DEC 11

1

To realise oneself is to find a suitable environment to seek your true self. Roaming and staying in the crowded cemented forest and by reading plenty of books and scriptures make one lost in the midst of such activities. The real teacher or guru is within you. Still yourself in silence, the whole picture of reality of living and understand one true self will appear to you without any hindrance.

2

Our mind creates our own world. The creation done by you of goodness yesterday will manifest the fruit of goodness today. If your creation of compassion and love for others today, then tomorrow your harvest will be joyful and meaningful. By doing so everyday with a good decent heart, you will be become a strong powerful magnet that will attract good friends coming to you, and happiness, good health and fortune will follow you like your own shadow.

3

Many years back, I visited Japan continuously for seven years. I spent about 7 to 9 days visiting my Tai Chi student there. He is very hardworking and cautious. Every year he and his wife would bring me to visit many old Buddhist temples which had been for more than a hundred year and some were even more than a hundred year old. I was quite surprised to discover that there were a few monks around and most temples had no monk at all and they were taken care of by one or a few local people.
Buddhism is declining in the East and flourishing in the West. That makes realising our Lord buddha teaching; there is a period of building up, maintaining, getting decay and finally finishing. In our own life; there is period to be born, getting old , getting sickness and finally leaving the world.
Hence it is very important that before we reach the third stage of our life, we need to work much harder to waken ourselves up from this dream of samsara and liberate ourselves.