artist, I wonder is artists are necessarily self-cherishing by nature? Is there a difference between being selfish…

If you position yourself such that I cannot share my advice with you, it is not so much the end…

Ja: How rude, he ignored me when I greeted him. Ya: Maybe he’s shy or didn’t recognise you?  Ja: Nay,…

  I just returned from hosting an encore screening session of the multiple-award winning documentary ‘Buddha’s Lost Children’. (The review…

Humans are often full of self-contradictions. When they see beached whales, they try to keep them moist, to transport them…

Swindled by ‘The Black Swindler’? I have always wondered this – Why can’t filmmakers make their films to be as…

Japan Adventures (9) : Letting Go of Letting Go Japan is the land of much formality and courtesy. Sometimes, it…

Japan Adventures (7) : One with Compassion The ticket cum bookmark for Kiyomizu Temple, which is dedicated to Kannon Bosatsu…