Tag: perception

30
Jan
2012

Tit For Tat (349): My Way

A Tit for a Tat (349) Tat: Why are you walking this roundabout way? Tit: Why are you straightforwardly following…

16
Jan
2012

Textbook Answer?

Sometimes, others think you give textbook answers to their questions, when you did answer from the heart, when they are…

16
Jan
2012

Imaginary Tone

An email exchange: X: Hi, Sales have been chasing for the media kits since last year. Can we have the…

16
Jan
2012

Pretending Not To Be Pretending

From your perspective: Stranger walks in lift. No eye contact or words. Just presses a button. From stranger’s perspective: Stranger…

16
Jan
2012

How Each Matters

If one only looks for things done wrong, all the things done right does not seem to matter. If one…

02
Jan
2012

More Or Less Deluded

A Tit for a Tat (347) Tit: You can never win a seriously deluded person in argument – even if you…

02
Jan
2012

The Compatibility Paradox

A Tit for a Tat (346) Tit: Look! They look perfectly incompatible for each other! Tat: If so, they are also equally…

02
Jan
2012

Hopelessly Stubborn?

He believed her to be hopelessly stubborn, not knowing that it is he who is hopelessly stubborn in his opinion…

13
Dec
2011

A Vegan Challenge

An acquaintance P sent me this: ‘I saw J today. He looks so frail and weak and I think his…

14
Nov
2011

Do You Really Love?

Do you really love who another is, or do you really love who you imagine that person is? Do you…

27
Oct
2011

Something Drastically Wrong

An unnerving passage by Steven Grant, in Warren Ellis’ ‘Scars’. ‘If they weren’t there and I saw them, there’s something drastically…

27
Oct
2011

Perception of Cylinder

A cylinder seen from the top is just a circle, but just a rectangle when seen from the side. Only…

18
Oct
2011

Labels Really Matter

To a Buddhist friend on disseminating news of a forum (slightly extended): ‘Even though the topic is of universal interest,…

12
Oct
2011

I Wouldn’t Know

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

12
Oct
2011

Overtime

A Tit for a Tat (344) Tat: You used the office printer to print this personal stuff? Tit: It’s stealing huh? Tat: Yes…

12
Oct
2011

Lovable

A Tit for a Tat (343) Tat: Who is more lovable? One who sees all beings as lovable, or one who only sees…

12
Oct
2011

Try is the Word?

A Tit for a Tat (342) Tit: Try to be there on time! Tat: ‘Try’ is the word! Tit: No ‘try’ – just…

12
Oct
2011

Stooping

A Tit for a Tat (341) Tit: You’re stooping! Tat: But I can stand upright any time! Tit: But you never put in…

03
Oct
2011

Imaginary Sadness

A Tit for a Tat (340) Tat: She feels sad when she imagines his sadness. Tit: How sad! Tat: Now…

03
Oct
2011

Upset

A Tit for a Tat (338) Tit: Why are you upset? Tat: Because of his mistake. Tit: It’s your mistake…