双城记

卫塞晚上同柏木于古城徒步游行，500年历史的古城与2554年的纪念，时空交错。而我，依然摸索着那超时空的智慧，并且...忘记带手机去拍照留念。

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隔天，我们下石头城。柏木是去帮bhante带活动。闲时，我们就在后巷一个角落谈天。这时候，木总是要抽一根万宝路，而我看到了午后阳光把店屋影子在地上拉成长长的齿状，想拍下来... 又再忘记带手机。

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最后，还是木用我手机，拍下了寿星公的贺寿尊相，谨此留念。后来我也MMS给你了，你收到了吗？

月圆前夕

走去BL上课途中，觉得月很明晰。

明天就是他的生日了，心中感到宁静、喜悦。

NLPing

It's considered an escape for me to be able to attend Dr. Sid Jacobson's NLP lesson in the midst of my hectic routines. He's a great presenter, magnetic, convincing, humorous and... a democrat (we enjoyed his democrat jokes).

At the beginning of the lesson, we were asked to close our eyes and recall the time when we started to learn the one skill that we are damn good at now. The image that popped up in my mind was the time when I just finished my high school exam, sitting in front of the computer and learning C by myself with tremendous curiousity. Dr. Sid then asked us to think of a person who is giving us guidance on that process of learning, slowly my mind traced back to my high school principal, Mr. Tee Pak Leong, who happens to be my Add. Math teacher too. Though he didn't teach me programming logics, but he's the person who induced a great deal of curiosity and fun of learning in me, to find out how mathematical formula originated and to dig into the very root of a problem not just to solve, but to fully comprehend it. According to Dr. Sid, to recall this particular moment helps prepare a good state of mind for learning.

Among all the interesting and brilliant points that floating around the entire day, one particular point sticks in my mind: whenever we have conflicts, the fact is that each individual's subjective perception of the world is different, to accept this fact as it is and to try to understand the other person's world will be a much better move, instead of getting frustrated.

Through another of the lesson exercise, I was labeled as a person who tends towards kinesthetic plus visual expressions. Interesting. Lesson to be continued tomorrow...

阳光猫

上班途中看到躺在阳光里的一只猫，徐徐地翻转着身体，享受着晨光的温暖。由于全球暖化，最近早晨的阳光其实晒得有点刺刺的感觉，想不到此猫却乐在其中。昨天看一个记录片，在墨西哥一个高度酸性的洞穴里，有一种菌类却仰赖着这种人类难以生存的环境，积极地存活滋长。我想，在平凡人觉得忍无可忍、极端恶劣的环境里，一个人如果熬过了，就不再平凡了。这时，如果尚能苦中做乐，那便是—

最高境界。

trick of memory

different time, different angle and a different view at the same spot...... of memory.

Rock as it is

Just back from David DOr's concert in esplanade. He has a fantastic voice and his genre is versatile, but somehow the melody and rhythm didn't leave a lingering effect in my mind, maybe due to the switching of so many different styles tonight.



Though one of his song did give me a kick in my heart. "Like A Garden", a song about cultivating mind like a garden, inspired by Ven. Cheng Yen, is simple, dhamma, and contemporary, yes rock and roll man. Few years back while I was at the CT Harvest church Xmas party, I ask myself why there's no contemporary band that plays dhamma songs in contemporary music? Tonight I felt that David DO'r did it - not over holy smoly nor trying hard to be contemporary - just natural as it is.

That kick strengthen my determination to do something too, I want to write apps for iphone & android like daily pop up of Buddha Vacana..

转变

昨天吃午餐时，发现肥猫的地盘已经从巴士站转移到美食中心来了。转移阵地后应该过得还不错，肥猫又更肥了一码。

我想这应该是我最后一张以200万象素拍下的照片，过了今天我将会转用一个500万象素的电话。

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昨晚 Bhante 侃侃谈到现代在家人和出家人其实在修行上是拥有着相等的机会的。古代社会的在家人其实相对上受到很多社会家族的制约束缚，那时候出家是一个走出封建社会的方法，并获得自由。但是那是一个从一个比较安定的生活走入一个三餐不济、居无定所的清苦生活；随着时代转变，现在的人对自己的人生有着更多的自主权，于是也有更多的时间去规划自己想要做的事情。只要有意愿，在家人亦能够好好地升华生命的心灵层面。

非裸行結髮，非塗泥絕食，臥地自塵身，非以蹲踞住，不斷疑惑者，能令得清淨。
嚴身住寂靜，調御而克制，必然修梵行，不以刀杖等，加害諸有情，彼即婆羅門，彼即是沙門，彼即是比丘。《法句经 141、142》

* 嚴身即指在家

我觉得英文翻译来得比较清楚直接:

Neither nakedness nor matted hair nor mud nor the refusal of food nor sleeping on the bare ground nor dust & dirt nor squatting austerities cleanses the mortal who's not gone beyond doubt.
If, though adorned, one lives in tune with the chaste life — calmed, tamed, & assured — having put down the rod toward all beings, he's a contemplative a brahman a monk.
(Dhammapada 141 - 142)