Song of Guidance

"Due to Diligence and passion,
there is no idleness;
Due to a Big Heart, there is no miserliness;
Due to Wisdom and Compassion,
there is no foolishness;
Due to Respect for the practitioners,
there is deep faith in truth and affinity."


Last Tuesday,I felt a strong will to go to visit my Dharma teacher,Master Fa Hang. I have been attending Master's Dharma talk when I was studying in school and participating in Buddhist society.I did went to the temple to meet her with a few dumplings I bought from the market.

Master Fa Hang was so delighted to see me coming to visit her...

Master asked me:"Where you've been?You are like an ash,disappearing from the world because I have not heard of your news for a couple of months after you graduated from school."

I apologised and replied :"Master,I'm quite busy and lost this couple of months.I managed to get a part-time job and keep on working...and working. After I went back home,I felt tired and sleep...thats my lifestyle for this couple of months...work,eat and sleep."

Master smiled and said,"No matter how busy you are,remember to take the Dharma with you. Always reflect on yourself and cultivate goodness."

I nodded and asked Master the reason why I'm feeling urgent to meet her since yesterday."Because I'm thinking of you recently,"Master answered...

I laughed and agreed. Master is quite overjoyed when I told her that I am going to further my studies in USM,Penang soon...

Before I left, I bowed and waved goodbye to Master,promising that I will come back to visit her again soon.

The coming across of Dharma has changed my life. Master are always there to guide and advise me to change for the better when I first joined the Buddhist Society in school two years ago.

I am grateful to meet a great mentor and teacher in my life...^^

A Dream

Yesterday,I dreamed I was in a haunted house...Horrified,I ran for my life. Unfortunately,there is no door in that haunted house. There is no way out of that horrifying place...The fear is so immense...

I wake up from my dream with chills and sweats all over my body...

Allowing myself to calm a bit,I said to myself in relief: It was just a DREAM!next time I have the same dream,I will not be so terrified because I know it is unreal...The only way out of a haunted house is not holding on the conditions and freeing our heart from fear!

Happy Wesak Day

Today is Wesak Day. The full moon of Wesak is singularly the most significant Buddhist holiday of the year. I wake up early in the morning to go to a Mahayana Buddhist temple with my family to join the celebration.

I am glad to see many devotees inside the temple. As I step into the temple, what that come to my first vision is a small image of the baby Buddha in front of the altar in a small basin filled with water and decorated with flowers. Kneeling down with respect in front of the altar, I pour water over the statue. It is symbolic of the cleansing of bad karma in us and as a reminder to cultivate loving kindness.
Wesak day is an important day for Buddhist. Regardless of traditions and nations, Buddhist from all over the world celebrates this auspicious day by various ways -- offerings to the Sangha, chantings and services. It commemorates the birth, enlightenment (Nirvana), and passing away (Parinirvana) of Siddhartha Gautama Buddha 2500 years ago in India. This significant day reminds Buddhist to pay homage to the Buddha by following His teachings in the Dharma.

There are many elements of in reflecting on the Buddha’s life story. Many of us are dissatisfied with our lives. Some hope for more money to buy a new car, house, the list goes on. Suffering comes when there are cravings in our lives. When we look at Prince Siddhartha Gautama, he had about as much as anyone could hope for; a loving family, talent, health, privilege, opportunity for studying, and he was heir to the throne. But when he encountered the universal predicament of old age, sickness and death, he gave up all his worldly pleasures to embark on a road of Noble lineage in quest of a Way to end all the sufferings. When he finally achieved enlightenment under the Bodhi Tree, he was known as the Buddha which means “The Enlightened One” and started to teach the Dharma.

Tradition ascribes to the Buddha himself instruction on how to pay him homage. Just before he passed away, he saw his faithful attendant Ananda, weeping. In the Diamond Sutra: The Buddha explains that “everything that has a form is unreal and will disintegrate with time.” The Buddha advised him not to weep, but to understand the universal law that all compounded things (including even his own body) must disintegrate. He advised everyone not to cry over the disintegration of the physical body but to regard his teachings (The Dhamma) as their teacher from then on, because only the Dhamma truth is eternal and not subject to the law of change. He also stressed that the way to pay homage to him was not merely by offering flowers, incense, and lights, but by truly and sincerely striving to follow his teachings.

Although the Buddha has not been around us for 2500 years, His teachings still remain in our hearts. May the celebration of Wesak brings peace and harmony to our hearts, our country and our world…Happy Wesak Day!

Unexpected Win by the Koreans

Yesterday I watched the sensational play between the Korean team with the China team in the Uber Cub's final...I admired the Koreans' fighting spirits and courage. Imagine playing with with the top seeded players on the court!I nearly got an "heart attack" by watching the way they play. Finally the Koreans emerged as champions of the Uber Cub,beating defending champion,China.

The same fighting spirits of the Koreans should be applied to our everyday life.Whenever we fall down,stand up,rise up and continue to play the game!If we fail in an attempt,we should never give up and try again and again.They are no real failures in life.There are only people that just gives up after meeting with some obstacles.The obstacles are merely a good experience for us to improve for the better.

When we can see this,we will be happy and calm all the time.Life is a badminton match!Do not mind whether you will win or lose up in the match.Just give your best and hope for the best!There are no permanent winners and losers on the court!At the end of the game,the feeling of contentment is our best reward.

The Power of Our Thoughts

Whenever we feel stressed up and held down by setbacks in life, some of us will start thinking of all the bad things that will soon happen to us following the setbacks. I have read a book with a title : “The Power of Our Thoughts” last week. I hope what I share today will be able to enlightened you to get hold of your thoughts and become the Master of you own destiny!

If you have this kind of thought, you are not defeated by the setback. You are ruined by your own negative thoughts! If you are sad, you become even sad and cannot see the true picture of your life.

The theory is about the power of thoughts. The substrates we have is that there are many possibilities that can happen in life. Our life changes with our thoughts. We are a person that mould our own thoughts. When we think of misery and unhappy things in the past, you will definitely live your life in sorrow. Do not be disheartened by failures and setback of life. Think in the positive manner and you will see all the wonderful ways that you can bring up in your life. Even simple things like the singing of birds and beautiful scenery can make us feel happy in our way!

If you ask about my view about life, I will conclude that life is full of challenges. There is a few important stages in life: the time we are born, childhood, adulthood, marriage, the first time we get a job, old age...and finally is death. You will take your life seriously by knowing that you become older by every second and minute from now on! So love life and live life to the fullest to upgrade our spiriture level! I believe there is no death. Only our body and organs will die when we are old .But the spiriture part of us is eternal and continue to live again and again in the form of transformation of energy.

Cheer up! I am happy I am still alive and still have the chance to experience life and upgrade myself in the different stages in life...I hope you too enjoy life and learn about the precious part of life. Throw away all the unhappy thoughts by downloading in positive thoughts into our brains...Love yourself, Love your family, Love our country, Love mankind, Love our environment...

The equation of Happiness:
LOVE+FORGIVE+GRADEFUL-HATRED-SORROW-WORRY=HAPPINESS

Let’s start our voyage of life with courage and hope. We are now captains for the ship! Our destination is a place called HAPPINESS!