Tag: rebirth

In a sense, the movie ’17 Again’ is yet another version of ‘Groundhog Day’. A 37-year-old man gets to relive…

Pic: Dharma Hall at Kong Meng San After lunch, just before the next round of the Pureland retreat recitation, I…

Catch the new single from Depeche Mode’s new album ‘Sounds of the Universe’ (performed live in Berlin). After the lyrics…

You can change the side of the road that you walk down every day. Even if the road is the…

So many fine films watched. So little time to review them all. Looking at scribbled notes some time later, I…

Here is an analysis of the poll question ‘What do you wish to attain by the end of this life?’…

The bones from our bodies of our past lives would pile higher than the highest mountain. Why am I still…

In a bus… Where to? For what conventional reasons do you journey? So what when you get there? In a…

Jen: Your ‘imaginary funeral parlour notice’ [see below] is well written, seemingly depicting dying. Is it due to the way…

‘Those whose actions are evil are the ones who will fill the Hell of Great Heat, experiencing therein the fruits…

The TV series ‘Samantha Who’ is about Samantha Newly, who sort of gets ‘newly reborn’ when she recovers from coma…

Happy Groundhog Day! By sheer karmic coincidence, I screened ‘Groundhog Day’ today… on Groundhog Day itself – the 2nd of…

I came across the following stories from the Theravada tradition relating how even animals can be reborn in the heavens….

In ‘Chickens with Plums’ by Marjane Satrapi is this recounted story where Azrael, the angel of death was commanded by…

In the book ‘The Meaning of Life’ by Terry Eagleton is this passage – “… we are in something like…

Cy: I don’t feel that I fit in here. Sy: Where? Cy: In this world. Sy: That might not be…