Tag: delusion

If there is universally accepted reasoning, there would be not a single conflict in the world. The question is whether…

A Tit for a Tat (347) Tit: You can never win a seriously deluded person in argument – even if you…

Struck me that Elmo is the opposite of Emo! Emo: One who has negative emotions often. Elmo: One who has…

S: Sometimes, the most agreeable teacher is the worst [or least appropriate] – because you learn nothing new from him…

Question: Sometimes, I feel tired and worried. Despite diligence in Dharma learning, I seem to still be in the darkness…

Either you are not aware of your self-contradictions, or are aware but contradict yourself – which is doubly self-contradicting! Who…

While the humans try to nip the problem in the bud by preventing Skynet from forming, why doesn’t the robots just nip the problem…

A review of Radiohead’s ‘Give Up the Ghost’: Lyrics: Don’t haunt me don’t haunt me… Gather up the lost and…

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…

An old friend suddenly turned up in one of my regular classes. When I asked an open question to all,…

‘Independence Day’ re-screening on TV tonight reminds me of how simplistic the idea is, of being able to write a…

Wolverine’s adamantium claws are at times extensions of his heroism, of the fight for justice. But at other times extensions…

Just removed the protection screen of my iPhone 3, as I prepared to trade it in for iPhone 4. Suddenly,…

The ingenious film that is ‘Inception’ begins with the assumption that it is possible for multiple persons to enter someone’s…

Q: We continue to have delusions, and fail to see the truth, because the truth hurts. A: This is why…

Herd mentality is paradoxically individual mentality based on delusion and/or selfishness. If herds always unite, predators will have no luck…

A sophisticated yet funny story that Niels Bohr liked to tell: One of our neighbors in Tisvilde once fixed a…

If you choose not to see the truth, are you good as blind then? If you choose not to hear…

Good intentions are not good enough if they arise from delusion. This is why Buddhism pays attention to both goodness…

Yah: I’m apolitical. Jat: More like apathetic. Yah: Apathetic to politics… yes! Jat: How so? Yah: Because politics has too…