Tag: mindfulness

A Tit for a Tat (106) Tit: Because you shelved it, I forgot about it. Tat: If you are mindful…

A Tit for a Tat (105) Tit: Why didn’t you put it in your bag to bring it home? Tat:…

From ‘Essex County’ by Jeff Lemire, ‘You know, there are only two ways to be completely alone in this world…

A Tit for a Tat (104) Tit: I had better place the vase out of the way. Tat: Why? Tit:…

A friend once asked me to never forget her, to remember to ‘save’ her, to lead her to Pure Land,…

From ‘Prince of Persia’ by A. B. Sina et al: Guiv: (Injuring a lion that almost killed him in defence;…

A Tit for a Tat (101) Tit: Are you afraid to kill cockroaches because it creates bad karma? Tat: I…

‘The Serpent and the Rainbow’, which is supposedly based on a true story (By Wade Davis) tells of a terrifying…

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…

A passage from Philip K. Dick’s science fiction (graphic) novel and movie ‘A Scanner Darkly’, which I arranged into the following…

(Picture: A Buddhist making lamp offerings at a Tibetan temple near Mayadevi Temple) May we always be mindful of Amita…

From Thich Nhat Hanh’s book ‘The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology’: The food we eat…

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

That there is only one truth does not mean that all so-called ‘truths’ are one. – Stonepeace Recently, I met…

In ‘The Question: The Five Books of Blood’ by Greg Rucka, Renee Montoya, who takes on the persona of the…

(Pic: Kites flying by Buangkok train station) A kite without a guiding string is a dangerous kite, that endangers itself…

‘The Walking Man’ by Jiro Taniguchi is an everyman, except that he takes many walks and pays more attention to…

In the film ‘Don’t Look Back’ (Ne Te Retourne Pas), Jeanne (played by Sophie Marceau) realises that small but definite…

The above is a picture of a juzu (nianzhu; mala; prayer beads) holder we previously bought from Japan’s Daiso. (Yes,…