Tag: karma

Something written a long time ago… (Facebook has changed much since) Checking if a friend sees me as a friend,…

In the ‘brutal’ game that is Survivor in one of the recent seasons, Fabio, seemingly a simple-minded goofball at first,…

What happens when a guru blesses you? Does he or she passes over some special force of goodness or merits,…

A friend is compiling teachings by Rinpoche for publication, and asked me to check the below, which I sent years…

The moment a natural or man-made disaster affects sentient lives, it is also a karmic disaster for those very sentient…

For whom the phone rings, if there is no one there to hear, to pick it up? For you the…

Parts of this song is fantastic, almost Buddhistic… 寂寞寂寞就好 (田馥甄 Hebe) I’ll Be Better After I’m Lonely For A While…

  X: Tomorrow, I have to face a black face at work… U: Show a black face too! X: The…

During a short talk I gave to some 800 students at Catholic Junior College to offer the Buddhist opinion on the…

Why do we sometimes encounter poor Dharma teachers who seem to teach inadequately and incoherently? We get who we karmically…

Some interesting dialogues from the movie ‘Nine Temples’: Poon: Why do you have to go on a pilgrimage? Aren’t you…

Squeezing some ice, he screams in pain. But he only had to let it go to end the needless pain….

Gee: Some might remember a toddler and his cruel murderers. Not less than 18 witnesses felt something was wrong but…

Question: Is it true that ‘good people die young’ and that “good deeds do not beget got endings’? Answer: Not…

If you don’t like yourself, why don’t you change yourself? If you can change yourself, who is really your ‘self’?…

He collects many Dharma books that are sponsored by others for sharing the Dharma. But he doesn’t really read them;…

Explorers are discovering more and more wonderfully ‘weird’-looking deep sea creatures day by day. Reminds me of how the karma…

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

A dialogue below, set in the medieval times, from the latest ‘Robin Hood’ movie, that reminds me of more than…

Question: According to Buddhism, there are five cosmic orders or processes (niyamas) which operate in the universe as follows: 1….