幸运

我是如此平凡，却又如此幸运。

Craving

Ajahn Brahmavamso talked about 'craving'.
It is not because you want the things you craved for but you are addicted to 'craving'. For most people, life is craving, life is wanting for something. Craving gives us a sense of being, a sense of identity. The problem of craving is, if you want the next thing, you cannot enjoy the thing you are having now. When you have stillness of mind, you reserve your mental energy :-) Sometimes, remember to look at things which have been done, do not always look only at what have not been done. (Note: Be careful of this saying !!)

Bro.Tan said: This is good enough for me. This is enough for me. I have enough of what I need. What others need is what they need and that is not what I need.

Ajahn Jayasaro said: " There are two types of craving: wholesome and unwholesome cravings. For unwholesome craving, it can be craved for sensual pleasure, wanting to be and not wanting to be."

The motivational journey

Movement is everything.
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. ~Samuel Johnson~
They said, to successfully complete a thesis we have to engage in new behaviors and avoid or limit other behaviors.
While each thesis journey is different, all share the need for students to manage their thinking, emotions and behavior, in order to produce the necessary persistence and intensity of effort.

The thesis is as much a motivational journey as a journey of research and discovery.

Good Luck.

Timely Wisdom = Mindfulness

When we are able to call upon our reserve, knowledge, principle to deal with each and every situation then we can say that we have mindfulness.

Wisdom is something which is in regards with time and place. It has no specific personality but is sensitive to the need of time and place. It makes you see when you need to agree or disagree, firm or compromise, lead or follow…

Train and educate your mind to be able to have the optimal response in regards to every situation. This is the role of mindfulness.

Go against the grain

To get rid of an old and a deep-rooted habit, we have to go against the grain and always stir things up a bit.

Appreciate every single difficulty which stirs your calmness and peacefulness.

Don't miss the chance to learn from every single difficulty you have encountered.

Even BETTER !!

Sometimes, things are not like what you imagine, they are even BETTER !!

A conversation with Sunanda

When you are agitated, remember that daily routines and good habits can help you to calm your mind.

When you are troubled by intense negative thoughts, remember to try to do some hobbies for example rear a pet or take care of your garden. This will help you to divert your attention and make you feel that you are needed.

How to prevent yourself to dwell in negative thoughts? Just think in a different way, a better way.

Move on

Watch up !!
Don't simply got caught up in daily mundane things,
remember to always move on as time does not wait.

What you think is an important or urgent matter may not seem the same to others.

Scaffolded Leaning

... many arrows, loosed several ways,
Fly to one mark...

~William Shakespeare, Henry V ~

It is an approach to teaching and learning that, while careful provide an initial framework, leaves it to the learner to establish longer term structures.

This is what we called "scaffolded learning'.

深造。

深造， 深造 意即再造。
深造， 深造 一个重新塑造自己的机会。
所以， 要加油了。

Research is what I devoted myself to.

Research is a systematic self-critical enquiry, made public.

It is founded in curiosity and a desire to understand;
is stable and systematic in the sense of being sustained by a strategy.

It requires a sceptical temper of mind sustained by critical principles.

~ Stenhouse, 1985 ~

It is what I devoted myself to.

Wisdom

Analogy
Wisdom : Develop
Wisdom : Cultivate
Wisdom : Penetrate
Wisdom : Accumulate
Wisdom : Precipitate

For me and for now, the answer is the last one.

不乱， 不慌。

人乱， 我不乱。
人慌， 我不慌。
一乱，一慌，就被拌住了。

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. ~Albert Einstein~

An Academia

Be an academia and don't lose your curiosity!!

Simplicity.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

~ Leonardo da Vinci ~

LOVE, like rain.

LOVE, like rain, can nourish from above,
drenching couples with a soaking joy.

But sometimes, under the angry heat of life,
love dries on the surface and must nourish from below,
tending to its roots, keeping itself alive.

~ Mitch Albom ~

Sunanda's random sharing on Uposatha day

It is not a curse to be in a heaven.
Be a shining deva, instead.
Don't proliferate your negative thoughts, tell yourself:"it is not like that."
Don't unnecessarily pull yourself down.

Time is running short.
Sometimes, result is evaluated using time factor.

BH motto:' Learn & serve, learn & serve".

Many people misunderstand the word 'enjoy'.
The true enjoyment comes from within for 'en' means internal.
If we take delight in sensual pleasures, that is called 'excitement'
for 'ex' means external.

Just continue to enjoy your life but don't excite your mind.
Not to be negligence, must wake up before sun rise.

Our ability of grasping on the situations is still very poor.
We memorize the formula, but we never apply the formula effectively.
Because we don't know how/why the formula being formulated.

It's alright to make a mistake.
Just don't take too long to correct and learn from the mistake.
Time, to me is in the present moment.
Time, to me is the most precious resource I have now.

Relationship

Having a healthy relationship is more important than becoming independent.

As we are human beings who live in the earth together with many others. No man is an island.

Building a healthy relationship without an attachment requires wisdom, compromise and compassion, which I need to develop.

快乐

快乐是一种选择。 可是，不是每个人都有选择的能力，所以要精进。

结合

能把该做的和想做的结合起来应该很好。
能把想学的应用在该学的上面，就更好了。
可，这些都需要时间，技巧，耐心。。

加油了。