OCT 22

1

Everyone of us like talking to others about, Tai Chi, Dharma and meditation. My student asked me, " Why is that your hands, your joints and body are so soft? When I touch you during pushing-hand, I am not able to read your mind and the physical aspects of your body. The moment I realised that your chi touching the hardness of my limb, I was just been thrown off into the air unhurt."
Most of us hav

e not put much effort in training and we like to hear the lectures from others or read a lot of books on meditation and dharma, thinking that we have learnt and know a lot. What you hear and read are not your own exprience or your own realisation. We feel dull and sleepy if we asked to sit down to meditate or to do an breathing exercise. We started off knowing that we are breathing or working with the body in the breathing exercise, soon our mind has gone of the room looking or thinking of what to do next, where to shop next or how to cook....
I told them that I used to spend five hours a day for two years to practice my art. This is self-discipline. If we are lacking of self-discipline and persistence and hardwork, we will never achieve nothing.

2

Wasting our time is like a lazy person who sees the gem on the floor, refuses to pick it up. One prefers to idle oneself and spends time on computer games or gossiping in the pubs or any other form of social gatherings, thinking that they can attain happiness and joy. However, one drags the tired and heavy body to work on the next day. The happiness and joy cannot be sustained and have already disppeared in thin air. As a result dullness, tiredness and unmindfulness take over.

3

I cultivated now for 20 years and still know very little
About truth.
The truth is that you are aware of your existence with the whole world from moment to moment. The awareness of your existence is your true self. That is enough

4

According to Lord Buddha's teachings, as long as you don't realise that your real enemy is within you, you will never recognise that mind of attachment is the root of all the problems your body and mind experience. All your worries, your depression, everything comes from that.

5

~ Samyutta Nikaya 
There is no me or mine.......
" Monks, we who look at the whole and not just the part, know that we too are systems of interdependence, of feelings, perceptions, thoughts, and consciousness all interconnected. Investigating in this way, we come to realise that there is no me or mine in any one part, just as a sound does not belong to any one part of the lute.'

6

~ Lama Anagarika Govinda
' All the suffering of this world arises from 
a wrong attitude.
The world is neither good nor bad.
It is only the relation to our ego that
makes it seem the one or the other.'