Tag: death

To a Buddhist friend on disseminating news of a forum (slightly extended): ‘Even though the topic is of universal interest,…

S: Message to friend discussing about 2012: “We might die the next second! Between now and 2012 or beyond, many…

He sits idly at the coffee shop, with an already empty cup, Just looking around… He had spent so many…

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…