Tag: wisdom

As the saying goes, ‘A little knowledge is a dangerous thing…’ So… let’s go for a lot of wisdom! Equation…

Anjali! As our left and right brains represent our rational and emotional sides, when we place our palms together in…

Learnt from Geshe Damdul’s talk tonight, in my own words: Actualisation of Bodhicitta brings about tenderness (an aspect of compassion)….

In ‘The Night Bookmobile’ by Audrey Niffengger, a book-lover picks up librarian skills in this life, ‘dying’ to be a…

Please don’t mistaken you are lovely because you think you have lovely hair, for hair is but dead cells. Please…

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…