Tag: loving-kindness

This graph is funny yet generally true! Perhaps the Buddha already knew this, which is why he specifically used the…

We know that Oscar’s the Grouch, but hey, it makes no marketing sense to scare the kiddies away, if you…

From Hurts’ ‘Blood, Tears and Gold’: Love goes cold Blood, tears and gold Won’t make it any better My interpretation:…

Q: I have tried to avoid the killing of insects but realise that this is impossible. I therefore consider that…

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

(From a friend to her Mother) Never knew the loss is so painful, never knew you are so important in…

Some ‘random’ advice that came to mind to dissuade someone from having an abortion – 1. She shouldn’t kill as…

The most enlightening part of ‘The Losers’ was when the cornered Jensen uttered something ‘true to bluff’ those pointing guns…

What if you said what you really want to say? What if you did what you really want to do?…

Lawrence: [Seeing gun and bullets] I didn’t know you hunted monsters. Singh: Sometimes monsters hunt you. ‘The Wolfman’, like all…

Christmas’ Eve with no carols or party to attend. Immersed in total silence along the pitch dark countryside. On a…

Question: What is the correct approach one must practice to stop people who are persistently bad, like extremists? Answer: There’s…

某人问‘做慈心观会不会不小心爱上观想的对象?’ 若成如此，那慈心观就做错了。为何呢？ 因慈心应偏十方而不偏一人； 否则即是私心而非无缘大慈，同体大悲。 慈心是无量心；非偏心! Someone asked if it’s possible to fall in love with the subject while doing metta…

The graphic travelogue ‘French Milk’ by Lucy Knisley is mostly about her good times during her six week vacation in…

Question: I’m helping to run a meditation group. Are there any ways to help create spiritual friendship within the group?…

Unless there is loving-kindness in our speech, it’s going to come out wrong. – Ayya Khema Unless there is loving-kindness…

Jat: What do you think of people who can’t take jokes? Yah: Why? Who had you offended? Jat: That petty…

Dialogue from the movie ‘Closer’: Dan: I love you! Alice: Where?! Dan: What?! Alice: Show me! Where is this love?…

This is a doodle to share, as contributed by moonpointer reader Jetty (http://tinyurl.com/pg3mrx) Thanks! The view atop the mountain might…

A Tit for a Tat (33) Tit: You ought to eat these (pointing to meat dishes on table). Tat: Why?…