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Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 20:35 in musings on impermanence
Talk to any Buddhists about the much-hyped doctrine of impermanence and you'd probably get many of them going ga-ga over the constant flux that embodies human life as in the aging process, the cycle of birth and rebirth (samsara), and in any experien...
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Posted on Monday November 2nd, 2009 at 01:29 in private musings, news from the local daily
Terengganu, a state in Malaysia, hard hit by a high divorce rate had the state government coming up with innovative ways to improve sexual relations. Couples had attributed their separation to boring routine sex and body odour and that had the state...
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Posted on Thursday October 29th, 2009 at 01:58 in private musings, news from the internet
Probably it was her hair, but she really reminded me of Cruella de Vil, the villainess in Dodie Smith's novel, The Hundred and One Dalmatians which Glen Close played to the hilt in the Disney movie. Thai forensic pathologist Dr Pornthip Rojanasu...
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Posted on Saturday October 24th, 2009 at 01:32 in news from the local daily, musing on the life of buddha
Abdul Kahar Ahmad (inset), a father of six had been sentenced to 10 years jail, six strokes of the cane and fined RM 16,5000. He had pleaded guilty for proclaiming himself a prophet, conducting deviationist teachings, blasphemy and spreading false be...
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Posted on Monday October 19th, 2009 at 06:19 in private musings
Teik Peng sent me a story about children in an elementary Catholic school. Children were lining up for lunch. At one end of the table where the tray of apples was, a nun had left a note : Take only one, God is watching. At the other end of the table...
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Posted on Monday October 12th, 2009 at 09:54 in wise quotes
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? Avoid popularity if you would have peace. Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judg...
i find this blog very entertaining as a blog, but is pretty c lueless as far as knowledge about buddhism is concerned.. i suppose it is a general knowledge blog with a slightly Buddhism influenced flavour.. very well blogged.. a bit offensive to serious Buddhists though. It's more a blog about worldy matters (such as vegetable sandwiches) which is both entertaining ans whacky. Don't expect any gems of Buddhist wisdom or dhamma teachings here though.
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