Detachment is enlightenment

Fasting is a very popular mean in religions to pure oneself and get closer to the holy one.
Now how does the fasting tradition came about?

Early religion notice that the only way to reach enlightenment is by detaching one self from
worldly material. The Buddhist stated that ” Worldly desire is the origin of samsara ( the wheel of suffering) “.
When a person is too attached to worldly material , say : money , achievement , vanity,  it is less likely for him/her to be enlighten.

The Christian Bible told people to
“keep on abstaining from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul” (1 Peter 2:11)
Again, it is not the rich people that have difficulty in finding God ,
it is those who are very much attached to the worldly possession ;
people who are lustful towards money , achievement and vanity.
Humans’ desire is the one keeping them apart from being enlighten , not the worldly material itself.

In early age , religious people used to deprive their physical being to achieve detachment.
When a person is able to manage their own physical deprivation and maintain an inner peace ,
he/she will be enlighten.

Many times in our life , simple things like money, grades , appearance , or relationship breakdown can easily disturb our inner peace. Modern society train our mind to think that without the superficial quality, our life will be miserable. In other words, modern society encourage attachment.

Think about it. What will happen to you if nobody loves you?
Or if you don’t have the superficial quality that you have now?
Will you still be happy if you are hungry , poor and wounded?
Will you still be able to maintain inner peace in your heart?

Siddhartha Gautama meditate for days without food and drink to reach enlightenment.
Jesus Christ fasted for 40 days and 40 night and resist the devil’s temptation.
Muslim people fast during the holy month of Ramadan.

It is detachment that can lead people towards God more than prayer , reading Holy books ,or charity.
It is the abstinence of human’s desire that can lead the people to listen and respond to God’s word and the world’s calling.

Somebody once told me that zen people is agnostic towards religion.
I said that he need a long way to attain enlightenment.

let it be~

let it be - The Beatles 1970

When i find myself in times of trouble
Mother mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
And in my hour of darkness
She is standing right in front of me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
Let it be, let it be.
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.

And when the night is cloudy,
There is still a light that shines on me,
Shine on until tomorrow, let it be.
I wake up to the sound of music
Mother mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
Let it be, let it be.
There will be an answer, let it be.
Let it be, let it be,
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be

Farewell Morgan Stanley

This is my last day at Morgan Stanley , so sad
I will definitely miss working. It has been such a great experience. MS is definitely a nice place to work at. People there are great, helpful and kind. Working there was fun and enjoyable.

Anyway…

Merry Christmas everyone~!

The relationship game

It was that simple to start:

A woman get jealous of her boyfriend because he said that another woman has better legs than her.
So the woman got upset and thought
“Damn you! I can’t believe that you are checking at her leg after everything I have done for you!
I deserve someone better than you!”

Then she went out with a guy who has better car.
Nothing happened, it was just a date. She only wanted to make the man jealous,
After all, she need to teach him   how it feel to lose her , and that she had better offer , as she always was.
It was meant to be a little warning.

Obviously the man was outraged when he found out about this. He got really upset, and his ego was threatened.  “She can’t do this to me! I am not like any guys! I will teach her a lesson!”
So he went out with another woman who is better looking and more popular than his girlfriend.
Even worse, he kept on talking about her in front of his girlfriend.
Nothing is wrong. He just did what she did. It was a counterattack.

She got hurt. He got hurt.
They started to spend every date talking about other rich men and beautiful women.
They started to exaggerate compliments towards other people just to hurt each other.
“I have better offer than you”.
“There are so many people better than you out there”
“I won’t die if I don’t have you”
Then it went on from relationship issue to everything under the sky.
“My wealth is more than yours.”
“I have more A in my transcript”
“I am better at singing, jogging, dancing, badminton, whatever things”

They don’t mean all that things.
They just want to threaten each other.
Everything implies the same thing:
“I am me myself and I! “

So it went on and on and on. All dates are fighting stages to threaten each other.
They flirted with others, talked to others, wished that their partner can be a little bit more like anyone else but themselves.
Of course, at the end they broke up.
And it was painful, certainly.
For the first time they suddenly realized that other people’s legs, cars, wealth, talents, and beauty do not actually matter for them, or anyone.
But what matters, has gone.

The irony is… while they were doing the argument and ego battle; they were actually in love with each other.
Now how drunk were them again?

The wisdom of love

Do you know what is the actual meaning of the science of thoughts; philosophy?

Philosphy come from two Greek words,
philos which means love
and sophos or sophia , which means wisdom.
So in short, philosophy means the wisdom of love or the love of wisdom.

One famous philosopher once stated that love is an affection we feel towards the things that brings meaning to our life.
So the word love in philosophy put it as a discipline that is suppose to address the meaning of life as its objective.

Early scientist realized that there is only one thing that brings meaning to life: truth.
God and God only is Truth.
The path of seeking for truth leads them to study the manifestation of God:  human thoughts.
Wisdom, thoughts, knowledge, faith, and humanity are the objects of philosophy, the wisdom of love.

So here it comes, philosophy, the wisdom of love, or the love of wisdom,
It is the study of human thoughts, the only truth that brings meaning to life.
Everything else is illusion.

Kurt Cobain’s famous quote

Yeah , me too