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Posts tagged with "empathy"
Sep. 3 |
Question: Buddhists practise liberation of animals caught from the wild or bred, into the right environments. But when bought, more might be caught or bred. Should they not be bought then?
Answer: If so, this is saying that all commercially trapped...
Aug. 21 | There is no evil like hatred,
And no fortitude like patience.
Thus I should strive in various ways
To meditate on patience.
– Shantideva
(Guide To Bodhisattva’s Way Of Life)
[1] Not Becoming Upset with Those Who Do Harm
The first type of patience...
Jul. 30 |
Question: Are courses which claim to teach tactics to communicate with animals alright?
Answer: There is need to know what they entail, to know if they are ethical and sensible. For example, some supposedly teach ‘telepathy’. However,...
Jun. 17 | In the pretentious restaurant’s scene, ‘Keanu Reeves’ (playing ‘himself’) asks, ‘May I ask, do you have any dishes that play with time, the concept of time?’ The waiter replies, ‘Ah! Yes, we have a meat...
May. 8 |
What makes a country what it is physically? If it is the land itself, what if it is being expanded upon by reclaiming land, with sand from other countries? Being one of the world’s largest sand importer, if Singapore’s millions of tons of...
Apr. 3 |
末世法灭之时,
特驻此经,
百年在世,
接引众生,
往生彼国。
– 释迦牟尼佛
《无量寿经》
When it is the last period of the Dharma-Ending Age [which is this era], I will specially retain this Sūtra, for one hundred...
Mar. 20 | [W]e are supposed to be the refuge and protector of all infinite beings. The beings with unfortunate karma that we are supposed to be protecting are instead being killed without the slightest compassion, and their boiled flesh and blood are being presented...
Mar. 14 |
唯持名一法,摄机最普,下手最易,不致或起魔事。
– 净土宗十三祖印光大师
[O]nly [the] one method [of] upholding [the] name,gathers [all spiritual] capacities most universally,[and is the] most easy to start [practising],not...
Mar. 6 | The ‘DC’ in DC Comics stands for ‘Detective Comics’, but they might as well stand for ‘Darker Comics’? On both big and small screens in recent years, their characters are consistently darker than Marvel’s, and...
Jan. 29 |
‘The Fundamentals Of Caring’ begins with a lesson summarising them… ‘Caregiving is not just about feeding and clothing and cleaning. It is about understanding how to navigate a complicated relationship between those who give...
Jan. 23 |
‘The Fix’ is a comedy talk show hosted by a comedian with the assistance of a data expert. Two teams of comedians try to half-joke and half-seriously fix the world’s problems with humour and facts, also known as ‘wit and wisdom’....
Dec. 26 |
‘The Kominsky Method’ is a bittersweet drama series on the challenges of two old friends growing older together, as they look out for each other while musing on life. Sandy Kominsky is an acting coach, who just lost a dear friend to sickness....
Dec. 12 |
‘Shirkers’ (2018) is paradoxically, a documentary on a movie titled ‘Shirkers’ (1992), that did not come fully into being. The result is a full film on a half film, a film within a film, on love of films and filmmaking. Even though...
Oct. 4 |
‘Se7en’ can be seen as a contemporary fable on the dangers of the Seven Deadly Sins, which according to Christian teachings, are pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth. (They are contrary, respectively, to the Seven Cardinal...
Jun. 20 |
Movie Haikus
Watch a movie,
have an adventure,
into the unknown.
Learn to empathise,
watch your hopes,
face your fears.
Fictitious yet ‘real’,
thought experiment with
sight and sound.
Serious yet not,
live alternative lives
of the protagonists.
Series...