Tag: Dukkha
Some lyrics from R.E.M.’s ‘Everybody Hurts’: Well, everybody hurts sometimes. Everybody cries. And everybody hurts sometimes. And everybody hurts sometimes….
I once listened to someone’s grievances overnight. She was planning to kill herself. When dawn broke, she felt reborn. I…
Yeas ago, I stuck a bright red sticker with the words ‘Namo Amituofo’ (Homage to Amitabha Buddha) on a dangerous…
One of the most memorable films ever is a film in a film – in the movie ‘American Beauty’ called…
One who braces for the hard knocks of life will find them less shocking and painful. Not bracing for reality…
The classic ‘Mad World’ by Tears for Fears seems to be a poignant string of world-weary haikus. In between its…
Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. – John Lennon From ‘Astonishing X-men: Unstoppable’ by…
I worked till late in office tonight. Suddenly, I felt great itches on my left arm. I looked and saw…
In a scene of the movie ‘Sherlock Holmes’, the famed super sleuth makes sharp observations and astute deductions on the…
Used to wonder what’s so wonderful about the beach… Till I realised it is the meeting point of many things……
Anicca… is the truth of impermanence. From the perspective of time, nothing is unchanging, while Nirvana is timeless. Dukkha… is…
If there is a single film, that I have seen, that illustrates Samsara the most graphically, it would be Baraka….
It is time for another more or less bi-weekly dosage of ‘Depeche Dharma’, when I interpret Depeche Mode’s songs with…
A Tit for a Tat (28) Tit: It’s good to be tall because there would be no need to wear…
The company changed the clocking machine recently. It is now so easy to clock in and out that she even…
Did you know that ‘Padme’ means ‘lotus’, as in ‘Om Mani Padme Hum’? Did you know that the Jedi Order…
Some interesting quotes below to share from ‘Stillness Speaks’ by Eckhart Tolle. The book’s ideas are not totally about Buddhism,…
If there is an almighty perfect creator, the universe would be a perfect work of art. If the universe is…
In ‘Timbuktu’ by Paul Auster (illustrated by Julia Goschke for an abridged graphic novel), the author explores human homelessness via…
Whenever I got bumped into by unmindful and unapologetic pedestrians in the past, the natural tendency was to give rise…
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