I recently gave some advice to some entrepreneurs just starting out from scratch. He was hungry, coachable, but also quite raw. While I warmed to these great starting qualities, I can't help but feel for how much learning and frustrations he still has ahead of him. There is a particular

I observed something about how desires worked yesterday that was new to me. Desires aren't always discrete pieces of mind forces that are neatly compartmentalised by their object. For instance, I used to perceive that my craving for food is merely about hunger and food, but my observation yesterday informed

I'm doing a tech sharing later today, and have been slowly converging on a topic of interest, but now is the time to draw the lines in the sand and nail down the logical structure. Specifically... 1. What are tools for thought * Dogma: what we accept without question * Tools for

I had been trying to harmonise 2 paradigms that of the Buddhist and the self-development world. In the Buddhist view, which is the ultimate reality, there is no concept of Self worth attaching to, and any self-view will lead to suffering in the long term, because the constituents of that

"Who am I?" is not a question that most adults ask themselves. It sounds like a pointless question reserved for children and navel-gazers who spin around it without hitting any essence. Yet, a fellow meditator on a Vipassana course shared with me a training experience with a Taiwanese Buddhist abbot.

The first few months of 2022 hadn't been the easiest for me. I am suffering the consequences of poor delegation. For context, 2021 was the first time I hired in middle managers and leaders to take over some of the engineering leadership work that I had been holding for the

Sopisa shared a Dhamma talk last week about Jhana's in daily life. I forgot a good part of that talk, save for 1 line - "What you need to do, do it fully. What you don't need to do, don't do it at all". It's one of those self-evident advice

Looking back at my last week, there was a period of about 3-5 days where I fell back to the illusion of seeking pleasure, or rather an escape from unpleasantness in the wrong places. I was in the depths of revising salaries, which my sanna (perception) had immediately recognised as

As a Singaporean born to Malaysian parents, I frequently hear comparisons about the 2 countries, especially about the competence of its governments. I just accepted those comparisons at face value, taking them as a given. Various reasons for the difference were casually cast about in family conversations, such as the