"All your posessions are like a cup of tea... If you can't let it go(put it down)... Obviously your hand will break... Hence, we must learn to put the cup of tea downwhenever we're doing something else... and lift it up only when we want to drink it..."
This is what my father told me once... Why do we have to be so rigid and obsessed about everything??!! Don't we get tired??
"There was once a very wise man... He had two desciples... There was once he brought them to a trip... They were walking and walking and walking... until they saw a very pretty and sexy looking lady in a river... the clothings.. the looks... the everything you can imagine of... just so sexy... she was really struggling with the current and just couldn't cross the river... The wise man saw it... and carried her across the river.. which took about 10 minutes... the desciples saw the incident and was very uncomfortable with it... that was totally against their principles of life... they're not supposed to carry a lady like that... but they didn't say anything... and they kept on walking... until about 6 hours later... the desciples just couldn't take it anymore and asked the wise man... "you see... this was not what you taught us everyday... this was actually totally against it... so why did you do that??!! why did you carry the lady like that??!!"The wise man immediately understood what they meant and gave no answer but just smilled and said:"well... i was just carrying the lady for about 10 minutes... that's all... but you two... you two actually carried the lady for 6 hours..."
this story was told to me by my biology tuition teacher... one of the best fathers and teachers in the world...i seriously mean it... BEST father... XD
Well... I'm not going to talk about the teacher over here... nor am i going to talk about letting go some girl or relatoinship or something like that... I'm just going to talk about letting go some unnecessary posessions in our life... solid posessions or even mental posessions... XD
A lot of us are actually obsessed about things... Exams... Our diamond rings... Our necklaces.. and now... even some of them are obsessed... and i really mean obsessed about their hairstyle... can't even let that one single strand of hair go messy... And also... no offense... some even about religion...
well... since it's so late... it's about 12am now... i'm not going to write that long winded stupid story again... maybe i'll just share a bit about my views towards religionS... XD then i guess you guys will get the whole picture about my view towards letting go... XD
since i'm a buddhist... and also a very open one... XD I'm not so particular about those rules in Buddhism... although i'm a vegetarian... but i'm doing that mainly because of health purpose... not religous purpose... I don't talk about those fancy words in those sutras... although they're very helpful and useful in understanding the Buddha... but then... some of them just get too obsessed about it and just come out with their own rules... which are not really practical... which i also call... 走火入魔... XD no offense... seriously...
the problem is... they tend to get so rigid until it's like... nothing is right if you put it in a different way... By the way... let me share with you guys the defination of right and wrong in my dictionary... Right=Wrong... to me... XD well... to me... there's no right or wrong... people might feel that they're right... but you feel that they're wrong... i mean...don't talk about those facts that're already proven... just talk about viewing an incident or case... right and wrong is basically depending only on your own view and principles... that's why i seldom say:You're right and he's wrong" or things like that... because it's just my own view... i can only say...i agree with what you do or this is not how i do things... sorry... XD
well... back to the topic... I have to say... I'm so so so so so so so so so so so so sorry if i offended anyone in this post... because this is just my view... what i believe... you can disagree with it... but please... don't make a fuss out of it and create a whole lot of problems... well... as i said... i'm a very open minded person... i can accept anything as long as i feel that it's correct... i don't understand why people won't go to the places which are not follwing their religion... because 'm the type of person that goes to the church or mosque or hindu temples if someone invites me to go... to me... i'm just learning things from other religions... of course... every religion has something good... in fact... most of the things are good... or else it'll be called an agama sesat already... so i don't understand... why won't people go to temples... mosques...or anywhere that's so called interfering with their religions??
what is a religion anyway... well... my point of view: it's just a very simple guideline to humanity... that's all... the Buddhism i know tells me that the Buddha is actually in your heart... together with you... it's just the matter of realising the fact... "The person closest to God is not the person who is always talking about God... But always talking about humanity... The person who's atalking about God all the time but doing things in a totally opposite manner... is the person who's furthest from God..." this is what i believe in... XD
Talking about vegetarians as well... does that mean that if i'm a vegetarian... i can't eat meat?? NO... Not at all!!! it's basically only a choice of mine... it's because i choose not to eat meat and that's why i'm a vegetarian now... get it clear... it's not commutative... XD the reason why i choose not to eat meat is just simply because of first thing... health... second... i don't feel like getting other living beings hurt just for my pleasure of eating... XD that's why i don't understand... why can people be so extreme until whenever they go to any restaurants... the spoons must not been used by those non-vegetarians... the wok and cooking apparatus must be new... and everything... they're just making their life ery difficult... it's not like they're allergic to meat or something like that... XD what if one day... they're going to die because of not eating... and they just refuse to eat just because the wok has been used to cook meat before?? are they just going to die like that?? well... to me... as long as they keep their mind track right... and they're very clear of what they're doing... it's nothing really really wrong... we need to survive man...
well... i do hope that you guys get my whole picture about obsessions... XD just by reading this post about religion... just try to link it to everyday life... then you'll know what i mean... seriouslly... we really need to let go sometimes in our life... 有舍才有得.. it's true... XD puting things down sometimes may be a challenge to us... but take up the challenge... and live with it... don't be a coward!!!(quoted from Pn Tan Tiu Hang.. XD) be successful in life with whatever you have... but not by being obsessed in trying to get something that you yourself couldn't handle well... but don't misunderstand me... i'm not asking you to take every songle easy way out of life whenever you can... try your best in every single thing and have no regrets... even if you don;t meet your target... don't get so obsessed about it and get yourself all crazy... XD have to quote something again... XD from My FM... XD 把每件简单的事做好就是不简单。。。把每件平凡的事做好就是不平凡。。。 XD
guess that's all i'm going to share now... haven't done my maths and physics homework... XD bye bye... hope you guys enjoyed this post... XD comments appreciated... XD
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