Tag: mindfulness

If you do not drive to drink, you will not drink and drive. To not drink and drive, don’t drive…

‘It’s Kind of a Funny Story’, simply put, is an ode to life. An ode to living itself: He who…

One of the most deluded kind of meditators are those who imagine they were in deep peace, when they were…

Please be mindful not to let your eagerness to share the Dharma overtake your eagerness to learn and practise the…

Please don’t bluff yourself that you were listening to the Dharma with your eyes closed, when you don’t see yourself nodding…

If you do not learn the Dharma accordingly during a Dharma discussion session, you are being untrue to yourself and…

A: When you lose something in, you gain something else. There’s always balance in life. S: Actually, it’s not always…

A Tit for a Tat (345) Tit: It’s frustrating when others in front walk too slowly. Tat: Most of the time, they…

For someone (or anyone) suffering from bipolar disorder and/or schizophrenia: To be frank, it is tedious reading your mails which…

The above is Art Spiegelman’s ‘Synopsis’ of the human condition. This mortal life is as if a definite walk towards…

The sight of Zen is what you are seeing now – seen fully with mindfulness, without preconceptions. The sound of…

He gave his shoes a shake, to empty it of any dirt, before putting them on. But he had forgotten,…

Question: How do be straightforward, yet not curt? And how to be direct, yet not hurt? Answer: Simple – say…

A joke I came across many years ago, rephrased here. Let’s see if you are mindfully sharp enough to catch…

He knocked a glass off the next table, and it shattered on the ground. Whose fault is it? He wondered……

There was talk about how a mass-murderer-terrorist might plead insanity and how the plea is not likely to be accepted….

Was asked to circulate an event about mindfulness via the www.TheDailyEnlightenment.com newsletter. S: Hmmm… TDE publicises only Buddhism-related events. Mindfulness…

Here, Edward Monkton gets his ‘Zen’ right, though he doesn’t use the word ‘Zen. But Zen is Zen whether you…

A Tit for a Tat (325) Tit: That guy is so inconsiderate – he’s standing on the right side of…

A Tit for a Tat (323) Tit: You should live in the moment. Tat: For what? Tit: For ‘now’! Next…