Sunday, 27 March 2011

many of us are too bz or looking outside e material world for happiness..
learn to appreciate every little thing within ur life and u'll be happier..
every kind gesture, every concern anyone shown to u..

life in sg may be stressful, but sg is a garden city where nature live with u..
every flora can brighten ur day if u know how to appreciate it..
every rainbow, mushroom that appear after e rain can make u smile..

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dreamed of racing on 12:04 pm

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Sunday, 20 March 2011

这次我走开 再没有话要说出来
我不想再期待走下去 还能多精彩
我不了解你怎能心安
也抓不住你的倔强
可是我知道你为什么说谎..

你不相信是因为你不了解
不相信还有单纯的爱..

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dreamed of racing on 11:55 pm

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Wednesday, 16 March 2011

What if the Buddha isn't enlightened?
He is still the most kind and wise one I know.
He is still the one most worth emulating.
Even if there is no knower of truth, I shall seek to know it.
Thankfully though, I have much faith in the Buddha within.
Namo Buddhaya!

What if the Dharma isn't true?
It is still the most sensible teaching I know.
It is still that most worth realising.
Even if there is no truth known, I shall seek to know it.
Thankfully though, I have much confidence in the Dharma within.
Namo Dharmaya!

What if the Sangha isn't perfect?
It is still the most respectable community I know.
It is still that most worth supporting.
Even if there is no cultivator for the truth, I shall seek to know it.
Thankfully though, I have much reverence for the Sangha within.
Namo Sanghaya!

– Shen Shi'an

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dreamed of racing on 11:36 am

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Monday, 14 March 2011

quite an inspiring song for a not so inspiring 2010..

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dreamed of racing on 10:31 am

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Sunday, 13 March 2011

独自徘徊在风雨滂沱的夜里
再想起过去的烟雨凄迷
你的冷漠还有孤独的沉默
却无发为你掩饰内心的脆弱

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dreamed of racing on 9:07 am

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Thursday, 10 March 2011

我只想用真心做个梦爱个人说些话安静的面对命运
但这无奈的心情我又能说给谁听..

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dreamed of racing on 10:09 pm

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The values that drive the material world must be reversed entirely if you want
to realize God. In the conventional view, self-worth comes down to having a
strong ego. People who possess strong egos feel self-confident. They enjoy
asserting themselves against obstacles. They meet challenges, and in return
life gives them money, status, and possessions-—external rewards for external
accomplishment.

In that light, it’s almost embarrassing that Jesus teaches exactly the opposite
to be loved by God, one must be innocent, humble, a servant to all men. But Jesus’
view accords with the great wisdom traditions, which hold that a person’s worth
doesn’t change depending on external success and its rewards. A person’s worth
is the value of a soul, which is infinite. Since every event in your life isn’t
happening just to a person but to a soul, everything in life should be cherished.

We all know that life has its ups and downs, and that our sense of self-worth
rises and falls accordingly. Napoleon was a titan when he won victories on the
battlefield but a dwarf after Waterloo. In a world of change, we ego-driven
people seem to be puppets to every whim of circumstance. Yet from the soul’s
point of view, change occurs against the backdrop of non-change; the basis of
existence is eternal, unmoved, steady, and all encompassing.

How can you shift your attention away from change? I am largely unconvinced by
people who say that they feel the real, immediate presence of God, Jesus, or
their souls. Those are extremely advanced attainments on the spiritual path,
certainly not among the first doors that open on the journey. But I do know
that I can experience myself, so now my job is to find the part of myself that
doesn’t change. Clearly my mind changes all the time, as quickly as the next
thought, and so does my body, as quickly as the next skin cell sloughing off
or the next heartbeat. So the search for non-change must take me elsewhere.

This is where meditation proves most useful. When you meditate, you shift your
focus. Instead of paying attention to the surface of the mind, which teems with
constant change, you go deeper to experience silence. In and of itself, silence
is pointless. Life is about action and response, not silent detachment. But
inner silence is something far more profound: It is awareness being aware of
itself, also known as wakefulness, or mindfulness.

In its silent depths, your mind knows everything that’s going on. Time collapses
into a single focal point, where the one unshakable thing you know is “I am.”
This isn’t passive knowledge. It is the center of everything, the source of all
the activity that springs forth as thoughts, sensations, and external events.
Silence, it turns out, is the womb of creation. Therefore, meditation is a
creative event through which you are reclaiming authorship of your life.

Now we see what meditating 24 hours a day actually means: You retain your
alertness and wakefulness all the time. Once you have authorship of your self,
you come out of silence into activity to write your own story. Now there is no
difference between sitting in meditation and living in the world. Both are
expressions of awareness, the one silent, and the other active. Now you maintain
two types of attention, one devoted to change, the other to non-change. This is
the shift in consciousness that allows you to live from the level of the soul.

Adapted from Why is God Laughing? by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 2008).

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dreamed of racing on 9:36 am

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Wednesday, 9 March 2011

stomp recently have this "Sg female expectation of sg gentleman" topic about
carrying handbag for their gf..

i used to have an heated argument with an ex regarding this.. she want me to
carry her handbag whenever we go out.. i read the whole thread hoping to find
new insight in this "man carry handbag stuff.."

i thought maybe some "gentleman" can really come out with good reasons to
justify their action, but sadly, none of the guy do so.. so its either they
themselves feel embarrassed or reluctant to admit it.. the fact is, there're
also girls who disagree with this action..

the term "gentleman" is subjective.. and its not true that a gentleman have
to do all the things that please a woman.. a man has to behave like a man to
stay masculine.. handbag, skirt and girly stuff are not supposed to be place
on a man.. my other 2 exs do not let me carry their handbag.. its somehow
seem to diminish the image of their manly bf.. haha..

a stomper wrote: "gentlemanly behaviour is accorded to well-deserved fine
ladies.... give me a fine lady...I'd treat her gentlemanly....
But hard to find these days!"

i agree with the statement, when a girl want a guy to be a gentleman to her,
she got to be a well-deserved fine lady.. there're many ways a man can be a
gentleman to their gf.. carrying handbag has nothing to do with true love..
that is an insult to love..

another wrote: "Send me home, pay for me, carry my stuff, open my doors,
treat my friends, wait for me... the fastest way to being a *true* gentleman"

i'd done all the above.. like i mentioned earlier, gentleman is subjective..
but that does not mean he's not a gentleman if he never do all the above..
when you have a bf who do the above, please show your appreciation and
gratitude..

last but not least, a comment by a girl:
"Guy think by doin those things is a way to pamper or love her wife or gf.
Would a guy who really love his gf, ask her to do something which embarrass
her? I very sick with Sg female selfish n ego acts."

so this girl think that making her guy carry handbag will embarrass him in
front of other people.. though i didn't find a good justification, but i found
out something.. that those girls who want their bf to carry their handbags
are just egoistic.. they want other girls to know that they have a loving
or caring bf.. but sadly, this is not the way many other think.. it only
effective against those girls who are as egoistic.. most would still see
the man as a wimp rather then a loving bf..

i have friends who will not carry their gf handbag under all circumstances..
i am not that extreme.. i would not mind taking my gf handbag temporarily
when she go to the ladies or trying out clothes in the fitting room..
so girls, please don't blame your man for not carrying your handbag..
its really not manly and does not reflect good to your man.. if you think
its the man ego to blame, then let it be.. we guys need that little ego
to stay masculine..

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dreamed of racing on 11:26 am

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Thursday, 3 March 2011

一个人每天都可以做三件伟大的事：
说好话
行好事
存好心

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dreamed of racing on 8:10 pm

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天上的星星笑地上的人
总是不能懂不能觉得足够

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dreamed of racing on 9:12 am

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