I received a news that many retail shops is closing in the US because of the slow economy which was dragged down by the global economic downturn. From the look of it, hard times which has been endured in other global region will hit USA as the Q1 growth in the US was slow and going into Q2, the momentum is equally bad.
The slow global economy have not spared Malaysia as I heard a lot of stories in KL that restaurant business was down 40 percentage points or more . It is not about inflation going up because of GST but a also the worsening of the global economy which cuts global demands.
Now it is quite obvious in Penang as I could see many shops in prominent areas are for rental and some of it has been vacant for months . In the past month, I noticed that most restaurant suffers business down more than the 40 percentage points but even to the extend of 70 percentage points. Many restaurants and café are empty and the traffic at the malls are also down very much.
I was at Gurney plaza last week and this weekend I was at Gurney Paragon. The traffic at Gurney Plaza was much better than Gurney paragon. But , the traffic have been very much low than the past long weekends.
If you walk the streets , the malls and the retail areas, you could feel that the situation is very much quieter. People are just not spending as many banks , factories and retail shops are laying off people or are closing. However there is a surge in the sale of second hand cars as those people who have got a big payoff choose to join the Uber team which allows a lot of free time for the family while earning enough pocket money to survive.
While waiting for the worst to come, I would like to advise all my reader to be cautious , thrifty and be aware of the investments using their retirement funds. Time is bad and don't make bad investment decisions. Otherwise, it will be worst for all of you.
Namaste.
Saturday, April 30, 2016
Friday, April 29, 2016
ChIcken & Duck talk
The present generation have a generation gap between them and baby boomers. They behave like chicken and duck and both don't want to understand what the other side is talking about .
For the young generation from Gen Y onwards, they will absent themselves if there is flu or a cough and most Monday morning is struggle to go to work and most of the time, they failed to go to work. During the prime of the baby boomers, we talk one penadol or a pain killer and struggle to work and finish a good day's work.
For the young generation, they can quit a job before getting another job. They even can tell the boss that they want a few months to rest before getting a job. They have to eagerness or intention to start their job and they are not worried because their parents have left much for them. For the baby boomers, a job security is very important to provide for themselves or for their family, On their mind, they need to save for raining days.
For the young ones, they earned RM100 , they spend RM200 and come what may, they want the latest IPhone and at least a car to travel in. They can own 8 to 10 credit cards and struggle to top up each month with their limited earnings. The baby boomers only want credit cards to buy the necessity and fit their stomach .
For the young ones, they prefer a car to a house while the baby boomers prefer a house to a car. They prefer to walk or take public transport to work while the young ones must have a car to travel . Like in the western movies , have gun will travel.
When the older generations advise the young ones, the latter pretend that they don't understand and want their creative way to solve it or they will consult google to check the advise of the old ones. In this internet age, the young ones prefer to text each other even they sitting oppersite sides of a table while the older ones prefer face to face talk.
The older ones want the distance to be shorter but the young ones make the distance further but avoiding face to face talk.
The older ones gets only one degree and they can handle all their jobs but the young ones accumulate degrees and yet still cannot handle the one job.
This is the irony of life. the more closer we are , the more further we get.
Namaste.
For the young generation from Gen Y onwards, they will absent themselves if there is flu or a cough and most Monday morning is struggle to go to work and most of the time, they failed to go to work. During the prime of the baby boomers, we talk one penadol or a pain killer and struggle to work and finish a good day's work.
For the young generation, they can quit a job before getting another job. They even can tell the boss that they want a few months to rest before getting a job. They have to eagerness or intention to start their job and they are not worried because their parents have left much for them. For the baby boomers, a job security is very important to provide for themselves or for their family, On their mind, they need to save for raining days.
For the young ones, they earned RM100 , they spend RM200 and come what may, they want the latest IPhone and at least a car to travel in. They can own 8 to 10 credit cards and struggle to top up each month with their limited earnings. The baby boomers only want credit cards to buy the necessity and fit their stomach .
For the young ones, they prefer a car to a house while the baby boomers prefer a house to a car. They prefer to walk or take public transport to work while the young ones must have a car to travel . Like in the western movies , have gun will travel.
When the older generations advise the young ones, the latter pretend that they don't understand and want their creative way to solve it or they will consult google to check the advise of the old ones. In this internet age, the young ones prefer to text each other even they sitting oppersite sides of a table while the older ones prefer face to face talk.
The older ones want the distance to be shorter but the young ones make the distance further but avoiding face to face talk.
The older ones gets only one degree and they can handle all their jobs but the young ones accumulate degrees and yet still cannot handle the one job.
This is the irony of life. the more closer we are , the more further we get.
Namaste.
Thursday, April 28, 2016
Along the way, we are lost
Where are we going to ? yes , sometimes, this thought strike us somewhere in our life journey. If we take a break or slow down and catch our breath , this thought could strike us. It can be a brief reminder that we have lost our way. Our path have deviated and we lost our directions.
When we say we lost our way, it means that somehow we become more materialistic . greedy and egoistic and our head gets swollen in our daily task of living in society. We start to blame the world for all the problems and not looking at our self for contributing to the failures.
The more we read , listen or follow , the more we become directionless. It is no more our path but the path laid out by the writers , the advertisements, those people who told you so or those want to lead your life to like theirs. We follow the one and only path ie life , age , sickness and death . Following the billions before us.
We work our self to death, we read our self to emerge our self in knowledge , we watch TV , DVD or films which lead us to our eventual meaningless death. We are being lead and yet , we are not aware of it.
The Establishment told us what we have to do , how to behave, how to talk and be accepted in our society. In the first place, do we need to be accepted ? Who can judge us or lead us? Why should be judge or to be lead. We do what we want to do and walk our own path and find our own destiny and direction,Why should we follow the billions before us. Because , the billions which have been behaving this way, their way or their expectation in life should be correct ? You have a mind and you have think about it. Is that the way you want it ?
There is many routes to a destination and many roads to a place or a spot. There are paths that have been travelled. Some less travelled and some more travelled and there are always new way to a destination. There is no hard and fast rules and each person have the right to decide about it.
There is no one single road and we can find new roads which makes you happy and comfortable.
Namaste
When we say we lost our way, it means that somehow we become more materialistic . greedy and egoistic and our head gets swollen in our daily task of living in society. We start to blame the world for all the problems and not looking at our self for contributing to the failures.
The more we read , listen or follow , the more we become directionless. It is no more our path but the path laid out by the writers , the advertisements, those people who told you so or those want to lead your life to like theirs. We follow the one and only path ie life , age , sickness and death . Following the billions before us.
We work our self to death, we read our self to emerge our self in knowledge , we watch TV , DVD or films which lead us to our eventual meaningless death. We are being lead and yet , we are not aware of it.
The Establishment told us what we have to do , how to behave, how to talk and be accepted in our society. In the first place, do we need to be accepted ? Who can judge us or lead us? Why should be judge or to be lead. We do what we want to do and walk our own path and find our own destiny and direction,Why should we follow the billions before us. Because , the billions which have been behaving this way, their way or their expectation in life should be correct ? You have a mind and you have think about it. Is that the way you want it ?
There is many routes to a destination and many roads to a place or a spot. There are paths that have been travelled. Some less travelled and some more travelled and there are always new way to a destination. There is no hard and fast rules and each person have the right to decide about it.
There is no one single road and we can find new roads which makes you happy and comfortable.
Namaste
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Stillness
We are always moving . Our mind is thinking , our heart always pumping, our bloody always flowing and in all our cells is evolving in silence and mysteriously. But , we don't feel anything but yet everything is changing all the time in our self and also in our external environment. Nothing can stop and forever moving, changing and evolving.
How can we stop it ? No never and even after we die , it is still changing , rotting and until ashes to ashes, dust to dust. We cannot run away from this path. The path of birth, age, sickness and death. We can do everything to try to stop thinking about it. Some people tame their mind , some people involved with their work until they die, some people try to run away from reality by traveling , reading and all sort of things to avoid the awareness of changing and moving towards death.
Some wise men try to find the stillness in themselves as the body and mind evolves and changing. Stillness in what ? Stillness in our mind. We have to find the core and equilibrium in our body and mind. How do we balance our mind or body to find stillness?
The balancing or control point of our sense, our sight , our taste, our smell and our hearing. A point where all these senses come to a standstill as our body and body find the harmony. It is never easy and for Buddhism , it is called " the six roots " to peace.
The monks burned six holes on the top of their forehead to make themselves aware of these moving senses. The movement of these senses moving in different direction and density or depth , creates the feeling in our body and make our mind to response to it. The combination of these senses moving in different density will caused us to re-act carefully to the recipe . Hence, with our mind and body in harmony , we can balance all these senses and still our thoughts and body balance despite all the senses are forever moving.
If we quiet down our body and focus our mind , we will find the sense of stillness in our system and balancing it will give us a sense of stillness. Like putting a glass filling with water on a table and observing it from the outside.
Namaste.
How can we stop it ? No never and even after we die , it is still changing , rotting and until ashes to ashes, dust to dust. We cannot run away from this path. The path of birth, age, sickness and death. We can do everything to try to stop thinking about it. Some people tame their mind , some people involved with their work until they die, some people try to run away from reality by traveling , reading and all sort of things to avoid the awareness of changing and moving towards death.
Some wise men try to find the stillness in themselves as the body and mind evolves and changing. Stillness in what ? Stillness in our mind. We have to find the core and equilibrium in our body and mind. How do we balance our mind or body to find stillness?
The balancing or control point of our sense, our sight , our taste, our smell and our hearing. A point where all these senses come to a standstill as our body and body find the harmony. It is never easy and for Buddhism , it is called " the six roots " to peace.
The monks burned six holes on the top of their forehead to make themselves aware of these moving senses. The movement of these senses moving in different direction and density or depth , creates the feeling in our body and make our mind to response to it. The combination of these senses moving in different density will caused us to re-act carefully to the recipe . Hence, with our mind and body in harmony , we can balance all these senses and still our thoughts and body balance despite all the senses are forever moving.
If we quiet down our body and focus our mind , we will find the sense of stillness in our system and balancing it will give us a sense of stillness. Like putting a glass filling with water on a table and observing it from the outside.
Namaste.
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Failure, is it positive or negative ?
When we talked about failures, we have a negative opinion of the result. Who wants to be a failure ? Our mindset is make to believe that we glorify success and despise failures. But , very seldom people think that "failures is the mother of success ". Wow, this guy who quoted this phase must be a very enlighten fellow who realized the important of failures at such an early stage.
Yes, failure is the mother of all success. Only through failures can we know the sweetness of success. The more failures , the better but the ultimate achievement will be success. Who have the last laugh after all.
If we are successful in the first instance, it is okay but can we really appreciate the success ? There is no yardsticks to measure the success. It is like the analogy of money. If we have lots of money , we will not treasure money but if we work very hard for it , we will treasure every dollar we earned. We know the importance of money as we have struggle much for it,.
In today's life, failure is look on positively and it is a lesson. A lesson to conquer fear of losing or becoming a loser . It is just like this analogy of pushing yourself to the limit of our tolerance and the new limit becomes our tolerance level. Our scope of thinking and doing things will expand and going further and further. This is the impact of failures, it push you to know your limits , tolerance and your base line. The more you fall down, the faster you get back up and continue your effort to strive for success.
If a child does not fall down, it will never learn how to walk. By this analogy, each failure is supposed to toughen us and make us more resilient and forceful . Each fall , each bone broken, will make our body stronger and more tolerance.
Failure will also gives us humility which is another milestone to success. The humble we are in doing things, the more wiser we are to look at problems or hindrances to your pursuit. Yes, Robbin Sherma talk about a leader without title and such person works on the same level as all others and to lead by example rather than lead by title. You become wiser and to be at the same level as others to work as a team on equal basis. This is another yardstick of success.
Life is very fair, The amount of failures will advance you to a greater extent of greatness and success. Believe it and work for it.
Namaste.
Yes, failure is the mother of all success. Only through failures can we know the sweetness of success. The more failures , the better but the ultimate achievement will be success. Who have the last laugh after all.
If we are successful in the first instance, it is okay but can we really appreciate the success ? There is no yardsticks to measure the success. It is like the analogy of money. If we have lots of money , we will not treasure money but if we work very hard for it , we will treasure every dollar we earned. We know the importance of money as we have struggle much for it,.
In today's life, failure is look on positively and it is a lesson. A lesson to conquer fear of losing or becoming a loser . It is just like this analogy of pushing yourself to the limit of our tolerance and the new limit becomes our tolerance level. Our scope of thinking and doing things will expand and going further and further. This is the impact of failures, it push you to know your limits , tolerance and your base line. The more you fall down, the faster you get back up and continue your effort to strive for success.
If a child does not fall down, it will never learn how to walk. By this analogy, each failure is supposed to toughen us and make us more resilient and forceful . Each fall , each bone broken, will make our body stronger and more tolerance.
Failure will also gives us humility which is another milestone to success. The humble we are in doing things, the more wiser we are to look at problems or hindrances to your pursuit. Yes, Robbin Sherma talk about a leader without title and such person works on the same level as all others and to lead by example rather than lead by title. You become wiser and to be at the same level as others to work as a team on equal basis. This is another yardstick of success.
Life is very fair, The amount of failures will advance you to a greater extent of greatness and success. Believe it and work for it.
Namaste.
Sunday, April 24, 2016
Hey, the rain is back
There was rain after months of El Nino effect , the dry weather have actually caught many people unaware and there is so many people suffering from heat wave, hot cough and fever The clinics have the best business in the whole year treating these ills
The rain this afternoon was a good one whereas the earlier ones were brief and short. I noticed that the plants are beginning to have a little green and they are reviving after months of rainless days.
For me, it was a relief as I always hated long spell of dry and bot weather/\. Hopefully, the rain will keep coming.
In the raining seasons, we hated rain so much as it spoilt a lot of activities and make it rather messy to go around. But, coming to think about it, it is not so bad after all. At least, it is cooling and at times comfortable.
The weather is like our life. If we have too much of one thing , we get sick and bored with it and we long for a change. This is the nature of human being. The emotions and the feelings keeps changing and sometimes creates havoc in our life.
Today, I have an argument with my daughter as she was very upset with the maid for not doing what she supposed to do. I told her to cool down and talk to the maid softly and in turn, she say that I sided her and make a hue and cry over my deemed support for the maid. My purpose is asking her to be kind to living creatures , a loving kindness which we all should have. Nobody is perfect and each of us is good in our own ways. Sometimes, we should think two seconds before we say something which is hurting to people . It is a good practice to think 2 seconds before we speak or act. The 2 seconds could saved us a lot of troubles.
Our emotions and feeling is like the weather , sometimes too hot and sometimes to cold. If we are aware of these extremes , we could adopt a 2 seconds rule to bring it under control. Awareness is very important for us to living among our human beings and not to hurt others.
Namaste
The rain this afternoon was a good one whereas the earlier ones were brief and short. I noticed that the plants are beginning to have a little green and they are reviving after months of rainless days.
For me, it was a relief as I always hated long spell of dry and bot weather/\. Hopefully, the rain will keep coming.
In the raining seasons, we hated rain so much as it spoilt a lot of activities and make it rather messy to go around. But, coming to think about it, it is not so bad after all. At least, it is cooling and at times comfortable.
The weather is like our life. If we have too much of one thing , we get sick and bored with it and we long for a change. This is the nature of human being. The emotions and the feelings keeps changing and sometimes creates havoc in our life.
Today, I have an argument with my daughter as she was very upset with the maid for not doing what she supposed to do. I told her to cool down and talk to the maid softly and in turn, she say that I sided her and make a hue and cry over my deemed support for the maid. My purpose is asking her to be kind to living creatures , a loving kindness which we all should have. Nobody is perfect and each of us is good in our own ways. Sometimes, we should think two seconds before we say something which is hurting to people . It is a good practice to think 2 seconds before we speak or act. The 2 seconds could saved us a lot of troubles.
Our emotions and feeling is like the weather , sometimes too hot and sometimes to cold. If we are aware of these extremes , we could adopt a 2 seconds rule to bring it under control. Awareness is very important for us to living among our human beings and not to hurt others.
Namaste
Saturday, April 23, 2016
Control freak
Growing old can change a person strangely. The person can become more attention focus and scare or fear to be forgotten. as the young ones drift away and become independent. To get the attention, they start to interfere in the things which the young ones do or start to complain this and that and want to be inaction.
I noticed recently in a chat group how an aged relative interfere in the chatting of the younger generation. These young people sleep late and start to chat among themselves but one old person in the chat group stop them from chatting after 10.30pm because he wants to sleep. The logical thing is to switch off his phone and go to sleep but instead he stopped the chat group. This is one illogical action and I am surprise of such silly suggestions. Why do the old people become so unreasonable?
The reason is fear of being isolated and die in silence. But, he did not know that the needs of the youngsters, They are at their prime age and they want to maximize the use of their time by stretching the night. So, they have a need .
These conflicting need makes the old people want to nag more while the youngster want their freedom more. Such conflict is not healthy and start to widen the generation gap. The gap gets wider as the aged group wants attention and control.
It is a difficult to narrow the gap and it can only gets wider as the interest of two groups clashed. It is difficult to tell the old folks to keep quiet and live their life as much as possible on their own and leave the youngsters to enjoy their time with each other. The aged group will tell me to mind my own business but it is actually interfering with the business of others.
So, the best thing to do is to let it be and let the situation resolved by itself with the youngsters starting their own chat group and leaving all the aged ones live in silence while grumbling on their own. It is a sad affair of a generation gap.
Namaste
I noticed recently in a chat group how an aged relative interfere in the chatting of the younger generation. These young people sleep late and start to chat among themselves but one old person in the chat group stop them from chatting after 10.30pm because he wants to sleep. The logical thing is to switch off his phone and go to sleep but instead he stopped the chat group. This is one illogical action and I am surprise of such silly suggestions. Why do the old people become so unreasonable?
The reason is fear of being isolated and die in silence. But, he did not know that the needs of the youngsters, They are at their prime age and they want to maximize the use of their time by stretching the night. So, they have a need .
These conflicting need makes the old people want to nag more while the youngster want their freedom more. Such conflict is not healthy and start to widen the generation gap. The gap gets wider as the aged group wants attention and control.
It is a difficult to narrow the gap and it can only gets wider as the interest of two groups clashed. It is difficult to tell the old folks to keep quiet and live their life as much as possible on their own and leave the youngsters to enjoy their time with each other. The aged group will tell me to mind my own business but it is actually interfering with the business of others.
So, the best thing to do is to let it be and let the situation resolved by itself with the youngsters starting their own chat group and leaving all the aged ones live in silence while grumbling on their own. It is a sad affair of a generation gap.
Namaste
Friday, April 22, 2016
What is marriage ?
Who created the concept of marriage? It is people and not GOD or our Creator , When GOD or the Creator creates Man and Women , there is no marriage concept. Everyone is for themselves and along time, there is some smart people who create the concept of man and wife and family. Why ? I think it basically to create the idea of possession and ownership to avoid social illness and to bring orderliness to the Establishment. With this concept of ownership, it creates the trouble of GREED and HONOUR. Greed and honor for our self. What is ours is ours and the more the merrier. The concept of ownership creates a lot of miseries and discontentment in our life We fight and kill to prevent what we own.
I was talking to my lady staff and she told me that she has two relationship before and the starting was good and latter their true colors appeared. She has been pursued by Doctors , lawyers and rich man but she just feel that many is not right for her at a first glance. Their life style or thinking just could not fit into her life. She told me that she believe that there is no such thing as a perfect man and everybody is imperfect but it the imperfectness is not something unacceptable , then marriage is possible.
I asked her why is it that marriage is important to her if she cannot find a perfect person in her life. She told me that it is natural to be married and she is expected to be married before a certain age. I told her that this is wrong as the concept of marriage is a creation by the Establishment and there is no guideline or norm . I told her that she must married only out of love and not complying with the expectation of others. But, she told me that it si natural to get married and to start a family like billions of other people. She told me people will not accept her if she gives birth as a single mother.
I told her that my concept of life is like a house, If we are staying happily in the house than we continued to stay in the house, But, if there si a lot of unhappiness or quarrels in house, then we should change house. Why do we need to stay in that house or the relationship if we are not happy at all. It is normal and logical just to buy our own house or find another house, That is all. The main point is that we must be happy and contented,
After saying this, I found that the mind set is very difficult to change as there are so many examples of happy marriage and this sets an example for the generations to follow. Everyone want to show everyone that a complete family is a happy family. Broken homes is always a taboo or a shame,
This is through the years of education and propaganda which have create this strong mind sets of ownership and what is a happy marriage. Breaking it is hard to do, But , remember , it is also not wrong to think otherwise,
Namaste
I was talking to my lady staff and she told me that she has two relationship before and the starting was good and latter their true colors appeared. She has been pursued by Doctors , lawyers and rich man but she just feel that many is not right for her at a first glance. Their life style or thinking just could not fit into her life. She told me that she believe that there is no such thing as a perfect man and everybody is imperfect but it the imperfectness is not something unacceptable , then marriage is possible.
I asked her why is it that marriage is important to her if she cannot find a perfect person in her life. She told me that it is natural to be married and she is expected to be married before a certain age. I told her that this is wrong as the concept of marriage is a creation by the Establishment and there is no guideline or norm . I told her that she must married only out of love and not complying with the expectation of others. But, she told me that it si natural to get married and to start a family like billions of other people. She told me people will not accept her if she gives birth as a single mother.
I told her that my concept of life is like a house, If we are staying happily in the house than we continued to stay in the house, But, if there si a lot of unhappiness or quarrels in house, then we should change house. Why do we need to stay in that house or the relationship if we are not happy at all. It is normal and logical just to buy our own house or find another house, That is all. The main point is that we must be happy and contented,
After saying this, I found that the mind set is very difficult to change as there are so many examples of happy marriage and this sets an example for the generations to follow. Everyone want to show everyone that a complete family is a happy family. Broken homes is always a taboo or a shame,
This is through the years of education and propaganda which have create this strong mind sets of ownership and what is a happy marriage. Breaking it is hard to do, But , remember , it is also not wrong to think otherwise,
Namaste
Just another weekend
I woke up after a good nite sleep and found myself facing another weekend. What should I do about it ? Spend it like all the weeks before , resting , sleeping , watching DVDs and idling away or I want to make a difference for this weekend and next weekend. It is entirely my decision and yet I felt directionless.
I read an article who say that we should not just followed our routines but just shuffle it around. Like if I have been brushing my teeth from left to the right or right to the left , I should change the directions and not always follow the routine . Maybe I should brush it down before up or up before down or right one day or left one day and anyhow, it is better to break the routine. The purpose of this change is to spike up the passion in our life , otherwise, will be so monotonous.
Waking up well rested is actally a blessing and each wonderful day is a blessing. Lets not expect too much from life like a big windfall or how to many big profits and continued to chase after money. Spending it a little or reasonable or extravagantly is still okay. This is just to be kind to our self. Don't worry about spending and go out to make a difference of the day for you. I am just thinking about how to spend and feel wonderful about it.
we often fall in a routine and the routine becomes our comfort zone and we are reluctant to get out of the circle of comfort. Once a while,we just break out of the circle and most of the time returning to the circle for the comfort and security. Then we start to question our self why time passed so fast or what have I been doing with my time, If we keep repeating in a circle and for day and day out, it is just like life is one circle. It is so monotonous and it makes no difference from one day to another.. It is the same sircle. If we push our slef out of the circle , then the circle gets bigger or there will be many circles in our life It will become colourful especially when we put different colors to each circle. Your life will be a rainbow of colors
There is also a theory that if we pushed our self to a further limit, the comfort zone expand to that limit. In other words, if we push our self further, the new space become our limit and the circle gets wider. Our life become so much boarder and wider and so more interesting instead of keeping our self in the small circle of comfort. The theory makes sense and we have to understand that there is risk. There is a saying if risk ends, life ends and you will fall back to your small circle of comfort andeach day remained the same and our life become one circle only.
Change and be the change yourself, Everything is within us to decide and living in a small monotonous circle is also an option. There is no right or wrong.
So live on fellas and make your life a rainbow of colours ,
Namaste.
I read an article who say that we should not just followed our routines but just shuffle it around. Like if I have been brushing my teeth from left to the right or right to the left , I should change the directions and not always follow the routine . Maybe I should brush it down before up or up before down or right one day or left one day and anyhow, it is better to break the routine. The purpose of this change is to spike up the passion in our life , otherwise, will be so monotonous.
Waking up well rested is actally a blessing and each wonderful day is a blessing. Lets not expect too much from life like a big windfall or how to many big profits and continued to chase after money. Spending it a little or reasonable or extravagantly is still okay. This is just to be kind to our self. Don't worry about spending and go out to make a difference of the day for you. I am just thinking about how to spend and feel wonderful about it.
we often fall in a routine and the routine becomes our comfort zone and we are reluctant to get out of the circle of comfort. Once a while,we just break out of the circle and most of the time returning to the circle for the comfort and security. Then we start to question our self why time passed so fast or what have I been doing with my time, If we keep repeating in a circle and for day and day out, it is just like life is one circle. It is so monotonous and it makes no difference from one day to another.. It is the same sircle. If we push our slef out of the circle , then the circle gets bigger or there will be many circles in our life It will become colourful especially when we put different colors to each circle. Your life will be a rainbow of colors
There is also a theory that if we pushed our self to a further limit, the comfort zone expand to that limit. In other words, if we push our self further, the new space become our limit and the circle gets wider. Our life become so much boarder and wider and so more interesting instead of keeping our self in the small circle of comfort. The theory makes sense and we have to understand that there is risk. There is a saying if risk ends, life ends and you will fall back to your small circle of comfort andeach day remained the same and our life become one circle only.
Change and be the change yourself, Everything is within us to decide and living in a small monotonous circle is also an option. There is no right or wrong.
So live on fellas and make your life a rainbow of colours ,
Namaste.
Thursday, April 21, 2016
Working life
This morning , suddenly I realized that I have been working for 38 years in the same company while my wife who is besides me told me that she has worked also for 32 years. A big portion of my life dedicated to the Company and how time flies , we are in the end chapter of our life already.
I realized that I have travelled to my factory for at least 20 years using the Penang bridge and most of the time , I hurried through it amidst the jam or the heavy traffic. It is just like rushing through a meal and not knowing how the food taste. Just eat for the sake of eating or driving like a zombie across the bridge not knowing what is there on the bridge. Sometimes, big accidents and sometimes small accidents , I have no more feeling for it.
It is really amazing how times flies and not knowing how did it went and where is it now like the 1MDB , "wang mana pergi"... yeah , I have passed through the bridge so many times and not knowing how I have passed through it.
Unlike tourist who have their roaming and inquisitive eyes . They can see the view , the traffic, the structure of the bridge more clearly than us. If there a million buck on the bridge , I could have missed it with my zombie condition ie half sleeping and yet keeping my eyes open. This is a trick which we have to learn to pass our time. But ,actually, it is a waste. For the tourist , they can even spot a dime. It is the irony of life.
Wow, coming back to my 38 years, I feel so down and not remembering much of my life and how it has been spend. I told my wife what kind of life are living , spending our precious time to work for a living. If it is enough, than we should tell our self it is enough and moved on to something else to fulfill our life. It is a choice and it is within us to decide . But, if we choose to work on, then it is still okay as long as we are aware of the purpose in our life is to serve out our life in this company.
There is no right or wrong but it is a decision with awareness.
I realized that I have travelled to my factory for at least 20 years using the Penang bridge and most of the time , I hurried through it amidst the jam or the heavy traffic. It is just like rushing through a meal and not knowing how the food taste. Just eat for the sake of eating or driving like a zombie across the bridge not knowing what is there on the bridge. Sometimes, big accidents and sometimes small accidents , I have no more feeling for it.
It is really amazing how times flies and not knowing how did it went and where is it now like the 1MDB , "wang mana pergi"... yeah , I have passed through the bridge so many times and not knowing how I have passed through it.
Unlike tourist who have their roaming and inquisitive eyes . They can see the view , the traffic, the structure of the bridge more clearly than us. If there a million buck on the bridge , I could have missed it with my zombie condition ie half sleeping and yet keeping my eyes open. This is a trick which we have to learn to pass our time. But ,actually, it is a waste. For the tourist , they can even spot a dime. It is the irony of life.
Wow, coming back to my 38 years, I feel so down and not remembering much of my life and how it has been spend. I told my wife what kind of life are living , spending our precious time to work for a living. If it is enough, than we should tell our self it is enough and moved on to something else to fulfill our life. It is a choice and it is within us to decide . But, if we choose to work on, then it is still okay as long as we are aware of the purpose in our life is to serve out our life in this company.
There is no right or wrong but it is a decision with awareness.
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Sleeplessness
The word means lack of sleep or deprived off sleep.
My staff told me that she has not got a proper sleep for the past three days and she is mentally alert but physically tired. How can it be ? The body and mind is connected and if the body is tired, the mind is also tired or vice versa. She told me that so many thoughts went through her head and she cannot close her eyes. She also told me that for the past 365 days , she has been dreaming non stop and she hope that it will go off by itself if she takes a long break from work.
I told her it is not true because she is still carrying the same brain on her trip wherever she goes and it is important to train the mind and keep it in order. The holiday trip could take away the stress if the stress is the problem but if the reason for lack of sleep is her untrained mind and wherever she goes , the untrained mind follows her and could make her more tired.
Our untrained mind is like a bunch of monkeys having a party at certain time of the day or all the time of the day. The eye monkey, ear monkey , the nose monkey, etc which represent the different senses in our body. All these monkeys are partying around and caused so many thoughts to move in and out of our mind and making use tired and yet cannot sleep.
How do we tame our mind and make us sleep ? Let it be natural , treat our body and mind with all the kindness and be a good friend to it. We have to adopt some methods to calm down the mind and bring its activity level to its resting level.
Meditation is to calm the mind and making it relax .One way of meditation is to focus on the breath and following its "in" and :"out" motion and slowing it down from a four count hold , to an eight count hold and finally , a 16 count hold . The hold is between the in breath and the out breath. This is as simple as that. If we focus and concentrate on the breath , our mind is free from all the thoughts and thinking. Just relax and slow down our breath and in turn, our body. It is difficult at the start but start with the easy routine and gradually intensify the slowness while be kind to your body and make it rest as natural as possible.
There are many ways. Another way is listening to meditative music and the breath link to the tune or beat of the music and enjoy the tempo . Any concentration of our mind , will draw our energy to it and it will impact the body condition. Just relax and enjoy the flow.
Break from our mindset that we can sleep only by lying down. Sleep can be in any pose include sitting and the most important is not the position but the state of the mind when we sleep. Remember, it is not a necessity to sleep lying down, you can sleep while standing . The state of the mind is more important.
Okay now. Find a place to sit in the most comfortable pose and corner and enjoy the trip . Just don't be complicated to yourself or use force on your will,. Expect nothing and the form will come into your pose naturally.
Namaste.
My staff told me that she has not got a proper sleep for the past three days and she is mentally alert but physically tired. How can it be ? The body and mind is connected and if the body is tired, the mind is also tired or vice versa. She told me that so many thoughts went through her head and she cannot close her eyes. She also told me that for the past 365 days , she has been dreaming non stop and she hope that it will go off by itself if she takes a long break from work.
I told her it is not true because she is still carrying the same brain on her trip wherever she goes and it is important to train the mind and keep it in order. The holiday trip could take away the stress if the stress is the problem but if the reason for lack of sleep is her untrained mind and wherever she goes , the untrained mind follows her and could make her more tired.
Our untrained mind is like a bunch of monkeys having a party at certain time of the day or all the time of the day. The eye monkey, ear monkey , the nose monkey, etc which represent the different senses in our body. All these monkeys are partying around and caused so many thoughts to move in and out of our mind and making use tired and yet cannot sleep.
How do we tame our mind and make us sleep ? Let it be natural , treat our body and mind with all the kindness and be a good friend to it. We have to adopt some methods to calm down the mind and bring its activity level to its resting level.
Meditation is to calm the mind and making it relax .One way of meditation is to focus on the breath and following its "in" and :"out" motion and slowing it down from a four count hold , to an eight count hold and finally , a 16 count hold . The hold is between the in breath and the out breath. This is as simple as that. If we focus and concentrate on the breath , our mind is free from all the thoughts and thinking. Just relax and slow down our breath and in turn, our body. It is difficult at the start but start with the easy routine and gradually intensify the slowness while be kind to your body and make it rest as natural as possible.
There are many ways. Another way is listening to meditative music and the breath link to the tune or beat of the music and enjoy the tempo . Any concentration of our mind , will draw our energy to it and it will impact the body condition. Just relax and enjoy the flow.
Break from our mindset that we can sleep only by lying down. Sleep can be in any pose include sitting and the most important is not the position but the state of the mind when we sleep. Remember, it is not a necessity to sleep lying down, you can sleep while standing . The state of the mind is more important.
Okay now. Find a place to sit in the most comfortable pose and corner and enjoy the trip . Just don't be complicated to yourself or use force on your will,. Expect nothing and the form will come into your pose naturally.
Namaste.
Sunday, April 17, 2016
Bigger issues
Do we need to re-act to bigger issues which affects our life in general of which we have very limited controls over it ? Most of us are fence sitters or arm chair critics and we can only sit down and complain to our friends or involved with coffee shop talks.
Currently, our leaders are fighting each other over the scandals and political funding and the disappearance of our Nation's tax payers/ money and the non transparency issues over various investigations and audits. The sage is really sickening to our bones
The latest is allowing a foreign religious speaker to talk about GOD in our multi religious society and questioning where GOD have a son and such talks become a religious intolerance issue which splits the nation. Is there a hidden hand to spike up more contentious issues and make the people fearful as part of a political strategy to control the people. Such idea is evil as the outcome cannot be controllable .
The Sun Tze Art of War is at play now and the strategy to create as many problems to divert the attention on the scandals and illegal acts and make it more dilute on their focus. When there is trouble , create more trouble and let time resolve the issues,
The on-going tussle between the Urban Minister and Penang CM is another way to get the people to be confused and create more topics to divert the focus on the main issues facing the country Why need to adopt this hit and run tactic to stir up the bush fires . It makes the leaders talk and act stupid like a child talking nonsense, Where have all the intelligent leaders gone to ?
I am a shame of the political situation prevailing now and sick of these lies and cover ups. It is a simple thing to do, if the leaders make errors or mistakes , they must be responsible and it is as simple as that . No need to argue and protect them and there simple rules and punishment. If the error is big, they have to resign and pack their bags just like what happen to al the foreign leaders,
Why can the leaders behave in this simple manner but to create more troubles or playing hard balls to stay on. Step down lah and this is as sumple as that and behave like a responsible leader,
Don/t play with nation/s integrity and money as the long arm of the law will finally catch up, The past will catch up with you sooner or later, So, don't think you can get away with it, The investigation papers and the records of wrong doings will come out one day.
Namaste, I will pray for those who have done the wrong things and still pretend that everything is okay and including those who say stupid things to protect those who is in the wrong,
Currently, our leaders are fighting each other over the scandals and political funding and the disappearance of our Nation's tax payers/ money and the non transparency issues over various investigations and audits. The sage is really sickening to our bones
The latest is allowing a foreign religious speaker to talk about GOD in our multi religious society and questioning where GOD have a son and such talks become a religious intolerance issue which splits the nation. Is there a hidden hand to spike up more contentious issues and make the people fearful as part of a political strategy to control the people. Such idea is evil as the outcome cannot be controllable .
The Sun Tze Art of War is at play now and the strategy to create as many problems to divert the attention on the scandals and illegal acts and make it more dilute on their focus. When there is trouble , create more trouble and let time resolve the issues,
The on-going tussle between the Urban Minister and Penang CM is another way to get the people to be confused and create more topics to divert the focus on the main issues facing the country Why need to adopt this hit and run tactic to stir up the bush fires . It makes the leaders talk and act stupid like a child talking nonsense, Where have all the intelligent leaders gone to ?
I am a shame of the political situation prevailing now and sick of these lies and cover ups. It is a simple thing to do, if the leaders make errors or mistakes , they must be responsible and it is as simple as that . No need to argue and protect them and there simple rules and punishment. If the error is big, they have to resign and pack their bags just like what happen to al the foreign leaders,
Why can the leaders behave in this simple manner but to create more troubles or playing hard balls to stay on. Step down lah and this is as sumple as that and behave like a responsible leader,
Don/t play with nation/s integrity and money as the long arm of the law will finally catch up, The past will catch up with you sooner or later, So, don't think you can get away with it, The investigation papers and the records of wrong doings will come out one day.
Namaste, I will pray for those who have done the wrong things and still pretend that everything is okay and including those who say stupid things to protect those who is in the wrong,
My path
My path in the past have been rather common. I went to various schools before completing my professional exam in college and I started to work. I joined the American MNCs for about one half year and I moved on to a Hong Kong -Japanese textile company and stay there for 38 years already and I belong one of the long serving staff in the Company.
For my personal life, I got married after a few relationships for already 30 years and both my wife and myself is near our retirement age. Looking back our life path have been very common and millions have past through this similar path. So , nothing to shout about and we are a normal family.
Life is like a plate of plain rice and it has wondered through many years and in detail, there are moment of personal achievements in my career but it is like a few sparks in a long journey.
At this age with 2/3 of my life gone, it is down to the twilight years and master the age of letting go and slip into eternity. Of course, age is just a number and I will try to maintain my health and energy to live on until my final days. At this age, I have to contribute something back to society because I have enjoyed my life with the support of the society like helping the next generation to build up their career, help those business minded people to build up their business and to plant tress to appraise the environment and to do charity to share my merits with the aging population or the lesser beings. This my path and I should complete it before moving on.
Life is evolving and we are uncertain of what will happen in the future and we can only plan to give back as much as possible to the civilization. There no point holding on it materially and it cannot on to the next life. What I profess to do is to let go and share it with society and the people we love,
Namaste
For my personal life, I got married after a few relationships for already 30 years and both my wife and myself is near our retirement age. Looking back our life path have been very common and millions have past through this similar path. So , nothing to shout about and we are a normal family.
Life is like a plate of plain rice and it has wondered through many years and in detail, there are moment of personal achievements in my career but it is like a few sparks in a long journey.
At this age with 2/3 of my life gone, it is down to the twilight years and master the age of letting go and slip into eternity. Of course, age is just a number and I will try to maintain my health and energy to live on until my final days. At this age, I have to contribute something back to society because I have enjoyed my life with the support of the society like helping the next generation to build up their career, help those business minded people to build up their business and to plant tress to appraise the environment and to do charity to share my merits with the aging population or the lesser beings. This my path and I should complete it before moving on.
Life is evolving and we are uncertain of what will happen in the future and we can only plan to give back as much as possible to the civilization. There no point holding on it materially and it cannot on to the next life. What I profess to do is to let go and share it with society and the people we love,
Namaste
Payback time
Payback time
I have always believe in the law of karma. What we sow is what we reap . It cannot be avoided and there is a payback time in many ways and some in its mysterious ways.
I do not know how Lord Buddha realized this concept but in our daily life we see a lot of this examples. When bad things happen to us , we will asked why me ? We cannot understand the logic of bad things fallen on us as we have done no sins. Well, the sins are from the past and present and doings of others who are related to us. We will never able to pinpoint the sins we did or done by others which have attracted the misfortune which have fallen on us.
We have to follow our own path and during the journey , we have to avoid harm to others and in the appropriate times , we give back what we have reaped from our civilization and back to it .This is to lessen our sins on earth and stop its circulations in our lives which will bring negative returns in our life or the life of those close to us.
Our sins in our life will circulate for many years and life until we obtained enlightenment which will put us out of this realm and return to our energy source .
Dalai Lama's teaching that if we cannot give help to others than create no harm to others . We can do anything which can hurt ourself but we hurt others than that is a sin. We will be answerable for that sin.
Namaste
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Analogy of life
Thousands of years , billions of people have passed by and for those who are more aware than others, they make peace with life. So, many writers have try to describe the meaning of life is a few words.
Life is a dream and dream is life. well said. and it is very true. But our life fly by and each dream is a new life. \\
Another version is that life is like passing smoke in front of our eyes. It is just to short and impermanent . The smoke is not physical and solid , it is an illusion.
One writer describe it as a life concert and from the start to end , it is like living in a live concert and you enjoy it when you are there. \ It ends when it is finished.Ha
Buddha says that life comprised of 4 stages ie birth, old , illness and death. Everyone must pass through these 4 stages and billions have passed through it already.\\
In yoga, we believe that our life comprises of 3 million breaths and when it is finished , we die. So , the faster you breath , the faster you consumed up the breaths , so in yoga, we slow down and appreciate each breath.
It is an irony why people chase for excess wealth , chase for titles and frames , chase for love and power, All these are impermanence and illusions. Happiness sis what we want to do and be what we want to be as life is so short and flowing non stop.. We aged by the day, by the week and by the years and we are still chasing for the worldly pleasure as we one each day to count and add to our riches and wealth. It is all rubbish and wrong. we are scare to be useless and we continued to work to fulfil our time on this earth and to be useful and greedy.
So, we have to wake up in the Buddha in us and realize the short and fragile life as we struggle in this world. The faster you realized this point , the faster you achieve enlightenment. \\
Hamaste
Life is a dream and dream is life. well said. and it is very true. But our life fly by and each dream is a new life. \\
Another version is that life is like passing smoke in front of our eyes. It is just to short and impermanent . The smoke is not physical and solid , it is an illusion.
One writer describe it as a life concert and from the start to end , it is like living in a live concert and you enjoy it when you are there. \ It ends when it is finished.Ha
Buddha says that life comprised of 4 stages ie birth, old , illness and death. Everyone must pass through these 4 stages and billions have passed through it already.\\
In yoga, we believe that our life comprises of 3 million breaths and when it is finished , we die. So , the faster you breath , the faster you consumed up the breaths , so in yoga, we slow down and appreciate each breath.
It is an irony why people chase for excess wealth , chase for titles and frames , chase for love and power, All these are impermanence and illusions. Happiness sis what we want to do and be what we want to be as life is so short and flowing non stop.. We aged by the day, by the week and by the years and we are still chasing for the worldly pleasure as we one each day to count and add to our riches and wealth. It is all rubbish and wrong. we are scare to be useless and we continued to work to fulfil our time on this earth and to be useful and greedy.
So, we have to wake up in the Buddha in us and realize the short and fragile life as we struggle in this world. The faster you realized this point , the faster you achieve enlightenment. \\
Hamaste
Monday, April 11, 2016
Diabetic ? Scary !
I was alarmed when the Doctor say my sugar level was high... I have not felt anything except some rashes. Where I cannot tell you ? Hahaha .. start to wonder ? naughty thoughts yeah .. in the ass maybe ? hehehe. I should not be alarmed as my both parents were diabetic and it is in my family. Yes, it is an illness and I have to accept it ., No point try to be an ostrich hiding my head in the sand and exposing my butt to be kick on.
Yes, high sugar level . So what should I do ? Yes, I must reduce it to a normal level if not, nasty things will happen like stroke, blindness and rashes as fungus gathers. Of course, by managing our diet than everything will be okay or keep my nasty lifestyle and consume medication to control . There is no three ways about it. Just diet or medication and that is it . Can exercise help ? yes, of course, I can go for exercise to control it and live out of my life style.
Things have to change when I know what is happening to me . But coming to think about it , I have been dieting .. I have been drinking a lot of juice , abstain from alcohol, abstain from seafood , taking oats in the morning and eating diabetic rice for dinner. The only time I am exposed is during lunch which I eat a lot of noodles and white rice. But, come to think about while rice is also not so much but I eat a lot of fish, veggie and meat. Now, If I throw away the meat, it is only veggie and fish .. What have life become ? Wow, am I eat to live or live to eat. But there can be a third option in this case, I can balance it. Most of the time is eat to live and once a while, live to eat and let go of my diet.
Life have its turns and like I say at 62 , all the things are falling apart, Yes, literally, falling apart , I meet a customer just now during lunch and he is 63. He has gone through a stomach surgery for cancer, his hairs are all white, his body shrink and he is puffy and look frail. Life is like that , we can delay it but it will come soon as time passes.
How can we not die ? Everybody die at the appropriate time due to old age. The rich and famous have to go this way and there is no other way. hahaha.
Wei, wake up and be aware... the time is running and the end will come. Sure.
Namaste
Yes, high sugar level . So what should I do ? Yes, I must reduce it to a normal level if not, nasty things will happen like stroke, blindness and rashes as fungus gathers. Of course, by managing our diet than everything will be okay or keep my nasty lifestyle and consume medication to control . There is no three ways about it. Just diet or medication and that is it . Can exercise help ? yes, of course, I can go for exercise to control it and live out of my life style.
Things have to change when I know what is happening to me . But coming to think about it , I have been dieting .. I have been drinking a lot of juice , abstain from alcohol, abstain from seafood , taking oats in the morning and eating diabetic rice for dinner. The only time I am exposed is during lunch which I eat a lot of noodles and white rice. But, come to think about while rice is also not so much but I eat a lot of fish, veggie and meat. Now, If I throw away the meat, it is only veggie and fish .. What have life become ? Wow, am I eat to live or live to eat. But there can be a third option in this case, I can balance it. Most of the time is eat to live and once a while, live to eat and let go of my diet.
Life have its turns and like I say at 62 , all the things are falling apart, Yes, literally, falling apart , I meet a customer just now during lunch and he is 63. He has gone through a stomach surgery for cancer, his hairs are all white, his body shrink and he is puffy and look frail. Life is like that , we can delay it but it will come soon as time passes.
How can we not die ? Everybody die at the appropriate time due to old age. The rich and famous have to go this way and there is no other way. hahaha.
Wei, wake up and be aware... the time is running and the end will come. Sure.
Namaste
Thursday, April 7, 2016
Changing faces
I was driving past my friend/s house which located along a busy road and I saw all the cars were gone and also the sign board for his business . I was shocked as my wife have still some unfinished biz with his wife. So, I called him and there was no response.
He returned my call and he was speaking so loud on the other side and telling me he chased out his tenant as he wants to increase the rental of his house and he offers to rent out his house for RM8000 per month and he has turned down an offer for RM7000; He starts blaring away that he has bought a house for RM2 million and he wants to sell his old house along the busy road for RM2,9 million and he almost sold it for RM3 million abt a year ago but it was not successful,
He told me that he is a top sales person in public mutual and his name always appears in the paper and he asked me whether I saw the new of his merits and pride in the newspaper . I wish him good luck and promised to call him again.
The purpose of my telling this story is that even as his age of 65 years old , he is still so boastful and greedy. How much m oney does he want ? When you have more than whare at you need, it is just greed . The greed of getting more money and this is the human nature.\\
There are a lot of people like who follow the jones and want to compete against each other for wealth , health and frame. What are all these achievements ? Nothing , simply nothing and only illusions. Maybe , it is their pashsion to be better than others and this is their purpose in life. simply want to be the best if not better.
When things gets excessive , it becomes a waste, If you see the proper perspective It is not a waste of their achievements but a waste of the life pursuing their achievements. There is a better to live their life instead of chasing for something excessive which in the end have no purpose and vvalue, Just like when you eat your dinner, if you eat too much it makes you want to vomit or fill congested up. It no more the need to eat but overstuffing of food in you which in the end is damaging to your health. If you look into this perspective , you will understand what I mean. Over eating is a waste and eating enough is the best option.
Namaste
He returned my call and he was speaking so loud on the other side and telling me he chased out his tenant as he wants to increase the rental of his house and he offers to rent out his house for RM8000 per month and he has turned down an offer for RM7000; He starts blaring away that he has bought a house for RM2 million and he wants to sell his old house along the busy road for RM2,9 million and he almost sold it for RM3 million abt a year ago but it was not successful,
He told me that he is a top sales person in public mutual and his name always appears in the paper and he asked me whether I saw the new of his merits and pride in the newspaper . I wish him good luck and promised to call him again.
The purpose of my telling this story is that even as his age of 65 years old , he is still so boastful and greedy. How much m oney does he want ? When you have more than whare at you need, it is just greed . The greed of getting more money and this is the human nature.\\
There are a lot of people like who follow the jones and want to compete against each other for wealth , health and frame. What are all these achievements ? Nothing , simply nothing and only illusions. Maybe , it is their pashsion to be better than others and this is their purpose in life. simply want to be the best if not better.
When things gets excessive , it becomes a waste, If you see the proper perspective It is not a waste of their achievements but a waste of the life pursuing their achievements. There is a better to live their life instead of chasing for something excessive which in the end have no purpose and vvalue, Just like when you eat your dinner, if you eat too much it makes you want to vomit or fill congested up. It no more the need to eat but overstuffing of food in you which in the end is damaging to your health. If you look into this perspective , you will understand what I mean. Over eating is a waste and eating enough is the best option.
Namaste
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Time waits for no one
Really, it is impossible to catch hold of time, it just slip by and fast. On Friday, I am always happy as I have two days of rest but when the weekend comes by, it also slip away very fast. Two days of rest day is like a moment ago , gone in no time.
It is one of the impossible thing to do is to hold on to time. Who invented the clock ? This monster fella must be mad to track time. Time is limitless and borderless and why we should track time. Let it flow by instead of putting spots along it to track it. Seconds, minutes and the hours. This invention is comparable to Steve Jobs invention of the Iphone which make us available and reachable all the time. However, at least Iphone can be switched off but we cannot switch off time.
What is mad fella thinking about tracking time ? If there is no clock , there will be no days, months and years. Life will be a long stretch of time and will be alternating from day to night and night to day. We will not know which day it is and how old we are. Why GOD give mankind such a smart man which GOD can keep track of our time and age.
If there is no time, we will not be so restless to wait for a particular date and we live on forever from birth to death. We will not know that we are 10 , 20 or 30 years old and so on and so on. We have to study at the age of 7 and finished Uni at the age of 20 or 23 and get married by the age of 30 and have family by the age of 35 , retire by the age of 60 and die by the age of 80 . All these numbers are no meaning but numbers to track our time on earth. Which year we are born and which year we die. Is there any meaning to these dates ? So, this smart man who created the clock is actually a stupid man who invented the clock to track something that is meaningless. Who cares about time if there is no clock ?
When we look at the clock , it is really stressful as the seconds ticks away which make the minutes and the minutes make the hours and hours form the days. This make us aware of passing time and forgot the present ? Our mind worries about tomorrow and at what time we have to do something or be somewhere ? It is orderly as a means of communication but we can also use the sun or the moon to determine the moment to do something or be somewhere but at least no need to track the days , months and the years.
However, it is GOD's will , that there is such a thing call "clock" to tell us when to start to live or time to die.
Namaste.
It is one of the impossible thing to do is to hold on to time. Who invented the clock ? This monster fella must be mad to track time. Time is limitless and borderless and why we should track time. Let it flow by instead of putting spots along it to track it. Seconds, minutes and the hours. This invention is comparable to Steve Jobs invention of the Iphone which make us available and reachable all the time. However, at least Iphone can be switched off but we cannot switch off time.
What is mad fella thinking about tracking time ? If there is no clock , there will be no days, months and years. Life will be a long stretch of time and will be alternating from day to night and night to day. We will not know which day it is and how old we are. Why GOD give mankind such a smart man which GOD can keep track of our time and age.
If there is no time, we will not be so restless to wait for a particular date and we live on forever from birth to death. We will not know that we are 10 , 20 or 30 years old and so on and so on. We have to study at the age of 7 and finished Uni at the age of 20 or 23 and get married by the age of 30 and have family by the age of 35 , retire by the age of 60 and die by the age of 80 . All these numbers are no meaning but numbers to track our time on earth. Which year we are born and which year we die. Is there any meaning to these dates ? So, this smart man who created the clock is actually a stupid man who invented the clock to track something that is meaningless. Who cares about time if there is no clock ?
When we look at the clock , it is really stressful as the seconds ticks away which make the minutes and the minutes make the hours and hours form the days. This make us aware of passing time and forgot the present ? Our mind worries about tomorrow and at what time we have to do something or be somewhere ? It is orderly as a means of communication but we can also use the sun or the moon to determine the moment to do something or be somewhere but at least no need to track the days , months and the years.
However, it is GOD's will , that there is such a thing call "clock" to tell us when to start to live or time to die.
Namaste.
Sunday, April 3, 2016
At this moment.....
I have been feeling rather upset from last Friday due to some unpleasant incidents in my office. I promised not to bring back this feeling with me but on and off, the unpleasantness surged up and break into my thoughts. I have been pushing it away but it came back knocking on my mental door more forcefully.
The more I want to shake it off , the more sticky it becomes. I related it to my pursue of my mediation practice , The more I want myself to come down and ease into a state of calmness and peace, the more illusive it becomes. I should kind to my mind and let it find its own level of peace instead of pushing my mind into a peaceful stage, I must relax my body and be kind to it and let it ease into its comfortable form and then I should turn to my mind and let it find its own peace at its own time,
The level of the water in the pond must find its calm and if we hold a cup of water in our hands , it will never find its peace or stillness in the cup of water because our feelings and our hands can never be still. Our body and mind is always moving and disturb by our emotions. The only time the water in the cub can be still is you have to put the cub on the table or the floor and let it find its stillness. We have to let go , let go of our ego ,our passion , our feelings and whatever on our mind and the mind and mind will find its own stillness.
Always be aware of our impermanence as we are only passing through this life briefly. If we catch hold of life too much, we become self centred and have big egos . We want wealth ,power , frame ,love and respect. All these are illusions if you see through its surface. We want to control fate and also everything happening around us to our satisfaction or our way, it is impossible as we are not GOD , we are only a passenger through time and fate have its own destiny and evolution.
Just let go and let fate decides the things beside us and kill your ego , kill it fast and don't be a hero in every event, there are moments where you can be in your prime. Change with change and you will understand to let go of things. We cannot catch hold of fate as it is has a life of its own.
Namaste.
The more I want to shake it off , the more sticky it becomes. I related it to my pursue of my mediation practice , The more I want myself to come down and ease into a state of calmness and peace, the more illusive it becomes. I should kind to my mind and let it find its own level of peace instead of pushing my mind into a peaceful stage, I must relax my body and be kind to it and let it ease into its comfortable form and then I should turn to my mind and let it find its own peace at its own time,
The level of the water in the pond must find its calm and if we hold a cup of water in our hands , it will never find its peace or stillness in the cup of water because our feelings and our hands can never be still. Our body and mind is always moving and disturb by our emotions. The only time the water in the cub can be still is you have to put the cub on the table or the floor and let it find its stillness. We have to let go , let go of our ego ,our passion , our feelings and whatever on our mind and the mind and mind will find its own stillness.
Always be aware of our impermanence as we are only passing through this life briefly. If we catch hold of life too much, we become self centred and have big egos . We want wealth ,power , frame ,love and respect. All these are illusions if you see through its surface. We want to control fate and also everything happening around us to our satisfaction or our way, it is impossible as we are not GOD , we are only a passenger through time and fate have its own destiny and evolution.
Just let go and let fate decides the things beside us and kill your ego , kill it fast and don't be a hero in every event, there are moments where you can be in your prime. Change with change and you will understand to let go of things. We cannot catch hold of fate as it is has a life of its own.
Namaste.
Something is really impossible
The past gone. Finished but yet the memories comes back to haunt us or for us to cherish the wonderful moments. It actually gone and we can never travel back in time to change it . All the goodness or sins we have created , we have to answer to for it or get merits from it. Sometimes, we feel that if only we can change history , then we would feel better or change the wrong to the right. It not possible .
The phase " nothing is impossible or impossible is nothing" is wrong in this aspect. It is not possible to undo the things we have done in the past but only can try to remedy it by finding ways to make it less painful when we thought about it.
It is just like a lost friendship, somebody we have not been in touch for a long time or a sour friendship. Even if we want to repair the friendship but it depends on the other person to accept it. So , what is done , cannot be undone. A friendship is lost forever and we regretted very much over it and we have done it differently, the friendship could be still be there.
Why can't we suppressed our self ego in the past ? At the moment, we decide it to let it go and hope that it will come back but it never came back , it is lost forever. Like letting a bird out of its cage , it flew off and decide never to return.
It is some of the regrets we have and it is no use crying over the spilled milk , From this point, everything is possible and we need to be aware and cherished whatever relationship we have. There is still time at the present and we should not do something stupid and let it go again.
The past is past , the present is now. Don't lost touch with it and enjoy every moment without regrets.
Namaste.
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