Shag to the max

Shag to the max!! I can feel my head functioning in overdrive to keep me awake and functioning. Time to sleep.

The world at peace.

Sleepy

Oh man! Damn sleepy. Been watching the korean drama Queen Seon Deok for the last few nights and then other things crop up last night. Hope i can sleep early tonight.

Mindfulness

Trying to put more mindfulness intoy life. Finally have some idea on what it really is. Realise that it is not something natural but a constant effort thing. I will try hard.

To listen

I was reading a book called Zen of Business Administration, how zen practice can transform your work and your life.

It is interesting how the author places emphasis on mindfulness not only of oneself, but of others and tells us tgat this will lead us to see and understand our customers or colleagues more deeply. At least that is how i understand it.

The union of yin and yang, or not?

I always thought the union of an easy going perwon and a picky/not so easy going person would be good since the easy going person can complement the picky person but as it turns out, this might not be true! Because, by nature, the easy going person cannot understand the picky person. The easy going person cannot unnderstand the picky person's like and dislikes because such ways of seeing the world does not exist in the easy going persons' psyche. Thus, we have a big problem where the easy going person asks the picky person for the picky person's opinion on every little thing because he thinks that since he is easy going, he'll let the picky person make the choice. But this would cause the picky person very irritated and think that such small details, can't he decide himself?? But from the easy going person's point of view, he just doesn't want to see the picky person being irritated later and maybe scolding him and being unhappy so he soughts the picky person's opinion.

So there we have a double bind!

A revisit to "The world is but a dream"

Who would say the world is not a dream and a dream is not the world? As ephemeral a dream is, so is the world, nothing ever stays still, no one knows what is about to happen. Both are marked with the 3 characteristics: impermenant, non-self, without a concrete nature, is dependent originated, suffering/dissatisfactory/imperfect. But there is one thing which never changed and never moved. It cannot be found anywhere but if we search deep within ourselves, we can find it.

Yet knowing this, we cant let go of the fake world, the insubstantial world. The greed, anger and ignorance, which in truth do not amount to anything substantial. We thus go round and round, unable to pull out.

In one MU, he sliced the world in two

About a decade ago, Keido Fukushima, Zen master of visiting Japanese monastics from Tofukuji monastery shouted right in front of the Zhao Zhou Stupa “mu” (the Japanese pronunciation of “wu”) so loud that it was taken as an unusual tribute to Zhao Zhou.~Buddhism in China Today: The Example of the Bai Lin Chan Monastery, Perspectives, Volume 4, No. 2, Monday, June 30, 2003

HA! Only all sentient beings..