Tagged by TS

1.如果你有特异功能， 你会干什么?
Q If you were to have special powers, what would you do?
A: I have no grand plans, just use it when I see people who needs help and of course for my own convenience without anyone finding out that I have specail powers.

2. 最满意你身体的哪一部分？
Q Which part of your body that you are satisfied with?
A: If I have to say, it would be my legs cos I use it a lot.

3. 认为自己哪一个优点最讨人欢喜？
Q What is your strong point which other people like?
A: I have no idea. I think it is because I am totally open with people?? (if you care to ask)

4. 希望有个怎样的恋爱？
Q what kind of relationship that you will be hoping for?
A: one that is not stressful but beautiful

5. 你最想去哪个地方？
Q What place have you been wanting to go?
A: Japan, Korea, China, to all the great temples on the mountain tops

6. 最受不了自己哪个缺点？
Q What weaknesses of yourself that you cant stand most?
A: My incredible laziness

7. 如果有不开心的事情，你会怎么办？
Q: If there is an unhappy event occurs, what would you do?
A: complain to ppl and it usually disappears quite quickly after that

8. 最害怕失去的东西？
Q: Thing that I am most afraid of losing?
A: I think it is my sanity. But then again, when I lose it, then it does not matter anymore. So...cant thing of anything else.

9. 现在最想做的事？
Q: Thing that you want to do the most now?
A: Sit down and study properly for my exams

10. 若遇見喜歡的人，你會怎樣做？
Q: If meet the one that u love, what would you do?
A: Get close to her, spend time with her and evaluate her suitability critically through observing her and testing her out

11. 说出点你名的人的3个优点。
Q: List out 3 strong points of the person that tagged you
A: Caring, friendly and always brings joy to those around him :)

12. 你最希望你的另一半对你做的一件事？
Q: What do you most expect your other half to do to you?
A: Walk together with me (figuratively)

13. 遇到不喜歡的人﹐你會怎樣拒絕?
Q: When meet someone that you dont like, how would you refuse him/her?
A: For B/G relationship, tell him/her politely but tactfully. For normal day friends, be accepting and throw the part of him/her that I do not like out of the window for that is a problem with attachments to I, my, me, opinions and thots. Although I dun like him/her, it should not be a problem. We encounter situations/ things/ ppl that we do not like everyday. Can't be that we keep avoiding them and running away.

14. 你最讨厌怎样的人?
Q: Which kind of person that you cant stand most?
A: Those who say but never do. Those who anyhow accuse others and those who are slippery.

15. 你觉得最美的事物是什么？
Q: What thing that you feel is the most beautiful in the world?
A: Hm....hard one, the world is always beautiful. It is I who fail to see it. This keeps on changing for me, I cant really pinpoint something exact. Like just now, I just saw a music video of the Corrs and i think the lead singer, Andrea has a really beautiful voice and is also really beautiful.

16. 能夠感動你的事情，是什麽？
Q: What could possibly touch your heart?
A: Some action of incredible kindness.

17. 如果能让你实现一个愿望，会是什么？
Q: If you were given a wish, what would it be?
A: To have unlimited more wishes

18. 你最期待发生的事情是什么？
Q: What do you want most to happen?
A: To have the ability to see through and know everthing clearly(enlightenment)

19. 觉得人生最重要的事情是什么？
Q: What is the most important in life?
A: this

20. 如果能回到過去，你希望能夠回到什麽時候？做些什麽？
Q: If you were to travel to the past, what period you wish to travel to? What would you do at that time?
A: Go back to the time of the Buddha, first council, second council, Nagarjuna, the Great Zen Masters, Bodhidharma, Huineng, Dogen, the Great Shingon Masters, Nagabodhi, Subhakarasimha, Amoghavajra, Huiguo, Kukai. Visit all the great temples in the time of their greatness. What would I do? Just sit in and watch and enjoy.

And who do I want to Tag?
Since TS has tagged so many people from BS, I will tag some of my own.

1) Kian Boon
2) Ga
3) Ben Tay
4) RX
5) Peiru
6) Meifei
7) Jacinta
8) Yantengy
9) Eddy
10) All my cousins!!!!

My practice?? My Dharma?

This one power!!

"Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Should
I meditate or develop more merit first? Let's hear what Ajahn Chah has to
say
When we follow our own views on practice, our own opinions about the
Dhamma, we can never see clearly what is right and what is wrong. We don't know
our own heart. We don't know ourselves.
Therefore, to practice following
your own teachings is the slowest way. To practice following the Dhamma is the
direct way. Lazy you practice; diligent you practice. You are aware of time and
place. This is called "developing the heart."
If you indulge in following
your own views and try to practice accordingly, then you will start thinking and
doubting a lot. You think to yourself, "I don't have very much merit. I don't
have any luck. I've been practicing meditation for years now and I'm still
unenlightened. I still haven't seen the Dhamma." To practice with this kind of
attitude can not be called "developing the heart." It is called "developing
disaster."
If, at this time, you are like this, if you are a meditator who
still doesn't know, who doesn't see, if you haven't renewed yourself yet, it's
because you've been practicing wrongly. You haven't been following the Teachings
of the Buddha. The Buddha taught like this: "Ananda, practice a lot! Develop
your practice constantly! Then all your doubts, all your uncertainties, will
vanish." These doubts will never vanish through thinking, nor through
theorizing, nor through speculation, nor through discussion. Nor will doubts
disappear by not doing anything. All defilements will vanish through developing
the heart, through right practice only.
~Ajahn Chah~
Quoted from:
Bodhinyana ~ The Training of the Heart http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/thai/chah/bodhinyana.html#trainingThis
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WOAH, nothing to say, only BOW

Early Mornings

it is 6.05 am now.

Just woke up on a friday morning, not that i have school. It is approachin the end of the semester and the lectures have started to taper off. Today is the first the days where because of the tapering of of lectures, i do not have to go to school. And why am i up so early? I have no idea too.

Today is a good day. i do not have to get up early to rush for anything. So i get up early just because i got up early. Then i have to get a mic and a spliter for the mic. We have invited Ven Chi Boon for a talk on the Zen Mind. Hopefully more students come. If not it'll be such a waste for them. Ppl nowadays have so many deadlines to meet, they hardly have time for themselves. THeir lives being led by these deadlines.

Yesterday I was just thinking......i have forgotten what i was thinking about... someone should do a live recording blog. Something like a picture blog with voice recording so that ppl like me with terrible memory no nid to remember what to say. However, i was thinking and thinking something along the lines of how to go about our daily lives.... when i remembered reading about how the Zen masters would talk about experiencing this world as it is truely is. Truely drinking a cup of water. This kind of experience, all the time, 24/7. Is it even possible???

With my Mu koan....i am not getting anywhere with it. It still seems to be stuck in some intellectual crevice in my mind among the many other things.

Argh!

All the explanations in the world is not even useful.
All the things in the world not even worth a cent.
The child takes over his parents' job.
Round and round we go again,
Propelled by some unknown force.

Late Nights

It is one of those late nights again. Quietly working in the still of the night, with a song by my side. Tic tak tik tac, the keyboard goes... it is time to be sleeping...Good night and good day my dear friends.

---In our way, there is no coming or going.

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Camp Ehi Passiko 2008

Camp Ehi Passiko!~ Pursuit of Happiness

‘I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness.’– His Holiness The Dalai Lama in The Art of Happiness

The badgering question is: ‘Am I really happy?’ Am I really fond of the never-ending chase for success, only to be rewarded the transience of its satisfaction? Do I have loving kindness for all beings? Do I have the wisdom to confront challenges in life?If any of your answers to the above questions is ‘no’, Camp Ehi Passiko is the camp for you! At this camp, we will explore how the timeless wisdom of Buddha can be used to make your life happier and more satisfying.The Buddha’s take on how to achieve happiness will be shared with all of us through various means, such as talks, discussions and workshops conducted by Venerables strong in their practice and our friendly alumni with rich experience in applying the Dharma into everyday life. Welfare service to Ren Ci Hospital will enable you to spread your loving kindness to the less fortunate, while meditation sessions enable you to seek for the peace innate in our minds. What’s more, we’ll be going for a Vegetarian Food Hunt all over Singapore to sample vegetarian dishes of all cuisines and prices – we assure you that vegetarian dishes are as tantalising as non-vegetarian ones!

What are you waiting for? Register with us now!
www.nusbs.org.sg/cep08

Date: 23rd to 26th July 2008
Venue: Shuang Lin Monastery
Fee: $15 (members)$20 (non-members)
Contact: Jacinta 94243869 Rui Qi 97505629
cep@nusbs.org.sg