Taking bus home sometimes can be the happy journey. Yesterday morning, I took SBS Bus no. 174, I felt so happy on the bus. The driver or so call Bus captain was so caring, friendly and passionate. He is the Indian driver around 40years old. When you go to the bus, he will greet you" Good morning ", he greets every passenger. When passengers go down, he will say:" Have the nice day, bye bye." When the weak old man or woman go up the bus, he will wait until he get seated then moves the bus. He pass by every bus stop to see any passenger need the bus service. He indeed the good bus captain.
This type of caring, courteous bus captain, I think we need more. When the bus reaches Interchange, he will stand up and say to all passengers " have the nice day ". The bus captain make every passengers happy and of course he also feel happy.
Thanks Mr. Good Bus Captain. Note: Encounter date 25-11-2012, time around 0800hrs to 0840 hrs, SBS BUS NOS : SBS8203E, 40 YEARS OLD Indian DRIVER.
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Good bus captain
Monday, November 19, 2012
Buddha quotes
In this world, we can see many Buddha images everywhere. Buddha was the person of highest wisdom, he knew the truth of the universe and ways of living peacefully. Many people are still benefited by Buddha's teaching. Its teachings are always practical even today. Let's start learning Buddha quotes to see which one can apply to our daily life.
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Do necessary things in life
Do necessary things in life.Looking back, I find that I have wasted a lot of time on unnecessary things. I wrote those blog posts that related to Singapore general election, USA Presidential election, Gaagnam style topics and many blog posts that will not benefit readers in positive ways. With so many rubbishes in my mind, it is time to stop all these and turn the new chapter.
To turn on new chapter, we have to prepare to adopt the life style that different from most of people.
Do necessary things in lifeIf we continue to adopt the non-enlightened ways and pass day by day. We will be wasting time.
But many of us will never think of improving our spiritual level even before he dies. They totally do not understand the benefits of it. They just focus on their bodies excitement, materials gain, chasing all unnecessary things.
Luckily there are still someone who show good examples and we can learn from all these people.
Do necessary things in lifeI intend to stop going for Internet forums and discussion because too many negative people there and it is hard to communicate with most of them because they have too deep attachment on bad deeds.
See you next post here....
Friday, November 16, 2012
Peace is the highest happiness
My friend just recommend me to see this you tube video: Peace is the highest happiness . I think this video may be can give you some hints in your life. We need freedom earlier ...
Change our fate
Healthy life is so important if we want to live happily without any misfortunes. How to have healthy life? Please read all the posts from now on.
Fate is the outcome of the past. Do not let the past control us. We can change it by doing all kinds of good things with sincerity. Always keep our mind pure and free from cunning mindset, we will be the truly happy person. Obstacles are bound to have, please do not scare and this is the testing to see how good, how patient we are. Life is ready short, time to rethink our goal. We all have to prepare for our next journey. How to prepare? Stop all the worldly desires because this desires can not help us to go to the peaceful world after death. Free from all unwanted thoughts, comparison , we will be peaceful. Please rethink and go towards the path of harmony.
Buddhism questions and answers
Buddhism Questions and Answers
Time to learn something useful from the awaken one-the Buddha.
Let us see article from Tan Chade Meng as below:
This essay tells of my experience as a practitioner of the Dharma and my practice of Mindfulness. It also explains the importance of mindfulness in the practice of Buddhism and how one can develop it.
LIVING THE DHARMA - ONE MAN'S FIRST BABY STEPby Tan Chade Meng
The Dharma (the Teachings of the Buddha) is a living knowledge. The Dharma is neither just a collection of discourses, nor just a system of belief. It is an art of living in peace and happiness. The Dharma has to be "lived".
What does one mean by "Living the Dharma"? For me, the entire essence of living the Dharma can be summarized into one very skillfully coined word, "Mindfulness". "Mindfulness, I declare, is useful everywhere", declared the Buddha some 25 centuries ago. After practicing Mindfulness for a while, I found the fruits of the practice to be enormous! I discovered that by being mindful of myself, my body, thoughts, state of mind, feelings and emotions, I became much happier.
Firstly, I learned to appreciate things much more. In life, there are too many things most of us take for granted most of the time. The love and company of our families, friends and loved ones, the roof over our heads, the fact that we are not in some form of extreme pain, even the very air that we breath in! We take all our blessings for granted. The unfortunate thing is that most of us don't appreciate what we have until we lose them. Only if we go blind will we start to think, "it was so nice when we could see". I discovered that if we are constantly appreciative of what we have, we become much happier. Mindfulness certainly helped me towards this end. By being constantly mindful of myself, I found that I become more able to appreciate all the little things around me. Hence, this is a source of happiness.
Perhaps the more important power of Mindfulness is its power to deal with distress. After practicing Mindfulness for a while, we would make an important discovery, that we tend to REACT towards situations. When something happens, or somebody says or does something, we react with anger, or happiness, or hatred etc etc. From here, I learned the first and most important lesson about happiness, that I am fully responsible for how I feel. Thus, it is not skillful to say, "he MAKES ME feel angry". If he "MAKES me" feel angry, then why is it that ten other people in the same situation would react in ten different ways? And not all of them would be angry.
The truth is that *I* react with anger to the situation. So it's more skillful to say, "*I* feel angry about what he said", instead of "*HE* makes me...". There is an important difference here. The difference is that I take full responsibility for my own feelings instead of putting the responsibility on somebody else, and I started to look towards myself for my own happiness. That, I realized, is the key to happiness. If only we could work with our reactions, we would stop being angry, or be less angry, in the same situation. The same applys to other painful feelings like disappointment, hatred etc.
This is where the power of Mindfulness lies. When I am mindful of my state of mind and emotions at all time, I begin to get a "feel" of how it works. When something happens, I notice "anger arising...arising...", and after a while, "anger falling ... falling..., feeling of regret arising ...", and so on. What is most amazing is that after a while, I began to develop some mastery over my reactions! So when anger or hatred arises, I was mindful of its arising and thus able to dissipate it. I was no longer a slave of my reactions, getting swamped by my feelings, but I had developed some say of how I should feel.
The wonderful thing is that now, I was able to practice what I already knew. In the past, I knew, for example, that I should not have shouted at my friend. Unfortunately, I couldn't control myself, and this "I knew I shouldn't have" becomes just an elusive, useless knowledge. It's just like a compulsive gambler, he *KNOWS* for a fact that what he is doing is hurting himself and his family, but he simply couldn't help it. He has no mastery over himself. With Mindfulness, I began to develop some mastery over myself and I became more able to apply the "I should not do it" knowledge to make my life better.
I discovered that with Mindfulness, I am more able to work with my feelings. I became more patient, less likely to be angry, more able to take disappointments, more able to accept myself and those around me. I am also more appreciative, my emotions more peaceful, and my mind more concentrated. Simply put, I feel better.
I learned the art of developing Mindfulness from a few Teachers. The instructions I received for the practice of Mindfulness is surprisingly simple.
The first step of the practice is some sitting meditation. Find some place quiet and sit in a comfortable position, keeping the spine straight. Put your hands on your lap, close your eyes and be aware of your breathing. When you breath in, know that you are breathing in. When you breath out, know that you are breathing out. After a few minutes, when you feel calm, bring your awareness to your body. Be aware that your body exists. Be aware of its sensations. It is amazing how much of our sensations we miss out when we're not observing our body. If an itch develops, be aware of that. Try to observe it, and observe your reaction to the sensation. Learn not to "judge" the sensation. Don't think, "this is *MY* itch", just think of it as "this is itch". Just observe it as a feeling and try to accept it and come to terms with it. If the itch becomes unbearable, observe your aversion to it, observe your intention to scratch. If you really have to scratch, slowly reach out to the "hot-spot", observe every step of the movement, and observe the the entire process and sensation of scratching. After that, observe your reaction to the scratching and slowly put your hand back.
After observing your body, try to observe your thoughts. If a thought arises, observe its arising. If one thought leads to another, observe that. Observe your reactions to your thoughts and any intentions you may have. Upon observing your thoughts, try observing your emotions. How do you feel? If you feel happy, observe this feeling of "happiness". If you feel sad, observe this feeling. Try not to think of them as "*MY* feelings", but just think of them as "feelings" and fully experience them. See how they feel like, see how you react to them. Try to come to terms with your feelings and fully accept them. After observing your feelings, repeat the full cycle again for as long as you feel comfortable about it.
After sitting meditation, it is extremely useful to do some walking meditation. The meditative state of mind we developed in sitting meditation helps us to be mindful about ourselves. Walking meditation is an extremely good compliment to that because it helps us to maintain that Mindful state in non-sitting situations. In other words, it helps us to maintain Mindfulness in our daily lives.
The instructions for walking meditation is very simple. There are a few forms of walking meditation, but we'll just discuss one. Just stand straight and look 5 feet ahead of you. Mindfully lift one foot, and observe that you are doing so. Slowly thrust it forward and be aware of that. Then slowly step it down and observe that. Do the same with the other foot and so on. When you reach the end, remain standing and observe "standing .... standing ....", then slowly turn back, observe "turning .... turning ...", and continue walking again. Do it for as long as you feel comfortable with.
With some practice, we will find that we can gain some degree of constant awareness about ourselves. We will find ourselves more able to experience our feelings, and more able to come to terms with them. We will also begin to gain some insights about ourselves, how our minds and emotions work, how we keep reacting to sensations. In time, this insight can give us some mastery over our reactions. That is when we begin to be able to dissipate anger, handle disappointments, etc. It is here that I understood the Zen saying from the great Bodhidharma, that when one gains insight into oneself, one walks towards Enlightenment (the cessation of all sufferings).
Many of us face one problem, we try too hard. We get very tensed up expecting fast results. When we don't get the results within a few days, we get very frustrated. I discovered that in meditation, and in life in general, learning to love oneself is very important. One very important point is learning to be gentle to ourselves. If we are not getting fast results, remind ourselves that we have just started. Think of ourselves as babies learning to walk. See the baby trying to make a step and falling. So cute, isn't it? Notice we never blame the baby, but instead just laugh at that failure and gently encourage the baby to try again? Such loving gentleness. Try putting this feeling towards ourselves. The least helpful thing for us is to be ashamed of our failures. Accept our failures, and try to give ourselves some gentle and loving encouragements like we would to a baby. This attitude of loving oneself is extremely important, for life in general and meditation in particular.
Many beginners have a problem "breathing". We have this problem because we think that the breath should be smooth and steady, but when we try, we often run out of air and have to take in deep breaths every now and then. Then we start to blame ourselves for doing it "wrong". Actually, there is no "wrong" way of breathing. If we have to take a deep breath, just do so, and just observe that we're doing it. If we take short breaths, or run out of air, we just remedy it if necessary and observe it. In time, our breaths will be smooth like experienced meditators' because we stop being worried about what is the "right" way to breath. This is one example of a problem that exists only because we worry about it.
Of course, there are also many of us who often go to sleep in the 2nd or 3rd minute of sitting meditation. Here again, I suggest that loving oneself is important. If we feel we're not trying hard enough, try to give ourselves some loving and gentle encouragements to try harder. It is very unhelpful to feel guilty. Laugh at and with ourselves and give ourselves gentle encouragements.
One wonderful thing about this meditation is that it can be practiced by anybody, regardless of religion or lack of religion. The meditation asks for one to be aware of one�s breath, thoughts etc. Whatever our religion is, we will definitely have breath, thoughts, emotions etc, and no religion would say it is wrong to be aware of them. Most importantly, whether or not we believe in some God or gods, the same benefits of Mindfulness can still be reaped. The Dharma is truly an universal teaching.
In recent years, "meditation" has become some sort of a popular sport. People makes all sorts of claims about the miracles their "meditations" can do. I'm sorry, but the Mindfulness meditation I described above is *NOT* designed to help us to hear celestral sounds, or see images, or go out-of-body, or "feel-God", or float in the air. All the Mindfulness meditation did for me was to make me more mindful, develop insights about myself, develop more mastery over my reactions, and make me more able to be happy. The only "miracle" it can give is the miracle of happiness. If you are looking for other miracles, sorry for your time wasted with this article.
Mindfulness is a truly wonderful thing. The Buddhist meditation for the development of Mindfulness is Vipassana Meditation (or Insight Meditation), which is the meditation I have learned. What I described in this essay contains what I have learned, but I do not claim to teach Vipassana because I have only learned so little.
I have only taken my first baby step. There is still a lot more ground to cover. I believe that I have found a most wonderful teaching. The Dharma is like a great lake. It is calm, deep, wide and beautiful. It is a great nourisher of life within and around it. When its full potential is unleashed, it is awesome. I wrote this article to share what I have found with you. I hope your path towards peace and happiness is a fruitful one.
"Everything we do is an act of poetry or painting if we do it with Mindfulness" -- Thich Nhat Hanh
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Upgrade spiritual level
Two years ago, one of my colleagues Mr. R was the emotional and angry type of person. Now Mr. R has changed his bad behavior and become more rational than before. The main reason was because he had joined and practiced meditation. Mr. R gradually changed his bad behavior.
Because of the meditation, he has to always mindful what he says, acts. Through the process, he now is the better person.
Now, Mr. R had leaved us for the other new job. Yesterday I gave him the birthday gift. I put some money in the envelope and I was wondering what words to write. After few seconds, I thought it was good to encourage him for his efforts and I wrote some words on the envelope:"Upgrade spiritual level forever and happy family forever."
This morning he phoned me that he was searching some book in the library yesterday and he happened to see the book about upgrading spiritual level. He thanks me for the words.
I am happy that he had transformed and I know all these are because of positive mindset. Mindset can change our destinies. I will continue to share stories about positiveness to Mr. R.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Volunteer work
Few days ago, my sister asked me whether I was free on this Sunday. She asked me whether I wanted to do volunteer work for the old folk home.
Since I wanted to upgrade myself spiritually, I told her that I was free.
On Sunday I followed my sister to the old folk home. Wow, I saw so many volunteer there. My sister and I helped out to peel off apples and packed bananas inside the box. Each box with 100 bananas to be distributed to elderly people in the old folk home.
This was the first time experiencing the volunteer work.
After few hours, the job was done, I felt joyful. I decided to do more volunteer work in the future.
Did you do the volunteer work before?
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Pure mind is my way of life
When we become older and older, sometime we will think back? What is the purpose of life? What need to be prepared to leave this world? Is it every things gone after death? Actually We can only know the real facts after death but I sense it there will be the continuity after death.
I am learning all religions. I filter it and adsorb all the good
vitamins. I combine all this vitamins and I am learning the five
important elements.
Firstly no stealing----It can reduce our greed level towards zero.
Secondly no improper sex--Stick to your wife faithfully if you are married.
Thirdly--no violence towards animals. This is the very important
element that many people have ignored it. I suddenly wake up recently
that I must stop the violent element because the
retribution can be imminent, we can not take lightly/
Many more.....like honestly, sincerity etc.
In conclusion : Towards pure mind and then go pure land. And then come back to this earth to bring all of you there.
When I am free I just say Namoamituofo, Namoamituofo......that's it. It is so simple.
How to prevent war?
How to prevent war? This is the very complicated question but we can find its roots. The roots are because of human mindset.
Another reason is because human beings create it by killing. According to Buddha, human beings have many life in the past, not just one life. So, in the past life, if we had committed many sins, we could be born in different places like hells or became animals, ghosts, etc. For those who had done many good deeds, they might born in heaven or human again.
According to Buddha, killing animals or another human beings can lead us to the hell or became ghosts or animals. This is call retribution.
So, in order to prevent getting killed, we have to stop killing.
Whether you believe it or not, I think no killing is ready good. I had not killed any animals for quite sometimes. In the past, especially in my younger age, I was quite naughty and hurt many animals including bees, etc.
Now, I had adopted a non-violence attitudes towards animals and human beings. Recently I attended the meditation talk, the teacher was telling audiences that we should not kill ants unnecessarily. That mean we can not just simply kill ants because all beings are scared to death. How can we give fear to them unless we want to be killed in war, accident.
Yes, now I adopt the peaceful means and my life is become so peaceful. I was more healthy than before because I never give fear to anybody now.
By reading the topic above, we should know how to prevent war?
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Psy signs with Justin Bieber's manager Scooter Braun
Psy signs with Justin Bieber's manager Scooter Braun
Thanks to his Gangnam Style,
which has garnered 131.7 million views on YouTube since it was uploaded
less than two months ago (July 15), South Korean rapper PSY is taking
the U.S. my storm.
Already a star in his native country, the 34-year-old K-pop singer is
set to launch his career stateside with the help of his new manager,
Scooter Braun -- the man responsible for transforming fellow YouTube
sensation Justin Bieber into, well, Justin Bieber.
"I spent all the time last night at the VMAs making interviews, so I
thought like, 'Wow, I'm a rookie in 12 years.' I'm really feeling good
about that," PSY told AMP RadioMTV VMAs.
"You know, people usually can feel the rookie feeling once in a
lifetime, right? But this is twice in a lifetime, so this is amazing,"
he added.
In fact, PSY, real name Park Jae-Sang, has been in the game for years
now. "Gangnam Style" is actually a song from his sixth studio album,
and PSY has appeared in TV shows and movies, and has many accolades to
his name in South Korea.
"The thing is, if I walk on the streets in the U.S., like no one
recognizes me yet," PSY said of his ability to still go unrecognized in
the States. "Especially without sunglasses, they never recognize me at
all! I got to wear sunglasses in the airport, at night, or everywhere.
It's too dark, you know? Should I dance everywhere?"
Of course, mega-manager Braun will soon be changing that. "They said,
'Hey, Scooter Braun wants you,'" PSY said, recounting his reaction to
the news from his now-manager. "'Who's Scooter Braun? Who's Scooter
Braun?' You know, scooter has different meaning, right? Scooter like
the motorbike. Scooter? Is he a guy named Scooter? I'm Korean, so,
Scooter? Is it [a] name? Is it [a] motorbike or something?"
following his appearance at last week's (Sept. 6)
Psy felt surprising about Justin Beber,s manager Scotter Braun interested in deal. Psy Stunned Scooter Braun Was Interested In Manager Deal
South Korean rapper Psy ordered Justin Bieber's manager Scooter Braun to prove his identity as he refused to believe the music mogul wanted to work with him.The star has gained a cult following thanks to his unique Gangnam Style dance moves, and the track has topped charts around the world since its release in July (12).
Braun got in touch with the rapper over the summer (12) about a potential deal to manage his career, but Psy was in disbelief when he received the message.
Speaking at England's prestigious Oxford University on Wednesday (07Nov12), he says, "I receive (sic) phone call from Justin Bieber's manager, Scooter Braun. I told him, 'If you're Justin Bieber's manager, I'm Justin Bieber'. I made him email me pictures to prove who he was. I had to apologise."
Psy also admits he finally realised Gangnam Style had gone global when he saw the diverse nationalities of fans commenting on his video on YouTube.com.
He adds, "Suddenly I thought what is going on? There were English comments, and Asian people were fighting over my nationality. Is he Chinese? Is he Korean? Is he Japanese? Then Bbc, Cnn are making report (sic) of me."
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
How to prevent people become terrorists?
Let's slowly find the ways how to prevent people become terrorists?
The word " Terrorist " was quite frequently after September 11 year 2000. Whenever I heard about terrorist news on newspapers, I felt extremely sad for terrorists and those whom they injured or killed. I am totally disagreed with all sorts of terrorist attacks. How can we human being in this 21th century doing such barbaric acts. It is unimaginable that such cruel acts still being carried out daily in different part of the world. Can we do something to prevent these type of uncivil acts occurred or reduced it to minimum? How to prevent people become terrorists?
In order to make the world suitable for living, we need to have peaceful environment as soon as possible.
I think every country must ready play the part to make the non-terrorists mission become reality. Can it be done? The answer is yes.
Firstly leaders must show good examples----Leaders in every country must have the non-cruel mindset in the first place.
Secondly----Every country must have the sound education system then can instill the non-terrorists and harmony programs in the school curriculum.
Thirdly----Country leaders must treat all people equally regardless race, language and religion.
Fourthly---Interaction among different group is important.
Do you have any ideas how to prevent people to become terrorists? please share it out and I will add it here for terrorists to see, may be they can change their mind.
Thanks for reading. As the individual we can help to promote harmony in our district, our village, our school, our factory, every organization and everywhere.
Saturday, November 3, 2012
How to have comments?
How to have comments? A person asks how to have comments on his blog? Actually this is very simple, you just need to open your eyes and go to read other people' blogs. After reading their blogs, think deeply and give your ideas there, I mean give your comments there. You have to ready read their blogs and comment it sincerely. They know whether you are the sincere commentator or scam blogger. No bloggers like scam bloggers because they are lacking sincerity, they simply want to promote their web site. This scam bloggers actually like the salesman, nobody like scam comments. The scam bloggers go to people blog site and make the comments almost the site. They will praise you something like that: You have the nice web site, keep on writing but they never comment aimed at your blog posts. In order to have comments, it is very simple.
Put your efforts go to other blogger blog site and make comment.
Then they will reciprocate and give your blogs comments.
This is my experience. In the first stage of blogging, I like comments.
For this moment I have no time to do that because I have more important
things to do. I take it easy and feel peaceful whether got comments or
not.
My third stage is learning how to tell people go peaceful life because
not many people know, so I am interested to spread the peace to every
corner in the world. Hee hee hee, sound great, isn't it?
Life has to move on in the right direction, do not go astray, that's it.
Peace to you.
Monday, October 29, 2012
Values and character education are ready important
SINGAPORE - "What is more
difficult is not language, but values. And this is not as tangible and
we don't focus on it as much. But I think there we have lost something
in the values and the ethos of the Chinese-medium schools. Language
policies can always be refined and if we need to strengthen in one area
we can always do it. But values and ethos are not so easily turned on
with a switch. They evolve gradually over time and there we have lost
something, that attitude to life and society that was very much part of
Chinese-medium schools,"Deputy Prime
Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said.
Values and character education are ready important.
Success in character education , as well as encouraging
students to develop original thinking, will only be achieved if "real
space" is created for them in the education system, Deputy Prime
Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam has said.
And if these are
the goals to be worked towards, it could, in his opinion, mean "reducing
the excessive focus on examinations" early in life.
Speaking at a seminar yesterday to commemorate the 40th anniversary of
the passing of education philanthropist Tan Lark Sye, who founded the
former Nanyang University in Singapore, among other schools, Mr Tharman
felt there is a need to re-create values such as benevolence and a
reverence for standards of conduct in schools here.
"In my
opinion, it's only possible to succeed in character education and
encouraging students to question and think originally if we create real
space for it in the education system. And this will require reducing the
excessive focus on examinations early in life," said Mr Tharman.
"We have to provide more space for character building, and for
encouraging our students to think for themselves, question more, to
think in more original ways. You need space and time for it. There is no
other way."
Mr Tharman, who was Education Minister between
2003 and 2008, suggested looking at how students are differentiated at
the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) - which is by exact scores
- as compared to the O levels, where secondary school students are
graded by letters indicating bands of scores.
"As long as
we carry on with the present system of extraordinarily fine
differentiation at the PSLE and consequently, for posting to secondary
schools, it is inevitable that parents and teachers and principals,
whatever else they may say, will place great emphasis on preparing their
students and children for the PSLE. And it will have to be at the
expense of something else. So if you want to create real space early in
life for children to have a broad-based upbringing, to interact outside
the classroom, get to know each other across races, to develop that zest
for learning, for life, something has to give. We can't keep everything
else unchanged and try to add on more," said Mr Tharman, who is also
Finance Minister.
He cautioned that the right trade-off has
to be found. "If we do anything, it has to be done without shaking the
confidence of parents in meritocracy, confidence in the fairness of the
system," said Mr Tharman.
On language, Mr Tharman said it
is undeniable the standard of Chinese today has dropped, compared to
what was achieved in Chinese schools in the past.
The bilingual policy, however, has given Singapore a common language between the races, he added.
The country has also gained in terms of the desire of
English-speaking Chinese families today, who want their children to
learn Chinese well, Mr Tharman said.
Recently many negative news about high professions, highly talented students' immoral behaviors ready make people disappointing. Is it the trend among all the professions or talented students. How about those ordinary people? Can we do something to instill somethings good to the students when they are young. This type of good values can not wait anylonger because the whole environment internal or external bad influences are so huge that people will likely to go astray.
Let's see how Minister for education talk about the value.
As Education Minister Heng Swee Keat rolls out his vision of a
values-driven education landscape, this is an opportune time for our
universities to consider introducing mandatory virtues and ethics
classes for undergraduates.
Over the years, our primary and
secondary schools have played a significant role in laying a good moral
foundation in students. However, a vacuum exists when students progress
to tertiary education - the most crucial years before they enter the
workforce.
Students are often engrossed in their
co-curricular activities and active pursuit of academic excellence,
resulting in the lack of ample time for proper reflection.
I
feel it would be useful to have a dedicated ethics class where students
sit down to deliberate over the real-life ethical conundrums and debate
what would constitute responsible behaviour.
This should not be come in a form of top-down didactic approach but rather a journey of self-discovery.
Such a class would thus help one to reaffirm concepts of right and
wrong as well as shape a ready understanding of how to react in
different situations before they happen.
As the future
workplace becomes increasingly complex, individuals are more likely to
face moral dilemmas. An ethics class might not guarantee that
individuals always make the best decisions, but the reiterative thought
process would at least help them be more discerning while also
providing a moral anchor that governs an individual's decision in
challenging times.
A university education should prepare
individuals for life. Universities should not over-focus on equipping
students with knowledge and technical skills; instead they should also
concentrate on achieving their broader social mission - ingraining a
sound moral compass that would guide graduates for life. That should be
the universities' main social responsibility.
Let's see Grace Fu's ideas.
Government policies alone are not enough to overcome social issues if
Singaporeans do not have the right mindsets and values, according to
the main theme of a dialogue session between Minister in Prime
Minister's Office Grace Fu and Yew Tee residents today.
In
discussions about raising the country's birth rate, she said that
though the government could do more to encourage companies to put in
place more family-friendly work policies such as flexible working
hours, it was ultimately up to workers to decide what their priorities
are, based on their personal values.
She also noted that
monetary incentives like the marriage and parenthood package were meant
to be subsidies to help families cope with the cost of living rather
than a 'cash reward for having babies'.
Ms Fu said she was pleased that the national conversation was going beyond policies and incentives.
"I'm very happy that people are thinking about these issues. So I think
they are aware that we have to address the fundamental issues," said Ms
Fu.
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Ban live export
Today, I happen to see local newspaper about " ban live export". Then I type ' Ban live export on Google search and happen to see this video. From the video, we can see how animals being treated so cruelly. I support " ban live export'. Time to stop cruel act and stop saying ' Love animals" but killing cruelly.
For Brian's sake, BanLiveExport.com
Tell Your MP to Ban Live Export!
Recently Australia's live export industry again revealed its dark heart by lauding the first shipment of Australian cattle to Egypt in four years. One month later they were in damage control admitting that 263 cattle had died enroute to Egypt in one of their flagship vessels the Ocean Shearer. Whilst the industry is not stating what killed the cattle, various excuses such as delays caused by an injured crewmember and piracy concerns have been put forward. Once again it has taken animals to suffer and die to prove that the inherent and unacceptable risks that accompany every live export vessel when it takes to sea can never be overcome...The animals who survived disembarked in a country that has a horrendous track record of animal cruelty. The slashing of tendons and stabbing of eyes to disable cattle still routinely occurs in Egypt. Whilst Australian cattle can now only be killed in one accredited abattoir in Egypt they still face having their throats cut whilst fully conscious. If slashing the tendons of cattle is unacceptable in the eyes of the Australian government -- the slashing of the throat of terrified conscious cattle should be equally so.
The government banned the export of sheep to Egypt after viewing Animals Australia's evidence of trussed sheep being tied to roof racks and thrown onto trucks and into car boots. Since then Egypt has imported chilled meat from Australia in place of live animals, showing that the region will accept chilled meat. In fact last year, Australia exported more chilled sheep meat to the Middle East than live animals -- showing how unnecessary the cruel live trade really is.
Animals in the Middle East are routinely subjected to cruel treatment. Australia's willingness to export animals -- knowing that tens of thousands will die enroute and that surviving animals will endure treatment that would be illegal in Australia -- is immoral and unforgiveable. The message that this trade sends to the Middle East -- a region that desperately needs be encouraged towards ethical treatment of animals -- is that animals are nothing more than chattels to be traded and slaughtered for profit.
Your help is needed to pressure your local Federal Member of Parliament to support a ban on the cruel live export trade, and to let them know that caring Australians will not vote for a political party that supports animal cruelty.
Take action!
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- Download Animals Australia's ban live export petition and help us reach our next goal of 300,000 Australians calling on the government to ban live animal export.
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Western medias are the evils
Western medias are the evils. China is going to change its leaders on November 2012. At this critical moment, there is some western media tried to stir up China political scene. When we study the recent history, we will know western media or its political leaders always like to interfere and stir up and try to create chaos in China. No wonder China dioplomat saying these western media has the ulterior motive. Western media or intelligence agents always want to belittle China. We still can remember opium war, colonized Hong Kong for 100 years, eight countries combined to attack China, greedy pig Japan attacked China between year 1937 to year 1945. Even now, these western media still has the evil mindset, always like to mind others business. Western medias are the evils, they spread rumor and always has the agressive mindset and thinking themselves great, what the foolish western media. BEIJING: China's
censors did their best Saturday to block discussion of a New York Times
investigation into Premier Wen Jiabao, but analysts said the report
would still likely reach tens of millions of people.
Detailing a
string of deals on Friday, the newspaper said that relatives of the
government's number two -- a self-styled man of the people known
popularly as "Grandpa Wen" -- had become "extraordinarily wealthy"
during his tenure.
Investments by Wen's son, wife and others
spanning the banking, jewellery and telecom sectors were worth at least
US$2.7 billion according to an analysis of company and regulatory
filings from 1992-2012.
State-run newspapers made no mention of
the scandal on Saturday, while China's army of censors ensured that
searches for The New York Times or other related terms returned no
results on social networks and search engines.
The
English-language and Chinese websites of the American newspaper were
also blocked in China and reports on international television channels
CNN and BBC World were blacked out.
"Only a small proportion will be aware of the story," seasoned China watcher Willy Lam told AFP.
He
estimated that about 10 per cent of China's 500-million-strong online
population would still manage to evade the censors, however, amounting
to about 50 million people.
"The NYT story will hurt Wen
Jiabao... his reputation will be adversely affected," he explained,
adding that many Chinese had become very cynical about the wealth
accumulated by those near the centres of power.
"Most Chinese just assume that the top leaders are corrupt," he said.
The
revelations come as a particular embarrassment for Wen, who is the
standard-bearer of the Communist Party's reformist wing and has
campaigned against corruption.
In a speech published in April,
he said official corruption was "the biggest danger facing the ruling
party" and warned that "those who hold political power may perish"
unless it is addressed.
The NYT report coincided with the
announcement that former regional Communist Party boss Bo Xilai had
been stripped of his parliamentary seat ahead of an expected trial,
which was meant to signal a new get-tough approach on graft.
Bo's
expulsion from the National People's Congress came after state media
announced last month that he would "face justice" for alleged abuse of
power, taking bribes and improper sexual relations.
The NYT
investigation darkens the clouds hanging over the Communist Party
caused by the Bo scandal as the regime prepares to name successors to
Wen and President Hu Jintao in a once-in-a-decade leadership change
starting November 8.
The New York Times said in a blogpost that
the investigation into Wen had taken a year and that the newspaper knew
of the likely impact on its business prospects in China.
It
invested in a Chinese-language version of its website only recently and
will lose out on advertising revenue if it remains unavailable to the
public.
"I'm very proud of this work," New York Times publisher
Arthur Sulzberger was quoted as saying in the post. "Our business is to
publish great journalism. Does this have a business impact? Of course."
In
June, business news agency Bloomberg published an investigation into
the finances of Vice President Xi Jinping, who is expected to be
promoted to president at a Communist Party congress next month.
Bloomberg's website is still blocked and Chinese banks were encouraged to stop using financial data provided by the US company.
Beijing
on Friday dismissed the NYT report as an attempt to tarnish China, with
foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei telling reporters in response to a
question on the article: "Some reports smear China and have ulterior
motives."
- AFP/ck
Let's see how China premier's family react to the evil rumor by western media socall cunning fox media.
HONG KONG - Two lawyers who said they represented the family of Prime
Minister Wen Jiabao of China have issued a statement disputing aspects
of a New York Times (NYT) article about the family's wealth, a rare
instance of a powerful Chinese political family responding directly to
a foreign media report.
The statement, published in the South
China Morning Post yesterday, said: "The so-called 'hidden riches' of
Wen Jiabao's family members in The New York Times' report" did not
exist.
After criticising several points in the article, the statement hinted at the possibility of future legal action.
"We will continue to make clarifications regarding untrue reports by
The New York Times, and reserve the right to hold it legally
responsible," the statement said.
The statement was not a
sweeping denial of the article. The statement acknowledged that some
family members were active in business and that they "are responsible
for all their own business activities".
While the statement
disputed that Mr Wen's mother had held assets, it did not address the
calculation in the article that the family had controlled assets worth
at least US$2.7 billion (S$3.3 billion).
Ms Eileen Murphy, a
spokeswoman for NYT, expressed confidence in the article. "We are
standing by our story, which we are incredibly proud of and which is an
example of the quality investigative journalism The Times is known
for," she wrote in an e-mail.
The lawyers' statement represents an unusual move for the family of a senior Chinese leader.
When Bloomberg News published an article in late June describing real
estate and other assets held by the family of Vice-President Xi
Jinping, his family did not respond to the report publicly.
The
statement published in The Post was attributed to Mr Bai Tao, Partner
in the Beijing office of the Jun He Law Firm, and Mr Wang Weidong,
Managing Partner of the Beijing office of the Grandall Law Firm.
It denied an anecdote in the NYT article that described how one
investment in the name of Mr Wen's mother, Ms Yang Zhiyun, was worth
US$120 million in 2007. "The mother of Wen Jiabao, except receiving
salary/pension according to the regulation, has never had any income or
property," the statement said.
Corporate registration records
reviewed by NYT showed that the shares in Ping An, an insurance
company, were held through investment vehicles. A signature bearing Ms
Yang's name and identity card were included in the registration record,
which was obtained from government regulatory filings.
The
family's statement also said that "Wen Jiabao has never played any role
in the business activities of his family members, still less has he
allowed his family members' business activities to have any influence
on his formulation and execution of policies". The New York Times.
Now the picture is very clear, this evil cunning fox media will continue to smear China out of ill-will. Remember freedom not means you can anyhow spread the rumor to achieve you own agenda.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
No abortion please
We human beings need to prevent abortion. We need to be more
disciplined on this. We can not simply abort a life carelessly. Every
life is precious, just look at ourselves, why we are here? It is
because our mothers never aborted us. Put in the shoes of those aborted
babies, I feel bad for them, they were deprived of the right to live in
this earth.
When we date the girl out, do not anyhow shoot and make baby and then abort it just like throwing rubbishes.
We all will be blessed if we can preserve a life.
This is my sincere advice to all human beings.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
7 Little Habits That Can Change Your Life
Today, I come across the article: 7 Little Habits That Can Change Your Life, and How to Form Them. I think it is go to spread the positive advice here. Take note: The post was written by Leo Babauta, not coolingstar9.
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” - Aristotle
Post written by Leo Babauta. Follow me on Twitter.
If you could just pick one or two (or seven) habits to create in the next few months — habits that will have the most impact on your life — what would they be?I often get asked this question, because people are overwhelmed when it comes to starting positive life changes.
They ask me: what one or two habits should they start with?
It’s not an easy question. There are so many changes I’ve gone through, from quitting smoking to simplifying my life to reducing debt to many more. And they’ve all seemed life-changing, and they’ve all seemed important.
But if I were to start again, and had to pick one or two, it would be the one or two listed below. The list that follows is in order of what I think I’d do the first 6-7 months of changing my life … but realize that every person is different. No one should follow my choices exactly — you’ve got to figure out what works for you.
That said, if you followed the program below, and worked to develop these habits, you’d probably do pretty well.
“Men’s natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.” - ConfuciusHow to Develop the Habits
I’ve written a number of times about developing habits, but here are the basics:
- Do a 30-day challenge, focusing on just ONE habit.
- Write it out on paper, along with your motivations, obstacles, and strategies for overcoming them.
- Commit fully, in a public way.
- Log your progress.
- Remain publicly accountable — report on your progress each day.
- Have support for when you falter — either in real life or online.
- Reward every little success.
- If you fail, figure out what went wrong, plan for it, and try again.
- 13 Things to Avoid When Changing Habits
- How to Establish New Habits the No-Sweat Way
- Engineer Life: Set Up Habit Changes So It’s Hard to Fail
- Autopilot Achievement: How to Turn Your Goals Into Habits
OK, so now you know how to form a habit — and remember, only do them one at a time — but you want to know the seven little habits. Here they are, in my order of preference (but yours may be different):
1. Develop positive thinking. I put this first because I think it’s the keystone habit that will help you form the other important habits. Sure, positive thinking by itself won’t lead to success, but it certainly goes a long way to motivate you to do the other things required.
I learned this when I quit smoking — when I allowed myself to think negative thoughts, I would end up failing. But when I learned how to squash negative thoughts and think positive ones instead, I succeeded. This discovery lead to me practicing this over and over, until I was able to form just about any habit I needed. It’s been invaluable to me, and I think it could be to most people.
Focus on this habit first, and you’ll have a much easier time with any of the others. Start by becoming more aware of your negative self-talk — do a little tally sheet throughout the day, marking a tally each time you notice a negative thought. Soon you’ll recognize them, and you can squash them.
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2. Exercise. People who’ve been hearing me harp on about exercise might roll their eyes. Sure, exercise is healthy and all that, but how exactly is it life changing? I’m glad you asked:
- It makes you feel better about yourself, and more confident. That leads to better success with other positive changes.
- It reinforces the positive thinking habit — you need to think positive in order to sustain exercise.
- It relieves stress and gives you time to think — this leads to better mental well-being in your life overall.
- It helps with creativity. Don’t ask me to prove it, except to say that my best ideas and brainstorming sessions come from when I exercise.
- 4 Simple Steps to Start the Exercise Habit
- How to Make Exercise a Daily Habit
- 7 Ways to Build the Exercise Habit
- You’ll be more effective with your tasks and get more done. It’s hard to achieve important things if you’re constantly switching tasks and distracted by other “urgent” things.
- You’ll be less stressed overall and (in my experience) happier throughout your day.
- How Not To Multi-task: Work Simpler and Saner
- Now Do This and the Single-tasking Philosophy
- The Magical Power of Focus
What if you have 5 goals you want to achieve? Pick one to focus on first. Break it into a mini-goal you can accomplish this month, if it’s a longer-term goal. Pick an action you can do today. Keep doing this until the goal is accomplished — do an action every day, finish the mini-goal, pick the next mini-goal to work on. Then, when your One Goal is completed, focus on the next goal.
Some goals are ongoing ones — like blogging every day, or exercising every day. In those cases, turn them into habits — focus exclusively on turning the goal into a habit, until the habit is ingrained. Then focus on the next goal.
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5. Eliminate the non-essential. First, identify the essential — the things in your life that are most important to you, that you love the most. Then eliminate everything else. This simplifies things and leaves you with the space to focus on the essential. This process works with anything — with your life in general, with work projects and tasks, with emails and other communication.
This will change your life because it will help you to simplify, to focus on what’s important, and to build the life you want.
Read more:
- Eliminate All But the Absolute Essential Tasks
- Haiku Productivity: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential
How do you develop the kindness habit? First, make it a goal to do something kind for someone each day. At the beginning of the day, figure out what that kind act will be and then do it during the day. Second, each time you interact with someone, try to be kind, be friendly, be compassionate. Third, try to go beyond small kindnesses to larger acts of compassion, volunteering to help those in need and taking the initiative to relieve suffering.
Read more:
- 18 Practical Tips for Living the Golden Rule
- Faith in Humanity: How to Bring People Closer, and Restore Kindness
- A Guide to Cultivating Compassion in Your Life
- 25 Ways to Help a Fellow Human Being Today
- The No. 1 Lifehack You can Implement Today to Make the World a Better Place
How will that change your life? It will help you get a great start to your day, and finish your day by preparing for the next day. It’ll help you firmly root the productive habits you want to firm in your everyday life. It’ll help you focus on what’s important, not just what comes up. It’ll help you make sure you get done all the things you really want to make sure gets done everyday. And that can mean a lot.
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“We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.” - John Dryden—
You can now follow me on Twitter — the great experiment continues!
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Why Chinese needs to learn Chinese?
In this world, We see British people learn their mother tongue naturally, Malay learn their mother language when they born. But some Chinese never learn Chinese from young, instead they learn other language, I wondering why? Today I happen to come across the article Why do I learn Chinese? I hope this article can wake up those banana Chinese.
Topic: Why do I learn Chinese?
English Original by Kong Que-yu, Chinese Translation by Feng Xin-ming
Thesis: I learn Chinese to be Chinese.
A. Introduction
1. Hook: I have the body of a Chinese, but do I have the soul of
one?
a. The body comes with birth, but the soul only comes
with cultivating
2. Only if one has the soul could one be a true Chinese.
3. Learning Chinese helps cultivate a Chinese soul.
4. Thesis: I learn Chinese to become Chinese.
B. Learning to read Chinese brings me in contact with the past.
1. It will help me learn the history of China.
2. It will help me learn the true thought and philosophy of China.
3. I will know the ancient mind of China.
4. China’s past is like the roots of the great tree that is the Chinese
soul, supplying the nutrients
C. Learning to speak Chinese brings me in contact with the present
1. It will help me speak with fellow Chinese.
2. It will help me keep up with modern China.
3. I will know the beating, living heart of China.
4. China’s present is like the trunk of the great tree, bare and
unattractive, but will transport to the right place
D. Learning to write Chinese brings me in contact with the future.
1. It will let me write and speak to the many descendants of
China’s future.
2. It will let me pass on my true Chinese heritage.
3. I will be part of the future spirit of China.
4. China’s future is like the branches and leaves of the great tree,
magnificent and prosperous
Monday, October 22, 2012
Singapore inspiring stories
Singapore has many inspiring stories, this is about filial son.
STOMPer Miso came across a touching story of a boy in
China who despite studying in a university over a hundred kilometres
away, returned home to spend time with his dying father in his last few
days.
24-year-old Cheng Jilai did his late father (56-year-old
Cheng Yixing) proud when he was the only one out of his three siblings
who made it to university. But because of their impoverished
family financial situation, the family was unable to bear expensive
tuition costs and Cheng Jilai ultimately chose to study at Xi’an
Aeronautical University, borrowing 6000 Yuan to enter the school.
Things took an unfortunate turn when his father's health deteriorated and he was diagnosed with rectal
cancer, but his father had kept the news from his children and refused
to seek treatment for his health condition due to the family's
inability to afford surgery. It was only at the end of 2011 when his
father's health declined so drastically did Cheng Jilai and his
siblings learn about his illness and took him to a hospital.
With
the tight financial situation, Cheng Jilai worked to support himself
while he was in university, but used his hard-earned tuition savings to
settle his father's medical bills and funeral preparations. Although he
has had several female admirers in school, Cheng Jilai never dared
entertain the thought of having a girlfriend has he knew that dating
required money to be spent.
During his father's last few
days, Cheng Jilai and his father slept in the same room, and he was
always by his father’s side. He knew that his father was close to
death, and could pass away any moment.
Mr. Cheng Yixing passed away on 27 March 2012 at approximately 9.30pm at night.
Said Miso:
"This story brought tears to my eyes.
"From
the photos, you can see that his son really took care of the funeral
arrangements and medical bills despite the family's poverty to ensure
that his father received a proper burial.
"The fact that he travelled all the way home and sacrificed his university tuition money for his father is indeed admirable.
"Hopefully
young people in Singapore would follow in his footsteps when it comes
to caring for their elderly parents and loved ones."
Sunday, October 21, 2012
President Susilo Bambang talking about religious harmony
Singapore is very concern about racial and religious harmony. As we know the successful gathering of nine different religion to have the dinner together in 2000 was the breakthrough in human history. Singapore nine different religion can co-operate with each others is the model for other countries to follow. Malaysia also is the great country to spread the religious and racial harmony especially after Mr. Najib took over the office. Malaysia government treat the minority group like Indians, Chinese with great respect. How about Indonesia? Yes, the Indonesia government also realized the importance of religious harmony. All these three countries are showing the good examples that religious and racial harmony ready can achieve if we have the strong will to do so.
I always like to read foreign newspaper like Korean news, financial time, Thailand newspaper, The Jataka post and many others. Yesterday I came across the news about President Susilo Bambang talking about religious harmony. I felt extremely happy because the leaders always play the important part in instill the values of racial and religious harmony. Let's see how President Susilo Bambang's ideas. I hope the President can continue the efforts.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono underlined the importance of the
roles played by leaders and religious figures in solving various
conflicts taking place across the country.
“As the head of
state, I invite and urge leaders and religious figures to guide people
and apply their religious teachings as properly as possible,” he said
in his speech at a commemorative ceremony celebrating the centenary of
a Catholic church in Manggarai regency, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), on
Friday.
The President said that leaders and religious figures
should continuously strive to seek peaceful solutions to the various
conflicts.
“Building and maintaining religious harmony as well
as presenting enlightened examples of leadership are part of the
requirements needed to settle conflict,” he said as quoted by Antara
news agency.
Yudhoyono said that amid the heterogeneity and
dynamism of Indonesia, sometimes conflicts arose in which leaders and
religious figures should be active in the search for a peaceful
resolution.
The President, however, stopped short of mentioning
any concrete steps needed to settle the various religious conflicts
taking place in a number of areas throughout Indonesia.
The
discovery that a regent in Aceh ordered the closure of 20 churches in
April this year raises concerns over growing intolerance, which may
trigger communal conflicts.
The closures were ordered by Aceh
Singkil’s acting regent Razali AR in a letter signed on April 30, which
ordered members of the congregations to tear down the churches
themselves by June 8 at the latest.
Following the closures,
there are now only two churches open in Aceh Singkil, both built after
2000. Most of the churches selected for demolition were built in the
1930s and 1940s. The dispute in Aceh adds to the long list of incidents
of religious intolerance in the nation.
In Bekasi, West Java,
the Congregation of the Filadelfia Batak Protestant Churches (HKBP)
continues to be regularly assaulted and harassed by Muslims when it
tries to conduct Sunday services.
The Bekasi regency sealed
off the church site in 2010 after local residents objected to the
construction of the church. The regency continues to refuse to open the
site even after the Bandung State Administrative Court ruled in favor
of HKBP Filadelfia.
Members of the Taman Yasmin Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) face similar harassment in Bogor, also in West Java.
Various
human rights groups have also reported cases of attacks on Ahmadis and
Shiites, including congregations in Cikeusik, Banten, Tangerang and
Sampang in East Java.
Last month, Yudhoyono spoke before the UN
General Assembly, calling on the UN’s member states to adopt a legally
binding instrument to ban blasphemy and to promote dialogue between
different faiths, civilizations and cultures.
He added that such an instrument was needed to prevent the incitement of violence based on religion.
Indonesia
has ratified various international laws that legally bind the
government to guarantee its people religious freedom. These laws
include the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
(ICCPR), which was ratified by Indonesia in 2005.
Friday’s ceremony was also attended by Cabinet ministers, NTT leaders and religious figures.
After
the ceremony and before returning to Jakarta, the President and his
entourage traveled to Labuan Bajo, the main gate for Komodo National
Park, before flying on an Air Force Hercules airplane to Central Sumba.
Table of religious intolerance:
•
During the era of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (as of 2007) 108
churches have been closed/damaged; in the era of president Megawati
Soekarnoputri, 92; in the era of president Abdurrahman Wahid, 232; in
the era of president Soeharto, 456.
• Based on data from the
Manado Post daily, there were 2,442 cases of church closures and
demolitions in the period between 2004 and 2010.
• In 2011,
Setara Institute recorded 244 cases of religious intolerance in 17
regions. The largest number of cases was recorded in West Java (57
cases), followed by South Sulawesi (45), East Java (31), North Sumatra
(24) and Banten (12).
Sources: The Jakarta Post and Setara Institute
Markus Makur contributed to this report from Ruteng.
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
About National family Council Singapore
Through the month long Celebrations, families can take part in a wide array of interesting activities and events and spend quality time together!
Family Time Odyssey: Past. Present. Future.
The theme for National Family Celebrations 2012 (NFC’12) is Family Time Odyssey – a journey through time for youths to take with their families.
To foster appreciation of each generation in the family and to honour the times that we have spent together, this year’s activities will focus on strengthening familial bonds through time. Everyone can be a child, youth, parent or grandparent at different times of their lives, and this year’s activities are designed to encourage families to explore evolving family roles through the times. It may be a rewind back in time, or a fast-forward to the future; the aim is to take stock of the present by reflecting on the connections of the past and work together towards improved relationships in the future.
The emphasis on time this year encompasses time spent together as a family. By investing time in bonding and connecting as a family, strong foundations will be built for families to stay cohesive and resilient through the times.
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Bhutan happy families
Bhutan has many happy families. Bhutan government is very concern about its citizens' happiness. The happy index is measured by how happy Bhutan people feel. Bhutan is the only Mahayana Buddhism Kingdom in the world, with Mahayana (tantric) Buddhism as
its official religion. We hear the recent news that Bhutan wants to achieve 100 percent of organic farm products. Why Bhutan people are so happy because of their peaceful mindset, mo killing. love nature,etc. It is in line with their culture. It is practised throughout the entire country by
75% of the inhabitants. Hinduism – closely related to Buddhism, is
Bhutan’s second religion, practiced by about 25% of the population.
Before Buddhism captured the heart of Bhutan, several forms of animistic
religions were practiced. Minority groups still practice these
traditions and rituals in some parts of the country.
Buddhims plays a fundamental role in the cultural, ethical and
sociological development of Bhutan and its' people. You see this in the
reverence Bhutan’s inhabitans have for their land, other people and
animals. To ensure that Buddhism stays vividly alive, one son from every
family usually attends a monastic school. The three main themes of
Buddhism are detachment, ephemerality and change.
It is good to learn good values from Bhutan people.
Monday, October 1, 2012
Learning in traditional way
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Buddhism in China
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Pure land learning college
Please learn good values now
In order to learn the right values from west and East, perhaps we have to list down all ills in the whole world.
Now is not the time to blame the west or east but to bravely discard all bad practices either form East and West.
We have to rethink whether too materialistic good for human or not, to
rethink whether spirituality is it more important that materials gains.
Time to think deeply.....advanced technology is it ready helpful to mankind or more harm to mankind?
Think and think......
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