Living In A Grateful World

Be grateful to those who have hurt or harmed you,

for they have reinforced your determination.

Be grateful to those who have deceived you,

for they have deepened your insight.

Be grateful to those who have hit you,

for they have reduced your karmic obstacles.

Be grateful to those who have abandoned you,

for they have taught you to be independent.

Be grateful to those who have made you stumble,

for they have strengthened your ability.

Be grateful to those who have denounced you,

for they have increase yor wisdom and concentration.

Be grateful to those who have made you firm and resolute

and helped in your achievements.

From the teachings of Ven. Master Chin Kung

Appointment With Life

All of us have only 24-hours a day, regardless of who we are. From themost powerful person on earth or the richest man to the poorest, all of us are given the same 24-hours a day.

Yet, how many of us really treasure these limitations? And how is it that some people can achieve so much with this same 24-hour day and become rich and powerful while others remain poor and helpless?

There is only one moment when life is available and that is the Present moment. Your Appointment with Life is in the Present moment.

If you are not able to touch the Present moment, you miss your Appointment with Life. All these is very simple and not difficult to understand at all.

Therefore, all our energies and time should be focused in the Present moment. The past is already gone and the future is not yet here...

Everyone should do the same - living each moment of our daily life deeply, dwell in it and establish ourselves in the Present moment.

Practise to be mindful in our daily life and its every moment. Learn to go back to the Present moment and live deeply and treasure every moment of our daily life.

In that Present moment, you will find the most beautiful thing - peace, joy, love, abundance, the kingdom of God and the Pure Land.

All these things can only be touched and found only in the Present moment...

Forget Oneself

To learn the Truth is to learn about oneself

To learn about oneself is to forget oneself

To forget oneself is to perceive oneself as all things

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All things are interconnected. Wisdom is gained through the realization that all things are inseparably linked.

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Knowing that, you developed compassion for all sentient beings. You realize that as our compassion flows, we become more cheerful and open.

Wisdom and compassion must exist together. One without the other would be incomplete.

A person with wisdom and no compassion will only act out of his own self-interest. A person with compassion but without wisdom will do foolish things because of wrong perceptions and assumptions.

Therefore, develop both wisdom and compassion for the benefit of all sentient beings.

Letting Go To Be Awaken

"I am an Investment Banker working in a prestigeous Wall Streets firm."

"She is a high-power Lawyer."

"My father is a Millionaire and owns lots of properties."

"Catherine is a stay-at-home Mom with 2 children."

"He is a senator."

"I am a Professor with a PhD in Literature."


All of us are defined by labels that we either placed on ourselves or by others.

That is how an ego works - the "I" needs to clearly identify itself so that it can fit into society's definitions of how you should behave, live or work. Everything is defined by the expectations accorded by the label. You should clearly stay in the boundaries set up by your ego and its labels. Anytime you do not do that, you will be called "Crazy", "Acting Strange", "Not her usual self."

All these are labels, whose primary aim is to fit you into a context defined by the material world, the ego-filled world where every body has their expected place in the world.

Therefore, we are burdened by views and ideas about things, about ourselves, about the world surrounding us. Our minds are filled with opinions about things and some times, delusions of our wisdom. We end up being too clever to listen to others, to be open to new ideas and be receptive of other people's opinions.

In doing that, we find ourselves shut out from the Universe. Being too clever and ego-centric, we never learn. We cannot be open to new experiences and ideas.

Therefore, to be Awaken, you need to get rid of this cleverness. A cup filled to the rim with stale, dirty water will not have room for anything else. Therefore, it is essential that you empty the cup, throw out the dirty water and start with a clean cup. Only when the mind is empty and pristine can you recognize the truth about the "Non-I", the "Being" that exists in all of us, our Buddha-nature.


Being Awaken is letting go of self and the ego. And accept the emptiness, the voidness, the Present...