SOS emotions and self interest

What does ordinary people want in life?

1. to be happy
2. enjoy life
3. comfortable life
4. wonderful family
5. status
6. look up upon

How do they get this?

1. work hard, to earn lots of money to fulfill most of the above
2. struggle, compete, and fight to obtain it

How does one measure success?

1. in this reality world, basically is financial achievement, at least this is what most people perceive it

How does this measurement different from ancient time?

1. Ancient people value virtue more than money.

Wonder how those rich businessman got their financial achievements?

1. Some via corruptions
2. Some via taking advantage of others
3. Some via good ties with government to provide projects
4. But not many via honest mean 

CONCLUSION

Basically ordinary human live to satisfy his or her self interest and emotion.  Which it cannot be brought to the future live after death. Of course, one will ask, is it worth all the struggle and competition to obtain it?  This is debatable.

SOS What is an ideal world?

What is an ideal world?

Perhaps what comes to mind is world peace, no sufferring, everyone is happy and emotionally satisfying.  Well, you can include it in your bucket list.  This environment, although achievable but it is impossible for the time being.  The reason I said that can be evident from what is happening to the world today.  War, crimes, homosexuality, adultery, rapes, kidnaps, prostitution, organ harvesting, torture, hatred, corruption, illnesses, epidemic, human trafficking, gangsters, corrupted authorities, immoral activities, and the list goes on.

So, what is an ideal world?

1. Think of others first before we do anything
2. Look within when problems arise, don't point figures at others
3. Stay calm and kind disregard of all matters positive or negative
4. Have a compassion and tolerance heart, and be truthful
5. Gradually remove all human attachments, desires and demonic thoughts
6. Improve morality
7. Be compassionate to all beings
8. Built virtues
9. Remove envy and jealousy

The nine factors I mentioned sound simple and can be followed, but in reality, it is impossible to achieve.  If it is achievable, why are there so much social illnesses? Poverty? Crime? Corruption etc.

Today's measure of success is really distorted.  It is measure by only one factor, money.  Well, the reason we come to that is because of ourselves, we let money to become the measurement and the only tangible achievement people can see.

I personally worked with billionaires and millionaires (Tan Sri, Dato' Seri, Dato', Datuk etc), and I can only sum up in one word, they are morally corrupted.  What they do is basically cheat from the mass, and enrich themselves.  They have all the justifications and excuses for themselves when they are confronted, saying, the environment is like that, everyone does it, this is a way of life in this society.  It is this way because they let it, it takes two hands to clap. The easy way out is to blame.

Some twisted minds or majority even supported this concept, saying that this is street smart.  In the ancient time, these people is a disgrace to the society, and should be stoned to death.  Because, today the law is on their side, they will use money to buy their way out.  I can safely says that they are just cowards hiding behind laws.

SOS What is Cultivation Practice?

This world is seldom being used.  What is cultivation practice (CP) means? Many do not know it because it is normally used in the context of cultivator, or practitioners in a type of spiritual practice.

In layman term, it means, continuously practice to improve one's moral standard or character.  It sounds intangible but on the same hand it is tangible.  Just like mind and matter is one.  Science has investigated that when a person has a thought, there is energy in the thought, although can't be seen with naked eye like sound. So, a thought (mind), is also a kind of matter, but a microscopic matter.

Buddhism is a spiritual teaching by Gautama Buddha.  Jesus Christ is also a god that teaches a spiritual belief which is also called religion by man.  Laozi teaches the Dao, Jenovah teaches Judaism.  All these spiritual beliefs are actual a type of cultivation practice.  All of these teaching aim to attain godhood or enlightened being.  It is just being called differently.

In China, there are many types of Buddhism (branches) from the Hinayana.  They also has cultivation practice that is taught one to one, i.e. master to disciple type of CP.  Gautama Buddha mentioned that there are 84,000 ways of CP, Laozi said there are 3,600 ways and many mores.  These are based on their understanding.

Falun Dafa is also one of the 84,000 ways of CP.  It is called a type of qigong, which also has the same meaning of CP.  So, Falun Dafa can be defined as the CP of Buddha School QiGong.  Please bear in mind that there is a great difference between Buddha School QiGong and Buddhism.  Buddism is founded by Gautama Buddha 2,500 years ago.  Buddha School QiGong, i.e. Falun Dafa, is founded by Master Li Honzhi, in 1992, who teaches the highest principle of the universe and the most effective way of CP.  It was also spread to humankind in the previous civilisation.

After practicing it for 10 years or more, I find it the best CP available during this period of time.  It provides all the answers about creation of life, humankind, dimensions, and the universe.  Besides improving your health, it also strengthen your mental ability and spiritual principles.

SOS Study = Knowledge = Money (Part 2)

From the earlier blog, you will realise that the measurement of Success is different from ancient time vs today's society.  Due to the materialistic environment, the society is force to conform with this trend without knowing the consequences.

THIRD PERSPECTIVE

How our society evolved over the last few thousand years are principally predetermined, by higher beings. There is an ancient saying, everything goes through Born, Statis, Degenerate, Disintegrate.  This is the same anology of Born, Age, Ill, Death cycle, that is predetermined by outer force, which is not within our control.  So, this concept has been evolved/developed to this stage by gradual believe is science more than the spiritual aspects i.e. from good to bad.  Disregard it is good or bad, we have to conform with this environment in order to survive, i.e. we have to conform with this distorted environment to go back to our origin.


CONCLUSION

Today's morality is far worst than few thousand years ago can be notice from the few following examples:

1. human believe in science more than "spirituality" which they considered as superstitious;
2. social problems that bring about by human themselves is irreparable (crimes, homosexual, promiscuity, corruptions, etc)
3. human behaviours today is inverted (people measure things oppositely)
4. human no longer value virtues or morality

SOS Study = Knowledge = Money

Someone ask me, does studying hard, gaining knowledge equates to making more money? Based on the surface meaning, it sound logic.  But is it really true, more knowledge equal to more money? The short answer is depends from which perspective do you view this issue from.

TODAY'S SOCIETY PERSPECTIVE

OK, lets look at it from statistics points of view.  Those who good in academic, will go to the big league universities, will eventually landed with a good job, with a good company with good money.  So, based on this chain of progression, it is partly true, studying hard, getting into top universities, highly likely will end up with good money job.  So, in conclusion it is not incorrect.

So how do we argue this other wise.  There are some people who study very hard, but end up with a poor paying job.  Most businessman, who doesn't study very hard, but makes lots of money.  So from this aspect, you can say it does not correlate.  But then again, we can also safely said most study well, goes to good school, will generally end up with good job.  So, we cannot dispute that.  So the correlation is not 100% true, but more than 50% true.

From a broader perspective, we cannot really equate study hard with good result equal to good school and eventually equal to good job and good money.  There are more to it, knowledge is suppose to lead the development in the respective country from poor to rich, but also maintain civilization and morality of the people.  Without which, what you want a society of rich people, but, have no regards to morality and virtues, which eventually will be stressful and chaotic.

Of course, in a materialistic world, MONEY or whoever has the a lot of MONEY, people will give him or her more respect.  So, in the current society, the measurement of SUCCESS is MONEY, period.  No point debating on this issue.  In ancient time, teacher is one of the most respected profession.  Today, because, teacher does not makes a lot of money, it is not a respected profession anymore.  The most respected profession today is actually bankers or investment bankers, they make the most money, so there are the most respect profession.  If we don't conform with the NORM, we are consider an outcast.  Not many parents want their kids to be a teacher, literally with the MONEY, you cannot survive well.  OK, of course, besides eventually study will enhance knowledge will lead us to a good job, but there are more to Knowledge right.  But then again, if the knowledge do not translate into MONEY, it remain knowledge, which based on today's society measurement, it doesn't mean much, far from being successful.  So what is the bottom line here.  It it really mean, knowledge = money, and that's it.

ANCIENT SOCIETY'S PERSPECTIVE

Ok, bringing back this concept to the ancient time, say a few thousand years ago, where morality is still good, you are said to have a poor enlightenment quality if you equates knowledge to making MONEY.  Ancient people are generally more spiritual and morally better than today's society, they value virtues, good manners, respect of parents or elderly,  etc.  The teacher profession in fact the most highly respected.


ANCIENT SOCIETY vs TODAY SOCIETY

So, the difference is actually can be seen by the morality factor.  Ancient society value more on virtues, morality and mannerism while today's society, well, basically value more on money.  So that statement on study equates to knowledge equates to money is mainly true in today's society.   But if we look at it from a broader point of view, children goes to school not only to study and obtain knowledge, actually the value of EDUCATION has been taken out of the equation.  School is suppose to educate children in all aspects, from morality to academic.  Hence, the emphasis has changed drastically over the years.  I will elaborate further from another's perspective, in Part 2 later.

SOS morality

This are what science and technology cannot measure with their latest instruments:

1. virtues
2. karma or sins
3. morality
4. humanity
5. compassion
6. truth
7. tolerance
8. sentimentality
9. predestined relationship
10. all intangible things which exist

Comparing with the UFOs that flying in and out of the space from one dimension to another at a speed of light, our science and technology is rather undeveloped.

Until it is able to change their conventional thinking, the truth of the universe will remain.

SOS Sensitive topic....... Religion

Religion as defined by Wikipedia, is an organised collection of beliefs, cultural systems, and world views that relate humanity to the supernatural, and to spirituality.  Many religions may have organized behaviours, clergy, a definition of what constitutes adherence or membership, holy places and scriptures.  The practice of a religion many also includes rituals, sermons, commemoration or veneration of a diety, gods or goddesses, sacrifices, festivals, or other aspects of human culture.

It is a long definition, but one important aspects not mentioned is that religion was formed by human. Commonly, it involved membership, holy place and scriptures, and has its only formality or ritual.

OK, lets us not debate on the definition, but rather discuss on the substance.

There was once, a Christian asked me the following questions about my belief:

1. What is your belief based on?
2. Why do you choose this belief?
3. How certain are you that this belief is the correct one?
4. Would you waver in your belief is you are faced with life and death situation?
5. Do you believe in afterlife?

The short version answer to the above questions is (I choose to practice Falun Dafa), is that it improve my mental, physical and spiritual aspect of my life and provide me to all my questions about origin of life, space-time, humanity and the universe.  As for the remaining questions on what is it based upon, why you choose that belief, certainty, and facing life and death situation, my simple answer would be, it depends on you enlightenment quality, inborn quality, predestined relationship and how steadfast are you in that belief and a few other factors.

I will not comment further as you may be already confuse with all these terms you many not heard of.  Let just say, the reason I practice Falun Dafa (www.falundafa.org) because it can provide me with all the answers I am looking for about humanity, origin of life, dimensions, and the universe and expound all the principles behind them.

I am not doubting that other "religions" ability to provide all the answers, but, I did say, it also involved predestined relationship and other factors.