What do you guys think of the state of modern marriage?
Marriage always means something different to different worldviews. The Buddha’s opinion on it was similar to that of modern liberal secularists: a merging of common interests and emotional love. A shared life, bound by shared happiness and unhappiness. The Buddha listed five things a good [...]
Archive for February, 2007
FOREPLAY.
Posted in Fun or Humour, Personal, Self-Improvement on February 6, 2007 | 14 Comments »
A plea for sanity
Posted in Religion on February 5, 2007 | 7 Comments »
I believe that anyone can be good, whether he or she is agnostic, atheist, Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, whatever. To assume that someone on this Earth needs religion to be good says a lot more about yourself than that someone. The internet has opened my eyes to some true horrors that are the result of non-questioning, [...]
The Host…
Posted in Religion, Self-Improvement on February 3, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Pure Land Buddhism is not famous in the West. However, with the seemingly unlimited reach of the internet and the gradual growing awareness of the importance of understanding religions and worldviews other than one’s own, this is changing. So today I decided to write some of what I think is most important about Pure Land [...]
I’m Lolling like Hell!
Posted in Fun or Humour on February 2, 2007 | 5 Comments »
“Unfortunately for these students, their bosses will not be ‘lol’ when they read a report that lacks proper punctuation and grammar, has numerous misspellings, various made-up words, and silly acronyms.”
Lacetti and Molsk, The Lost Art of Writing
A Day at the Park
Posted in Lifestyle Library, Self-Improvement on February 2, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Yesterday I decided to do some exercise. Because I have no gym near me I had to be creative. Luckily Hong Kong parks have some pretty decent exercise platforms that are challenging in their own way. Here was my workout:
- Alternating jogging and sprinting around the park 8 times
- 3 sets of 10 chin-ups (including [...]
Love Before the Century
Posted in Personal, Religion on February 1, 2007 | 2 Comments »
A while ago I posted one of Jay Chou’s songs, Hair Like Snow, which is heavily influenced by Far Eastern philosophy, particularly Buddhism. This song I am posting is called Love Before the Century, and is one of his classic songs. Now in English we call the era after Christ, or the Common Era, Anno [...]


