In every relationships, there would always be disatisfaction and the need to compromise. If one party is feeling very unhappy about it and did not address or discuss the issue, then cracks would be there. If relationship breakers, ie people who are envious of your relationship or wants what you have enters your life, it [...]
Buddhism
In their journey, the reached an old temple- Piggie used his psychic power and converted the entire place into a beautiful abode. He even changed himself into a handsome man too. Tang Sanzang was not impressed. He told Piggie that ordained people should not crave for good abode and be happy with whatever found. He [...]
With Wukong out of the way, the Skeleton Spirit was able to abduct Tang Sanzang easily. By now, Tang Sanzang realised that he had wrongly accused WuKong. But prior to this, Wu Kong had requested help from 4 powerful gods to protect his teacher while he was away. But these 4 gods knew that only [...]
Spirit being very scheming, took another form of an old lady, supposedly to be the girl’s mother. Her objective was to instigate WuKong to apparently be killing innocent lives so that the teacher would banish WuKong. And with WuKong, the most powerful disciple out of her way, she knew she would have no problem capturing [...]
Sometimes behind every evil, there may be a sad tale behind it. The Skeleton Spirit (白骨精) had fallen in love with a prince and kidnapped him from the palace. She then forced the prince to be her husband. The prince had tried to escape and even commit suicide by jumping down the cliff- but she [...]
Early Relationship between Wukong and Piggie (Zhu Bajie). Initially, there was no mutual respect. Wukong constantly bullied Piggie because Piggie was his junior, fat, lazy and always fall for beautiful women. His pig ears would flap the moment he saw a beauty in sight. Wukong at even pretended to be the heavenly maiden to have [...]
The story below deplicts the true reality of the consequence of how a kid can be spoilt when he/she is stuck in between the parents’ divorce or constant arguement. Sometimes, couples don’t think twice about using their kids as messengers- to pass message to oneto the another. And in order to win favors from the kid [...]
In life, we are sometimes thrown into unfavourable circumstances. We may feel it is unfair and even the heavens don’t care or that we have been forsaken. Feeling neglected, alone and victimised, a person may choose to lash back at the world…after all, the world is such a horrible place. In action led by eyes [...]
This is post is part of the series of posts written on the lessons from Journey to the West (1996 TVB version). Back to Journey to the West (TVB) Main Page In his travel, Tang Sanzang came across Wu Kong and released him from the trapped mountain. Wu Kong had wanted to carry his teacher [...]
When the first step is wrong, it can lead to a series of mistakes and eventually may get a person into serious trouble. And pride can also can easily bring to the person’s downfall. Sometimes, instead of learning from the mistake, the person may end up plotting for revenge- by blaming others for his misfortune. When faced with [...]