Over the years, I have come to accept that there are really many strange people (i.e. who are difficult to comprehend) around us, and the doubly strange thing is, they think we are strange too. We are just a bunch of strange folks with varying degrees of delusion in the various boats drifting...

Ennui: Existential ‘sian-ness’ from cyclical existence, that hints of the need for...

Even clean water left long enough on clean tiles will collect dirt from the surrounding air. As it dries up, it leaves a stain on the wall. The longer the stain is left there, the more dirt it accumulates and the more stubbornly it sticks there. But such a stain can still be washed away with...

世间所有的相遇，都是久别重逢。－ 章子怡饰演宫二，一代宗师 Every encounter in this world is a reunion after departure. – Gong Er, Zhang Ziyi in ‘The Grandmaster’ The above quote stuck with me for days. Maybe it’s because it resonates with the Buddhadharma. In Buddhism, we say every single sentient being...

何来烦恼？ 自寻烦恼! ‘Definition’ of Samsara:...

Samsara might be interesting at times, but it is also dissatisfactory most of the time, even if at subtle levels. So long as we are unmindful of this, we will be intrigued by it and mistaken its fleeting pleasures as true bliss, clutching at illusion instead of realising...

The cleaner at the food court came to retrieve an empty tray, but with absent-mindedness. She lifts a tray off the table, without even looking, and misses the one stacked just below. She’ll have to return for other tray later, though it needn’t be at all, if she had more presence...

Above is Ni Andong’s cover of Damien Rice’s ‘The Blower’s Daughter’, whose original version is below. Ni’s take sent some shivers down my spine (in a resonant, not creepy way), more so than Rice’s version, which is moving too. But what’s more...

A genie appeared to three in a boat and granted each of them a wish. A: I want to go to a place where I will always have enough to spend. The genie said okay and sent him to Moneyland. B: I want to go to a palace made of gold with all my needs attended to. The genie said okay and sent him to...

It’s okay, such nonsense, this (somewhat) nonsensical place with (some) nonsensical people with (some) nonsensical matters, because I’m leaving this behind. It’s okay, such nonsense, not that I’m condescending or heartless, as I’m going to Pure Land to better my...