Thoughts from ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee (as adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham):     You can never really know someone unless you can read his or her mind, to know how he or she thinks and feels. That is when you might have more understanding than bewilderment,...

Unhappiness: Super Short Story #529 He reminded the sulking kid… ‘If you are not grateful, you are grumpy unhappy. If you are not content, you are greedily unhappy. If you are not patient, you are angrily unhappy. If you are not wise, you are deludedly unhappy. So, why be so...

Pride: Super Short Story #507 He took pride that he never studied a day in school, as if he miraculously knew so much correctly… when he naturally knew so much wrongly, while not knowing so, because he never studied a day in...

The worst poison is not immediately lethal. It is slow-burning, which poisons and destroys more and more, without the poisoned knowing so, until it is too late. None are as poisoned as those poisoned thus. Even for those who think they are very ‘careful’, it is perhaps impossible...

Brightness: Dharmagram #62 May all depart from the darkness of delusion by progressing towards the brightness of...

Be Kind: Dharmagram #51 If they are deluded, they need your kind patience to awaken them. And if you are the one deluded, you have no reason to be unkind at all. You would need their kind patience to awaken...

NY Adventure 21: Three Poisons A High Line sculpture that reminds me of the Buddhist equivalent, of greed, hatred and delusion linking to, causing and being caused by one another. See the picture at...

Got an idea to write a short book titled ‘101 Reasons Why You’re An Idiot’. Sounds a little ‘rude’, but it’s meant to be catchy and witty, while offering food for thought on ‘idiot philosophy’. Here are 7 reasons to be featured… REASON #1:...

More broadly, ‘Are we wise enough to know how deluded we are?’ The only way to know is to be ever wiser till we hit the roof, by attaining the perfect wisdom of Buddhahood. That is when we know we were simply with various degrees of delusion...

DELUSION: What more damaging than ignorance, which is merely ‘not knowing’, is delusion, in terms of ‘knowing wrongly’, yet being very sure that what known is true, when it cannot be further from the truth. While ignorance can be cured by learning, delusion has to be...