I read this quotation in Sogyal Rinpoche’s book. The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: If you are too clever you might miss the point entirely. This is a Tibetan saying, obviously. I wish I had come across this quotation when I was a teenager. As it turned out I only read Sogyal Rinpoche’s book […]
Monthly Archives: August 2022
How do you know it is Bad Luck
In my previous blog post I wrote about the blunder I made in the year 2006 and how I am still suffering from it. Link to that article is below: But every cloud has a silver lining. I started yesterday to think of all the factors that make up the silver lining. Basically this method […]
The Buddha and the Poisoned Arrow
I will start with a famous Buddhist parable. The following story is one of the original teachings of the Buddha: The sutta begins at Jetavana where the monk Malunkyaputta is troubled by Gautama Buddha’s silence on the fourteen unanswerable questions, which include queries about the nature of the cosmos and life after the death of […]
How to Think Clearly when you are Upset
I was walking down the street a few days ago and a man whom I did not recognise gave me a hostile glare as he walked past. This is something that I am used and have been experiencing for a long time so I should be used to it. And I am used to it. […]
Solitude and being a Genius
I have had the experience of being called a genius and I may very well have been one. It was many years ago, you understand. Not now when I am a 57 year old having lost the intellect, the curiosity and the desire to read that I had for decades. So what led to my […]
The Unwritten Social Rules
A friend of mine (also suffering from a mental ailment) approached me for some advice. I am writing this article based on his predicament which I think will be quite common even amongst people of sound mind. My friend offered the following diagnosis of his situation: He had behaved very badly when he was young […]