Super Short Story (159): Trust She knows who not to trust - actors who are paid to promote products in ads. It’s knowing who to trust that is tricky - as some are not paid but bluff too. Then again, actors are sometimes truthful, when not acting at all. just as non-actors are sometimes ‘unknown [...]
Super Short Story (158): Cat She considers herself an animal-lover. But she loves cats especially, and feeds strays daily with affection, with cat-food made from other animals though. For some reason that she’s probably not mindful of, this doesn’t seem to bother her a bit, since she eats animals herself, (or maybe she doesn’t give [...]
Super Short Story (157): Knick-Knacks She likes to look at interesting knick-knacks that she wouldn’t buy, because she only likes to look at them, and that’s enough already. She’s one happy window-shopper. She realised that window-shopping with mindful appreciation without wanting to have and hold is able to save her much money, when there is [...]
Super Short Story (156): Lego He has a love-hate relationship with Lego bricks. They allow for flexibility, for building his own toys, yet they are also restricted by rigidity, limited by their numbers, shapes, sizes and colours. They are building blocks allowing creativity, but only in a pixelatedly blockish way.
Super Short Story (155): Friday He lost track of time and before he knew it, Friday was about to be gone. He wasn’t even aware it was Friday. He thought it was Thursday. The case of the missing Friday. Although it had never happened before, it made him shudder to think about how many more [...]
Why are many amazing things made of clouds? From the dragon to the mystical what-not… Is it because we try to see the amazing in the clouds, and sift out anything that seems ordinary? Or can the extraordinary only manifest ‘cloudily’ to us?
Super Short Story (154): Solace Confused by each other’s mixed signals and mixed feelings, they toggled between being unofficially heartbroken by each other, the non-official lovers, and missing the phantom lover that each other kind of is at the moment. If they were real lovers, would it not be worse? Realising this uncertainty brought some [...]
Ten always meet in a bar. One day, one came with a gun. There were six chances (for a six-shooter) of being shot. Fearing this, the next day, all came with guns. There are now 60 chances of being shot… when it could had been no chance. Insecurity breeds insecurity. The real security comes from [...]
Super Short Story (153): Wallet He keeps a second wallet at home, for topping up his outdoor wallet. He calls the second one his magic wallet. Maybe it’s because it never seems to run out of cash, even though it is not with big bucks. But the truth is, he puts in magic to keep [...]
Super Short Story (152): Blu-ray He said Blu-ray resolution looks so real that it looks fake, though it’s the other way round - he had gotten so used to less real resolution that the more real seems unreal.
Super Short Story (151): Rant He was the kind who would meet you for a chat but only to rant on about his life, never asking about you. She would not interrupt as he had much to say. As amazing as it was annoying, she would just listen on, to see how long it takes [...]
Super Short Story (149): Luggage He thought it is very telling what one brings in one’s carry-on bag, if only he could tell - those objects closest to one’s affections… unless there are too many to carry, to bring overseas.
Super Short Story (148): Doomsday He noticed that the obituary pages were just as filled on the days before, on and after the so-called doomsday. Every day is someone’s doomsday.
Super Short Story (147): Pickpocket Just as she did not warn others when they were pickpocketed, others did not warn her when she was pickpocketed. Maybe they were all afraid of being recognised and targeted, but instead of open endorsement of crime, anyone could had just ‘discreetly’ yelled ‘Pickpocket!’ to warn another.
: . skip to main skip to sidebar Search This Blog Loading . Buddhism in the News Loading . Thursday , December 27, 2012 We Are Recycled Consciousness . We are recycled consciousness expressing itself in infinite forms . Science tells us that we are social creatures . We need others to survive in this world of suffering . Buddhism explains this bond as interconnection and co-arising . We are all one . To quote the Heart Sutra , form is emptiness and emptiness is form . Thich Nhat Hanh uses the example of waves in the . ocean We are all apart of a great , infinite , ocean of consciousness . In other words , we all share a similar human consciousness that interconnects us . As individuals , we are the wave that arises from the wider ocean of consciousness . We are both the wave and the ocean 
: skip to main skip to sidebar Search This Blog Loading . Buddhism in the News Loading . Tuesday , December 25, 2012 Buddhism for Returning Veterans of War By Giridhar Jha , MAIL , TODAY December 10, 2012 Patna , India The British Army will send about 4,000 of its troops , who are followers of Buddhism , in a group of 100-150 people to spend a week at Bodh Gaya and Sarnath to seek peace after their prolonged involvement in the war zones in different countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq . They will all meditate under the famous tree at Bodh Gaya , where Lord Buddha had attained enlightenment in 6th century B.C . JAMES War is hell , as they say . There are never any winners . All lose something when war is waged , even the survivors . Physically , they might have survived and kept their: : . skip to main skip to sidebar Search This Blog Loading . Buddhism in the News Loading . Wednesday , December 19, 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary Massacre : A Buddhist's . Response As the horrible mass shooting of children in Connecticut echoes around the world , millions are trying to fathom such senseless violence . Of course , the initial reaction is to ban assault weapons in America for the average citizen , which I support . No one needs a machine gun to hunt for food . In places like Europe that have strict gun control laws , you just don't see the kind of mass shootings and rampant violence that you do in America . Sure , there are a smattering of examples but they are few and far : between The FBI's Uniform Crime Reports for 2009 list 10,224 homicides in U.S . that involved a gun