Tag: death

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…

Don’t run out of time to express your appreciation. Not just love for a lover or care for a friend….

All good things come to an end, in departure and death. All good things come to an end, if they…

In ‘Aftershock’, a foster mother-to-be asks to ensure that the girl she wants to adopt really has no surviving family….

She spoke of her fears of how he might not return. I consoled her that we all face the same…

I encountered someone who seem perfectly normal, who turned out to be suicidal. I had a chat with him, to…