So today an old lady who I took care of said this to me. It made me feel good and she also added, “you have so many nice qualities.” This one now made me feel really good. One thing I learned from this is that it is always a good idea to express your thankfulness, it makes a big difference.
I have really no say on this: 44 year old stripper woman sues strip club for firing her because of her age. Age discrimination or invalid lawsuit? I feel like we need more information her, the strip club employment policy and age discrimination law.
I haven’t researcher about this new cell phone blackberry, but what I already heard is that it got same touchscreen mode as iPhone along with some other cool features.
I think iPhone will still remain at the top for it not only pioneered this revolution but its open source sdk application is unmatchable. You get to download iPhone apps, both paid and free, from already popular itunes browser. I hate monopoly, so I hope other cell phone companies will follow suit of iPhone – thinking outside the box.
I define temptation as a strong tendency that affects you negatively. In my case, temptations include daily consumption of soda pop.
I never thought I would reach that close to addiction of soda pop – yup, I don’t think I m addicted to it yet. I have a problem curbing my thirst for soda drinks. I know I can drink water or fruit juices, but I long for soda too much. I drink one 12 ounce soda can a day atleast. I m just waiting for diabetes to happen to me.
Speaking up has always been a daunting task for me. Up until recent years I have never really spoken up for that matter. But I am starting to speak up more often as I realize it is nothing bad about me if the reason I am doing that makes more sense than not doing it.
For the sake of sanity I have to speak up in circumstances that I can’t bear no more but has no other options.
There are also situation where the other party may not even realize how their behavior and action is affecting me without letting them know. I might hurt their feeling the time I speak up, but it will save my feeling and sanity from getting hurt too many times.
And speaking up is not necessarily a bad thing. Our society accepts people who truthfully speaks up as a leader; examples would be Martin Luther King who spoke up to achieve equal rights for African Americans.
Few days ago it started the first snow of this winter season, but until today it didn’t really feel like a winter. Maybe it was because define winter as a very cold weather like it was today. I m usualy not outside that often for my days start late around noon and by the time I m done with everyhing it is dark outside.
But today I did really felt the chill, cold breeze.
So I had this talk with someone before, but I wanted to clarify this thing to myself by jotting down here. Can you eliminate karma by purifying your sins? An example would be chanting a mantra that would relieve you from a karma of killing a bug.
In my opinion sin can be get rid of, but not the karma. Karma can be get rid of only by facing and going thru it. To make it less confusing, let’s define and distinguish the two – sin and karma. Sin is more virtual and karma is more physical.
Let’s go back to the example where I killed a mosquito fly in my previous life. This year I can eliminate the sin I acquired from doing so by chanting and doing good deeds. But regardless how good of compassionate person I turn myself into this year, I will still have to face the karma eventually by taking birth and getting killed by that bug (most likely in a human form and me as a bug).
Sin, IMO, is like a token that leads you to having bad moments; it is nothing specific. You may have committed a sin in one situation but you can suffer in a totally unrelated one. On the other hand, karma is very specific – i.e. what you do is what you get.
I recently read a few lines of “lam rim chen mo” and came across the following quote, taken out of “garland of birth stories”:
From the sky to the earth is a long way. From the distant shore of the ocean to the closest edge is also a long way. From the mountains of the east to the mountains of the west is an even longer way. But from the ordinary person to the sublime teaching is longer yet than that.
Hopefully one day we will be a better students. And meanwhile let’s continue our way…
Brack Obama is elected as the 43rd (gotto check) President of the United States of America.
In Buddhism, I think the most important thing to consider in any kind of situation is the intention. There are times in our lives when we mean to do something but people see it differently. A pure Buddhist wouldn’t care about what other people think, the only thing he or she would care about is carrying a pure, good heart intention.
To give a real life example, a parent gets rid of cable television at home so that the child could focus more on their education, which in the future would help this child achieve a successful career. On the other hand, the kid’s friends and the neighbor might consider the parent’s act as a way to save money or worse make the child’s life less entertaining and enjoyable. But see the parent doesn’t care what others are saying because their intention is for the betterment of their child.
I once heard this old story from cwmenturies ago where a Buddhist guru killed a bug. Now we might accuse him of committing a sin and having to face that karma in the future live, but his intention was a pure one. Because of his high spiritual achievement he could tell that bug was his mother in one of his past lives; and he was so bothered about this bug suffering that he killed her to make her free of this suffering. What a pure compassionate intention for he didn’t care about him committing a sin as long as he was able to help get rid of someone else’s suffering.