Tag: hell

27
Nov
2023

Smoking Zone

_ Smoking Zone Is a smoking roomsmokers’ paradise,because they can smokeall they want… Or is it smokers’ hell,because they breathe…

08
Mar
2023

Hope In Hell

_ Hope In Hell There is no eternal hell,while there is eternal Buddha-nature,with ability to be mindful of the Buddha,to…

17
Mar
2020

Hell: Dharmagram #399

Hell: Dharmagram #399 The road to hell is createdfor oneself and otherswith ‘good’ intentionsfollowed byvery bad delusional actions.

15
Apr
2015

How Buddhists View The Seventh Lunar Month

From July 4, 2006  In the papers some years ago. (Have left since 2011 to go independent.)

08
Mar
2014

Time To Meet The Devil?

The tagline of the movie ‘Only God Forgives’ says ‘Time to meet the devil’. It features a moody underworld sub-chief,…

24
Oct
2012

Super Short Story (99): Pain

Super Short Story (99): Pain He was wondering why it took so long for the ulcer on his lip to…

27
Sep
2011

Phantom Love & Loss

Some lament of not finding a dream partner, of not getting the one one wants now. Some lament of losing…

07
Sep
2011

Prepared To Face Heaven Or Hell?

From ‘Divide “between religions, not religious and non-religious”‘ in The Straits Times on 6 September 2011: ‘Mr Lee (Kuan Yew), whose…

07
Sep
2011

If All Wishes Came True

A genie appeared to three in a boat and granted each of them a wish. A: I want to go…

03
Nov
2010

India Adventure (26): We Refugees All

Before we returned home, we spent a night at the district called the Tibetan Refugee Colony in Delhi. We had…

27
Oct
2010

Is Bedside Conversion Okay?

If forced bedside conversion to another religion is okay according to some, is it okay if someone else does the…

28
Sep
2010

The Inconceivable Compassion Of The Enlightened

From the Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra (http://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Reln260/Vimalakirti.htm) are lesser known but some very surprising and illuminating teachings: ‘… Then the Licchavi…

22
Sep
2010

India Adventure (16): No Wrong Way

In a taxi at Dharamshala, we told a cabbie that he was going the wrong way. If I heard him…

15
Apr
2010

What is Hell?

From ‘Talking Lines: The Graphic Stories of R.O. Bleachman’, Shakespeare’s sister Opinia says, ‘Hell. For is not its definition? An…

22
Mar
2010

A Better Place Available

S took a cursory glance at some alternative seats at the centre, where there is a full-house Dharma talk about…

16
Mar
2010

Feel at Home in Samsara?

A Tit for a Tat (117) Tit: I don’t feel that I belong! Tat: Belong where? Tit: Here – in…

01
Feb
2010

Should We Shun Horror Flicks?

Some believe that horror or violent films should not be seen as they will be imprinted onto the mind such…

05
Jan
2010

Beautiful Love Story

I saw this as the ‘blurb’ of the new PostSecret book – ‘PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death and God’. I…

21
Jun
2009

Another Day in Paradise

A Tit for a Tat (17) Tit: Well, another working day in ‘paradise’… not! Tat: Well, at least it’s hell…..

18
Jun
2009

Drag All Out of Hell!

In ‘Drag Me to Hell’, a girl who was just living another day in relative paradise before she encounters an…