A hallmark of good Dharma students is that they correct their teachers immediately when mistakes are found, lest other students get confused. However, students should not have to keep rationalising to themselves and others, for their teachers’ mistakes, because students are supposed to...

From ‘The Lady In The Van’… Alan: Shouldn’t you say sorry? Miss Shepherd: I’ve no time for sorry. Sorry is for God. Yet, Shepherd should had apologised to Alan for wrong done to him. Another opposite mistake is to thank God for humans’ help. What irony that many who...

#ssPictureQuotes #7: Sorry The weak can’t say thanks too, unfortunately. The ability to repent and thank is a...

Thoughts after reading ‘Seconds’ by Bryan Lee O’malley: There is a second chance, but never in the past, and always in the present The past can’t be changed but the future can, by doing better now Even if you can return to the past to undo a mistake, it doesn’t...

Learnt from ‘The Two Faces Of January’: Make one moral mistake with ease and it becomes easier to make another (to cover it up), and things soon spin out of control. Make it hard to make even one moral mistake and easier to amend each to keep things in...

Advice to a friend who sent a lengthy worded feedback email to an organisation: ‘You mustn’t mistaken politely worded replies as actual remedial action being taken. Just in case you mix up the two and get your hopes up too high… Not saying that it’s a PR stunt, but...

Wandering Thought #27: Apology Always swiftly apologise when you had done wrong, or could had done wrong – because the absence of an apology can just as swiftly distance those hurt, making it much more difficult to bridge and heal the gaping...

Wandering Thought #2: Wrong Paradoxically, there is nothing wrong with being wrong… only as long as you have realised what went wrong… and make amends accordingly. Otherwise, being wrong remains totally...

Today she did her usual repentance practice at the shrine. It suddenly dawns on her that since beginningless time, she had in one way or another created eons of negative karma. No matter how much she repents now, she probably would not be able to fully dissolve it in this lifetime. She has to...

Super Short Story (123): Late Even though he was already here, as he kept apologising for being late, and explaining why he was late, he became even more...