The Precious of Human Birth

Recently a blogger post his experience on commit suicide and another blogger made a comment on that. Well, I want to share my experience on the precious of human birth which is I learn from Dharma class.

Some basic fundamental about Buddhism. There are 6 realms in Buddhism, god, asura (demon), human, hungry ghost, animal and hell. So how difficult to obtain the precious human birth? Buddha gave us a simile in Balapandita Sutta – the Discourse of Foolish and Wise. The Buddha describe the suffering of the animal kingdom, giving the Simile of the One-eyed Turtle to illustrate just how difficult it is to regain human birth, once one is reborn in the animal realm.

“A man makes a hole in a log and set it adrift in the ocean. When the win comes from the eat the log drifts weatwards.. when the win blows from the west, it drifts eastward. Similarly, north winds push it to the south, and south winds push it to the north. In the ocean is a one-eyed turtle that surfaces only once every hundred years. Is it possible that the one-eyed turtle would put its head up through the hole in the log?

It would be very difficult for the one-eyed turble to meet up with the drifting log. Then the Buddha explained.

“Monks, this rare chance, this freak occurrence is possible, but for the bad man who is reborn as an animal or in hell to become a human being again is rarer and more difficult”

Human status is exceedingly rare. Once this rare chance is gone, one finds the greatest difficulty to be reborn again as human being. For a one-eyed turtle wandering in the ocean to encounter the hole in the log is possible only if the log never rots, and only if the turtle lives for a billions of years.

Human rebirth is difficult to obtain and easy to lose. So don’t you guys ever think to end your life!

无常

诸法因缘生,
诸法因缘灭.
一切有为法，
如梦幻泡影,
如露亦如电,
应作如是观.

要如何观？

Story of 4 People

There was an important job need to be done and Everybody was asked to do it.
Everybody was sure Somebody would do it.
Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.
Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job.
Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realised that Everybody wouldn't do it.
It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when actually Nobody asked Anybody.

Don't you guys experience above story in your work office?

Rainbow

Why does rainbow is often related to gay world? Since I get in touch in gay world, I knew it but somehow can’t figure it out. In entertainment industry, composer or lyricist often use rainbow as metaphor for gay relationship, they have by far have beautiful lyrics, even better than song that describe straight relationship.

Rainbow彩虹 [Power Station 动力火车]

身为一道彩虹 雨过了就该闪亮整片天空

让我深爱的你感到光荣

身为一道彩虹 尽全力也要还你一段笑容

够了我爱你不必人懂 不必人懂

只要不醒过来 这就不是梦

请拥抱我 请看着我 体温别留走

好多话想说 好多事要做

请天空给我 请时间给我

再多一点停留

亲爱的你我有感动
请牢记在心中 下一次下雨你能看见的

那道彩虹不再可能是我

只要你懂

As a rainbow, after rain should brighten whole sky
Let me as a man who deeply love you feel proud about it
As a rainbow, I’ll do everything in order to exchange your smile
Enough, I love you, doesn’t need other people to know.

As long as not wake up, then it’s not a dream
Please hug me, please look at me, and don’t take away your warmth
Please give me sky, please give me time, and stay a little longer.

Dear, I’m touch
Please remember that the next time when sky rain
The rainbow that you see may not be me.
As long as you know.




Rainbow彩虹 [阿密特 a.k.a 張惠妹 – Ah Mei]

你整齊潔白的床　是我傾訴的地方

抱你哭著到天亮　你等待幸福的廚房

那次情人節晚餐　卻是我陪著你嘗衣

櫃不算太寬　藏著你的天堂　依然歡迎我分享

我們的愛很像　都因男人而受傷　卻又繼續碰撞

當天空昏暗　當氣溫失常　你用巨大的堅強　

總能抵擋當尖銳眼光　當刺耳聲響　你用彩虹的浪漫　溫柔包裝

看我丟掉他的西裝　比我先紅了眼眶

笑我傻　陪我慌　當我找到幸福去向

幫我快樂的化妝　陪我傻　笑我慌

Your neat clean white bed, is a place for me to pour out my feeling
Hug you and cry till morning.
You wait for happiness kitchen, that Valentine dinner, but is me who share with you

Wardrobe not too wide yet hiding your heaven, still welcome to share together with you
Our love very similar, coz it hurt by men; yet still continue to crash

When the sky darkened, when the atmosphere is disorder
Still able to withstand with a strong determination

When the sharp eye stare, when the ear-piercing voice sounds
You use the romantic rainbow to wrap and masquerade.

When you see me throw away his suit, your eyes become red first.
Laugh me stupid, accompany me nervous
When I found my happiness path
Happily help me put on my make up
Accompany me stupid, laugh me being nervous





Maybe people think gay life is as colourful as rainbow….but do you think so??
Here is the meaning of each colour in Rainbow Flag

red: stands for courage;
orange: offers the vision of possibilities;
yellow: represents the challenge that GREEN has kindled;
green: indicates a challenge to co-operators to strive for growth of membership and of understanding of the aims and values of co-operation;
sky blue: suggests far horizons, the need to provide education and help less fortunate people and strive toward global unity.
dark blue: suggests pessimism: a reminder that less fortunate people have needs that may be met through the benefits of cooperation.
violet: is the colour of warmth, beauty, and friendship.


p/s pretty heavy post for my 2010 1st post hor…

非幡动，非风动；仁者心动

Just now I put a shout out in my Facebook, it sound like this

"kena paksa to increase to 10kg of each side of the bar by instructor in chest track during Body Pump class...now feel damn sore and tight!" (i think some of you guys know which instructor I mention about :-p)

I get various reaction from my friends, here i just copy and paste some of the comment

Friend 1: u feel damn sore and tight...or the instructor feel u r damn sore and tight?.... ~evil...
hahah
Me: ishh.......so naughty!
Friend 1: OMG... u really said this???
Instructor : oh~~~ u r damn sore and tight!!
Paul : ishh....so naughty!
Me: i say u naughty lah!
Friend 2: instructer wants it tighter .. oOooO
Friend 3: cant blame us....is ur wall message that makes us think senget
Me: 非幡动，非风动；仁者心动！！

The chinese phrase basically translated into like this "is not the curtain move, neither the wind. Is the human heart that move"

So who can interpret this phrase and understand the meaning behind it? It comes from a very beautiful history story and mark a very important event in Buddhism.