Documenting Eruditions
Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards, Ideas, Quotes on Dec 4th, 2010
Apparently, the Buddha said, Affection for a select few (dear ones) causes attachment, which in turn brings suffering when parting occurs. So develop unconditional love for all, including the ‘dear ones.’ It is a far superior love. My nearest understanding or experience of unconditional love was Mother’s Love. That was challenged by a beloved friend […]
Posted in Going Inwards on Dec 1st, 2010
We all like the feeling of falling in love and being in love. Actually, I really do wonder why although I have to say I am one of them. The feeling is just so overwhelming to the extent that it becomes an addiction of ceaseless wanting and desire, as if one moment is not enough… […]
Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards on Dec 1st, 2010
The other day, a new friend commented that there will come to a point in time where we will have to stop relying on this common teacher we have and learn to control our own minds, to experience what we want to experience – to be the rightful Master of it, instead of the other […]
I saw watching this cartoon series with my little one of this mouse who dreams of being a ballerina. She moves into a new town and goes to a new dancing school. On her first day of class, she was thrilled as she was looking forward to perfect some new steps that she has been […]
Posted in Attitudes on Nov 14th, 2010
The mind is constantly in search for pleasure over pain, as if there is a preference. When there is pleasure through an experience, it will want more of it, become addicted to it and yearn for it. It will be soon when the planning, scheming and manipulation starts coming into play to prey for what […]
As I begin to become more present to people around me, I observe how past experiences dictate certain patterns in a person (myself included) and how that pattern makes them relate to themselves and to the world. Whilst this pattern only exists in one person, it can somehow affect the people around him and hence […]
So we have been told that “I” am not what you think I am, and also not what I think I am. Who is in fact, the “I”, an “I? “I” began to observe in my journey lately, how truthful the statement (can’t really recall who made that statement though) is that everything that happens […]
Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards on Oct 13th, 2010
Some time back, a friend asked me if she was living her life for herself, or for others. And having a cuppa with her yesterday, she asked me that question again and answered her own question: that it was both. She explained that since her parents gave her life, she is obliged to live her […]
Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards on Oct 11th, 2010
What is specialness but a belief of not being special? As I goggled the word ‘specialness’, something interesting caught my eye in its definition: the state or quality of being special; accompanied by an example: He was vain about his specialness until he realized he was really very common. It is very easy to be […]
Posted in Going Inwards on Aug 11th, 2010
Looking at my partner’s drive to soar in his career, I have great appreciation and admiration for him. Although there are times, I wished that he was present to me, but when I become fully present to him instead, I find him a very interest subject to converse with, and also, I’d find myself there […]