Tag: equanimity

Read the two below stories online… Following them are my comments… What is Love?  One day, Plato asked his teacher,…

A reply to a Buddhist friend, who chose to get pest control to exterminate lice-like insects that plagued her house,…

His bipolar swinging of reason and emotion in this life is just like a compression of my ‘bipolar’ swinging of…

Roach resting on her image’s crown I freak out but she* smiles on Namo Guanshiyin Pusa! * not the roach!

There are two unlabeled toilet cubicles in the office. Most males use one, that became the less clean one. It’s…

Begin stationary, symmetrically with balance. Move in between, asymmetrically with balance. End stationary, symmetrically with balance. Balance is already a…

Email subject header: Diabetes Alert? Hi Everyone, Recently, I noticed that there are black ants on the rim of the…

A bipolar student wasn’t sure he liked being his more ‘sober’ self. Perhaps he is used to swinging between highs…

From ‘The Art of Meditation’ by Matthieu Ricard We have all, to varying degrees, had the experience of profound altruistic…

A Tit for a Tat (100) Tit: Everyone should see someone as special. Tat: Only one? Tit: If not, that…

I still remember the crisp air and clear stars. From that night under the Kent’s wintry sky. This night, under…

Didn’t he proclaim her to be his ‘one true love’? How could he love someone else after her passing away?…

Literally using ‘illegal aliens’ for addressing multiple socio-political issues such as xenophobia (irrational fear of strangers), ‘District 9’ is a…

From yesterday’s news, a headline (and sub-heading) reads – ‘A star to the end: (Michael) Jackson mourners kept waiting as…

Here are some lyrics in part from Moby’s bittersweet song ‘Slipping Away’ from his album ‘Hotel’: Open to everything happy…

During a Dharma discussion at Awareness Place (after screening of ‘The Woodsman’), a participant remarked about how difficult is was…

Something written for an interreligious publication… A Buddhist charity was giving out aids to the needy in terms of cash…

I once had an acquaintance in school. She had long straight flowing hair and big round eyes. The usual attributes…

If you learn to love one properly, you will learn to love all equally. – Stonepeace [Notes: The notion of…

After picking up Buddhism, I found my threshold of being able to withstand seeing others in suffering to have reduced…