‘Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one’, Albert Einstein once said. Buddhist teachings plainly state that our reality is just concepts in our mind. These are more often than not, scaffolded and reinforced by the bombardment of the mundane and the people and ‘the next thing’.   Stoking the internal and external chaos…

On the other side of the glass at Library@Harbourfront It was balmy, the palm trees that lined the bank swayed idly; the bewitching emerald waters was adorned with endless tiny crystals, glinting and beckoning me to go closer. Airplanes cruised purposefully across the cerulean blue sky, drawing white trails on the seemingly blank canvas. In…

It was like a strong jolt of current had zapped me back into consciousness. How long have I been in the dark for? As my body rebooted and regained some of its capacity to process my surroundings, a flurry of messages came online and scrolled in my retina, the central chip was thankfully mostly intact….

‘Light at the end of the tunnel’ is a mockery that seems to reverberate through the abyss of darkness and dank air. All he cares about right now is the feeble glow from a torch somewhere in the passageway that stretches to freedom beyond a sharp turn. He chuckles at the remembrance of what ‘freedom’…