Tag: Middle Way

Confidence in sharing the Dharma can be perceived as arrogance by those who don’t understand the Dharma, the real source…

His doctor told him to drink cow milk daily for calcium. I told him it will lead to loss of…

Form is emptiness; (色即是空) Emptiness is form. (空即是色) Form is not different from emptiness;（色不异空） Emptiness is not different from form. …

In a scene of the movie ‘Sherlock Holmes’, the famed super sleuth makes sharp observations and astute deductions on the…

Ray: What’s the best way to attain inner peace despite being in the midst of those who have a blaming…

In the poignant but touching story of ‘My Sister’s Keeper’, a young girl realises that she was conceived specifically to…

The thumbprint clocking in and out represented regimentalism that is pointless, because the nature of her work is anything but…

Not too hard or it would be painful Not to soft or it would be sagging Not too high or…

Yup, Depeche Mode does slow and sentimental songs too. The above is the moving studio version of ‘Come Back’ from…

Some eat to live, some live to eat, but you can eat towards enlightenment! Disclaimer: The diet described here has not yet…

The Middle Path is… not to sit on the fence, neutral, not to be ambivalent, uncertain, not to be apathetic,…

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances;…

There was a solar eclipse yesterday. Traditionally, the Chinese (and even Indians) call the phenomenon ‘the heavenly dog eating the…

Over the top X’mas-ish CNY festive deco at Plaza Singapura? Why do humans ‘need’ festive days to celebrate? Because it…

Do check out three versions of the 2005 song ‘Fix You’, followed by some reflections on them in terms of…

In ‘Eternals’ by Neil Gaiman, Sprite the immortal utters this about becoming human – ‘I can even die – Do you…

In the movie “Tokyo!”, the first story is called “Interior Design”, where a girl felt so pressurised of not having…

Her family dentist always paints the worst case scenario of what could happen during surgery. But her family members realised…

Swindled by ‘The Black Swindler’? I have always wondered this – Why can’t filmmakers make their films to be as…