Tuesday, July 5, 2011

It is all in our mind ...

My god-sister's daughter, Yin  is back in Penang from Japan. I haven't met her since she came back from KL on Sunday. I was told by my sister that she has to attend a 49 days prayer session in a temple to ward away the ghostly spirit.  Yeah, she suffers from illusion arising from depression many years ago. She is on medication and if she missed her medication, she could see ghost everywhere.  In Malaysia, she sees local ghost and in Japan, she sees Japanese ghost. I thought she is well for awhile but sometime, she would call my sister from Japan and told her strange things. This women have been a burden to my sister for many years.

Is ghost real ? Yeah, you can feel it but you cannot see it.  If you see it, this would be work of your unstable mind.  I have heard of stories that people can see ghost everywhere and they are not scare of it.  In Chinese, we call it "Yin-Yang eyes" ie the eye that can see both worlds. Well, people have also said that when your luck is low, these ghost will be visible to you. It maybe make-belief or real, it does not matter if you are not scare. Well, 49 days and on a half hour session. Ow! it sure takes a lot of determinations.

When we compare the two worlds, the human world is more cunning and snaky. Human beings are more frightening than ghost. For the ghost, there have no ulterior motives and they can only scare you but some human beings can trick and kill you without you knowing. So, why do we need to be scare of ghost when we can live among the evils of the human race.

As a short message, it is all in our mind. If we can still it, our awareness will improve and our life will be blissful, beautiful and happy.

Namaste.

Alternate vs Conventional medicine for Cancer - ext.


Note : With no liability and just an extract for reading purposes:

A good read!!!!!!!! Written by a doctor who suffers from cancer and he uses
alternative rather than conventional medicine that involves chemo etc.
Good to share with family and friends
 
*Subject: Cancer treatment is about making money...provoking thoughts*
 
I posted this article, which may have some provoking thoughts:

The below is absolutely 100% true and as a doctor I have been telling people
this for 15 years now. No one wants to listen. Folks need to wake up. Cancer
treatment is about making money. It is a 120 billion dollar a year industry
in the United States alone and estimated to be a 600 billion dollar a year
industry worldwide.

A successful cancer case according to the American Cancer Society and the
American College of Oncology and Hematology means that the person survives
for 5 years. Both the American Cancer Society and the American College of
Oncology and Hematology admit that a person is likely to survive cancer for
7 to 10 years even if they do absolutely NOTHING. Of course, only the
doctors get those magazines - not you, the cancer patient.

Alternative medicine's track record of curing cancer is 10
times higher thanthat of conventional medicine. Note that I say CURE.
Remember another thing. A TUMOR is just a symptom. It is not the cause of
cancer.

Science is cause and effect. Remove the cause and the effect disappears.
I am in my third battle with cancer right now. I have not done any
chemotherapy or radiation or surgery for any of my bouts with cancer. I
survived leukemia, I survived Non Hodgkins Lymphoma and now I have
Glioblastoma which is supposedly an incurable form of brain cancer. I was
given two months to live 5 months ago.

I have been using Chinese herbs, high doses of vitamin C, acupuncture,
chiropractic, homeopathy and nutritional changes. Yes, at first it got
worse. It had metastasized to my lymph nodes, my lungs and my bones. As of
this week, I am happy to say that there is no evidence now of any cancer in
my lymph system or my bones. I had 6 tumors in my lungs, now there are only
two. The tumors in my brain have shrunken tremendously. I never did any of
their chemo, radiation or surgery.

Here is a very interesting statistic that you can only have access to by
being a doctor. Every year more than 1,000 doctors oncologists (cancer
doctors) are diagnosed with cancer. Less than 10% of them choose to do the
treatment that they have been giving to their patients. Sort of like the
fact that less than 25% of all pediatricians vaccinate their own children
because of the fact that the risk of sudden death or serious side effects
from the vaccination is higher than the risk of catching the disease one is
being vaccinated for. This is not bullshit people - it is truth.

Medicine is about money, not about your health and the system traps people,
especially the elderly, disabled and poor into a deadly treatment regime
that puts them in an early grave. Meanwhile, all the jet set billionaires
are flying off to Europe and paying big bucks for alternative treatments and
getting cured.

Does alternative medicine work all the time? No. Of course not. Nothing
works all the time. But there is a reason for that. You don't die until it's
your time to die. Nothing can make you live longer than that time.
However quality of life comes into play. Those cancer patients who use
alternative therapies for their cancer, yet still die from the illness, suffer a much higher quality of life. They die able to spend time with their families and
even recognize their family members. They don't become emaciated like those
who do chemotherapy or radiation do and rarely is a person who goes under
the treatment of chemotherapy able to recognize anyone for the last few days
of their lives. Their bodies become ravaged to the point that you can't even
recognize them either. They suffer at a much much higher rate and they have
one let down after another as doctors tell them, ahhh - it's looking good,
only to tell them on the next visit it's looking worse, you need more chemo
and radiation.
What is criminal about this is that YOUR DOCTORS KNOW THIS SHIT.

I took an oath as a physician. I have always followed it. That has certainly
not made me successful financially as a doctor because I have consistently
refused to go along with conventional medicine's bullshit.

Read the below carefully. It may indeed make a difference in your life.
Rick Cantrell, PhD, MD, PsyD

AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY ('TRY',
BEING THE KEY WORD) TO ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING
TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY.
 
*Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins :*
1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer
cells do not show up in the standard tests until theyhave
multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancerpatients
that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after
treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detectthe
cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable
size.

2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a
person's lifetime.

3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer
cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplyingand
forming tumors.

4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has
nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic,
but also to environmental, food and lifestyle factors.

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing
diet to eat more adequately and healthy, 4-5 times/day
and by including supplements will strengthen the immune
system.

6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing
cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthycells
in the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract etc, and can
cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs
etc.

7.. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars
and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.

8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will
oftenreduce tumor size. However prolonged use of
chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor
destruction.

9. When the body has too much toxic burden from
chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either
compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb
to various kinds of infections and complications.

10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to
mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy.
Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other
sites.

11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer
cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to
multiply.

* *CANCER CELLS FEED ON:-*

a. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are
made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural
substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses , but only in
very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to
makeit white in color Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or
sea salt.
b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the
gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. Bycutting
off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milkcancer
cells are being starved.

c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based
diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a littleother
meat, like chicken. Meat also contains livestock
antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all
harmful, especially to people with cancer.

d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole
grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the bodyinto
an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked
food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live
enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to
cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance
growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes forbuilding
healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most
vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw
vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at
temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C)..

e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high
caffeine Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer
fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or
filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap
water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of
digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the
intestines becomes putrefied and leads to more toxic
buildup.

13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. *By
refraining from or eating less meat it frees more*enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer
cells.

14. Some supplements build up the immune system
(IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins,minerals,
EFAs etc.) to enable the bodies own killer cells todestroy
cancer cells.. Other supplements like vitamin E are known
to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's
normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or
unneeded cells.

15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit.
A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancerwarrior
be a survivor. Anger, un-forgiveness and bitterness put
the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to
have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy
life.

16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated
environment. Exercising daily, and *deep breathing help* to
get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen
therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer
cells.

1. No plastic containers in micro.
2. No water bottles in freezer.
3. No plastic wrap in microwave..

Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters.
This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as
well. Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially breast cancer. Dioxins are
highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don't freeze your plastic
bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic.
Recently, Dr Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Castle Hospital ,
was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins
and how bad they are for us. He said that we should not be heating our food
in the microwave using plastic containers. This especially applies to foods
that contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and
plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the
body. Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or
ceramic containers for heating food. You get the same results, only without
the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc.,
should be removed from the container and heated in something else. Paper
isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. It's just safer to use
tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of
the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper The
dioxin problem is one of the reasons.

Day after day....


White rose is for longivity and good health ...

 

















Watching my FIL fading into a sickly figure makes me speechless and lifeless. Contemplating a lot lately while sitting next to him. Our eyes sometimes caught each other and I could see the sadness in his eyes. His sickness have make him very thin and skinny, far apart from his healthy look , six months ago before detecting his sickness.

It is so scary to see how his health has deteriorated and the pain he has been going through. This morning the Doctor change his injection routine and he slip into pain again. Buddha is right. Sickness and old age is a path we have to go through.  For the past few days, I could see that he is resting and sleeping whenever I drop into the hospital to visit him. Sedated and illusion as he lies in his bed. The thought of facing death must be stirring him and frightening him and day in day out, time just slip from his hand.

I remember before my MIL , Maggie passed away. She told me that one of the night, the cow-face and horse-face messenger of death visited her and she was not scare of them. These messengers of death is a Taoist belief  that they have come to pull the soul from the body and bring it to hell when the dead will be judged.  I do not know whether it is true or not as there have been such talks going around. But, strangely she has embraced Christianity before this encounter and in the religion, there  is no such messengers of death except beautiful angels. Well, it must be her upbringings and past beliefs which have played tricks on her.

My FIL is part Buddhist and Taoist. This is a common mix for Chinese. Taoist have a lot of deities and Buddha is one of them , sitting high up in the hierarchy of the religious organization. I do not know what is going through is mind but I believe he must learn to let go. It is very easy to tell people to let go but it is never easy to do it. After all the hard work of  getting all the good things in life including money and property , we want to enjoy our achievements as long as we can. This is the investors’ attitude that we squeeze as much as possible from what we have.  There is no such things as getting enough. This is the reason we cannot let go easily. If we get things easy , then perhaps giving it up can also be easy as we do not appreciate easy money.

Yes, life have to go now for the moment . Day after day as I grow older and my FIL is getting weaker by the day. I am afraid that the final day will come and it will be time to say goodbye.

Namaste.

Monday, July 4, 2011

Success and peace

What is actual success ? According to Maharaji, actual success must come with peace. If there is no peace, there is no actual success. He re-iterate it by illustrating swimming in a pool which is warm and cozy because there is land and a house near buy. The land is the peace while you enjoy the fruits of your success.  He gave an example of putting you into the middle of the pacific where the land is miles away , you will not enjoy swimming in the sea even if it is warm and cozy because there is no land near you. So, you cannot enjoy the fruits of your success. Peace like land which provides you the landing rights.

In life, there are a lot of distractions.  Distractions like sound , light , loud voice and these are external triggers that caused you to loose your focus. If you lost your concentration and focus, you will feel disturb and  unable to enjoy your success. So, we must focus , focus and focus and chase away the distractions. Only then, we have peace as we focus on our beautiful breath and enjoy our success.

Many people asked how do we achieve peace within our self. For some people , it comes naturally but for some, it is really difficult. All we need is to focus on our breathing , to know that we are existing and living while we enjoy the fruits of our success.  Focus is to prevent distractions . It maybe difficult at the beginning but it will gradully improve and mature.

Namaste.

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Stage of despair

It was raining cats and dogs last night at the early hours of the morning. Need to get up early this morning to buy breakfast for my FIL, who is still in the hospital.  Have been going to the hospital for the last few days. Yes, to support my wife, who is having  a elderly and sick father.

The hospital in the wee hours of the morning was deserted even on a Sunday and it was so quiet and lonely. I was walking alone along the corridor to the hospital room and I could feel the cool and eerie feeling of despair.  Yeah, the long corridor is just like a tunnel to the other side. Long , quiet and cold. It will be  a lonely journey unless we know where we are going ? Yes, do we know where we are going to ? There is never an answer unless you believe in the religious texts. Heaven , that is.

Two days ago while leaving my FIL's hospital room, my daughter, May told me that there is a short cut to the parking bay but I told her, we should use the main door and she obliged. But, when we came back to the hospital after dinner, she insisted we follow her and we did.  She lead us through a side entrance and the corridor leading in was long, lonely and cool.  Anyway, we walk through the corridor and reach the lift and after getting on the lift , I asked my BIL, ES who was with me how he felt while we were walking through the corridor and he told me that he had an uncomfortable feeling.  Yes, I concur with him and I told him that corridor leads to the mortuary. I had look around while we were walking through and there was a room for collecting the dead bodies. Yes, hundreds and thousands of dead bodies have been released from the hospital mortuary.  No wonder, it has the eerie feeling.

Nobody wants to talk about death but yet, death is unavoidable.  We can behave like the ostrich by putting our head in the sand and not looking at the reality but it will not go away and we have to face it one day.  Looking at my FIL suffering the daily pain, it was hurtful but we do not know the despair and mental torture coming stress of dying. In Buddhist, we have been told to let go and put things in order so that we are lighter when we go on a journey. It is not the life that we can not let go but rather we can not let go of the things we leave behind. The good life and the materialistic things that we have.

Like what the Dalai Lama say " We sacrifice our health to earn money and finally, we use the money to save our health and to live longer" . This is the strange behaviour of human beings. We need to realize and to realize fast that we take care of our health first before earning the money and suffer all the way.

So, have a good Sunday and think of what I say.............live now and be happy.

Namaste.

Benefits of been above 50 ( lifestyle)

Someone had to remind me, so I'm reminding you too. Don't laugh.....it is
all true...

*Perks of reaching 50 or being over 60 and heading towards 70!

*01.** Kidnappers are not very interested in you.
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*02..** In a hostage situation you are likely to be released first.
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*03.** No one expects you to run--anywhere.

**04.** People call at 9 pm and ask,"did I wake you?"
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**05.** People no longer view you as a hypochondriac.
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**06.** There is nothing left to learn the hard way.
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**07.** Things you buy now won't wear out.
**08.** **You can eat supper at 4 pm.**
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**09.** You can live without sex but not your glasses.
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**10.** You get into heated arguments about pension plans.
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**11.** You no longer think of speed limits as a challenge.
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**12.** You quit trying to hold your stomach in no matter who walks into the
room.
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**13.** You sing along with elevator music.
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**14. **Your eyes won't get much worse.
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**15**.. Your investment in health insurance is finally beginning to pay
off.
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**16.** Your joints are more accurate meteorologists than the national
weather service.
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**17.** Your secrets are safe with your friends because they can't remember
them either.

**18.** Your supply of brain cells is finally down to manageable size.

**19.** You can't remember who sent you this list.
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**20.And you notice these are all in Big Print for your convenience.
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**Most importantly, never, ever, under any circumstances, take a sleeping
pill and a laxative on the same night.*

Friday, July 1, 2011

Is been lustful, a sin?

I believe nobody is perfect and we all have sin in one way or another. In Christianity, we must have God always in our mind and lustful thoughts is also sin. Buddhism talks about karma and the 8 fold path which calls for right action , right words  and refrain from lustful thoughts. Why have the creator created man and women and they are so perfect for each other? Why then it is sinful to be lustful? Our creator have provide us a situation where our will is challenge daily in life.  Looking at a women is lustful, so in some religion, they cover up their women from head to toe. See no evil, talk no evil and do no evil.

When a perfect healthy male and female grow up , their body ? When they are young , they do not know what is beautiful. They enjoy seeing strange things and enjoyed to be playful. As they grow, they want to look beautiful, perhaps from the influence from the Establishment. Then, they are attracted to the opposite sex and they grow fond of each other and eventually, they make love. Well, some religion  do not condone pre-marital sex while others do not mention about it. But, extra-marital sex is prohibited in all religions. In some religion, it is punishable by death.  Yes, all these are the creation to the learned people who want to have an orderly society. Otherwise, the human race will behave like animals , making love freely with whatever they come in contact. Is this mend to be or the creation of Man.

So, once again, is been lustful, a sin? If yes, by whose standard ? Human or our creator?

Namaste.