Tag: compassion

25
Nov
2015

Growth: Wandering Thought #250

Growth: Wandering Thought #250 A DAY without any growth in any virtue, be it compassion, generosity, morality, patience, diligence, wisdom……

17
Jun
2015

Friends: Sam & Sara #425

Sam & Sara #425: Friends Sara: He says it’s hard to go vege as many of his friends are meat-lovers….

23
May
2015

Trueness: Wandering Thought #233

Wandering Thought #233: Trueness  ‘Be true to yourself’. This is often said, taken to mean ‘to listen to your heart…

19
Jan
2015

An Age-Old Answer For An Age-Old Question

A Question For The Pope Glyzelle Palomar (12-year-old girl): Many children are abandoned by their parents. There are also many…

20
Sep
2014

Compassion: Wandering Thought #93

Wandering Thought #93: Compassion Compassion is so valuable and precious that we wish it to be as universal as possible,…

20
Sep
2014

Generosity : Wandering Thought #86

Wandering Thought #86: Generosity If we cannot carry even a single material thing along, to wherever we will be beyond…

21
Aug
2014

Truth: Wandering Thought #59

Wandering Thought #59: Truth Be the bearer of truths, even if inconvenient ones, for the welfare of the downtrodden and…

14
Aug
2014

Fight: Wandering Thought #48

Wandering Thought #48: Fight If you must ‘fight’ for anything, only do it with kindness and truthfulness, out of compassion…

04
Aug
2014

Transience: Wandering Thought #42

Wandering Thought #42: Transience Since this physical life is already so transient, why overly pursue that which is equally materially…

30
Jun
2014

Usefulness: Wandering Thought #19

Wandering Thought #19: Usefulness If someone remembers and comes to you only in times of need, you are at least…

14
Jun
2014

Yourself

From the movie ‘Better Living Through Chemistry’, You can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone. And sometimes, that someone…

25
May
2014

Woes: Wandering Thought #13

Wandering Thought #13: Woes We might not need others to listen to our woes, but others might need us to…

09
May
2014

Fortune: Wandering Thought #5

Wandering Thought #5: Fortune Why should our bad fortune be also others’? Why should others suffer because we do? Why…

01
Mar
2014

OMG: Super Short Story #322

Super Short Story #322: OMG ‘Oh my God!’ she exclaimed, ‘He does not exists! Because if there is an all-good, all-knowing…

05
Dec
2013

The Half-Assed Bridge

There is this half-bridge-half-ramp structure at the Toa Payoh train station underpass. It is a monument ‘celebrating’ witlessness. For some…

29
Nov
2013

Bodhicitta Vs Compassion

She said her main Dharma practice is based on Bodhicitta. Yet she can’t agree on animal liberation, non-animal-testing and working…

30
Jun
2013

Haze: Super Short Story (206)

Super Short Story (206): Haze She said she saw a silly man jogging in the haze, breathing in the pollution….

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;…

30
Mar
2013

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03
Jan
2013

Gathering What Material?

From the movie ‘Being Flynn’: Jon: I’m doing the same thing here as you are, [spending night in homeless shelter]…