Tag: death

Some lament of not finding a dream partner, of not getting the one one wants now. Some lament of losing…

A friend sent by the Chinese text below, written by a Dharma teacher, for comments. My comments are in English,…

The above is Art Spiegelman’s ‘Synopsis’ of the human condition. This mortal life is as if a definite walk towards…

Lost a good idea within a finger snap Arghhh! Imagine if this happens on the deathbed. Arghhh! Not a good…

If a pet has died, will you get a new pet? Will you relive the possible pain of departure again?…

There is this part in ‘Tuesdays with Morrie’ that mentions Buddhism. Morrie: Everybody knows they’re going to die, but nobody…

Since life has no (fixed) meaning, what the meaning of life is, is to give life a (meaningful) meaning. Since life…

A hospice flyer read, ‘To them, every moment matters.’ But wait… we are all the dying. The important question is……

Question: We went to exhume of one of our long-time ancestors’ graves for cremation and discovered some ornaments with the…

A Tit for a Tat (297) Tit: Sometimes I wish I’m pronounced to have a terminal illness. Tat: Gosh! Why?…

Learnt and expanded from a Dharma talk: 放下不是放弃。 Right ‘letting go’ is not ‘giving up’; it is acceptance of things…

Not catnip, not eucalyptus, not anything I know, that shoos him away. Nothing seemed to deter the cockroach. Like death,…

There is a stranger in the house. There is an uninvited guest in the house. There is a phantom cockroach…

Almost everyday I hear the same busker singing the same few lovelorn love songs in the same few ways. I…

A Tit for a Tat (226) Tit: Is it safer and more realistic to assume there is a cockroach lurking…

The endlessly greedy are like one who gathers fallen coins into pockets with holes, walking in circles, getting richer yet…

A reply to a Pure Land course participant, who decided to attend the next round due to a relative’s passing…

A Tit for a Tat (218) Tit: He used to be a muscular weight-lifter. Now he’s so fat. Tat: Well,…

Question: Is it true that ‘good people die young’ and that “good deeds do not beget got endings’? Answer: Not…

A live band played Auld Lang Syne at his ‘Buddhist’ funeral. Way too sentimental a parting gift. Is it supposed to…