Our Deepest Fear

OUR DEEPEST FEAR

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented, fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest

the glory of God that is
within us.

It is not just in some of us;

it is in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine,

we unconsciously
give other people permission

to do the same.

As we are liberated
from our own fear,
our presence automatically
liberates others.

Happy Niu(牛）Year 2009!

RESULTS

"I want to demonstrate by my life and my results, not my talk, not my wishes, but by my results." -- Gerry Robert

"It is not what you say or hope or wish or intend but only what you do that counts. Your choices tell you unerringly who you really are." -- Brian Tracy

"Life asks us to make measurable progress in reasonable time. That’s why they make those fourth grade chairs so small – so you won’t fit in them at age twenty-five!" -- Jim Rohn

"We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service." -- Earl Nightingale

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Do you have a personal and professional Plan, Do and Review in your life?

It’s 2009 and this is a great time to Plan, Do and Review for 2009. Will you be focused and on course for reaching your goals? Are you on the right track mentally, physically, spiritually, financially, relationally, etc.?

As Jim Rohn would say... "Now is the time to fix the next 10 years!"
Plan your Work and Work your Plan!
Happy Niu(牛）Year to ALL!

Kindness

Kindness

"Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love."
Tao Te Ching

Wisdom, Philosophy and Greatness

Keep me away from the wisdom

which does not cry,

the philosophy

which does not laugh

and the greatness

which does not bow before children.

Kahlil Gibran

Manifest WHATever you Want!

Good New Education for your Body/Mind/Spirit and Soul.
Enjoy, it's sexy and funny!

Wisdom of the Buddha Vs Law of Attraction

Specially dedicated to those who attack/misuse/Hijack the movie "The Secret" and its Law of Attraction - Open your eyes and mind - Truth is not what you perceived it to be...it is larger, wider,wiser, nicer than what's in your narrow mind! :-)

Sherab's Talks on Loving Kindness and Mahayana Mind Training

Hi everyone,

Sherab is invited by Persatuan Penganut Buddha Bodhi (菩提工作坊）Kuala Lumpur to give a three-days talk at their centre near China Town (Petaling Street).

Based on the Theravada Metta Sutta, he will speak about love and compassion from the spiritual perspective of Mahayana Buddhism, Vajrayana's way of Mind Training as well as Integral Spirituality. There will be Q & A sessions as well. Admission is free.

Details:

Topic: Loving Kindness and Mahayana Mind Training

Date: 16th/23rd/30th December 2008 (Tuesday)

Address: 15 C, 3rd Floor, Jalan Sultan, 5000 Kuala Lumpue, Malaysia.

Tel: 603-20267605

for map download please visit:

http://bodhi.org.my/bodhi/index.php?option=com_contact&Itemid=3

Background
In Theravada Buddhism's Pali Canon, metta is one of the four "divine abodes" (Pali: brahmavihara) recommended for cultivating interpersonal harmony and meditative concentration (see, for instance, kammmatthana). In later canonical works (such as the Cariyapitaka), metta is one of ten "perfections" (parami) that facilitates the attainment of awakening (bodhi) and is a prerequisite to attaining buddhahood.
According to post-canonical Sutta Nipata commentary, the background story for the Metta Sutta is that a group of monks is harassed by earth-dwelling deities in a forest; when the monks seek the Buddha's aid in dealing with the deities, the Buddha teaches the monks the Metta Sutta for them to recite regularly; the monks do so and, as a result, win over the deities' good will.

Contents
The Mettā Sutta contains a number of recollections or recitations that promote the development of mettā through virtuous characteristics and meditation.
The discourse identifies fifteen moral qualities and conditions conducive to the development of metta. These include such qualities as being non-deceptive (uju), sincere (suju), easy to correct (suvaco), gentle (mudu) and without arrogance (anatimani).
In terms of meditative development, the discourse identifies:
an intentional wish that facilitates generating metta (Pali: sukhino va khemino hontu; English: "May all beings be happy and safe")
a means for developing meditational objects (a list of various sizes, proximity, etc.) for such a wish a prototypical metaphor — of a mother's protective love for her only child — to be extended to all beings a method for radiating metta outwards in all directions

Use
It is often recited as part of religious services in the Theravada tradition. Cultivating mettā through the recitation of the Mettā Sutta is sometimes believed to have apotropaic powers within the Theravāda tradition.
It has been reported that Buddhist monks chanted the "Mettā Sutta" as part of their demonstration in September and October 2007 against the military in Burma.
(source: wikipedia)

You have more harmony points with every person

on the planet than you have disharmony points,

because there is much more of you

that is in harmony with your Core

than you realize or that most of you allow.

The closer you come to being in harmony with your Source Energy,

the more in harmony you are with each other.

When you think about other people and what they think of you,

do you understand that what they think of you

has very little to do with what you are?

It has mostly to do with the habits of thought

that they have developed.

It has more to do with them as thinkers

than it does with you as the subject of their thought.

If nothing is more important to you than that you feel good,

you can form a fantasy about someone who is in your life

and they will begin to modify to meet your fantasy,

because Law of Attraction is a very powerful thing.

Excerpted from a workshop in Asheville, NC,

on Saturday, September 5th, 1998

Life a Miracle

Watch him sing and play.

It will touch you, it will sooth your mind. It will release you from ALL your problems and troubles. You will see 'Godliness' in everything and everyone you meet.

To put it in Michael Beckwith's word:

"....it will take over your life. It will feed you. It will clothe you. It will guide you, protect you, direct you, sustain your every existence. If you let it. Now that is what I know, for sure."

Enjoy his songs, but most importantly, start to see your Life as a Miracle, Here and Now...

Serenity

Personal Notes to Myself.....

PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY

It's not what happens to you in life that counts;

it's how you take it, and what you make of it.

Denis Waitley

An optimist is the human personification of spring.

Susan J. Bissonette

A character is

a completely fashioned will.

Novalis

Take your job seriously,

BUT don't take their complaints personally.

If you take it personally,

you'll get upset and lose your edge.

If you take it too personally,

you'll lose your edge and your job.

If you take it seriously--it's you with them.

If you take it personally, it's you against them.

What steps can you take

to ensure keeping your cool?

Jeffrey Gitomer

Footprints

No Trace

When you do something,
you should burn yourself completely,
like a good bonfire,
leaving no trace of yourself.

Shunryu Suzuki

Never Never Never Give Up!

Don't Give UP!

Change - We Can Believe In!

"Changing the Face"

Changes Nothing

but

"Facing the Change"

Changes Everything!

We WIN!

A Tribute to Obama
for His wisdom and love
and whatever he truthfully symbolizes
- the Hope, the Change.
Yes, WE CAN!

Athlete's Prayer

God, let me play well but fairly.
Help me to learn something that matters
once the game is over.
Let competition make me strong but never hostile.
Always let me help my opponent up.
Never catch me rejoicing in the adversity of others.
If I know victory, allow me to be happy; if I am denied, keep me from envy.
Remind me that sports are just games.
If through athletics I set an example,
let it be a good one.

- Gregg Easterbook

Know

Your heart knows in silence

the secrets of the days and the nights

but your ears thirst

for the sound of your heart’s knowledge.

You would know in words

that which you have always

known in thought

You would touch

with your fingers

the naked body of your dreams

Self is a sea of knowledge

boundless and measureless

Kahlil Gibran

ALL

All life is darkness unless there is urge

All urge is blind unless there is knowledge

All knowledge is vain unless there is work

All work is empty unless there is love

"When you work
you are a flute through whose heart

the whispering of the hours turns to music"

"Weave the cloth from the thread of your heart.

Build a house with affection’’

"Work is love made visible"

Kahlil Gibran

OPPORTUNITIES

OPPORTUNITIES
"There is no security in life, only opportunity."
Denis Waitley

"Pa, he always said a man had to look spry for himself,
because nobody else would do it for him;
your opportunities didn't come knocking around,
you had to hunt them up and hog-tie them."
Louis L'Amour

"Effective people are not problem-minded;
they're opportunity-minded.
They feed opportunities and starve problems."
Stephen Covey

"If opportunity doesn't knock build a door."
Milton Berle

Four Leaf Clover

Four-leaf Clover
A Poem by Ella Higginson

I know a place where the sun is like gold
and the cherry blooms burst with snow,
and down underneath is the loveliest nook,
Where the four-leaf clovers grow.

One leaf is for HOPE,
and one is for FAITH,
And one is for LOVE,
you know,
And GOD
put another in for LUCK
--If you search,
you will find where they grow.

But you must have HOPE,
and you must have FAITH,
You must LOVE and be strong
-- and so --If you work,
if you wait, you will find the place
Where the four-leaf clovers grow~!