Sarnath, India

An old place with beautiful memories
Cold wind touches my lips
And feeling so blessed and safe
with white shawl covered my body.

Morning bell started with a good thought...
with a silent move and begin with a prayer
Sunlight come to shine the land
Remind me there is a hope everyday...

Sitting with a quiet mind
Parrots start to sing with a lovely song
Squirrels walk around with alert mind
And the ants finding food for their love one.

Sitting on a bench with a relax mind
Silently reading a book of dhamma
And waiting for the calm and beautiful sunset
Telling me everything are completely fine...

The moon and the stars begin to shine
with thousand of lamps shining the Vihara
Accompany with the bright smiles and the shining eyes
with a thousand of shots of memories.

The day ended with a kind heart
And seeking forgiveness from sangha
May all being be well and happy
May they be protected by the Buddhas and Dewas...

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Highest Blessing

Highest Blessing is when you give or receive everything with open heart.

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Things to do..

Things to do is to be an observer.

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Why?

How much money are you trying to make? Why?

What are you looking for in your life? Why?

Do you care about people? Why?

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Stipulation

People speak with stipulation [condition] because we only talk about things worth talking about.

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When angels and demons collide

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Love vs Violence

From the begining of time to the end of time, the force of truth and love always wins over violence. With this great force you can bring this world to your feet.

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Fear vs. Love

If FEAR touch someone pain, it become PITY.

If LOVE touch someone pain, it become COMPASSION

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In an emergency

Be aware
Be humble
Be friendly
Be helpful
Be giving
Be compassionate
Be active
Be confident
Be communal
Be prepared
Be calm

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Karma

Karma is what we own
Karma is what we inherit
From karma are we born and to karma are we related
By karma are we supported

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Decision

It doesn't have to be a wise decision or a perfect one. Just make one. It doesn't matter so much that you're right, it matters that you decided.

Of course it's risky and painful. That's why it's a rare and valuable skill.

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Freedom

See if I can find freedom of what I got.

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A Driver

In an organization, everybody wanted to hope in and drive a car. Of course, big boss is sitting on the passanger seat and let his/her subordinate to drive. Sometimes, big boss need to drive too.

Here are some situations that might happen to you.

Some colleagues drive without listening to the other colleague's instruction.
Some colleagues lazy to drive, but ask the other colleague's to drive without giving any instruction.
Some colleagues wanted to drive, but dunno how to drive.
Some colleagues don't know how to drive, and know the way, but don't like to share.
Some colleagues don't know how to drive, and don't know the way, but giving a lots of instructions.
Some colleagues fight to be a driver, because they think they know the way.
Some colleagues like to drive, and listen to the other colleague that know the way.

If you know the way that it's not what you want, you can always get out of the car when the car is stop in-front of the traffic light.

Welcome to the organization!

P/s: Don't ever get out of the car when the car is moving. It's dangerous!

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Purification

One second of concentration, one second of purification.

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Problem

Problem is trouble relationship. Not a person or a situation is trouble.

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Strange Feeling

When the strange feeling is coming, just know it without adding any beautiful colours.

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My emotion

My emotion leads me to many problems. 

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Negative and positive thinking.

Negative and positive thinking is not important. The important part is how we relate to them.

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Accept

Accept is beautiful.

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Uncomfortable

It's uncomfortable to propose a new design that might fail.

It's uncomfortable to defeat my working partner {cum friend}.

It's uncomfortable to work with partner who just giving unclears orders which have no idea at all and follow those orders without understanding.

It's uncomfortable to handle a situation that supposed the team agree the ideas, but than point out disagreement when the boss doesn't like the idea.

It's uncomfortable to stand up in front of partner but than feel like stranger.

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Happy

Happy is when you lost someting and you found it! Thank you my dear friend!

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Single, Couple, Married

Single is 'me'

Couple is 'you' and 'me'

Married is 'us'

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To a friend

If we used to be close friend with same ambition, but then I hold back and you reached the goal...please, guide me to achieve the same goal.

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Gossip

Gossip is when 3 person are talking about something without any effort on action, but sometimes with solutions. Good or bad solutions, I don't know...

 

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A Lotus

Lotus is not a mud. Mud is not a lotus. But both lotus and mud can't be seperated.

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Lonely

Lonely is when you missing someone and hope he/she be with you, somehow....

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Alone

Alone is when you in a bus with other passangers and stop in different places.

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Transformer

Life is like a Transformer

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A Perfectionist

A perfectionist saw everything is perfect in this world. Not perfectionist create things to perfect the world.

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A good wolf

I read the beautiful story called "The one you feed"
The story goes like this,
One day, a bad wolf* fight with a good wolf**,
The grandson ask his grandfather,
"Grandpa, who will win?"
Grandpa answered,
"Son, the one you feed"

This is a story from me after I read "The one you feed"
One day, a bad wolf fight with a good wolf,
A good wolf never return the fight,
The son ask his father,
"Papa, why the good wolf didn't fight back?"
Papa said,
"Son, you will know the end of the story"

The father continue his story,
The next day, again, the bad wolf fight with good wolf,
And the good wolf never return the fight either,

One fine day, the good wolf found a food,
And he saw the bad wolf was falling sick,
The good wolf shared his food with the bad wolf,
The bad wolf eaten the food.

Later, the day, the bad wolf recovered,
And he become strong,
He start looking the good wolf,
And fight with the good wolf, again.

This time the good wolf was very bad injured,
The bad wolf was so happy.
He said,
"I win again! Hahaha!"

The good wolf was so weak,
And couldn't find food,
But rest on the field.

Few days later,
The good wolf's body full of worms and flies,
The bad wolf saw it.

The bad wolf bring food for the good wolf,
But, the good wolf couldn't eat,
Because he was so weak.

The bad wolf slice the food,
And put the food into the good wolf's mouth,
By the time he put the food,
The good wolf smile and die,
With a happy heart.

From the day onwards,
The bad wolf become a good wolf,
The good wolf knows that one day, the bad wolf will become a good wolf.

Papa added,
"In this story,
The good wolf knows what is love, peace and faith,
The bad wolf become a good wolf,
And this is manifest, from bad to good"

*A bad wolf {anger, envy, jealousy, greed, and arrogance}
** A good wolf {peace, love, hope, humility, compassion, and faith}

Trust

You trust that someone will lie to you, rather you trust someone that lie to you.

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Letting go

Letting go is when you realize that those things are not important anymore.

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A solution

If I won a design award for a book cover design. Do I win? No, I only win the book cover, not the content of the book. That is not a solution.

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die vs. disappear

Die is to be born again...

Disappear is fade away...

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The one you feed

One evening, an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people.

He said, "My son, the battle is between two 'wolves' inside us all. One is Evil - It is anger, envy, jealousy, greed, and arrogance. The other is Good - It is peace, love, hope, humility, compassion, and faith."

The grandson thought about this for a while and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf wins?"

To which the old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."

Via http://yasminthefilmmaker.blogspot.com/2008/12/one-you-feed.html

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