Tag: self

20
Sep
2011

What Ego?

Wrote the below comment on a friend’s Facebook post on her ego, which seems to be the main subject for…

06
Apr
2011

Paradox of True Happiness

Part 1: True Happiness as an attained goal (of Buddhahood) is not conditioned by anyone (including one’self’),* or it would…

27
Oct
2010

Three Spheres of Emptiness

Question: While the three spheres (of self, other and connecting action) are interdependent of each other, how does emptiness come…

04
Oct
2010

To Empathise is to Civilise

To empathise is to civilise. To civilise is to empathise. – Jeremy Rifkin As mentioned in the video, ‘We are…

29
Sep
2010

Towards Equanimous Sobriety

A bipolar student wasn’t sure he liked being his more ‘sober’ self. Perhaps he is used to swinging between highs…

13
Jul
2010

Who Inherits Karma?

If There Is No Self, Who Owns My Karma? Just as there are thoughts without a thinker, there is karma…

31
May
2010

Agreeable Disagreeability

If you want to know someone who is always agreeable with yourself, you might as well converse with a mirror, whose…

31
May
2010

First Sign of Madness?

In ‘X-Men: Kill or Cure’ by Jason Aaron, Iceman forced to face the shapeshifting Mystique when she takes his form…

31
May
2010

Rain

It is raining? Raining? Rain! No ‘it’. No ‘raining’. Just ‘rain’. Because there is no rainer, Because there is no…

24
May
2010

What Am I?

‘I’ am an experiment experimenting with this ‘I’. ‘I’ am change changing this ‘I’. ‘I’ am (r/d)evolution* evolving this ‘I’….

11
Jan
2010

Who am I?

‘Who am I?’ ‘I’ am nothing but constant change, yet while our mind and matter change, there is always to…

30
Nov
2009

You Versus Yourself

‘The Broken (Reflexion Trouble)’ is an unconventional thriller. I was interested in it as it seemed to be about doppelgangers,…

26
Sep
2009

Of Buddha-Images of Buddha-Nature

There are many Buddha images around the world, and they come in all shapes, sizes and materials. We will always…

17
Sep
2009

Do You Like You?

A Tit for a Tat (49) Tit: If you meet someone exactly like you, would you like you? Tat: I’m…

02
Jul
2009

Who’s Who?

A Tit for a Tat (29) Tit: Is that who I think it is? Tat: Who? Where? Tit: (Pointing at…

08
Jun
2009

Our Seamless World

Because ‘I’ am part of this world, Because ‘I’ am interconnected with this world, Because ‘I’ am seamless with this…

04
Apr
2009

Is the World Broken into Pieces?

The only dialogues I found interesting in ‘Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist’ are as below. I wished there was an…

24
Mar
2009

Just Astonishment & Gladness

Last Saturday, after giving an almost full day course to guides on guiding in a Buddhist temple, I had about…

17
Feb
2009

Self : Spellbound

In ‘Superman: Camelot Falls’ by Kurt Busiek, Superman resists a spell by repeating a ‘mantra’ (taught by J’onn Jones) that…

29
Dec
2008

Reel : To Real?

After picking up Buddhism, I found my threshold of being able to withstand seeing others in suffering to have reduced…