Tag: wisdom
I know very little about politics but I know a good government should work for the people and not for…
A Tit for a Tat (303) Tit: You need to be smart to be witty. Tat: Are you saying I’m…
Just before polling day, I wrote this on http://www.facebook.com/shen.shian/posts/10150189984054001 To my surprise, more than 30 friends ‘liked’ it, and many…
A review of Radiohead’s ‘Give Up the Ghost’: Lyrics: Don’t haunt me don’t haunt me… Gather up the lost and…
Question: How was the Buddha-to-be able to just let go of his worldly attachments to search for the path to…
It’s okay, such nonsense, this (somewhat) nonsensical place with (some) nonsensical people with (some) nonsensical matters, because I’m leaving this…
‘Independence Day’ re-screening on TV tonight reminds me of how simplistic the idea is, of being able to write a…
From TheZena56: ‘I had a nightmare once. I was walking down a snowy road and the full moon was blood…
S: Stonepeace said, ‘One who says many to be evil might be the one most evil.’ (常说人人不好的人可能是最不好的人.) Is the monkey…
Amulets might offer some protection – but they cannot protect anyone from eventual death. Amulets might offer some blessings –…
Wolverine’s adamantium claws are at times extensions of his heroism, of the fight for justice. But at other times extensions…
In ‘The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’, Johnny Depp plays a character who says this to a lady in her imaginary…
The Buddha is also called ‘The Blessed One’. But who blesses the Blessed One, who blesses us with the Dharma?…
From ‘Grimmer Tales: A Wicked Collection of Happily Never After Stories’ by Erik Bergstrom, is ‘The Ugly Truth’, which I think…
To my aghast, I once heard a monk say that the path of attaining Nirvana is like pushing a button…
There is a tension between learning and expressing, between internalising and ‘externalising’. There is so much to learn, while there…
The ushnisha refers to the protuberance on the crown of the Buddha. It is one of the 32 special physical…
In the movie ‘(Avatar): The Last Airbender’, one of the baddies shouts to his henchmen who capture him, ‘Do not…
A friend visited a monastery in China, and came across a monk who told her that a couplet at a…
Someone asked if I was more left-brained or right brained. Not that I’m no-brained, but I couldn’t really say. Are…
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