單純的放下

煩惱時，會想到去了解「六根知量」的意義，它很單純，並沒有成見與框框，管理就是管能管、理能理。不可以管、不可以理的，先放下。其實，把管理的分際分得很清楚就叫做單純。當能管能理的都管理好了，那個不能管、不能理的結，也會鬆開來了，這就是單純的奧妙，就是六根知量的奧妙。

我不敢自稱自己是什麽“修行人”，我沒什麽資格，覺得單純隨便就好，不過我倒認爲“修行”本來就是應該化繁為簡，它不應該是複雜的，只是人們自以爲是的把它複雜化，讓它顯得很神秘清高...；雖然如此，我不否認它的背後其實很深、但還是要很放鬆的深心信解。鍛鍊心回到無染著的源頭吧！必須學會喜愛單純、嚮往單純、很愛單純，心就會變得很單純。如何在面對境界時如如不動，很單純的回到清淨心，要六根知量、相信因緣。

以前以前我都以爲宗教的空主要是虛無的意思，但這並不正確，空是讓我們要懂得生命裡面的單純、懂得欣賞單純、懂得大事化小事，小事化無事，這就是鍛鍊的一種本事：即能夠把有事看成沒事，這需要心能夠沈靜下來的功力，還需要對自己、別人、人性還有事情本質的信心，不要賺牛角尖引來更多負面的力量。

秘密

Rhonda Byrne的《The Secret 秘密》這本書，暢銷全球，還在大熱賣中，整個重點就是「吸引法則」的觀念；我的馬來人同事、還有一些受英文教育及基督徒的朋友都大讚這本書有多好、多poweful，哪天在閒聊時還說這本書其實就是與神論有關，與他們的宗教教義非常符合，並說這秘密所採取的創造過程，其實源自《新約聖經》─ 是個簡易的指導方針，讓信者以三個簡單的步驟（要求、相信、接受），創造他所想要的事物。

沒錯，我沒有否認這本書非常好，很有閲讀價值，但是我在想，它整個概念莫過於佛教中所強調的「正思」和「正念」，就算你在“信”神的存在和其過程其實也在運用著「正思正念」這概念，不過差別的是，佛教不講求，或者我應該說，不把重點放在“要求”，不會把重點放在“我”和“我要”這一方面，因爲這种想法和念頭是與「正思正念」背道而馳或水火不容的，有違背佛教中所提倡的無我執之理念。

反之，如果要運用「吸引法則」，那麽最好就是以平常心來吸引正面的能量，既不可以有任何貪念、或很濃厚的我執，因爲如果一有了這些，即使你已經吸引到宇宙中最好的能量，得到你所要的（比如很多$$），到最後最後你可能還是要付上不好的因果！怎麽說，拿一個很比較極端的例子，比如我很想要富有，然後起貪念，再來就想辦法去殺人放火搶劫等等罪孽，很用心的想要，而且還用「吸引法則」的觀念告訴自己一定會“成功”，甚至用心祈禱神力的幫助等等，是的，最後可能你成功殺了很多人、搶了很多錢，成爲百萬富翁，但最後的最後，講真的，你始終能夠逃過因果的宇宙定律嗎？？刀如果以「正思正念」來用，的確很好用，但是如果缺少了「正思正念」，後果就不堪設想。


後記：無論如何，我還是很喜歡《The Secret 秘密》這本書，強力推介！ :D

真正的快樂心裏一定要有寂靜

我們時常在講苦樂，其實它們是一樣的道理，是人生最根本的問題，不管我們相信它是否存在。人生究竟在追求什麼呢？很多人都會說在追求健康、財富、平安等，但是這些都含有快樂的元素！但是，講真的，如果我們的快樂裡面有一種不安，有一種不滿，那我們就不能說那是極樂（ultimate joy）。真正的快樂，一定要內心有一種很平靜的成分，少了這個寂靜，就不能叫真樂，也稱不上極樂。一般人都認爲人生就是在追求快樂、追求幸福，是不是？但是只要這個幸福快樂裡面帶有不安，就不能說是很快樂，因為那裡面帶有騷動和不安。如果我們真的在追求大我，或者追求無我，自然就不會人我比較。如果還有人我相，如果我們還在看別人比我不修行、別人比我有修行，我們就不是真的在追求大我，或者追求無我。

佛教常常在說：「一切回到內心來」。最裡面一層是「心」，第二層是「意」，第三層是「識」，這叫心、意、識。所有的東西都要迴光反照，都要回心才能轉意。無論遇到什麼樣的境界，都回到內心來自問：「我的心能靜嗎？」比如追求一個事業目標，還是個生命生活中的任何一個目標，又或者追求某一種幸福、快樂、理想，當我們在追求的時候，要問自己：「我這個心能靜嗎？」或者問：「我追求了以後能更靜嗎？」如果你認為：「靜之前要先付出騷動的代價，我要達到寂靜，要先經過騷動才有可能。」而且你很篤定地告訴自己：「經過了這個騷動，我的確能夠達到寂靜！」那麼你就去嚐試吧！嗯，這或許可以成爲我們抉擇的依準吧...


《内容重點資料摘自/參考某大師》

開心的吃

哈，寫些輕鬆的。
又是巴生，我來嚕！

難得約她出來，大忙人一個，終于還是答應了，我們去吃Pandamaran著名的肉骨茶，三個人叫了六碗（最後一碗是最後再order的）。



開始吃咯...



這是福建人的肉骨茶，味道偏鹹，湯汁偏濁，主要用生抽和黑醬油調味，藥材味不太濃，但喝起來卻不會太膩。肉和骨方面，煮得夠入味，但瘦肉的部分稍微有點“硬”，但還可以接受，那“肥”的部分呢，入口即溶，皮方面是很有膠質，但那油脂的部分的確是很不健康，哎呀，久久一次啦，管它的...，縂來講是不錯，整個感覺這肉骨茶比較像是滷豬肉、豬腳，因爲湯汁不是清湯的哪种，而且老闆比較kiamsiap，都不給多點湯汁。

最後，我吃最多，吃了兩碗半的飯（有半碗是她給的）！剩下的骨頭一大堆（不好意思 :P）...



他的戰利品也差不多（其實他可以吃更多的，只因爲之前連續幾個禮拜他都來此吃過了）...



哈，吃最少的當然是她！！之前她還辯駁說她已經吃“很多”了，騙人！至到我拍照片時她才承認！看，有圖為證！





少到可憐呢！但她又辯駁說她只吃瘦肉，所以剩下的骨頭“不多”，真會講話...

對了，在吃的過程中我們也有談到和“想到”一位剛到外國求學的家人，她出國之前有講過要吃肉骨茶，不過好像都沒有這個機會咯，這一個Pandamaran肉骨茶確實是很香、很好吃，希望她不要太羡慕，有機會再帶她來啦！^^

Anyway，今天很開心啦，三個人吃飽后再跑去喝咖啡、聊天、敍舊。她還邀請我們有機會到她家鄉過夜、玩、吃海鮮、看海、看山、看稻田、看猴子等等，我真的很想去，哈哈！

EGM, Don't Bother at All...

Wonder why people keep asking my opinion on who will "win" in today's MCA EGM. Seriouly speaking, I'm not at all bothered or interested at all - whether who win or lose. Politics in Malaysia sucks, anyway!

Furthermore to me, the party, which is supposedly representing the Chinese community in the country, has failed miserably after 60 years in existence. They no longer have the original spirit and sincerity of their founding fathers. They are now totally irrelevant to the Chinese in Malaysia.

Perhaps, like most right minded Chinese feel, the party should just dissolve itself and all its present and past corrupt leaders publicly apologise to the Chinese Malaysians for all the harm they have brought upon them.

Their political influence today is nada; they dare not speak or act on behalf of the community; they only know how to "kow-tow" (nod their heads) to their "Masters" in the Coalition. And for so long, they are fighting amongst themselves to continue to enrich themselves at the great expense of the ordinary Chinese Malaysians, like you and me.

Therefore, in today's EGM, either A or B wins, we, the ordinary Chinese Malaysians LOSE. Sigh...

Of Ayam and Migrants

In the news today:

News #1
Malaysia allows unskilled, semiskilled migrants

KUALA LUMPUR: Unlike many countries that favour only skilled migrants and put up barriers against unskilled workers, it is a different picture in Malaysia.

The Malaysian Government allows unskilled and semiskilled migrants to work in the country, most of whom are in the construction, plantation and service sectors, as well as domestic care, said United Nations (UN) Resident Coordinator for Malaysia Kamal Malhotra.

My comments
Yeah, very good move by our Boleh government!! Nor wonder everything in our country is getting worst: robbery, snatch thief, break-ins, murder, rape, drugs abuse, gang fight, inflation, jobless, disease, abuse of free public facilities like education/schools and medical/hospitals services (all paid by Malaysian but enjoyed freely by these foreigners), squatters many more social and economy problem! Good job our government. Let the country continue to rot and rot and rot!!!


News #2
Uzbeks earning RM100,000 monthly as prostitutes

KUALA LUMPUR: Women from other countries are making big bucks in the prostitution trade here but the cops are keeping track of them.

Criminal Investiga-tions Department Director Comm Datuk Seri Mohd Bakri Zinin said police considered the fight against prostitution a serious matter and would never let up in their effort to eradicate it.

An article in Utusan Malaysia yesterday reported that Uzbekis-tan women involved in the flesh trade were earning between RM1,000 to RM1,500 per session.

The women who enter the country on student and tourist visas are said to earn an estimated RM100,000 a month by entertaining at least five clients a day and work five days a week.

My comments
Yet again another bias report by our local media! Bravo! Please don't simply blame the prostitutes, the ayam of Uzbeks or Chinese origins. More often than not, these newspapers always try to paint a bad picture on nationals of certain countries (like China) and therefore also the Chinese in this country. They try to portray all Uzbeks and Chinese as ayam. Chinese = Ayam, good for nothing. Chinese come to Malaysia = jadi Ayam. All Chinese cannot be trusted because Chinese = Ayam. Chinese students =Ayam. Ayam Ayam Ayam. The other races in these country now look at Chinese = cheap = sex = ayam.

Come on lah, why always ONLY target the ayam? Some people think that females from certain countries like to become ayam and ENJOY to be ayam. Who on earth with the right frame of mind want to be ayam and ENJOY to be one?? I believe most of these poor soul become ayam because of CIRCUMSTANCES. Some are forced to be one because of extreme poverty, some are stupid, while a lot of them are cheated and conned/forced to be AYAM.

Let me pose you a question, all you stupid local media. Why almost 99% of the news you published only highlight the police raid on the ayam only??? Obviously, you're trying very hard to put the blame solely on the ayam (especially those from China, not Hainanese Nasi Ayam of course), with certain hidden agenda.

BUT WHAT ABOUT THE PEOPLE BEHIND IT? THE CUSTOMERS, THEIR BOSS, THE PIMP, THE GANG/RING BEHIND IT, THE DATUK DATUK AND POLITICAL FIGURES (WHO ARE ALL BOSSESS OF THESE AYAM COMPANY)...ETC. Why are they not arrested??? You choose NOT to highlight and put all the blame on the ayam! What a shame and BODOH all these government controlled media/newspapers!!! That's the reason why nowadays most right minded people refuse to read local newspapers. We are fed up!

The Day The Earth Gets Very Angry

全球經濟不景氣已進入近一個年頭，甲型H1N1流感病毒也在世界各地蔓延，造成上千個人死亡，昨天一天內，又接連發生了至少3起大災難，包括印尼蘇門答臘發生里氏7.6級大地震，目前罹難人數超過千人、南太平洋薩摩亞群島發生8級強烈地震並引發大海嘯，上百人可能已經不幸遇難，以及颱風“凱薩娜”在越南和柬埔寨分別造成上百個人喪命。

人類即將跨入21世紀第十個年頭。回首過去的兩千年，剛結束的20世紀可以說是人類最血腥、最災難、最荒唐的100年：發生了兩次世界大戰，恐怖主義蔓延整個地球，結果總共導致上億人死亡。這個數字超過了20世紀前1,900年間人類非正常死亡的總和！

雖然今日我們處在科技的時代裏，人類物質文明高速發展、科技騰飛、工業發達、教育普及，而且人類不斷向更高品質的生活努力邁進; 然而望眼所見、所聞， 天災頻頻不斷、道德日日頹廢、人心不安苦痛，種種不祥之氣乃瀰漫世間； 我們欲求福反得禍， 欲避苦卻為苦所逼， 社會危難已至千鈞一髮之際，人類到底出了什麼問題？

參考英國歷史學家Paul Johnson在他那本知名的專著Modern Times一書中，對此進行了總結。他以基督教的觀點指出，主要原因是人類在20世紀遠離了上帝，喪失了信仰，沒有了精神導引。和上帝之間的纜繩被砍斷之後，人類之船，就漂浮在迷茫的大海，於是列寧、斯大林、希特勒、波爾布特、薩達姆們等各類狂熱者（zealot），成了各種「偉大舵手」，把人類之船，開向了革命、屠殺、浩劫和無邊的苦難……(資料來源：擁抱災難的20世紀/曹長青)

展望未來，英國宇宙學家Martin Lee在他出版的新書《最後的世紀》中預言，地球在未來200年內將面臨十大迫在眉睫的災難，人類能夠倖免的機會只有50%，這些災難包括：一、粒子實驗可以吞噬地球，二、機器人接管世界，三、納米機器人，四、生化武器的危害離人類並不遙遠，五、超級火山爆發，六、地震引發世界經濟危機，七、小行星撞毀地球概率大過彩票中大獎，八、熱死地球溫室效應日益明顯，九、戰爭和核武器，除了以上九種人類可能面臨的威脅外，科學家將最後一種威脅歸之於大自然的不可抗力。

無數的天災與人禍，應驗了佛經裡所說末法時代、壞劫時期、小三災與大三災頻傳；其所帶來的刀兵劫、饑荒、瘟疫，乃至天搖地動、天崩地裂而使山河變色，讓地球上的眾生哀鴻遍野，飽嚐親離子散、家破人亡的浩劫與痛苦，也讓我們付出慘痛的代價，見證了大自然力量之巨大而從中體悟人身之渺小、人體之脆弱及世事之無常。

博地凡夫的我們該如何轉變厄運、開創真實幸福之路呢? 曾看過近代印光大師懇切地告知我們： 「現在世界之劫運， 吾人所受種種災難， 皆是過去惡業所招， 以致感受現在苦果。 故知此惡業者， 即過去惡因之所造成也。 欲免苦果， 須去苦因。 過去已種之苦因， 念佛懺悔， 乃能消去。 現在如不再種苦因， 將來即能免受苦果。 何謂苦因， 貪瞋癡三毒是也。 何謂善因， 濟物利人是也。 若人人明達因果之理， 則諸惡莫作， 眾善奉行， 災害自無從起矣。 唯今人不明因果之理， 私欲填胸， 無惡不作， 祇知自己， 不知有人。 詎知利人即是利己， 害人甚於害己。」

人生短暫， 世間無常， 趁此身體尚健在時， 應及時用此身勤修福慧， 慎勿放逸造諸惡業！還有，我也沒有忘了「克己復禮，民德歸厚」的新生活運動（雖然我承認我做得很爛:P），期待人人為自我的生活、行動做檢測，降低欲求、力行節約，盡量減少地球的負擔，保護地球，人人有責，盼共勉之!

此外，健康的身體真的很重要，必須有足夠的睡眠，所以，我要睡覺去啦！晚安~ ^^

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Earth Song - by Michael Jackson

What about sunrise
What about rain
What about all the things
That you said we were to gain.. .
What about killing fields
Is there a time
What about all the things
That you said was yours and mine...
Did you ever stop to notice
All the blood we've shed before
Did you ever stop to notice
The crying Earth the weeping shores?

Aaaaaaaaaah Aaaaaaaaaah

What have we done to the world
Look what we've done
What about all the peace
That you pledge your only son...
What about flowering fields
Is there a time
What about all the dreams
That you said was yours and mine...
Did you ever stop to notice
All the children dead from war
Did you ever stop to notice
The crying Earth the weeping shores

Aaaaaaaaaaah Aaaaaaaaaaah

I used to dream
I used to glance beyond the stars
Now I don't know where we are
Although I know we've drifted far

Aaaaaaaaaaah Aaaaaaaaaaaah
Aaaaaaaaaaah Aaaaaaaaaaaah

Hey, what about yesterday
(What about us)
What about the seas
(What about us)
The heavens are falling down
(What about us)
I can't even breathe
(What about us)
What about the bleeding Earth
(What about us)
Can't we feel its wounds
(What about us)
What about nature's worth
(ooo,ooo)
It's our planet's womb
(What about us)
What about animals
(What about it)
We've turned kingdoms to dust
(What about us)
What about elephants
(What about us)
Have we lost their trust
(What about us)
What about crying whales
(What about us)
We're ravaging the seas
(What about us)
What about forest trails
(ooo, ooo)
Burnt despite our pleas
(What about us)
What about the holy land
(What about it)
Torn apart by creed
(What about us)
What about the common man
(What about us)
Can't we set him free
(What about us)
What about children dying
(What about us)
Can't you hear them cry
(What about us)
Where did we go wrong
(ooo, ooo)
Someone tell me why
(What about us)
What about babies
(What about it)
What about the days
(What about us)
What about all their joy
(What about us)
What about the man
(What about us)
What about the crying man
(What about us)
What about Abraham
(What was us)
What about death again
(ooo, ooo)
Do we give a damn