Kalama Sutta

Do not believe in anything (simply)
because you have heard it.

Do not believe in traditions because they
have been handed down for many generations.

Do not believe in anything because it is
spoken and rumoured by many.

Do not believe in anything (simply) because
it is found written in your religious books.

Do not believe in anything merely on the authority
of your teachers and elders.

But after observation and analysis
when you find that anything agrees with reason
and is conductive to the good and benefit of one and all
then accept it and live up to it.

Buddha
(Anguttara Nikaya Vol. 1, 188-193 P.T.S. Ed.)

2 Religion in the World

From Ajahn "The Super Monk" Brahmavamso #4:

"For me there's only two kind or religion in the world. one is the kind that "change the facts to feeds your faith", the other one is the kind that "change your faith to feed the facts."

The 1st one is more like your perspective, the 2nd one is dealing with the truth.

Tale of 2 Sisters

From Ajahn "The Super Monk" Brahmavamso #3

2 sisters comes to Ajahn, One begins to complain about the relationship with her husband (Well, if you read the previos post, maybe its not a relationship afterall), and wonder if she should just have a divorce.

The other one said how lonely she was for being single for her age, and hope so much that she could have a relationship with someone.

The 1st thought: "This is easy, just Swap!!!" everyone laughs.

Ajahn turn to the 1st sister, "Look, when you are married, you go through the married suffering, if you get divorce, you will get the single suffering, look at your sister." The same goes to the 2nd sisters.

The lesson is, "When you jumps from one situation to another one, there will be new suffering, the problem is not solved, you just jump into another kind of suffering. The only way out is that you could live in peace with it and look at the positive side of it." ... which leads to the dog's poo story:

"You are walking on the street, and suddenly you just realized you step on a dog's poo. What should you do?" Ajahn continued, "you take the poo back home and cover it under your mango tree. A year later, you just found that the mango is sweeter than the previous year. Instead of blaming the dog or the owner who lets it do so, you take advantage of what is happening and seek out the positive side."

The End of All Ends

From Ajahn "The Super Monk" Brahmavamso #2

Ajahn hold up a cup of water, and says ," I have practice meditation for such a long time, do you all think I could keep the cup still in the air?" After a while, "Is it still in the air?" Everyone laughed.

"Now it is still." He puts it down at the table, "Buddha has a great way in teaching this, don't impose our thinking on something, wanting them to change, just let it be the way it is, accept it as it is. When you stop the wanting, the suffering stops as well."

Relationship

From Ajahn "The Super Monk" Brahmavamso #1:

Its not about my happiness, or the other's happiness, but us. If one lives on his own happiness, he becomes a self center person, wanting things to be done in his way; If one lives for other's happiness, and forego his own, he will be drain out of life.

Us is the relationship between, there no "I" or "you". Work on the relationship that bond us togather, everyone becomes more fulfilled and happier. Work on either side, someone has to loose away something.

What is the relationship? Ajahn,"When we are talking, the listening is the relationship, the being mindfullness..."

Haven't been able to understand it well yet.... #_#

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"Reward Excellent Failures, Punish Mediocre Successes"

Find Heroes, Do Demos, Tell Stories

Talents top priority is not money, but the opportunity to excel

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Last Minute Surprises

Read the email on a effective speech closing ceremony at last minute, and get a call from my uncle asking me to go along, and agree due to some frustration with my PC, and surprisingly learned some valuable notes for the two hours session.

• Corporate philosophy is imporatant for a company - What's in it for the employees? How to build a win-win between the company and employees.
  
• DELL 3C philosophy - Connectivity, Community, Customer.
• There's no price to kindness, its pricelss.
  

Nothing Can't Be Done

Last nite, an entrepreuner gives me a lesson. he quotes,

"We don't know what we don't know. If you still act like as if you know, its called ignorance. That's why I never say things can't be done, I only says I don't know how to do it."

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TEAMWORK

There is no "I" in TEAMWORK.

Am I Successful?

I have crowned everyone as a successful being. If you have race against 50 million of your own kins and turn out to be champion, and that's are not considered successful? I don't know what else is successful.

That's what I got few weeks back. This morning, as I walk to someplace, this thing pop up in my head, how come I still don't feel successful, something must have been missed.

First of all, I forgot I am successful, I forgot to live successfully.
Try to look at it, successful is a kind of feeling, it can't be defined as having the things I want, because if I got something, I want another thing, I won't stop wanting until I die. Then I will never be successful? I believe it's the way of living and awareness of being successful.

So I have some goals to be work out at this stage, I'll make more in the future. But for now, I am successful, it's not only if the goals is realized, it's when I am doing it now, with a successful manner. Being alive now and doing something is bloody successful. <...to be explore more>

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