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Free your mind and the rest will follow
Life, Patcharawalai Sanyanusin, Published on 03/09/2018
» Last week I came across an interesting news item about a small temple in Chiang Mai having come up with a cool idea to get visitors to ponder their lives. It has erected many large timetables around the premises, each detailing the number of days people at each age have left to live if they are to die at 75, the average lifespan for Thais.
Beware the ticking time bomb
Life, Patcharawalai Sanyanusin, Published on 27/05/2016
» What happens to books that are precariously stacked in a big pile if one more is added to the top? Is it bound to come crashing down? In a similar sense, what is likely to happen when a person, who suppresses his or her anger, reaches boiling point?
Forget revenge, learn forgiveness
Life, Patcharawalai Sanyanusin, Published on 11/10/2012
» Sept 29 and 30 this year must have been one of the most depressing weekends in decades for Buddhists around the world. That weekend there was a news photo showing a Buddha statue standing amid wreckage, with rows of coconut trees in the background. My heart sank and I immediately wanted to know which temple in which part of the world had been hit by a cyclone.