Buddhism on the human origins and the creator

In the Buddhist sutra (增一阿含經 (CN) ; Ekottaragama-sutra (EN) ), it is mentioned indeed human origins was heavenly beings.

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Also it is mentioned about the creator.

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In nutshell (based on the text as spoken by Lord Buddha), the universe was subjected to big-bang creation after which the old world (previous universe) was subjected to destruction, nonetheless, the destruction left out certain realms and one of such is known as the 光音 heaven which was where human origins came from.

After the destruction of the previous world, the big-bang happened and earth was created along with the sun, moon and other planets known and unknown to modern science.

Heavenly beings from 光音 heaven whose heavenly life had almost come to an end, were lured by the virginity of planet earth and decided to come forth to venture out of the heaven.

Once they settled, they found themselves trapped and unable to go back and hence lived on.

According to the text, all human ancestors came straight from 光音 heaven were light skinned color and today's human complexion was a result of different lifestyles, mindsets, influence from the weather and other factors.

When our heavenly human ancestors came to earth, they were greeted by a god (大梵天王) who told them that "I have no creator, I am hence natural,the creator of the universe and parents to all beings".

Please don't take my word for it, go read the text and do your own research.

P & G : Purifier of Water

Introduced by Bill Clinton, the P & G water purifying PUR technology has the ability to transform dirty and dangerous water into clean drinking water within 30 minutes.

Independent opinions found that the technology is practical and capable of reduce diarrheal illness.

WWF: You May Be The Orang-Utan's Last Hope

The orang-utan is the largest arboreal (tree-living) animal in the world. They spend most of their time in trees - feeding, sheltering and travelling through the forest canopy.

Fossil records show that orang-utans have been on this earth for more than 800,000 years and populations once spread from China to as far as Sulawesi. Today, Borneo and Sumatra are the only two islands in the world that are supporting natural orang-utan populations numbering about 55,000.

Maintaining natural forests with viable wild breeding populations and restoring degraded forests is vital for the continued survival of orang-utans in Malaysia.

Facing threats such as logging, forest fires, degradations; orang-utans may suffer further decline due to poor habitat.

Hence, the Sabah's government's initiative to retain the largest orang-utan population in Ulu Segama-Malue Forest Reserves under protection status deserves a worthy acknowledgement and support.

如果屠宰场有玻璃墙, 您是否會吃素吗?

Marine Turtles Are Still in Crisis. WWF Needs Your Help!

The marine turtles have been on Earth for well over 100 million years, surviving even the demise of dinosaurs. Yet today, their numbers continue to plummet in most parts of the world.

Malaysia is fortunate to host four species of marine turtles out of the seven species worldwide.

Most of us are aware that marine turtles population faces escalation of threats that consist of beach erosion and coastal development, egg-collection,fishery-related mortality and pollution.

Sadly, only 1 out of 10,000 hatchlings survives to adulthood.

What most of us do not know is that:

• Green turtles are largely herbivorous and their constant grazing help to increase the health and growth rate of the sea grass beds which are essential in supporting other marine species. This vast biomass provides food, habitat, and nursery areas for a myriad of fish, shrimps, crabs, seahorse, etc.
• Hawksbill turtles are one of the very few marine species that feed on sponges and play a caretaker role in healthy reef systems which hlep to sustain thriving populations of fish and other marine creatures.

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Send Greetings to Wild Tiger Rangers Now!

WWF is having another round of WWF’s Tigers Alive Initiative (TAI) which aims to raise funds to provide rangers with better trainings and equipments - rangers protect wild tigers from dangers such as poaching activities around the globe.

I have sent one e-card to Shatrughan Lal, Forest Guard, Dudhwa Tiger Reserve.

Why not be part of the initiative to support endangered tigers preservation ?

Send an e-card now.

Get more information.

If EURO Collapsed During Olympic 2012 ?

What will happen if EURO collapsed during London's Olympic June 2012 ?

It is reported that the U.K plans to close the gate.

WWF-Malaysia Merchandise Catalogue 2011

WWF-Malaysia

Bad Investment Choice, IQ Can Be Trained Up!!

Refer to 'Billionaire willing to pay RM100K for young, high IQ and fair ovum donor'

You can train up good IQ, no need to look for it. But it will require time, just like building up your muscle.

IQ is just a state of mind, it is how you think and react.

High EQ people are passionate people, because their thinking are based on feelings.

High IQ people are the opposite.

One way to train up your IQ is to play computer strategy games.

Why ?

Because it will put you into training ground for the following scenario.

• Forces one to solve a specific problem within a short period of time.
  
• Forces one to solve a problem before you get up.
  
• Forces one to think about strategies and solutions to problems on the spot.
  
• Forces one to think within the scope of the problem.
  
• Trains one to stay focus.
  
• Trains one to be more patience.
  
• Trains one to not to give up until you find a solution
  
• Trains one to be innovative (in certain ways).
  
• Trains one to think about best practices.
  

It is just like going to the gym.

Space Shuttle Next Version Unveils

This topic interests me because the universe is really under-explored and still a mystery to common science.

To suggest that extra terrestrials exist in this universe is sometimes an after thought, (at least for now), but no one can say for sure. Perhaps someone knows, like the lord Buddha (some more than 2,500 years ago) or other saints and mysterious people. Buddhism material acknowledges higher terrestrial existence, however the descriptions are limited (as far as I have researched).

According to world famous scientist Dr. Stephen Hawkings, he is not sure why only weirdos have witnessed UFO. But isn't there is something called confidential in the world, especially in the governments ?

To get a picture of how big the universe is ?

Check out this link

• From planet Earth,
• the next level up is the solar system.
• Then 'Solar Interstellar Neighbourhood'
• Then only 'The Milky way gallaxy'
• Then 'Local Gallactic Group'
• Then 'Virgo Supercluster'
• Then 'Local Superclusters'
• Then only 'Observable Universe'

Some Buddhism materials suggest that higher terrestrial existence is beyond our solar system. A world is consists of a Star (i.e The Sun) and its surrounding planets.

With today's technology, we can't even reach the Mars which is estimated to be around 54.6 million km from Earth when it is the closest.

The Sun is really just too big to handle already.

This suggests that the human body which is formed from earth, water, fire and air elements is a limitation when it comes to the concept of higher terrestrial.

Therefore, with this new version of space shuttle, it is expected to bring men to Mars by 2021 the earliest. Its first unmanned test flight is expected to be in 2017 from the Kennedy Space Center.

The new rocket, known as the Space Launch System (SLS), is more powerful than the giant Saturn V rockets that launched astronauts to the Moon.

We are still a long way from the Superman concept.

We need to move beyond the Solar system to check things out, please!

23-Aug-2011: 佛光山“爱与和平宗教祈福大会”

佛光山“爱与和平宗教祈福大会”. 由台湾总统马英九、佛光山开山宗长星云大师、天主教枢机主教单国玺、道教、一贯教、天帝教等宗教领袖共为国家、社会及世界和平祈福的祈福会，于周二下午在台湾高雄佛陀纪念馆隆重举行.

马英九、星云大师、单国玺枢机主教共同点亮地球仪揭开祈福大会序幕

http://www.kwongwah.com.my/news/2011/08/24/114.html

http://www.fjnet.com/hwjj/hwnr/201108/t20110824_183823.htm

真的好难得。

世界和平后，人类就可以往银河系东南西北上下方发展。充满期待！

Captain America - From Childhood Hero To Hopes

I was borned in 1970(s).

Like many others, I grew up reading comic books such as spiderman, fantastic four and of course Captain America. Captain America was really popular when I was in my primary school, not sure why, I even had a costume of it; I remember.

Now, after 30 years, Hollywood finally made a film out of it and it is played by an actor younger than me.

Captain America; The First Avengers is a great movie, you should go and watch it. It comprises of mixture of drama, love story, fantasy and probably scientific hopes for mankind evolution.

The actors played their roles well, especially Hayley Atwell who plays Peggy Carter; love interest of Captain America.

Chris Evans performs well too, he is able to portray a sickly young man who understands pain and later being transformed into a 'superman' figure who demonstrated the great strength, compassionate and humanity. For some reasons, Evans has that kind of look. I think he is a great actor.

In terms of acting, my favourite is between Tommy Lee Jones (who plays Col. Chester Phillips) and Stanley Tucci (who plays Dr. Abraham Erskine). I think I will pick Tucci for the oscar.

Also, Hugo Weaving plays the villain really well, he is a very talented actor.

For my part, the entertainment values come more from Hayley Atwell. She is an absolute success in this movie; A+++.

This movie tells that love story in the oldies are much better, even though clouded by wars and etc. Love stories then were more pure and happy as contrast to today's complicated humanity.

The one thing I want to stress about is hope. I have a reason to believe that ultimately, all mankind should strive to improve themselves. If you are weak in one area, you should and can always strive to improve on that area. It is the answer to every questions in this human age. And if you mixed it with love, political wars, friendship, science, idealogy and humanity, it is called life.

Fundamentally, it parallels with religions which touch on the reincarnation focusing on the point that what lies ahead is for becoming a more superior beings. From Animal realms to human being realms to heavenly realms and so on and so forth. Means, if you are now a human, you don't really want to become a fish, you prefer to go up with higher intelligence capability. If you are a fish, you would most likely wanted to become a human being. So, the right path is always becoming a stronger and better beings with higher level of consciousness.

Also, I think there is something to cherish that the world has to wait for more than 30 years, in order for Chris Evans to be borned, and to play this role. To me, that is called amazing. Why don't they let me play the role ? You know what I am saying ?

You should watch it. Thumbs Up :D

My Comment On Kin says sorry to kindie

Refer to 'Kin says sorry to kindie'

If you care to look around, I would say that in Malaysia, this is just tip of the iceberg.

This reminds me of one of my favourite song;上海滩。

浪奔浪流

万里滔滔江水永不休

淘尽了世间事

混作滔滔一片潮流

是喜是愁

浪里分不清欢笑悲忧

成功失败

浪里看不出有未有

爱你恨你

问君知否

似大江一发不收转千弯转千滩

亦未平复此中争斗

又有喜又有愁

就算分不清欢笑悲忧仍愿翻百千浪

在我心中起伏够

Or I really want to emphasize that this society needs love and real friendship.

It is timely to say that it is why we need places like Fo Guang Shan and etc which the door must always be left open to all.

I still remember a venerable from Fo Guang Shan said this.

相聚总是因缘，是好是坏，一念之别。

This is very true, we must have the courage to love.

Food Production Crazy House

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Author/physician Shigeaki Hinohara On Longer Life

His diets:

For breakfast I drink coffee, a glass of milk and some orange juice with a tablespoon of olive oil in it. Olive oil is great for the arteries and keeps my skin healthy. Lunch is milk and a few cookies, or nothing when I am too busy to eat. I never get hungry because I focus on my work. Dinner is veggies, a bit of fish and rice, and, twice a week, 100 grams of lean meat.

His Schedules:

My schedule book is already full until 2014, with lectures and my usual hospital work. In 2016 I'll have some fun, though: I plan to attend the Tokyo Olympics!

On Materialistic:

Remember: You don't know when your number is up, and you can't take it with you to the next place.

His Advises:

• There is no need to ever retire, but if one must, it should be a lot later than 65.
  
• Share what you know.
  
• To stay healthy, always take the stairs and carry your own stuff.
  
• Science alone can't cure or help people
  

Check out the original article.

MBCS Mid Autumn Festival Charity Fund Raising Dinner

Fund raising dinner (non-vegetarian) for diamond age care home.

It is organized by MBCS (Malaysia Buddhist Co-operative Society), whose mission is to 'envision a future where death is accepted gracefully and
proper Buddhist funeral is embraced by all'. In other words, MBCS can help you to arrange for proper Buddhist funeral at proper cost.

One ticket is RM 80. One table has 10 seats.

Date:

4th September 2011.

Venue:

Dewan Serbaguna, SS3/14, Petaling Jaya, Selangor.


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Please contact:

• Sis Linda 012-6310719
  
• Sis Sandra 019-2274388
  
• Sis Judy 012 313-2877
  

www.mbcs.org.my

迷惑社会。。

迷惑社会。。。

平安无事就有法喜，业障现前就没法喜。

真是迷惑的修行。

MAKNA Volunteer Activities March-April 2011

• Cancer Awareness & Fundraising & Homevisit - Bukit Larut Tin, Perak
  
• Cancer Awareness & Fundraising & Homevisit - Kuantan, Pahang
  
• 2nd MIP (Makna Introductory Programme) - Makna Office, Jalan Ampang
  
• Cancer Awareness & Fundraising & Homevisit - Pengkalan Hulu,Perak

• Cancer Awareness & Fundraising & Homevisit - Kpg.Bersia Lama, Gerik, Perak
  
• Cancer Awareness & Fundraising & Homevisit - Kpg. Ulu Legong, Gerik, Perak
  
• Cancer Awareness & Fundraising - Jabatan Veterinar, Gerik, Perak
  
• 3rd Recreational Activities & Technical Activities - Makna Office, Jalan Ampang
  
• Cancer Awareness & Fundraising & Homevisit - Jelempok,Perlis
  
• Cancer Awareness & Fundraising & Homevisit - Quarters Klinik Ayer Hangat, Perlis

• 1st Basic Nursing Care 2 - IKM, HUKM Cancer Awareness & Fundraising & Homevisit - Kpg. Alor Setar, Pauh, Perlis
  
• Cancer Awareness & Fundraising & Homevisit - Kpg. Mata Air, Kedah
• Cancer Awareness & Fundraising & Homevisit - Bukit Banggali, Langkawi, Kedah Cancer Awareness & Fundraising & Homevisit - Kpg. Kuala Temoyong, Perlis
• Cancer Awareness & Fundraising & Homevisit - Kpg. Belia 4B, Kedah
  

• Volunteer Meeting & Cancer Support Group Meeting - Makna Office, Jalan
• Ampang 4th Technical Activities - Makna Office, Jalan Ampang 2nd Basic Nursing Care 1
  

心结与修行

一个人有心结，就起烦恼，不喜了，苦了。

也可能会堕了，变坏了。

一个人有心结，可以尝试修行。

请看『修行要修心』。

为什么修心后就会解心结呢？

因为你得到慈悲心后，你就会放下，得到定力，智慧，了解心结的来龙去脉，那时你就会自己解开心结。

比如，念经是修行活动之一，不是念经就会自然解心结，是因为有念经，就有修行，就有修心，就有慈悲心，就能放下，就有定力智慧。

自己医病不好吗？

心结一天不解，可能永远都拖累你 （我不敢肯定）。

修行不是迷信，不是逃避。

修行是慈悲。

我认为慈悲心，应该可以解很多的心结。

所以，你在佛堂，看见我在跪跪拜拜，不要笑我，因为我在修行。

那，我是不是有心结还没解呢 ？哈，你去猜猜看。。你的答案不一定准,我也不会告诉你。

修行要修心

如何修心 ？

佛教有一种东西叫慈悲心。

什么是慈悲心？

我的理解是；对众生有慈悲感。

慈悲心不是同情心。

了解别人的痛苦，控制自己的欲望，横顺众生，为别人带来欢喜，自己吞掉不愉快的能量。

我们要了解，有苦才有喜，有喜就有苦。

很难解释。。。

当我做一件自己不愿意的事，但是如果可以为一些人解苦，得喜。我苦了，我也喜了。。。

因为我愿意，因为慈悲比其他重要。因为我的苦，不比他人之苦。

还是很难解释。。。

再来一次。

如果狗有感情，你见到狗在流泪，你会不会去安慰它 ？会， 因为你有慈悲心。因为你理解，这是有情世界，因为你有情。因为你不忍心看它伤心。

你不但会安慰那只狗，你还会跟它做朋友。

修行要修心，修行要修心，修行要修心。