Get me outta here!

Saturday, September 3, 2011

如果你想取悦每一个人,你就只有失却自己。

oldman and the mule   

两千五百年前,伊索曾经讲过这样的故事在一个晴朗的早晨,一座山里的小村子中,有一个老人和他的小孙子,牵了一匹骡子,要到山谷中一个较大城镇的市集去贩卖。两人把骡子刷洗的乾乾净净,打扮的漂漂亮亮,然後兴奋地顺著陡坡走下来。过了不久,他们经过站立一些闲人的路旁。
    「你们看看那对傻瓜,」一个路人指著说,「放著舒适的骡背下坐,却宁愿用脚走。」
    老人听了之险,觉得那人的话很有道理。於是两人就骑上骡背,继续往前走去。

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

自我设限


跳蚤与爬蚤科学家做过一个有趣的实验:他们把跳蚤放在桌上,一拍桌子,跳蚤迅即跳起,跳起高度均在其身高的100倍以上,堪称世界上跳得最高的动物!然后在跳蚤头上罩一个玻璃罩,

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

How To Be Positive


So this is my first talk here for about three months, but of course, there's not just ah...as they used to say not all appearance get old for monks...no beard no skiddel at all. I was at a monastery down at serpentine, where we're still teaching the other monks and the novices, the anakara and also the sisters from Dhammasara. I have been travelling a little bit at the very beginning of the rain retreat to Sydney for the conference of the psychologist in the end another conference in mental health in Singapore, in the middle doing something good for Australia with a big conference with all the leaders of Australia, trying to get some good spiritual vibe to the people who run our country.