Tag: mindfulness

Japanese restaurants are known for their prevalent, wasteful and environmentally-unfriendly use of disposable wooden chopsticks. We visited one recently and…

Do watch this short video (only 4 min long) It presents a simple but powerful concept that can change your…

The weighted self-closing office door does not lock properly by itself at times. Whenever the problem becomes especially bad, which…

Your mala is to facilitate the quality of your mindfulness. But the quality of your mala is not the quality…

Would you rather sleep longer and live longer, due to having improved health, or sleep less and have more waking…

I lost a good idea… It just slipped my mind, as suddenly as it arrived. The very next thought… that…

I don’t understand how any deity is invoked by excitement, by songs, yells and cheers. Won’t overwhelming emotions get in…

In ‘Wolverine: Not Dead Yet’ by Warren Ellis and Leinil Yu, Wolverine barely escapes yet another attempt to kill him….

Some years ago, something weird and wonderful happened. I was listening to Tears for Fears’ remake of ‘Sea Song’ on…

One of the most memorable films ever is a film in a film – in the movie ‘American Beauty’ called…

Q: Where is the mind? How does it multi-task? A: The mind is where you put it to. E.g. If…

We shall not cease from exploration And the end to all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started…

Since we inadvertently kill some beings in daily life, such as accidentally stepping on ants, does it mean it is…

Question: I contributed money for a group gift, but later realised that it wasn’t an animal-friendly gift. Do I create…

‘Pride and Prejudice’ tells the tale of how the aloof Mr. Darcy came to be with the feisty Ms. Elizabeth…

A Tit for a Tat (115) Tit: Please read it okay? Tat: Okay. Tit: Will you really read it? Tat:…

Talking about compassion, how can we not mention how Acharya Asanga had carefully licked the maggots out of a dog’s…

From ‘The Color of Earth’ by Kim Dong Hwa, a young monk poignantly thinks to himself when he realises he…

Some wordplay below on a string of words that stand for what might arise sequentially while one practises mindfulness of…

A Tit for a Tat (110) Tit: I forgot to remind you something. Tat: About what? Maybe I can help…