14/12 Mirror : Not Really Here

I woke from a nap and walked to the bathroom to get ready for my appointment in the evening. As usual, I was about to do my washing up at the basin with a mirror. To my astonishment, as I checked myself in the mirror, I could not see my reflection. I looked hard for a few seconds, but to no available. At that instance, I woke up from my dream.

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14/12 Avalokiteshvara : Patience

I feel like my faith was been tested during my meditation session. It was kind of disheartening not to be able to progress as I wished. However, I feel that if I give up now and walked away, that will be the end of it...

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14/12 Beings : Not 100%

Fyn: Hey, did you read about the cannibal whom he ate his volunteer-victims alive?
Zlyrica: Yup I did, what about it?
Fyn: Though every sentient being is supposed to have Buddha-nature, in that cannibal I see none.

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14/12 Sexes : Only Forms

Tim and Kim have been together for 5 years and getting married soon...

Kim: Hey Tim, if I tell you now that I used to be a man, would you still love me?
Tim: Hmm... of course.

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14/12 Grudge : Her Royal Highness

Her Royal Highness thinks her royal paper bags are too precious to place on the bus floor. Or maybe she thinks her royal stuff would weigh too heavy on her royal laps. So she has to occupy one extra seat in a very packed public bus during a peak hour. Perhaps Her Highness did buy bus-fare for her royal stuff, which is why she is depriving us from sitting beside Her Highness in a public bus. Oh, aren't we all at Her Royal Highness' mercy?

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03/12 Deathbed : Who To Call?

Zlyrica: I was locked out of office today, went to get lunch, thinking I will make in time before my boss leaves for a meeting. But I was wrong.
Fyn: Oh what did you do? Did you call for help?

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03/12 Bodhisattvas : Social Workers

Zeph made a remark about a certain social norm and found it quite repulsive...
Zlyrica: How are you going to help when you simply refuse to understand or blend into the crowd a little?

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03/12 Time : It's Madness

Zeph: I waited for 20 minutes for the bus. It's madness!
Zlyrica: Really? Why is 19 minutes, 18, 17 or even 21 not madness?
Zeph: I guess different people has different “thresholds of madness”.

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03/12 Giving : Generosity

Zlyrica emailed Zeph the a comic strip of passers-by dropping coins into a cup of a needy person selling pens. Only one guy picked up a pen after dropping some coins. Zeph was rather clueless about the message behind it...

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03/12 Label : Red Square Box

A red square box is not what it is if we do not associate it with its squarishness, equal six-sidedness, or even its redness in the moment. The real red box is none of that described, labelled or conceptualised above, but simply “is”. Nothing we discern is what it is discerned to be if we stop discerning or do not even start to.