Life is not about getting but living. Not about expecting a job, getting a better job and better salary, getting to some destinations. It is about living and indulging in every moment, merging with the now, feeling blissful in everything in front of you.
"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment." -Henry David Thoreau
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๑๖ พฤษภาคม ๒๕๕๕
It's this kind of thing that wakes people up, please don't turn away. If you don't feel anything, just think
"Grant animals a ray of reason, imagine what a frightful nightmare the world is to them: a dream of cold-blooded men, blind and deaf, cutting their throats, slitting them open, gutting them, cutting them into pieces, cooking them alive, sometimes laughing at them and their contortions as they writhe in agony. Is there anything more atrocious among the cannibals of Africa? To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime."
“We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.”
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Hatred for the Scene
I don't understand why people like to go to crowded places, especially on weekends, like Siam Paragon. I hate department stores, especially when crowded. A long line-up of people waiting to eat *sighs*. I too much hate that kind of city life. I rather stay home with my plants, dogs, computer and atmosphere in the house. Not to say I don't enjoy eating and buying coffee and juices at those places, I'm spoiled sometimes, but not that I want to....that's life.....
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Transcend you consciousness into love, and nothing but love
In the new style of yoga class (named Transcendas) I took on Thursday, 9 Feb 2012 with Shane, with integration of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) into yoga, I learned about the qualities I wanted to bring into and take out of my life. Shane asked to to choose one quality from The Four Perfect Virtues of Buddhism that we would like to bring into our life:
Metta - Learning to be your best friend and then also learning to be a friend to others.
Karuna - Compassion or seeing suffering in yourself and seeing suffering in others, and doing something to overcome your own suffering and the suffering of others.
Mudita - Being happy when you see others happy.
Upekkha - Having an equanimous and non-reactive mind - being equally non-reactive to ups and downs of life.
Mudita - Being happy when you see others happy.
Upekkha - Having an equanimous and non-reactive mind - being equally non-reactive to ups and downs of life.
I chose Karuna - because I wanted to make my life to be of service to all lives Better . My current ways of living, though better than some others, are not good enough. So I spoke the word compassion in my mind while doing yoga poses that resembled bringing good energy into myself.
Shane also asked us to have in our minds a quality that we would like to discard from our lives/transform. In the actual class, I chose jealousy (like people with more beauty, haha), but I realize now that I want to choose "Minding others' bad treatment to me." Not that I can't retain my mind's stability when facing people saying bad to me, but sometimes I can't help feeling bad, though not too much.
And I want to transform bad treatment from others into Upekkha and love - into thinking that I might act wrongly, so I should improve; that I would never treat the same to anyone; and that everyone makes mistakes - why do you expect humans with worldly nature to be perfect? It's not about forgiving - forgiving means you hate others which must happen before you forgive them, but understanding and working towards changing inner beings of all.
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Building my Confidence in Writing #2 -Materialism: Danger or Natural Progression?
Topic: Some people consider materialism to be one of the biggest dangers to the planet today, while others refute this by saying that it is a natural progression for any advanced civilisation to make. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.
Essay:
Instilled in people's ways of life since the beginning of civilisation, materialism causes numerous environmental problems, some of which are pollution, diminished forest habitats, species extinction, to name only some. The unhappy life is another negativity of materialism. It has been apparent for long that materialism leads to the above detriments as made clear below.
Materialism causes much environmental damage, as seen explicitly and increasingly for a long time. Materialism means over-consumption and consuming over-priced products, including high-end ones, caused by selfishness that praises spendful life as loveable and happy and image-building for social acceptance. This means more extraction of resources from the earth's lands and forest habitats, pollution from waste and from production process that releases waste and toxic water and fumes, oil required for production and transportation. These are amplified due to materialism. Consuming economically causes much less damange. If this trend continues to accelerate, the world could be inhabitable for all lives.
Materialism has its upside, although not being able to offset the downsides. Materialism is natural for the ones who desire prosperity, pleasure and convenience. A better job with a better salary, cars, stereo set, wide-screen TV, netbook, ipad, iphone, fashionable clothes and accessories, etc. We become satisfied, more convenient and relaxed, such as after stressful workdays. It is a natural psychological condition in many people, but some do not need them to be satisfied
Materialism does not make us happy. The poor, the rich, all humans we share the same feelings, sorrows and happiness. And when we consume uncessarily, we have the same feeling of never getting full. Being happy has nothing to do with having more; it has something to do with consuming less and living more. Why? Because deep down subconciously we know full well that pursuing more means living less and appreciating less of the simple living, and we know full well that as long as we are agents of evil deeds; being materialistic that cause tragedy to the earth, we are miserable in the subconcious.
In conclusion, materialism is an instrument for those whose mindset is to be satisfied with "happiness". They are unnecessary. Jobs that make us happy and fulfilled spiritually, public transportations that save a large sum of money and help reduce pollution, second-hand clothes that help prevent resource extraction and save money, buying only what you need, watching and listening by what you have; using computer sparingly at home and enjoy life outside more, are benign alternatives that spare the earth the horrid tragedy, and make us joyful; joy from not getting more but living and giving more.
Essay:
Instilled in people's ways of life since the beginning of civilisation, materialism causes numerous environmental problems, some of which are pollution, diminished forest habitats, species extinction, to name only some. The unhappy life is another negativity of materialism. It has been apparent for long that materialism leads to the above detriments as made clear below.
Materialism causes much environmental damage, as seen explicitly and increasingly for a long time. Materialism means over-consumption and consuming over-priced products, including high-end ones, caused by selfishness that praises spendful life as loveable and happy and image-building for social acceptance. This means more extraction of resources from the earth's lands and forest habitats, pollution from waste and from production process that releases waste and toxic water and fumes, oil required for production and transportation. These are amplified due to materialism. Consuming economically causes much less damange. If this trend continues to accelerate, the world could be inhabitable for all lives.
Materialism has its upside, although not being able to offset the downsides. Materialism is natural for the ones who desire prosperity, pleasure and convenience. A better job with a better salary, cars, stereo set, wide-screen TV, netbook, ipad, iphone, fashionable clothes and accessories, etc. We become satisfied, more convenient and relaxed, such as after stressful workdays. It is a natural psychological condition in many people, but some do not need them to be satisfied
Materialism does not make us happy. The poor, the rich, all humans we share the same feelings, sorrows and happiness. And when we consume uncessarily, we have the same feeling of never getting full. Being happy has nothing to do with having more; it has something to do with consuming less and living more. Why? Because deep down subconciously we know full well that pursuing more means living less and appreciating less of the simple living, and we know full well that as long as we are agents of evil deeds; being materialistic that cause tragedy to the earth, we are miserable in the subconcious.
In conclusion, materialism is an instrument for those whose mindset is to be satisfied with "happiness". They are unnecessary. Jobs that make us happy and fulfilled spiritually, public transportations that save a large sum of money and help reduce pollution, second-hand clothes that help prevent resource extraction and save money, buying only what you need, watching and listening by what you have; using computer sparingly at home and enjoy life outside more, are benign alternatives that spare the earth the horrid tragedy, and make us joyful; joy from not getting more but living and giving more.
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Building my Confidence in Writing #1 -Why is it Difficult to Define Happiness?
Topic: Happiness is considered important by many people. But, why is it difficult to define and what can be done to achieve it?
Essay:
To begin with, happiness means different things to different people. Some may find materialism as their happiness; their perception is having more money to spend and getting more belongings - cheap or expensive - equals happiness, because they provide them with pleasures. Some may find having a job in the corporate sector and with high salary happiness. However, some find happiness in wholly different ways; not buying unnecessarily which costs a lot to the earth, seeking inner peace rather than outward pleasures, doing selfless actions such as volunteering, giving more and wanting less. These define happiness to some people. These different attitudes give different kinds of happiness, therefore, happiness is a word that is very difficult to define.
One of the reasons people are happy is not to be selfish, which means to find the higher meaning of life inwardly, which will result in peacefulness outwardly. This is achieved by seeing things and relating to ourselves, people, the environment and objects differently. To illustrate, many people in all eras have been selfish or egoistic. In actuality "self" does not really exist, but it's our clinging that makes it does. There is no "me" and "mine" because ourselves and the world around us are always changing and are just formations. Holding on to self leads to wanting for our own selves and creating conflicts - and therefore - feeling hurt. The result of selfishness is peace inside (no sad and miserable feelings), and outside (the environment around us), but those of selfishness is inner and outer suffering.
Another way people can achieve happiness is by giving more and seeking less. Seeking more makes us unhappy because we take from and cause destruction to others and the earth - Giving more brings much contentment because we know full well we are an agent of change for those around us. Volunteering is one giving action that beings much happiness to us. Moreover, being content with what we do not have creates conflicts within. When we give more than we take, we have more.
Essay:
To begin with, happiness means different things to different people. Some may find materialism as their happiness; their perception is having more money to spend and getting more belongings - cheap or expensive - equals happiness, because they provide them with pleasures. Some may find having a job in the corporate sector and with high salary happiness. However, some find happiness in wholly different ways; not buying unnecessarily which costs a lot to the earth, seeking inner peace rather than outward pleasures, doing selfless actions such as volunteering, giving more and wanting less. These define happiness to some people. These different attitudes give different kinds of happiness, therefore, happiness is a word that is very difficult to define.
One of the reasons people are happy is not to be selfish, which means to find the higher meaning of life inwardly, which will result in peacefulness outwardly. This is achieved by seeing things and relating to ourselves, people, the environment and objects differently. To illustrate, many people in all eras have been selfish or egoistic. In actuality "self" does not really exist, but it's our clinging that makes it does. There is no "me" and "mine" because ourselves and the world around us are always changing and are just formations. Holding on to self leads to wanting for our own selves and creating conflicts - and therefore - feeling hurt. The result of selfishness is peace inside (no sad and miserable feelings), and outside (the environment around us), but those of selfishness is inner and outer suffering.
Another way people can achieve happiness is by giving more and seeking less. Seeking more makes us unhappy because we take from and cause destruction to others and the earth - Giving more brings much contentment because we know full well we are an agent of change for those around us. Volunteering is one giving action that beings much happiness to us. Moreover, being content with what we do not have creates conflicts within. When we give more than we take, we have more.
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The best that you could be is.....
You can't be the best, so be what you are but understand them always.
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Living does not go with Getting
Life is not about getting but living. Not about expecting a job and better salary, getting somewhere, and such. It is about living and indulging in every moment - absorbed in the now, feeling blissful at everything in front of you, giving love to all living beings, and creating a compassionate and meaningful life.
You can't feel it when you don't do it
They hurt you (by "hurt" psychological hurts sometimes are more violent than physical.) because they are jealous of you - they want to be like you but they can't. They hurt you because their life are not at all in the realm your way of life, so they completely can't understand what that kind of life is. But that does not mean you are hurt - it's them who are hurt, because every one of us subconsciously, though not consciously suffers tremendously deep down inside because his/her intention is extremely negative. When you are sincere, well-intentioned, and never hurt others by your words or actions, you can never be hurt - you are blissful inside because of your peace, and you feel pitiful to them who are struggling with hurts they do to themselves by hurting others. Violence does not only mean killing another.
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Letter to the Editors Thai Newspapers - Polar Bear Exhibition Project, Chiangmai Zoo
Dear editor:
You would think that after the world watched 4-year-old Knut, the polar bear at the Berlin Zoo, collapse and die, that zoos would take it as a wake-up call to stop keeping this species in captivity. Captive polar bears all over the world have died prematurely, from causes ranging from eating debris thrown into their cages to fights with cage mates. The Chiangmai Zoo’s plan to display a polar bear should be cancelled without delay.
The exhibit will reportedly be little more than 2,900 sq. meters, which is staggeringly insufficient for an animal who calls the vast Arctic expanses home. Polar bears need thousands of sq. kilometers of tundra and open water to thrive. An Oxford University study found that polar bears suffer physical and mental anguish in captivity and noted that a polar bear’s typical enclosure size is about one-millionth of his or her minimum home-range size.
Captive polar bears are driven insane by close confinement. They pace incessantly and swim repetitive figure eights in their cramped pools. Some zoos have resorted to doping polar bears with anti-depressants to try to calm them down. These bears aren’t just bored; they are in a state of profound despondency.
There is still time for the Chiangmai Zoo to value ethics over ticket sales. The polar bear project must be abandoned. Visit www.PETAAsiaPacific.com to learn more.
Yours truly,
Nuntanit Bumrungsap
Written by PETA Asia
Published in the Bangkok Post, 23 Apr 2011
You would think that after the world watched 4-year-old Knut, the polar bear at the Berlin Zoo, collapse and die, that zoos would take it as a wake-up call to stop keeping this species in captivity. Captive polar bears all over the world have died prematurely, from causes ranging from eating debris thrown into their cages to fights with cage mates. The Chiangmai Zoo’s plan to display a polar bear should be cancelled without delay.
The exhibit will reportedly be little more than 2,900 sq. meters, which is staggeringly insufficient for an animal who calls the vast Arctic expanses home. Polar bears need thousands of sq. kilometers of tundra and open water to thrive. An Oxford University study found that polar bears suffer physical and mental anguish in captivity and noted that a polar bear’s typical enclosure size is about one-millionth of his or her minimum home-range size.
Captive polar bears are driven insane by close confinement. They pace incessantly and swim repetitive figure eights in their cramped pools. Some zoos have resorted to doping polar bears with anti-depressants to try to calm them down. These bears aren’t just bored; they are in a state of profound despondency.
There is still time for the Chiangmai Zoo to value ethics over ticket sales. The polar bear project must be abandoned. Visit www.PETAAsiaPacific.com to learn more.
Yours truly,
Nuntanit Bumrungsap
Written by PETA Asia
Published in the Bangkok Post, 23 Apr 2011
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