2011 年 5 月 27 日 星期五 【晴】

a 是一個很 nice 的人

我有些時候會想起他

但我在現階段不覺得我喜歡他

繼續出吓黎再睇吓

老毛病發作

我很怕會給對方 wrong signal

但對方還沒有說甚麼

是否我想得太多?


不過不能否認

我還是會想起 usnf

完全唔 make sense

但實情確是這樣

-_-

>>May 29, 2011 at 2:17:15 PM GMT+8

2011 年 5 月 26 日 星期四 【晴】

倘若在家

一般來說每天下午五點會靜坐一小時

然後會去跑步半小時

今天去跑步的時候

路的兩旁滿佈木棉棉花

路邊的矮樹也鋪上棉花

應該是附近的木棉樹掉下來的果子

原來他們在開紅花後一兩個月便會結果

果裡面就是棉花跟種子

然後隨風飄揚

喔

很浪漫喔

像下雪

謝謝大自然

:)


quotes of Einstein (sources: http://thinkexist.com/quotes/albert_einstein/28.html)

“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”

“Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”

“It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.”

“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment”

“Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and the spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.”

“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”

“Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age”

“To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.”

“It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.”

“We all know, from what we experience with and within ourselves, that our conscious acts spring from our desires and our fears. Intuition tells us that that is true also of our fellows and of the higher animals. We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant. We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organised that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race. Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation. At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on. All these primary impulses, not easi ly described in words, are the springs of man's actions. All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us. Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much aloke in them and in us. The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolical devices. Thought is the organising factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions. In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts. But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.”


quotes that I can relate to vipassana:

“Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow -- perhaps it all will.”

“I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.”

“Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live”

“The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.”

“Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best both for the body and the mind.”

“When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives.”

“It is a magnificent feeling to recognize the unity of complex phenomena which appear to be things quite apart from the direct visible truth.”

>>May 29, 2011 at 2:20:54 PM GMT+8

2011 年 5 月 25 日 星期三 【晴】

忍唔住

再看看 Albert Einstein 的其他 quotes 才捨得睡

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” (對, 最近留意多了大自然, 發現我對其他的事物, 也有更深的體會, 而且更快樂, 更懂 appreciate 身邊的一事一物, 更 grateful)

“A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.”

“It is the theory that decides what can be observed” (超對, 就像我們既定的價值觀, 我們的文化背景, 我們戴著甚麼顏色的眼鏡, 便看見甚麼顏色的東西, 並認為只有這種顏色才是真實)

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” (這是我在愛情上要學習的課題, 我不會再失去自己了)

“Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.”

“Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.”

“Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.”

“The discovery of nuclear reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches”

“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”

“The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness, beauty, and truth”

“Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

“There's a Genius in all of us.”

“I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.”

“Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.”

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”

“The thinking that we are has brought us to where we have already been.
In order to go somewhere else, we must think in a different way.”

“Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of others...for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.”

“A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.”

“Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small.”

“Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.”

“This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation”


applicable 在 vipassana 的 quotes

“My mind is my laboratory”

“Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one”

“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.”

“Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction.”

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving”

“The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule...”

“The only source of knowledge is experience”

“The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism....”

“Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built upon the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received”

“A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

>>May 26, 2011 at 5:49:22 PM GMT+8

2011 年 5 月 24 日 星期二 【晴】

謝謝 c 邀請了我去 ART HK vernissage

我跟表妹去完 Einstein's exhibition 便去了 ART HK

Einstein 這個展覽辦得很不錯

文字少而精

且像說故事一樣

取材角度也有一份幽默感

比如說他們所播的歷史片段

會選一些有小狗經過的

有關 Einstein 的

Special theory of Relativity, General Theory of Relativity (E=MC2)

他們已盡力去以淺白的方式去表達

但理科白痴的我還是不太明白

只知道

special theory is related to light (the highest speed is 300,000km per sec), length, speed

general theory is related to the relationship between acceleration and gravitation

其他關於黑洞等發現

我看了中文三次

英文一兩次

還是一頭霧水


我很喜歡入口處有關 Einstein 的 quotes

比如說

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.”

“Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.”

“If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.”

因此

回家到網上尋找他其他的 quote

發現很多都很有意思

其中一些非常適合應用在內觀的

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”

“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”

“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”

“I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.”

“It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer .”

“I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - This is a somewhat new kind of religion”

“We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.”

“A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.”

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”

“The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.”

“After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.”

“True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.”

“When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.”

“Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.”

“If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.”

“The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion”

希望 Einstein 能 come into contact with vipassana

也衷心希望更多人知道 Buddha 從來沒有 set up a religion

只是後人把他所教的方法慢慢遺失了

and the real technique is lost

there is never the word 'buddhism' in the early text and teaching

Buddha 只不過是一個科學家

教了大家如何透過觀察自然呼吸和身體感受來了解自身和解決所有的煩惱


另外 Einstein 有一些 remind me about homeopathy 的 quote

“If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it”

其他喜歡的 quotes:

“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”

“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.”

“I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”

“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”

“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough” (超級的贊成)

“Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.”

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

“Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.”

“The only real valuable thing is intuition.”

“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”

“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”

“Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.”

“Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.”

“When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours that's relativity.”

“The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.”

“The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything” (超讚, 太多這樣的人了)

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”

“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.”

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.” (喜歡喔!!!)

“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”

“Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it”

“Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.”

“If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.”

“Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”

“Force always attracts men of low morality.”

“The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.”

“Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”

“True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.”

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.”

“The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.”

“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”

“Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes - goodwill among men and peace on earth.”

“Know where to find the information and how to use it - That's the secret of success”

“So long as they don't get violent, I want to let everyone say what they wish, for I myself have always said exactly what pleased me.”

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it”

“Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.”

“What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.”

“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”

“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.”

“A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.”

“Information is not knowledge.”

(sources:http://thinkexist.com/quotes/albert_einstein/) --- 共有 600 quotes, 只看了 100, 有時間再去 thinkexist.com 看


之後我們去了 ART HK

在這裡碰見不同朋友

我吃不消那些憑外表打量人的人

特別是那些 ABC

hm.....

i know i am discriminating ......

剛看到一個 Einstein's quote

挺合用的

“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.”

>>May 26, 2011 at 6:33:54 AM GMT+8

2011 年 5 月 23 日 星期一 【晴】

保密日記，請登入觀看！

>>May 24, 2011 at 6:40:53 AM GMT+8

2011 年 5 月 22 日 星期日 【晴】

朋友的朋友在學 kinesiology

我只聽過但不知道是甚麼

今天晚上去了做 guinea pig

做前才知道原來跟 reiki 很相似

但是多了透過我的 muscle 告訴我身體現在的狀況

由於老師說過 Vipassana 和 Reiki 都是好的東西

但是否 vipassana is work with internal natural body vibration

and Reiki is work with external body vibration (when the healer try to do a quick fix and send energy to the

patient)

而從他的經驗

曾經有兩位 Reiki Master have lost their minds when they practice vipassana

as two things will clash

therefore 老師建議兩種方法也是好

但不要同時修習這兩種方法

選擇一種最和適的

然後 stick with it and practice


我暫時的選擇

是 vipassana

所以會繼續 stick to its practice

但也謝謝今天晚上三位朋友 c,d,h

謝謝你們呢

may you all be happy :)

>>May 24, 2011 at 6:14:58 AM GMT+8

2011 年 5 月 21 日 星期六 【晴】

交了第二份功課

繼續努力!!

>>May 23, 2011 at 3:42:42 AM GMT+8

2011 年 5 月 20 日 星期五 【晴】

今天去醫院探 bm

祝早日康復~~

>>May 23, 2011 at 3:42:08 AM GMT+8

2011 年 5 月 19 日 星期四 【晴】

謝謝朋友 f 邀請我去她公司 Li & Fung Family Day at Ocean Park

她的公司慶祝 105 周年

特意安排集團員工 1230 可下班

每員工有三張免費海洋公園票

可於今天去玩

而且也跟海洋公園安排關門時間延遲至 2230pm

有些親友工作至六點半後過來

晚上7 時 li & fung 有一個包場海洋劇場

cake cutting, toasting 等

Fung's elder brother 說了一篇 speech

我不知道那 speech 是 prepared by his PR or not

but it is a very good speech

and he say it really naturally like talking to people and don't like reading out a speech

他說的主要是謝謝各員工

並謝謝各員工背後的親友

說因為這些親友對員工的支持

員工才能在工作上表現更好

然後他說他們這集團從祖父於內地創業開始

到現在 105 年

最後他們感謝自己的家人

整個 speech 重點是 family values and gratitude to those who support us (employees that support the company, and relatives and family that support the employee etc.)


姑勿論他是 pr 舉動還是出於真心

這是一篇很好的 speech

他 present 得很 sincere

而他們兩兄弟也表現很親切

跟很多 CEO 不同


我跟朋友說

你公司此舉都幾 sweet 呀

也是一個 win win 的 situation

但朋友不斷的從負面去看

說不明白為何不安排在星期四

因為他們星期五下午要寄版

我說可能整個集團這麼大

可能大部分同事星期五會比較方便

另外樂園延遲開至晚上十時半

如果星期四的話

可能不能盡慶

無論講甚麼

她所談的話題都是公司的上司怎樣怎樣差

甚麼甚麼不好

充滿負面的能量和情緒

我明白每所公司一定有他做得好或不好得地方

但為何我們不可就好好心懷感恩的去盡情享受這一天呢?

為何不可學習 grateful 和培養 a mind of gratitude?

倘若每人

包括公司和員工都各懷感恩的心

我相信公司的業務會繼續向好

而員工也會工作得更開心


當聽 dr. victor fung 的 speech 時

想起了靜坐老師 goenkaji 的教導

我不太喜歡看錢太重的人

所以從來對 businessman 不特別有太大的好感

但 Goenkaji 老師提醒了我

他說 being a businessman is not a problem,

one's has to earn an living

for oneself and for the others,

but we have to earn money honestly

as a businessman

we have to remember that we are not only working for ourselves and for those who depending on us

we are also supporting lives of our employees and those who depending on them

we shall understand we are part of the society

the society give us so much

and we shall return what we earn to the society

這些說話

是係人都知的

但說易行難

但內觀這個靜坐方法

讓我從 actual experiential level 了解這是真正應該的生活方式

it becomes so natural that it becomes a natural way of living



我發現最近 sense of gratitude 高了

聽著這 speech

我居然留下了感動和感恩的眼淚來 (really strange n weird..... -_-)

原來心常存感恩

會讓人這麼快樂

:D


想起了老師的其中四個教導

1. 培養未生起的善, 鼓勵它的生起
2. 發展已生起的善, 推動它繼續發展
3. 止息已生起的惡, 不讓它繼續發展
4. 防止未生的惡, 盡量不讓它生起

when i saw the Fung's brother behaviour

I feel like returning my kindness to them

to express my gratitude

and to encourage their kind action

so when i went home

I wrote them a thank you letter and sent them a gift

May both of them be happy.



謝謝朋友 F

也謝謝 Li & Fung

>>May 21, 2011 at 4:30:56 AM GMT+8

2011 年 5 月 18 日 星期三 【晴】

skype 中毒

-_-

>>May 19, 2011 at 1:42:39 AM GMT+8