The Answer You are Looking for is Within the Problem

Notice any tightness in you body. Watch it for a moment..... Voila, it relaxes itself.

You wanna relax? Notice how tense you are.
You wanna be happy? Notice how miserable you are.
You wanna change? Notice what you want to hold on to.

Everything is related.

The habitual underlying

In physics, the principle of inertia tells us that an object tends to preserve its present state whether it be resting or moving, meaning that it’s more difficult for an object at rest to move than a moving object to keep moving.  It resonate with the idiom, "first step is always the hardest”, and the old Chinese saying, “all things are difficult at the beginning” (萬事起頭難).  And a quote from Thomas Fuller says, “all things are difficult before they are easy”.   

Or, in a more casual form, “keeping your shit together is HARD, but GETTING your shit together is harder.”

It's hard to start a new project; hard to get rid of that old habit; it's just hard to accept change.

Are they all the same phenomenon?  And WHY is it so damn DIFFICULT to start or change something?  I’ll explore the issue in the next post.

Desire

Ever heard of your mind thinking one of these below?

"If only I have _________, then I'd be happy!"

"If only _________ hadn't happened, my life would've been perfect!"

"All I ever wanted is _________, why can't I have it?"

Utopia

Conflicts and problems are an inherent part of life.

This realization is not to be used as an excuse to escape from the conflict or problem that you're having,

But to stop you from deluding yourself that all conflicts and problems must cease in order for you to be content with life.

That simply will not happen.

Being

Don't be sad that you're sad, thinking that it will never go away.  

Don't be happy that you're happy, thinking that it will last forever.

Look around and learn

I look at my dog and notice how content and carefree he is; he is completely living in the moment.
In comparison, I look cumbersome and unease in every possible way.

What is Karma?

Cause and effect.

Translate to real life: Past Choices x This Moment = Future Outcome

Future outcome then becomes your 'past choices' aka the condition that you're in and the cycle continues.

Past x Present = Future.

You can't escape your past, it's within you.

So stop telling me to let go of my past.
The past constructs who I am today,
and combine it with my present choice creates my future.

Dear newborn babies,

Welcome to Earth, please enjoy your suffering here.

Let it go? Hold on?

People,

Stop telling people to let go.

'Letting go' is a non-action.

When people attempt to let go,

People just try to push it away.

But that's like

Pushing a dog away

While holding a bone in your hand.

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My Religion is Legit = Yours is Not?

Saying one religion is better than others is like saying a M-size shirt is better than a L-size shirt.

Thought

Where does it come from?

Could it be told with words?

If so, what is delivering those words?

Who is there to comprehend?

They say a picture is worth a thousand words.

But could a thousand pictures convey a thought?

Thoughts come in and out of my mind as they please.  And I (if there's such a thing) am left speechless...

Bible = Truth? Depends on how you read it

When you read the Bible literally, it makes little to no sense.  It's quite obvious shown by the examples below,

• God created everything in the universe in 6 days (148 hours)?! 
• God created one sole couple, Adam and Eve, to populate the Earth?!  (Meaning their children had to...)
• Snakes could talk?!
• In John 14:10, Jesus said "...I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me" (What?!  How's that possible?  It would make more sense if it's the mother, before he was born...)

Cult and religion? "Original sin" of a religion?

As a follow up of my previous post, I'll trace back a bit and look at how a religion is formed. By looking into the difference between a religion and a cult, we see a critical problem of a religion.

religions? Religion?

When people found out my major as religion, they often asked me: Which religion are you studying? After I've told them that I study all kinds of religions, they would then follow up with this question: Do you believe in God? I don't think most of them were satisfied by my answer. Maybe this is what they were looking for.

Which way is the right way?

When you ask a corporate CEO, the corporate CEO would say:

the most profitable way

When you ask a Christian, the Christian would say:

Jesus' way

When you ask a Buddhist, the Buddhist would say:

the middle way

When you ask an atheist, the atheist would say:

the logical way

When you ask a philosopher, the philosopher would say:

I don't know

When you ask a scientist, the scientist would say:

the scientific method

When you ask an enlightened person, the enlightened person would say:

Any way

When you ask God, God would say:

No way

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Something I wrote a while ago.  Interpret it as you will.

[ISS#1] Today Is A Gift

An inspiring article that circulates around the internet.

The Map Is A Lie!

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1. Look at the world map taken from Google maps above.  Looks familiar, right?
2. Look at that huge land to North America's upper right.  That's Greenland.
3. Look at Africa; it seems like Africa is about the size of Greenland.

Now consider this fact:

Africa is 14 times larger than Greenland.

Size of Africa: 30,221,532 sq km
Size of Greenland: 2,166,086 sq km
30,221,532 / 2,166,086 = 13.95
(Data from CIA and Wikipedia)

Now look at the Google map again.  What the hell is going on?  Answer after the jump.

[R#3] Book Review - Many Lives, Many Masters

Many Lives, Many Masters is the first book I've encountered of this kind.  I remember it was sometime in 2007 when I accidentally saw the Chinese version of the book and bought it in curiosity.  At that time, I thought reincarnation is nothing but a baseless belief.  You could imagine how shocking I was when I saw the description of the book claiming firmly that reincarnation is real.  Questions started popping up in my mind: "If it's proven, why isn't it on the news?"  "If it's real, why hasn't anybody tell me about it yet?"  "Could our commonsense be wrong all this time?"

This book was published in 1988 when I was only 2.  I only read about a few dozens pages of the book at that time to fulfill my curiosity.  My conclusion was that "reincarnation could be real" but I didn't go in depth since I don't like reading translations plus I didn't realize what it could mean to my way of living.  It wasn't until early last year that I started truth seeking and finished reading the English version of this book.

Unlike the previous book review, I'll summarize the first third of the book and you'll be the judge on whatever you want.  So go ahead and

Ram Bahadur Bomjon's Message #2

Here comes the second message of Ram Bahadur Bomjon.  Click here if you have no idea what this is about.

Did I Really Hear This During The Oscar? (Video)

Best actress, Sandra Bullock's acceptance speech towards the end:

Not enough time, so I would like to thank what this film is about for me which are the moms that take care of the babies and the children no matter where they come from. Those moms and parents never get thanked. I, in particular, failed to thank one. So… if I can take this moment to thank Helga B. for not letting me ride in cars with boys until I was 18 because she was right. I would’ve done what she said I was gonna do. For making me practice every day when I got home. Piano, ballet, whatever it is I wanted to be. She said to be an artist, you had to practice every day, and for reminding her daughters that there’s no race, no religion, no class system, no color, nothing, no sexual orientation that makes us better than anyone else. We are all deserving of love. So, to that trailblazer, who allowed me to have that... and this.

Video after the jump; the quote starts at 3:12.