SiNwEi's Enlightment

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	<<THE TEACHING OF BUDDHA IS HARD TO COME BY>> <<KNOWING IT, IS LIKE PLANTING THE BUDDHA SEED IN US>> <<AND SEEING IT GLOW WHILE TAKING GOOD CARE OF IT>> <<FOR ONE DAY IT WILL BLOOM INTO A BUDDHA TREE>>

"Okasa Okasa Okasa - So as to be free from all my offences, accumulated from evil deeds done physically, verbally and mentally, I pay homage to the Three Gems: the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Sangha, once, twice, thrice with my joined-palms on my forehead very respectfully and humbly. Owing to my deeds of merit, may I always be free from the four Apayas (Nether Worlds), the three Kappas (Disasters), the eight Atthakkhanas (Inopportune Times) , the five Veras (Enemies), the four Vipattis (Deficiencies), the five Byasanas (Losses); and at the final existence may I attain Magga (the Path leading to the Nibbana), Phala (The fruition that immediately follows the path) and Nibbana (The Extinction of Lust, Hatred and Delusion)! "

My Views Between the Christianity or Western concept and the Buddhism or Eastern concept
Western Concept	Eastern Concept	Similarity
It's like a mother that uses punishment and reward to teach her children. When the child does well, it's rewarded. If the child do wrong, it's punish. Keep her child away from the evil world just for the good doing of her child.	It's like a mother that treats her children as adult and tells them about the true world outside through her own experience. Let the child experience the world, it may be hard, but that's part of learning.	Both are motherly's love toward her children.
In order to lead a better world, convert or reform others to suit your way. Blame on people when things go wrong.	In order to lead a better world, change yourself first. Root of all wrongdoing is you not others	Both want a better world.
Condemn all evil or devil doing.	Mercifully forgive all evil or hell beings.	Nil
Human is born with sins. Let our believe wash away our sins? Good n Evil are seperate entities/object?	Human's root is good. Anger n hatred is our real enermies. Cultivate our own mind/heart. We control these Good n Evil as they are subjective.	Both have a good heart.
It's like telling you that there's a car accident and we have to believe it without investigating.	It tells you that there's a car accident and also show you the evident. If still not believe, investigate yourself.	Nil
Likes to tell children fairy tales of Prince and Princesses that I thing lead them to wanting fame and reputation.(Children is more appeal to this though)	Talk of true historic honorable people that teach about good moral concept and righteous way. (A boring subject but I think is more healthy in a children's later progress of cultivation)	Both are progessive learning of life-hood.
Western medicine or "drug" is getting further and further away from nature. It's like a snowball rolling bigger and bigger, solving one problem and in turn creating another, on and on.	Chinese medicine looks for cure from the nature. Treat its root problem and may take a long time but it's final. "Pull the weed together with its root. "	Both are needed though.
Invented guns from gun powders, inspired by binary code to create computers.	Invented gun powders for fireworks, binary code for I-ching ( Book of Change). Recently I found out that the 64 hexagrams (kua) of I-ching is connected with out DNA, the 64 codons in the universal genetic code!	Both are creative. Modern science such as those of nuclear physics, which are considered new discoveries, have long been discussed in ancient buddhist scriptures.
More of doing. People are more appealed to this as it's more visible.	More of thinking.	Both are needed though.
A study of matter and of the outer world. Concept much base on an unseen creator, a study of god. When something is unexpain, just say it's the cause of god. Nobody come back and tell us if it is true, as human only went through life once? It's perspective is limited to Sun, Earth and moon.	A study of mind and of the inner world. Buddhism (a teaching rather than a religion) is base on a deep study of human, down to the root of human mind. Human went through many life time. Subject human mind to hypnosis, one can see it's previous lives. When we see things from the mind, we can see the most inner of self and the most external of existent, right to and beyond the very end of the universe.	Both study of inner and outer world are needed. Coming together of mind n matter is essential to bring about harmony.
It's about Love. As they said - "Jesus' "Good News" - the Gospel - is about God's love and forgiveness for all mankind. "...well, it is not confine to just Christians or his believers only, right?	It's about Compassion. It's not love that is just towards your family or close friends, as this is base on attachment and may disappeared when the attachment changes. It's much base on altruism. In this case your compassion will remain as a humane response to dissatisfaction as long as beings continue to dissatisfy. It is a wider love that you can have even for someone who has done harm to you: your enemy.	Both are love.
It's about "believing in" or "have faith in" and soul. a) The soul has a one-shot chance of salvation. It is judged at end of this life and either goes to heaven or hell, except for children who have died before they can be baptised, who go to limbo, or hell if you believe St Augustine. b) Only humans have immortal souls. Animals are purely physical (non-spiritual) beings.	It's about "understanding of" and mind. a) The mind if does not achieve enlightenment in this life, or enter a Pure Land at death, it will have further rebirths. b) All sentient beings have minds.	Both are needed. When that understanding is strengthened, it gives rise to a conviction, belief, and trust in that object.
Much symbolic and metaphorical. When a teacher explain something to a student, it's good to use metaphors. But when the teacher is not around, the metaphors can be misinterpleted. Furthermore the orignal message subjected to time n generation is bound to have some misunderstanding. The most important thing here is not to unify but to understand the orignal message by Jesus. (eg Trinity: Holy Father, Holy Son, Holy Spirit) (eg Orignal Sin) (eg Kingdom of Heaven)	Much original. Direct translation. When one is fully understood, then can one use metaphors to teach its students. Say when one went to a foreign country n learn something say "1". Then one went back to explain it to one's home people using metaphors say "apple". Then one dies. If others that do not understand it as "1" may interpet it as "fruit". (eg Three Jewels of refuge: Buddha, Dharma, Sangha. Therefore by understanding Buddha is the teacher, Dharma is the way n Sangha are the helpful spiritual companions ) (eg Karma or pre-mental deposite of previouse life) (eg Nirvana or The Extinction of Lust, Hatred and Delusion)	As I come across, Jesus once when to India in his teenage years to study. Then I wonder if he went back to preach the Way.after understanding the Dharma. Christianity once believe in reincarnation, but was later abandon due to its contraction. The gospels writers used literary styles and techniques common at the time of their writing.
Christianity changes through time, as it contradict with Science, Albert Einstein's Law of Relativity's and Darwin's Law of Evolution.	The more we discover, the more we come closer to the finding of Buddha, about 2500 years ago. Nothing to correct, truth will always prevail. Albert Einstein said that the universe is nothing in substance but only vibrations or waves, like a pigment of our imagination, a delusion what we make of it.	Nil

My Progressive Written Learning and Insights

History is not known. Ask who is most act Huang Fei Hong. This generation will think is Jet Li because of the media and not knowing the history. But it was another actor Guan De Xin. Future is unpredicted too.

Trusting a believe. Come believe n come see. One may tell u that there's an accident some place. You may beleive if one is a good friend. But it's better for one to show u the injured person and the damage car.

Silence with depth. Buddha is like a diamond that shine bright even if it's underground. One heard of it may try very hard to dig it out. A frog that make too much noises will only invite enemies.

All human when born are afraid of dying. So one invented Heaven so to feel better. Earth like human also go through the process of reborn, age, sick, die.

Lost n gain balance out. One gain wisdom/knowledge/experience when gets older but lost age in the process. Gain money n lost respect. Gaining of happiness is for a time-being, sadness will follow. Try to stay in between.

Things to debate in human world is of no ending. Given which come first, chicken or the egg. It's like a circle/cycle no beginning. We sleep one day, wake up on the next day.

One reads n do not understand is as good as not reading at all. One understand n not act is as good as not understanding at all.

Be like a TREE. Learn from a tree. It give its part as food/material to help other with no return. Heal the environment. Provide shelter. No evil, no ignorance, no craving, no hatred, no killing. So peaceful, so silence, so forgiving, so selfless.

All is like a mirror. When there is a pro there will always be a opposition. For every action there's an equal an opposite reaction. Be neither "too" for nor "too" against, neither the object nor the reflection.

Be a log that flow with the current of the river(Nature). When we try to be too haste in things we do, there will always be a opposite force that will stop u from completing. Take things easy, everything flow according to its cause. The more u run to the West, u'll be further away from the East. But East is West if one is to see them from the otherside of the mirror.

There will always be a positive and negative, permanent and impermanent in everyone and everything. When u say a person is selfish in one way, he's not in another way. The water in a cup will oneday be empty, but the word or what we think is water(H2O) will always exist. Emptiness is existence. Existence is emptiness.

Cycle of good and bad. Within the good, there bound to be someone bad. Within the darkness, there bound to be a light. On and on.

Equal and balancing of nature. Within 2 person, there's a positive good/bad and a negative good/bad. Equal. If there's 3 person, there's 2 possibility. There's a positive, a negative and a neutral. Equal. Or a positive and 2 half negative. Equal. U work out yourself. The more the energy of nuclear war, the more we want to be peace.

Oneness. When we think that the universe is vast and that there's no limit, we know too little. But now imagine u are bigger than the universe and that the universe is as small as atom in a ball. Then play with the ball. Imagine how the atom react and imagine that the atom is the universe. What u do to the atom is what u do to the universe. Then we know that the cause of nature the universe is the cause of your action. We are one all together. 2 come from 1.

Drink water and think of the source. When we become frustrated in something we do. We blame the something.
The something become a problem and frustration feeds the problem. But where is the source? We are. Cease the frustration and stop feeding the problem. And the problem dies off.

One source. One religion said it is created by a creator. One religion said no creator. But both are created by one source. Different illness need different medical treatment, different mind need different approach of teaching.

Flow of the balancing energy. Fengshui. If u got to much of something\energy release some and u'll feel better. There's what the earth do when it's over charged, it release the charges to the air outside in the form of thunder. Be balance. If one side gets to heavy, try inclining to the other side to neutralize the weight. Work according to nature.

Nature is like an engines that runs forever. Day n night. Winter n Summer. Our emotion do that too. One time we are happy, one time we are sad. All is a cycle.

Time is like a rubber band. When we are happy, time fries. When we feel bored, times seem to be very slow.
A fly live for few days, because it is too stress out flying around. A tortise lives a hundred year, because it is slow, relax and simple. A tree live even longer.

Be flexible, adaptable in changes of life. Be mentally as a tree, but be physically like a grass. A tree gets uprooted by a storm, but a grass sway to and forth against the storm.

Study both technically n physically. Excel comes with two n the becoming of one. One can study how to build a plane before flying. Or one can try an error, build the plane until he flies it. But both need to know about each others experiences to be better flyers.

One who think to excel physically will not excel mentally. And vise versa.

Whether evolution change or not, whether a country reform or not, we are still human. We still need to eat, sleep, reproduce, die. Why go the extreme to stress ourselves, n not live at ease n humony.

Where do we find enlightenment that we need to learn? Everywhere n everything we do. We learn the work of nature. Know it will help you in living this life.

Truth is beyond words. Why do we communicate with words? Misunderstand words is to see the finger pointing to the moon rather than to see the moon (Truth).

When we see things, try to see the outside and the insight too. When we see an actor acting in a movie, it does not mean that he is like what he acts. To see the insight, we can judge by his body language, although seeing the insight is not that easy.

Detachment. Be able to carry it, and also let it go. This include negative emotion. Then we will be happy.

Everyone have at less an mind opening in some point of life, a time when we break off from being ignorance. There's more than one if the time is right. A child may think that Santa Claus is real, and no matter how hard we would convince him, he'll not understand. That's ignorance. But when he glow older, he will know the truth. A young adult will not understand all this either, due to ignorance and too involve and attached to something. Let this something go and we will be free from suffering/dissatisfaction, free from stress.

Ignorance is the characteristic of animal. This point of ignorance is not for others to break it for us, but for ourselves to break it. One can show u the road, but the road is for us to take ourselves.

Where did this ignorance come from? From a cycle, a cycle call karma, a cycle of good and bad deed. A bad deed done by our previous life did this to us. In another word, we did it to ourselves previously. Materialistic is not carry forward, but our karma is. When we die, we and everything we know of, including the world become dust. So credit more good deed for your future life.

A wise person will know more than to credit this good deed...Do not let wisdom be shown or people may either be afraid or jealous of you.

Dalai Lama - Things that can be done, need not worry about it. Things that cannot be done, worry also no use.

Funny to say. Existent is known and yet an illusion. Nibbana is unknown and yet real. Universe is timefull of form and formless, yet impermanent. Nibbana is timeless emptiness both physically n mentally, yet permanent. We are like a blind man knowing color and yet cannot see it.

What we do to other is what u get from others. So try to be good to others, and you'll get what u give.

Sometime I think that the known world is a timeline or a timemachine. The known world will always be the known world. But we are changing our character all the time. We warp endlessly from past to future and from future to past. Each time playing a new character in our known history. We might play the role of Albert Einstein (Scientist) before and we didn't even know it. As the universe is also subjected to birth n death.

When we are born, our minds are empty, then we start to receive all kind of data, either from our parents, sibling or friend or from the environment or society. We become what the world wants us to become. There become a self. We then attached to the world. If one is able to put is aside, we are one with the one, the all, the whole.

We are moving alone the brim of a circle. Nibbana is like on top of the circle. We can put a ladder to reach there (When one evil start regarding its evil deed). Or build a spiral stairs to reach there (cultivate our mind, let the world go)

When we learn of Buddha's teaching. It's like planting a Buddha's seed now and taking care of it as it glow. In our next and next life the teaching become stronger and stronger. Then one day we become a tree, we become a Buddha or detach from the known world.

Life is but a dream. Everything is born when u are born. There's no beginning and ending in the worldly life. It come about when u come about. Become of existence is a beginning thought of ignorance that lead to attachment to the world, and becoming of nonexistence or Buddhahood is the realisation of this unsatisfy existence and be detach from this cycle of rebirth.
"Enlightenment, for a wave in the ocean, is the moment the wave realises it is water." - Thich Nhat Hanh

Conception of Truth can be muiltidimensional. There's a diversity that exists among humanity, the diverse mental dispositions, interests, and spiritual inclinations of the people of the world. Due to a particular time, environment, and context, that was the perception and understanding for that audience, that was the truth then.

Developing of any country is like a race. There will always bound to have some faster runner (developed countries) and those that are weaker runners (developing country) or those that are handicap that are unable to run at all. Are we to be selfish and run our own race to gain top, leaving the weaker runners to struggler or even starve to death, or are we to help them run the race? Sometime human are selfish, we want the betterment of oneself. Maybe that's the nature to survive. Since the basic requirement of surviour are to make food, water, air, sleep (home), then they should be more important than money or material pleasure. Right?

Life is like a card game. Each and everyone are deal with a given card to play. Some may be given a good card and some may be given a bad card. This card is yours, n you cannot change with other people. No matter how good or bad the card is, u will have to accept this card and play it as good as you can.

In our life-hood, we depend a lot on our 5 senses (eyes, ear, nose, tongue, body) which is string-attached to the mind. Then the mind is weak, the 5 senses start to wonder around attracted by the outside world. Overlapping one another, the strings of the 5 senses become untangle up. Thus the mind being in the center of the 5 senses is blind by this distortion n delusions. Thus the purpose of Buddha's teaching is to fix the mind, n get ride of these distortion n delusions. When the 5 senses is tame, then will the minds enters a state of always sensing reality as it is.

Given the universal truth that all things that exist in this universe are impermanent. Living-things dying, non-living things decaying, all existent subjected to changes, disappearing n re-emerging. So what about God? Many of us has this idea that God is an entity or being. I would think that God is a Law (Taoist call it Tao) or mathematical formula (e.g. x = -x) that govern the entire universe rather than a being. This Law is a fix formula, in a sense that everything are subjected to this Law, n if some part of the formula is change, affects the rest of the formula. It is not all mighty that we can wish upon as we think, or that it can save us or anythink like that. It's the Way we have to follow n live up to it.

Given the Law of Relativity. Even natural disasters are manifest from the mind. When the mind is greedy, fire occur (deforestation). When the mind is in resentful, flood occur. When the mind is deluded, tornados occur to blind the eyes. When the mind is un-stable, earthquakes occur. The mind refering here is not one individual but the concentration of all the minds in the world combine. We are but one mind, a formless mind attached to a body.

Knowing that spliting an atom can create so much energy. Now, how many atom does a human contain or a rock contains. So much. The potential of us is more to be discovered.

Be mindful. Delusion and distortions are like dusts which will keep settling on your 5 senses. Practice awareness, be aware of what you do, be it - breathing, walking , eating etc. In times to come, the energy of mindfulness will be strong enough to see which habit is bad and which is good. Thus you will be able to transform the bad ones and nourish the better ones. However it's difficult to get rid of old habits as they have been there for thousands of years generated by your previous lifes before you. The best thing to do, is to know that it's there, subdue it. If one stop cultivating the mind for some time, dust will get thicker and, seeing reality as it is will be pretty difficult.

Deeper understanding of -"Enlightenment, for a wave in the ocean, is the moment the wave realises it is water." We are all unconscious, then we woke up, become conscious. Conscious of what? We are bigger that life?