Truth: Super Short Story #606 Not caring for the truth,he decided to embrace his delusion,not knowing that truth always prevails,while delusion always gives way...

Status: Super Short Story #578 He was extra respectful to her only due to her extra high status, not due to her extra great character, as he knew nothing of her character. How sad it is, he thought, that it is hard for her to know if most respect her or her status, that might disappear...

Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Thought: Malice arises from stupidity, which should be empathised with compassion; instead of retaliated with malice, which is just as, if not more stupid.   (In philosophy, a razor is a...

  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...