‘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…