Tag: compassion

The most urgent matter, upon attaining this precious but brief human rebirth, is to safeguard one’s future rebirth. – Stonepeace…

‘The Blind Side’ tells the touching true story of how the once underprivileged and racially discriminated Michael Oher became a successful football…

Jat: I read that plants are alive too? Some says this make vegetarians and vegans murderers too! Yah: How can…

People often asked me what i think about the plight of Tibet, I’m sympathetic but have not much to comment….

Jat: So you don’t eat chocolate that has milk? Yah: Nope. Jat: Hmm… seems like a dull life. Yah: Nope,…

A Tit for a Tat (77) Tit: I think he suffers from some mental disorder. Tat: Which one? Tit: It…

An imaginary verse on how a Bodhisattva might think: The only reason my heart is broken is because so many…

Meatguy: I think you are too strongly attached to being vegetarian. Shi’an: I’m not. I’m just aware that animals are…

He who, depraved, devoid of truthfulness and self-control, puts on the ochre [monastic] robe, doesn’t deserve the ochre robe. But…

At what point is technology too much? It seems inevitable that technology will not just be extensions of our bodies…

Ray: What’s the best way to attain inner peace despite being in the midst of those who have a blaming…

Question: What is the correct approach one must practice to stop people who are persistently bad, like extremists? Answer: There’s…

What I learnt from the espionage movie ‘The Message’… ‘Don’t shoot me. I’m just the messenger!’ That said, sometimes, the…

Literally using ‘illegal aliens’ for addressing multiple socio-political issues such as xenophobia (irrational fear of strangers), ‘District 9’ is a…

We jail and fine those who abuse and torture pets, but isn’t culling harmless animals the extreme form of abuse…

From ‘A Heart Full of Peace’ by Joseph Goldstein are many thought-provoking quotes, with elaborations on what their significance. Below…

Pol: Does your brother eat what he fishes? Jat: Yup. Pol: Eweeh! He should just catch and release. I do…

What does it mean… that I’m not sure what it all means? that I’m not sure how I’ll figure it…

Last evening was the second time I watched ‘A Full Bright Moon’ (Yilun Mingyue) – as the opening film of…

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