Monthly Archives: May 2014

White

Question: Can following the precepts or practicing meditation lead to right perception? Why or why not? Answer: Can wearing white clothes change your character? Luang Por Thoon said that the color of your clothes can compel your behavior. It is true that wearing white can make you more careful, but does it actually change your […]

CiCGC

Watching Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David are discussing Larry’s diet. Jerry says, “I don’t understand how there’s nothing you can eat.” Larry says, “People are disturbed by it. My ex-wife hated it. I think that’s one of the reasons our marriage ended.” “She couldn’t take the way you eat.” “You […]

Parallel

Me: I just can’t understand why on earth someone would speed up when I am already about to pass them. So annoying. Mom: Is it possible that he didn’t see you? Me: He had to have seen me. He was going normal speed until he saw me starting to pass him, then he went all […]

Antoinette

My mom shared a lane with a chubby young woman who got out of the pool around the same time we did. She walked up to us in the locker room and asked, “Do you speak English? “Yes.” “Oh, great. I’m Antoinette.” “You know, we were just talking about you. You swim really smoothly, you’re […]