Tag: impermanence

Since we all change, the point is to ensure that we change to be better (and not worse) – till…

More on the interesting meaning of this phrase at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichi-go_ichi-e I call this truth ‘YOLNO’ – You Only Live NOW Once….

Often, we hear fellow Buddhists claim, ‘I’m just a beginner Buddhist!’ Sometimes, we catch ourselves saying that. Whether uttered out…

Found during spring-cleaning, a faded piece that bears testimony to the truth of its words from 金刚经: ‘一切有为法, 如梦幻泡影, 如露亦如电,…

Be a practical perfectionist who does not waste time perfecting non-essentials – because life is too short! Being an impractical…

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Look! 现在心也不可得! More on what this means at http://thedailyenlightenment.com/?s=现在心不可得

Super Short Story #420: People He learnt to look out for the weather of people, as people are like the…

Super Short Story #389: Mood She decided not to deal with him when his mood swung high, since it was…

Super Short Story #384: Stray Away The retired man at the coffee shop whiled away the rest of his life…

Super Short Story #378: Shoes Many bought things are like shoes – be they houses, cars, clothes, books and such……

A compass for a sense of direction and a watch for a sense of urgency.

Attachment to romanticising the moment can lose immediacy of the moment. (From Tom Gauld’s ‘You’re All Just Jealous Of My…

Continuums of constant change, that’s what all mind and matter are.

The Identity Paradox: Unless you are always ‘yourself’, you have a public identity to hide your actual identity, that is…

An existential question I similarly asked at 13: ‘Why struggle so hard to live if I’m going to die?’ Answers…

Time: Wandering Thought #262 Have a sense of urgency every day, because time is always running out, with the sun…

We and our blog and Facebook posts… Are we and they not an ephemera lot? (Apologies for forgetting the source…

A story from ‘How To Be Happy’ by Eleanor Davis… Is this not thought-provoking satire of how many see happiness…

As inspired by the movie ‘Horns’, but not following its plot… When he first sprouted a horn, he was shunned,…