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Easy is cake. Hard is life. ...

I would like to read Abraham’s story in the light of the Buddha’s teaching, and I would like to understand the Buddha’s teaching in the light of Abraham’s story. I will also sprinkle a bit of Western philosophy. I am not well-educated or deeply researched on any of these topics, and I do not want to say anything offensive. I simply want to scratch an itch of mine. Let’s see how this goes. ...

It was Friday afternoon, and I was struggling with a technical issue. There wasn’t an apparent error in the execution of the code, but it was not producing the expected result. I spent hours debugging the problem, and by the end of the workday, there was still no solution. I decided to stop working on it and continue on Monday. ...

It was early in the winter morning. In other words, it was quiet, dark, and cold. He felt the urge to be on the road. What else could he do? He wanted to feel a bit of warmth inside him. His car was going to be that warm corner in the outside world, and if only he had a button to generate some warmth within himself. ...

Over the last few years, and especially recently, I’ve found myself cooking more and more what I call one-time recipes. These recipes nourish me in ways that go beyond simply satisfying hunger, and I’d like to share their story. ...

There have been many moments in my life when I found myself fighting on multiple fronts—family, romance, work, school, and friendships. My best strategies were to retreat, attack, move away, or cut off contact completely. I was patient in some ways. I would wait long enough, stay silent long enough until the air could no longer fit in the balloon. ...

I think it is something naturally built in us that, when we reach an end, we look at the past. They are always stops between two points. So, I looked at the past at many different ends, and here is what I saw. ...

A full room can temporarily be clean. An empty room doesn’t collect dust. ...

The eye shows, But I don’t see. Fear also shows, But I don’t see. The ear hears, But I don’t see. Anger also hears, But I don’t see. ...

One, the other, one or the other, neither one nor the other, both one and the other. ...