Tag: interdependence

07
Apr
2022

Nose

Nose You are independent.Don’t complain.Wipe your own nose immediately. Your nose is dependent.Don’t hesitate.Wipe it with your hand. (Pic: Stoic…

08
Jul
2019

Thanklessness: Super Short Story #553

Thanklessness: Super Short Story #553 The shopkeeper never thanks his customers, thinking they need his service anyway.  His customers never…

11
Aug
2017

No Island’s An Island!

Some views from Coney Island (Singapore). The way things are, due to interdependence, even the seemingly isolated are still the…

28
May
2016

Broccoli Fractals

One in all and all in one.

08
Jan
2016

Stacey Minion

I knew it! Stand-up Stacey (from SMRT) is a Minion in a wig! Nothing is really original in this interdependent…

27
Jun
2015

Interconnection: Wandering Thought #239

Interconnection: Wandering Thought #239 We are at best partially, and not completely enlightened because of our partiality when it comes…

03
May
2015

Magical Book Design

Literally magical book blurb design! Tales with the theme of magic. I wonder how many readers of the individual books…

20
Sep
2014

Reason: Wandering Thought #87

Wandering Thought #87: Reason Everything happens in our lives for a reason (or more). Whatever occurs naturally results from a…

18
Oct
2013

Alone: Super Short Story (247)

Super Short Story (247): Alone As she laid on the bed beside her love after making love, she realised something…

30
Jan
2013

Smug Smith

Drewscape’s short story in ‘Monsters, Miracles, Mayonnaise’. Reminds me of how, as much as we are anonymous to one another,…

15
Nov
2012

What Is Holy?

Interesting dialogues from the movie ‘Verbo’: Sara: Our history teacher told us something. A big mess in the Church a…

30
Jan
2012

Double Rainbow

There is no rainbow without rain. There is no rainbow without sun. – Stonepeace There is no rainbow without sight?…

31
May
2011

Talk: The Buddha’s Wonderful Advice on Interdependence

No One Is An Island: The Buddha’s Wonderful Advice on Interdependence Buddhism doesn’t just talk about ’emptiness’. Interdependence forms the…

17
Jan
2011

Super Complex Universe

The universe is so complex, that for there to be a single creator, ‘he’ has to be super complex. But…

12
Jan
2011

Four Elements Within & Without

In this body, the earth element, flesh and bones… the water element, blood and saliva… the fire element, thirty-seven degrees……

14
Dec
2010

Healthy Monastic & Lay Interdependence

From Itivuttaka 4.8:  This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: “Monks, brahmans…

29
Sep
2010

Medical Analogy of Triple Gem

A message written for Singapore Buddhist Free Clinic’s magazine: There is a famous medical analogy in Buddhism used to describe…

10
Aug
2010

A Monster Koan

In the movie ‘The Cave’, a parasite takes upon host humans, gradually taking over their bodies and minds entirely. A…

26
Jul
2010

Remote Controlled Universe?

The HP printer at home starts printing pictures mysteriously, from apparently ‘nowhere’. How does it do that? Via my iPhone’s…

07
Jun
2010

Everything is Hyperlinked

Due to the law of interdependence, everything is hyperlinked to everything else… which is hyperlinked to everything else, even if…