One smooth day

Not everyday is a smooth day if the mind is not prepared.

I had a morning where I felt very not ’soon’. Traffic jams, long queue  over ATM, long queue over fast food, misplacement of personal stuff, cannot find keys etc… Frustration came knocking on my mind door already.  The thought came quickly- why today so ‘buay soon’.

This question makes me ponder why I am feeling this  frustration. I allowed it to settle in. Then I came to another  thought  of  how ‘buay soon’ can befall onto a person. I fet only certain types of people or moments will a individual face such situations.

A person who is angry.

A person who is sick.

A person who is sad and depressed.

A person who is greedy.

Don’t think I recall seeing someone who is happy or in love complains about being ’sway’ or whatever. Think we can avoid unlucky situations if we constantly stay chirpy and positive. In a nutshell, I believe its our perception that can save us instead of fengshui or whatever.

The Feeble Mind

I find that the mind is both weak and strong at times.

It is so easy to be tempted, to give in and fall into the preys of desires. It is a daily struggle to fight our inner demons.  My greatest issue is ’Ego’ like the millions out there. The self is too conscious looking for an identity which is not even there. 

My teacher  always says that human feelings are constantly floating. Agree totally but,  the trained mind can stabilize the fluctuations  by reasoning and analyzing. One thing I have learned and been practicing so far is to be at ease at all times and breath properly.

The rest of the world will take their place.

Meditation 28 Aug 09

Meditation

Did gyfm as usual at 12plus. Surprised I could stick and concentrate for more than 1/2 hour. There was alot of feel around the whole head as if some energy is trying to enter and circulating at the same time. Usually night time very hard to concentrate (sleepy)especially this few days cause every time start gyfm the head start to gets heavy and blockage.  3rd eye and crown area quite sensitive this few days especially when I talk to people about Buddhist study. I get chills from time to time even during work.

Life in Short

 

I feel that Life is like approaching a bus stop to take a bus.
When an individual approaches a bus stop, the important question will be what bus to take. This question actually refers to the eventual destination of your heading with reference from each purpose of life. Many people are ignorant of what their purpose of life is meaning they are unclear of what bus to take.
During the wait it is important to experiences friendship and love in order to understand “letting go” cause everyone depart with different buses at different timings; meaning people eventually dies at different time.
It doesn’t matter if you are not a hottie or rich cause you can’t bring it up the bus.
The thing that matters is the amount of positive actions and thoughts that one generate cause it will be the only determine factor to qualify you to take the bus you desire to the correct peaceful location.

So one must look at the correct causes in life and stop dreaming.
We would not want to end up at the bus deport (realm of somewhere) and take  a trip again to the same bustop and do eveything or over again.

True Self

Shifu discussed something about the true self.

He mention that what we see and touch now is actually like a mirror image of the true self.

In order to be awaken we must understand this concept to in time invoke the true us within. He did mention too that only when a person posess the interest to leave this mundane cycle are capable of finding the truth. Very informative knowledge indeed.

If samsara is a realm full of images only, it will makes more sense to see now that everything is unreal.

I trully want to wake up too.

Change

“Time is wasted on the undeveloped mind”

Resistance to change is a common trait that I recently realise inside us. There is a reason why we cling on too much to the past. People feel thats the only thing or way to define them as a unique individual. For eg, the hardships that you been through in childhood times, the cruciating pain from a past heartbreak etc. Though painful memories, people doesn’t seems that they like to let go of this suffering because, everyone wants to be unique and special.

The truth is no one is special. We are only a part of the universal energy transfering around for eons. 

Note to myself – Must learn to say bye to my Ego, my past, Me.

Impermanence

Nothing last forever.

Even the happiest of moments or the saddest of feelings does not last forever. The comfort, joy, pain, enthusiasms comes and go thus there is no point holding on.

Wisdom will guide one through, as long as one can breath and think still.  We have the wisdom, always have but we also have ignorance.

Think it’s time to let go slowly….

Enlightenment Part 1

A Buddha is someone who has attained serenity and maintains it in every situation.

Every human being has the nature of a Buddha.

Our serenity does not depend on situations but on our reaction to them.

Make your project to become a Buddha the centre of your life.

Being a Buddha means remaining serene in every circumstances and living other people.

 

Reality is constant change.

Each thing is conditioned by all the others.

The Buddha’s famous enlightenment is simply right understanding or knowledge.

We cannot become attach to anything.

Non- attachment leads to liberation from suffering

Enlightenment Part 2

Right knowledge ( enlightenment) consists of the awareness that things and people change constantly and are all connected with each other and therefore to the deveploment of non- attachment.

Right thought consists of the elimination of negative thought and the construction of positive thought.

Right effort consists of the will to implement right concentration; that is, the observation of our own thought.

Right mindfulness consists of presence in reality.

Right concentration consists of the detached observation of the mind.

The practical objectives of the noble eightfold path -
1. Awareness of change
2. Non- attachment
3. Control of the mind
4. Presence in reality
5. Universal love

Right concentration is the noblest element of the noble eightfold path.

Thought that produces suffering is not voluntary.
Thought that causes us suffering is the automatic product of tension recorded in our memory.
Thoughts reproduce.
Control of our mind consists of control of thought.

“Observe your thoughts with detachment as you observe with detachment the distant flights of birds in the peace of the evening.”

We are dominated by everything with which we identify and we dominate everything with which we disidentify .

A Buddha always observes his own thoughts with detachment and is aware of their automatism.

The mind is an organ of the body.

The mind can be manipulated.

When you have a negative thought you must be aware that it is produced by your unconscious mind.

A buddha basically lives in mental emptiness.

Enlightenment Part 3

Reality is the environment that surrounds us.

The world of the reality is real, the world of the mind isn’t real.
The fanstasies of your thought are not real.
They are generated by your attachment, and therefor by your desire, your hate, your fear.
Fantasies of one thought are generated by oneself.

We suffer because we take the fantasies of our mind for reality.