Not too long ago, I met with a bunch of nice people from Merrill Lynch. They said if I hired them as financial advisors, I’d get preferred treatment if I ever needed a loan. So I asked for a loan of $62 billion to buy Disney. They didn’t even bother to...
The Buddha said to Anathapindika: “In the past, householder, there was a brahmin named Velama. He gave such a great alms offering as this: eighty-four thousand bowls of gold filled with silver; eighty-four thousand bowls of silver filled with gold; eighty-four...
A couple of days ago, while I was drinking a glass of water in my kitchen, a powerful thought suddenly arose in my mind and refused to go away. That thought was: “At this moment, right here, right now, I am not suffering.” The thought that immediately...
I have always thought different. I have always been different. I am the crazy one, the misfit, the rebel, even by Google standards. Eric Schmidt half-jokingly wagged his finger at me and called me a “troublemaker”. In retrospect, I think I have been so...
The Heart Sutra is one of the most popular scriptures in all of Mahayana Buddhism. I have a theory that the secret of the Mantra in the Heart Sutra is jolly goodness. My morning alarm ringtone is a Chinese-language recitation of the Heart Sutra. Hence, I wake up...
