Monday, January 26, 2009
An introductory programme to vipassana meditation
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Tackling hatred
less hatered...
I do't feel that much hatred towards the people called terrorists as I used to feel in past. It is not because I have become more selfish/self centered, but, because I am getting a better understanding of the law - the law of nature.(u know wat dat is :))
now, what motivates me more to meditate, two things:
1. I may feel hatred when someone very close to me dies because of terrorists. This may happen, I am not Buddha yet. So, to save myself from being trapped in the emotional circle. I have to be more and more close to the truth. How that will happen? meditation :) .......keep meditating... :)
2. How can I help those people who r not on right path, not got the right ditti, does not have right sankalpa??? Buddha nature can help in this. Remember the magic of Buddha nature on Angulimaal, the same magic can/should work here also. So, first become a Buddha and then help others, how....... meditation.... :)
keep meditating........
(plz do not take 'magic' as literary)
Saturday, December 20, 2008
THIS IS HOW WE MISS OUT SOMETHING CALLED "LIFE"
bottle fascinated by its color and drank it all. It happened to be a poisonous medicine meant for adults in small dosages. When the child
collapsed the mother hurried him to the hospital, where he died. The mother was stunned. She was terrified how to face her husband. When the distraught father came to the hospital and saw the dead child, he looked at his wife and uttered just five words.
QUESTIONS :1. What were the five words ?2. What is the implication of this story?
ANSWER :The husband just said "I am with you Darling"
The husband's totally unexpected reaction is a proactive behavior. The child is dead. He can never be brought back to life. There is no point
in finding fault with the mother. Besides, if only he had taken time to keep the bottle away, this would not have happened.. No one is to be blamed. She had also lost her only child. What she needed at that moment was consolation and sympathy from the husband. That is what he gave her.
If everyone can look at life with this kind of perspective, there would be much fewer problems in the world. "A journey of a thousand miles
begins with a single step". Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears. And you will find things are
actually not as difficult as you think.
MORAL OF THE STORY:This story is really worth reading. ..... Sometimes we spend time in asking who is responsible or whom to blame, whether in a relationship,
in a job or with the people we know.
By this way we miss out something called L.I.F.E
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Before we die!!!
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
How do one earn???
Recently I made a post at my another blog regarding internet banking fraud. One of my colleagues became the victim, his bank account was swept for 3500 rupees:
http://just-laik-that.blogspot.com/2008/11/internet-banking-fraud.html
This was a big amount that the hacker got very easily. In fact, not easily, it does involve hard work actually. But the incident forced me to think about the ways of earning money. Money is a necessity, a hard reality of human life. Everyone has to earn money to live respectable life.
But, is it that hard to earn money legally rather not earning by not harming others. This was a big amount, so anyone can get a feeling that the hacker did wrong thing. But, just stop by and try to think how much 'financial wrongs' we do in our daily lives. Generally, we try to save money at every moment, this does become an habit and slowly we tend not to think about the legality of the way we are saving money.
The way we earn money; how honest we remain while earning our money, do we work with full devotion, don't we use some wrong means to earn our money. Most bad part is 'hunger' for money. People do have sufficient money still they keep looking for ways to earn extra money, in fact some short-cut type of ways, that can give some money. But, for what - this does varie. I know people who do earn handsome money by their jobs, or by their respective work. but, still they strive for more money. Now, the time is limited, so they look for some other means. And, as they have got some talent, so very easily they get some 'short-cut, by hook or crook' type of ways.
When 35000 are taken unlawfully, then we get the impact, but this very impact has to be understood at every level, at every move, every moment.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
HAVE A BLESSED DAY
A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words.
Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, 'Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?'
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The man said, 'I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way.'
What he had written was: 'Today is a beautiful day and I cannot see it.'
Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing?
Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply said the boy was blind. The second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind. Should we be surprised that the second sign was more effective?
Invite others towards good with wisdom. Live life with no excuse and love with no regrets. When life gives you a 100 reasons to cry, show life that you have 1000 reasons to smile. Face your past without regret. Handle your present with confidence. Prepare for the future without fear. Keep the faith and drop the fear.
Great men say, 'Life has to be an incessant process of repair and reconstruction, of discarding evil and developing goodness.... In the journey of life, if you want to travel without fear, you must have the ticket of a good conscience.'
The most beautiful thing is to see a person smiling...
And even more beautiful is, knowing that you are the reason behind it!!!
Friday, January 18, 2008
Where do one stand
Some people are completely ignorent of their sins.
Some are aware, but ignorent enough to ignore them.
Some of them want to get rid, but ignorent of the path/way.
Some of them, get the path and keep struggling to get rid of them.
Some of them, put their mind-body-soul to walk the path and get through.