Ever walked past a beggar on the street or an elderly person trying to sell tissue, you will understand how I feel.
You wish well for the person yet fear that by wishing the person goodwill, will you be giving up YOUR own goodwill to the person. No matter what beliefs we subscribe to, that fear will be there, its a matter if we want to acknowledge its existence.
And its a very real fear, one given life by our own stubborness of how we cling on to it.
So arent illusions powerful?
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Of Past Lives, Present Lives andFuture Lives
When we went to Bangkok with my master and grandmaster, I asked the question : Who was I in my past life?
My grandmaster smiled and pointed at my master and said, ask your master. I turned to my master and he merely asked me, why is it important?
I couldn't answer, not because I didn't know but because I knew it was simply my ego that made me want to know, and that smae ego made me too embarrassed to answer.
Years later, I discovered the answer to my question myself, with some guidance from some friends who were excellent teachers of life. Not all teachers wear robes, shave their heads. Many come in the form of simple old men playing chess, youngsters playing online games, and wisdom doesnt respect age, beats me what it respects although i have a strong suspicion what it does respect.
Anyway, I remember my master saying, if you can tell me where you will reincarnate and what you will be reborn as in my next life, I can run off and practice on my own.
I couldnt but i still ran off! Haha... guess i still had the karma to learn and practice. My present life is a reflection of my past life, and my present life will be a picture of my future life.
Hence, make your choices, and I choose to live my life as well as I can, with love and compassion.
It is our choices that determine this life and the next. And I know wherever I go, I'm practicing.
May peace and love always be with everyone!
My grandmaster smiled and pointed at my master and said, ask your master. I turned to my master and he merely asked me, why is it important?
I couldn't answer, not because I didn't know but because I knew it was simply my ego that made me want to know, and that smae ego made me too embarrassed to answer.
Years later, I discovered the answer to my question myself, with some guidance from some friends who were excellent teachers of life. Not all teachers wear robes, shave their heads. Many come in the form of simple old men playing chess, youngsters playing online games, and wisdom doesnt respect age, beats me what it respects although i have a strong suspicion what it does respect.
Anyway, I remember my master saying, if you can tell me where you will reincarnate and what you will be reborn as in my next life, I can run off and practice on my own.
I couldnt but i still ran off! Haha... guess i still had the karma to learn and practice. My present life is a reflection of my past life, and my present life will be a picture of my future life.
Hence, make your choices, and I choose to live my life as well as I can, with love and compassion.
It is our choices that determine this life and the next. And I know wherever I go, I'm practicing.
May peace and love always be with everyone!
Sunday, August 12, 2007
The Workplace - Office
The workplace is a strange thing, its like your partners sometimes. Can't live with them, can't live without them.
Regardless of whether you are an employee or a business owner, you need a source of income, and that is generated by profitable activities. And your workplace gives you that opportunity, and mind you workplace is not necessary a fixed location.
But is money the SOLE source of satisfaction? Can we get anything else out of it?
All the frustrations that we claim come from work or the workplace, actually come from us and how we relate to the issues, and the people the issues are centric around. Remove any one end of the equation and you will not be frustrated anymore.
Cant control the other party, control yourself.
There's a life out there! Seize it !
Regardless of whether you are an employee or a business owner, you need a source of income, and that is generated by profitable activities. And your workplace gives you that opportunity, and mind you workplace is not necessary a fixed location.
But is money the SOLE source of satisfaction? Can we get anything else out of it?
All the frustrations that we claim come from work or the workplace, actually come from us and how we relate to the issues, and the people the issues are centric around. Remove any one end of the equation and you will not be frustrated anymore.
Cant control the other party, control yourself.
There's a life out there! Seize it !
Thursday, August 9, 2007
Entering the Cave
I'm a lousy poet, with an over imaginative mind and a wild untamed heart.
BUT THIS WORLD IS MINE TO CONQUER!
okok, I'm mad, that's obvious! :)
Spending time in this world allows you a multitude of experiences. But those experiences are neutral, its how we relate to them that makes them uniquely ours. Oftentimes, I find myself merely a repository of experiences, without sparing time to contemplate on them and its importance. Only when it is needed, then will they be extracted and chewed on. Even that, I count my blessings to be able to pull out from my repository to help the situation, as it would seem that not everyone can do it.
When we can see where we will be reborn in our next life, we will understand how to practice in this life. Guidance from others will also take on a different meaning.
How to reach there?
I'm taking my first definitive step, it would seem. In front of me, I see a cave beckoning to me. the darkness so inky, that it exudes fear. But I realise that the fear is only inside me. There is no darkness there, only an absence of the light that I am standing in now.
When I walk into the cave, the darkness envelopes me in a loving hug whilst the light bids me a safe journey. Seek the truths within and the darkness within the cave, will be a light that you can see by, and you will no longer need to search for the light. For you will be the light then.
Its time.
BUT THIS WORLD IS MINE TO CONQUER!
okok, I'm mad, that's obvious! :)
Spending time in this world allows you a multitude of experiences. But those experiences are neutral, its how we relate to them that makes them uniquely ours. Oftentimes, I find myself merely a repository of experiences, without sparing time to contemplate on them and its importance. Only when it is needed, then will they be extracted and chewed on. Even that, I count my blessings to be able to pull out from my repository to help the situation, as it would seem that not everyone can do it.
When we can see where we will be reborn in our next life, we will understand how to practice in this life. Guidance from others will also take on a different meaning.
How to reach there?
I'm taking my first definitive step, it would seem. In front of me, I see a cave beckoning to me. the darkness so inky, that it exudes fear. But I realise that the fear is only inside me. There is no darkness there, only an absence of the light that I am standing in now.
When I walk into the cave, the darkness envelopes me in a loving hug whilst the light bids me a safe journey. Seek the truths within and the darkness within the cave, will be a light that you can see by, and you will no longer need to search for the light. For you will be the light then.
Its time.
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