Tag: truth

Being confident tricksters used to outsmarting others, ‘Julia’ and ‘Clive’ in the movie ‘Duplicity’ thought they had the upperhand this…

In the story ‘Kiss of Death’ by Richard Starkings in ‘Popgun Volume 1’, the conclusion reads –  ‘… one should…

Beware of one, who is slow to apologise, for one might believe in pride, that under the power of Mara,…

What I learnt from the movie ‘The Informant!’, which is a true story, about lying… dramatised of course! (Is it…

A Tit for a Tat (60) Tit: Why must you always have the last word? Tat: I don’t always have…

Marc: Is telling jokes based on non-truths breaking the fourth precept against false speech? E.g. I joked that my computer’s…

What great spiritual truth do you seek, when you are not truthful to yourself [and/or others] over the smallest worldly…

Something written for an Inter-religious magazine… It is a common and idealistically beautiful notion, that all the religions of the world essentially…

Excavations at Jetavana, now Saheth Finally Venerable Faxian and a fellow monk reached Jetavana monastery… but it had since become a…

In the movie ‘Inglourious Basterds’, Colonel Hans Landa tells Perrier LaPardite the following in an unnerving scene – ‘I love…

What does it mean… that I’m not sure what it all means? that I’m not sure how I’ll figure it…

Ren: Are you a Mahayanist? Yah: Yes and no. Ren: Meaning? Yah: Yes, because I believe in the Mahayana sutras…

The film ‘Thirst’ (which won the 2009 Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival) is another story that uses the…

You might stumble upon what you think is another’s ‘deep dark secret’. But if you leave it unclarified, the true…

There is a quiz game show on TV that we all know, that is seemingly the most difficult, because almost…

Question: Based on the Alagaddupama Sutta, the snake and the raft represent all Dharma teachings as taught by Buddha. The snake…

‘Superman: Escape from Bizarro World’ by Geoff Johns, Richard Donner and Eric Powell is a collection of Bizarro tales. For…

Perfect goodness (universal compassion) based upon perfect truth (universal wisdom) leads to perfect beauty (universal magnificence) – in the form…

A Tit for a Tat (24) Tit: You never listen! Tat: Never? Tit: Never! Tat: Not even now? – Silence…

A Tit for a Tat (15) Tit: I don’t think anything is definitely wrong or right. Tat: You really believe…