Today is a very big day for me. I am so happy today. Why? It is because I managed to pass the Kuen Cheng High School entrance exam. As a reward Mama will take me out for dinner :)

Most of my friends made it, some did not apply and some failed :'(

Today, I came home in my school bus as usual. One of the kids were chanting :" 2 more days of seeing Sean's face " Even though I think the kid is insulting me because I have two days of my current school left, I still think it has a bit of a tune and seems to rhyme. HaHaHa( sarcastically)

Upon reaching home, I had a tasty lunch of pork and chicken feet with rice. ( By the way, I am not vegetarian. I only don't eat beef). After that, I went upstairs to my room to do my prayers as usual and do my water offering.

After that I went downstairs to do my 100 prostrations. Then, I started to write my blog.

Now, I shall continue with my assignment of retyping Day 10 and 11 of the book :" LIBERATION IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND"

You must be farsighted from the beginning. You must feel," I am prepared to use my entire human life to pursue just one meditation topic of the lamrim." But we are farsighted about worldly things, which is the wrong way round. Lack persistence worldly things, non the Dharma. If you feel, " It's impossible not to achieve anything in Dharma" and practice with courage, you will not have to spend a month or a year on a single meditation topic.

Geshe Kamaba said:

We say,"Our contemplations achieve nothing." Why do you think that is? Don't lie: you are distracted in the daytime and fall asleep at night!

In other words, never mind our spending a month on a meditation topic; we have not even meditated on a single topic for the length of a single meditation session. How unrealistic to feel, "Even now I haven't developed realizations!" We don't make determined practice our starting point, yet we roll our eyes into the top of our head [and pretend to meditate] when we do just one recitation of, for example, [Tsongkhapa's] Basis of All Good Qualities. If we act in this way, our wish to develop insights and realizations into the lamrim is an extremely greedy one. This is where the fault lies.

Karag Gomchung Rinpoche, a Kadampa, said:

Look far ahead. Be farsighted. Be in tune.

These three things are vital. The meaning is that you must look far ahead to the goal of omniscience; be farsighted about the small and medium scopes; and meditate to reach the right pitch or tension. Your practice, too, should be at the right pitch. When you receive the Dharma orally from your guru and then practice frantically for a few days with superficial renunciation, this is a sure sign that you will make no progress.

HOW TO EXTRACT THE ESSENCE FROM YOUR OPTIMUM HUMAN REBIRTH (118)

This has three sections: (I) training your mind in the stages of the path shared with small scope ; (2) training your mind in the stages of the path shared with the medium scope; (3) training your mind in the great-scope stages of the path.

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Today, I was beaten up again in school. Resulting in another slightly bruised arm.

At school, all the Year six students had to dance until our arms and legs almost seemed broken as today, there was a big rehearsal for the graduation ceremony. But by as it seems, it is the headmaster's graduation ceremony. Why? Because he is forcing all the innocent Year 6 students who did not apply for the dancing to dance till they drop.Even though I applied for it, I think someone should stand up for the Year 6 students who did not volunteer for suffering. The way they train us is sometimes painful and hard because they scold us a lot when we don't get on stage on time or did not dance perfectly. I mean, no one is perfect!

After that, our hard work was kind of repaid. We had a mini"buffet" style "lunch" at 11.30 a.m.

Upon reaching home, I started to have some real lunch. After that, I done my prayers and my offerings and done my 100 prostrations. I had to do it without my pants as I found it easier for me to do my prostrations without my pants :)

After I had tuition, Kak Umi and I started decorating the Christmas Tree. We finished it already :)

Now I shall continue retyping Day 10 and 11 of the book : " LIBERATION IN THE PALM OF YOUR HANDS"


We have not yet achieved advanced results like previous practitioners.Je Milarepa trained in the common path under Marpa, and many of his songs are about his development of these realizations. And you need the lamrim to make the especially rapid progress promised by the secret tantras. This is the implication of the names the Easy Path and the Swift Path. That Milarepa achieved the unification in one lifetime was not due to tantra alone; he had already trained in the path of three scopes in formers lives. In one former life,for example, he was the Kadampa Chagtrichog, as said in the introduction to mind training.

Although people who embark on the secret tantras must have trained in the shared part of the path beforehand , we did not do this : we embarked on the secret tantras first , did not keep our tantric commitments, and thought we meditated on the two stages. They say that many such people will go to the Vajra Hell.

That was it for today. Hope you like my blog. I've got some secret text

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Today, I beaten up by a young kid who I don't know. Resulting it an arm that has a bruise on it and a hurt back from when he hit me to a chair knocking both the chair and me down and hurting my leg to internally.

Later, at the bus, I was laughed at because I'm fatherless and they also laughed at me when I told them what job I do.

Today, I had a very bad headache which still did not heal after two hours of sleep. The headache still hurts horribly :(

Well, in the good side today, the students managed to watch a video about a man with no arms and legs( but he has a small leg which he calls a "chicken drumstick") The name of the man is Nick Vujicic. He has a few motto's I will list them out :

• I am special
• Never ever give up
• I am beautiful ( for girls)
• I am the man ( for boys )

He also has two websites:

• attitudeisaltitude.com( it was mentioned at the end of the video)
• lifewithoutlimbs.com ( about his life )

Now I shall continue with writing Day 10 and Day 11 of the book " LIBERATION IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND "

When we speak of small and medium scopes, we mean training the mind in the stages of the path shared with the small and medium scopes; we do not mean training the mind in the actual small and medium parts of the path. Suppose there are three people: one going to Tashi Lhuenpo, one to Rong, and one to Chusur. The first wants to go to Tashi Lhuenpo but must first share some of the road with the other two. The three have three different things in mind: two are traveling to either Rong or Chusur, and the first intends to continue on to Tashi Lhuenpo.

So, in the small- and medium-scope sections of the lamrim, you must focus on achieving buddhahood for the sake of sentient beings. Developing bodhichitta is the actual practice; the small- and medium-scope parts of the path are preliminaries to developing bodhichitta. You may be wondering, " In that case it must be sufficient to teach the great scope from the outset. I doubt that the so-called small and medium are needed."There are two reasons for discussing all three. There are people who cannot train their minds in the great scope initially , so they need to practice in stages through the small and medium scopes. This approach is more beneficial for people with good, mediocre, or inferior minds. Also, without some familiarity with the earlier parts of the path, you will have no renunciation at all in your mindstream, so you need to defeat any pride you may have about being a Mahayanist or follower of the secret tantras.

To develop boddhichitta, which is the actual practice, you need to develop such compassion that you simply cannot bear others being tormented by suffering. But in order to develop compassion, you must know exactly how you yourself is plagued by suffering. And you must understand that the whole of samsara is by nature suffering. But first you must fear the lower realms , for without this you will have no repudiation of celestial and human happiness. You must therefore train your mind in the small- and medium-scope parts of the path. This training is like the foundations and wall-supports of a house.

Well, I guess I will be writing up to here and I am getting tired already. This is the top of the page : 293.

I guess because I did not do my chores in before the time I'm supposed to do and did not do some chores at all, I will not have any dinner today.

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I have a new assignment that could help me become hardworking and not lazy.

I shall start with self confession. I have a lot of things I am supposed to do but in the end, I did not do them. I shall list it out :

1. Do my prayers ( Lama Tsongkhapa's Guru Yoga)
2. Feed Jannic, my dog
3. Do my water offerings
4. Write my blog often
5. Do my work of compiling H.E. Tsem Tulku Rinpoche's Tweets on twitter and correcting the short form words like : d, ppl, hv,u,ur,urself etc.
6. Do my daily exercises

I have done many bad things that I am not supposed to do. I shall list them out too:

1. Play computer. I usually do it for 4-5 hours
2. Watch Television. estimated 3 hours
3. Sitting down staring at a wall. I usually do it for 1-2 hours
4. Eating between meals. Around 30 minutes.

After discussing with Mama and Aunty Susan, I now have a list of chores I have to do. The chores are:

• Doing my prayers and water offerings Before 5 p.m.
• Feed Jannic ( including fill water bowl and clean water bowl ) Before 7 p.m.
• Tuition Homework( Whenever I have it ) Before 8 p.m.
• Write my blog End of day
• Doing my compilation of tweets on Twitter( 100 per day ) Everyday
• Exercises(Run to the school down the lane and run home 3 times.Then play badminton) Before 6 p.m.
• Eat less between meals 24 hours.

Now, the beginning of my assignment. I have to retype the Day 10 and Day 11 chapter of this book ( I will write information about it):

Name : LIBERATION IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND
Author : Pabongka Rinpoche
Edited by : Trijang Rinpoche
Translated by: Micheal Richards
Published by: Wisdom publications.

The re-typing starts now.
( I shall type it in red colour )

DAY 10

Kyabje Pabongka quoted the following praise from the writings of Genduen Tenzin Gyatso, a great adept:

This is not false, invented the Dharma, because it is the pith of authentic oral teachings.
This is not foolish talk, because it comes from classical texts by the great champions.
This is not a shimmering mirage, because saintly scholars and adepts have experienced it.
This is not a perilous cliff, because it is the highway to highest enlightenment.

He quoted this as part of a short talk to set our motivation. He restated the headings we had above and then reviewed the material that comes after the subheading " Devoting Yourself through Deeds," part of the section on "The Root of the Path : Devotion to a Spiritual Guide"

Between meditations, mainly read books that teach about the optimum human rebirth. If, after thinking about the difficulty of obtaining this most beneficial human rebirth, you develop a wish to extract some essence from it, you should train your mind though the three scopes of the lamrim. The extent to which you train your mind in these three scopes determines how much of the small, medium, or great essence you will eventually extract.

If we want to achieve buddhahood, we must first develop realization into earlier sections of the path; if not, we will not develop realization into the later parts. For example, Khampas coming to see the Shakyamuni statue in Lhasa Cathedral first leave their homes, arriving finally at the statue. The road leads them here bit by bit; it is impossible for them any part of the way. Nor can you develop realization into such higher parts of the path as compassion until you have the first achieved the lower parts - renunciation and so on. [Shantideva] says in Engaging in the Deeds of Boddhisattvas:

If you have not even dreamed
Of benefiting yourself
Before dreaming this for sentient beings, How could you be of benefit to others?

I shall write until here for today as it is late and I am sleepy. I shall continue tomorrow.

I have written up to page 292.

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Today, I went together with Kak Umi to the MidValley mall of Kuala Lumpur.Kak Umi had to collect some money from her friend.

After that, we went to buy some groceries. I bought one token for an arcade game. The arcade game I played was " Hit the Crocodile". It is the game were you have to take a baton and whack plastic crocodiles.

After we went grocery shopping, we both sat down and ate some fish balls together. There wasn't much to do at the mall at all.

Other than that, I just was given a new job. My job is to compile H.E. Tsem Tulku Rinpoche's tweets from Twitter and copy and paste it into Microsoft word and edit words like : d, ppl, u,ur,urself etc.

So far, I only managed to compile and edit 300 tweets.

The Twitter Website is :
www.twitter.com/tsemtulku

H.E. Tsem Tulku Rinpoche has already posted 2000 posts already !

Today, I truly learned that being lazy is horribly bad because everything that I do that is lazy can mean that I am selfish. I am selfish when I am lazy because when I am lazy, I am only thinking about myself.

Laziness has bad results. Because I did not study hard enough, my exam grades were not that good at all :( When I am lazy to do my work, I get punished.

Selfishness is already as bad as it can be so why should I be lazy? because laziness is a 2-in-1 bad quality. So, bit by bit, I WILL CHANGE. I know I can change if I am not lazy to change. So I'll repeat these words again : I WILL CHANGE. Change what ? I WILL CHANGE FROM A LAZY BOY TO A HARDWORKING MAN !

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Lately my Internet was fried by a lightning strike. The lightning strike was very scary. The minute it hit, I was screaming horribly loudly.

I shall start where I did not write, the first thing is: the late MJ's new, second and last movie : This is It !

The movie was quite cool. It was like a concert because they just show songs that the late Micheal Jackson sang before he passed away. The songs included : Smooth Criminal, Beat it, Thriller, Earth Song, Billie Jean and many more. Some of the songs were remade and looked different as they were trying to make some new music videos. They actually wanted to make " Thriller 3-D " and they remodeled the Earth Song.

Now to Yesterday, I went to see a concert for awards about Chinese Culture. The dinner there was awesome.

The first course was octopus, some dumpling, vegetables and fish. The main courses were chicken, fish, fried rice and many more. The desert was longan with almond in sugar water aand fresh fruits.

That is about it as I can't remember some of the things that happened.

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I did not manage to write this on the exact day it happened because I was away from the computer. This is it !

On 31st of October, most of students of Year 6 in SJK(C) Kuen Cheng (2) ( including me) went to a small field trip. ( I will be using the term "we" sometimes in this blog because it is not just myself who went to the small field trip).

Early in the morning, Beatrix and I took off from her house to the school where all the students were supposed to meet up.

When we reached the school, I noticed that the school was awfully quiet because the only people there were most of the Year 6 students and some teachers.

After the teachers did a head count, we took off to our first destination in an air-conditioned bus. Our first destination was in Pahang. It was an one and a half hour trip from our school to our destination.

Our first destination was actually supposed to be the elephant sanctuary but plans had changed because there were to many people at the elephant sanctuary. So, instead of the elephant sanctuary, we walked uphill to the Orang Asli ( Malaysian term for Aborigines or Natives) Village.

The first part of the trip to the Orang Asli Village was a visit to the school that the Orang Asli study in. Apparently, there is no electricity and the school is just made out of rattan. All the "air-conditioning" is the wind. They showed us how to use a blowpipe. I even got a chance to try it out. I missed the targets and hit the picture of the elephant :(

The second part of the trip to the Orang Asli Village was to take a look around the village to see the houses through the ages. One or two of the houses was made out of twigs and leaves and people are still living in those huts. Later, the Orang Asli became a bit more civilized and started to build wooden houses on stilts. Later, the government funded the Orang Asli and they became even more civilized and built houses with cement and bricks.

That was the end of our trip to the Orang Asli Village.

After that, we went towards to the elephant sanctuary.

After we walked downhill, we went through the gates of the elephant sanctuary and over a very big metal bridge that seemed as if it were to collapse any second.

We had to wait outside so the teachers could do a head count. While we were waiting, we managed to see two elephants passing by.

We were originally going to see a short film about the life of an elephant first but things changed. Instead, we got to see the elephants first.

After walking awhile, we arrived at the forest where they keep the elephants. There were some chained up elephants. The smallest and youngest one seemed to be very happy to meet us because it was waving its trunk round and round and it also raised its trunk and I thought that it was smiling. Now I will tell you a bit about elephants :

1. Many people think that elephants are scared of mice but as the people who work at the elephant sanctuary said : " Elephants are scared of bees ".

2. The elephant shows are actually torture towards the elephants.

3. Elephant's poop can weigh up to 65 kg and 50% of that is not digested.

and many others.

Later, we fed the elephants sugar canes and after that we went to ride on the elephants. The elephants hair was very sharp and spiky.

After that we went to visit the elephant museum. It had elephant bones and a lot of text about the elephants. We were originally going to see the short clip about elephants now but other students were using the theatre and if we were to wait till they leave, it would ruin the schedule. So we left for our third destination.

Our third stop was the Deer Park. It was a 5 minute bus ride from the elephant sanctuary.

At the Deer Park, we were given some potatoes to feed the deer. When I was about to collect some potatoes, one of the deer started chewing on my T-shirt and I think one was chewing on the backside of my pants. While feeding the deer, one of them stood up and he was taller than me and tried to get my food but "accidentally" stepped on my foot.

After feeding the deer, we went to see the other animals. The people there seemed to imprison house cats too because they think they are zoo animals. The main attractions included the sun bear cub and the Papa sun bear.

Our fourth stop was outside of the jungle of Pahang and into the small towns of Pahang. Our fourth stop was : LUNCH!!!!!!! We had fish, chicken, vegetables, egg and tofu :)

Our fifth stop was the peanut factory. The peanut factory was a small family business. I will show the peanut making process by text:

1. Take the imported peanuts( from around the world) and mix with salt

2. Take the salted peanuts and put them out at the sun.

3. Later, cook the peanuts in some sort of machine. ( History lesson : the first and second generation of this family of peanut factory workers actually cooked the peanuts by hand whereas currently they use machines but still use firewood to make fire. )

4. Pick the good peanuts from the bad ones.

5. seal them up in cans or packets

6. And SELL!!!!!

At the end of the tour, I bought some peanuts home as souvenirs.

The sixth stop is the Tau Fu Factory. There is not much to say here but I bought some Tau Fu Pok back home.

The seventh and supposed to be final stop was the mushroom factory. There seriously is nothing to be said here except that I bought some mushrooms meant for making butter-fried mushrooms home.

The bonus stop that was not included in our payments is the ice cream factory. The ice cream factory that we visited was just a little coffee shop but one of the sultans of Malaysia loves it and sometimes will close it down for a few days to have some ice cream. Unfortunately, the ice cream factory was not open but the coffee shop was! So, I bought a chocolate ice cream.

After that, we happily went back to school. The End.

And I would like thank Beatrix and her family for letting me stay with them during the weekend while my mother was not home as she had to go to her cousins funeral.

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