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‘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…
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…
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