By Wakeupnow, on 25th August, 2009 There is a subtle difference between “not understanding” vs “disagreeing”. Something that we commonly mix up and are blind-sighted to.
A: I disagree with this teaching. B: So which part of this teaching do you not agree with? A: I don’t know. B: What do you mean? A: I do not understand or know the teaching. B: If you do not understand or know the teaching, how can you disagree with it?
Was having a chat with my mom, and had this epiphany!
This is a common problem we have. We tend to disagree with something that we do not know or understand. But to disagree with something, we should and need to first know what it is, before we can agree or disagree.
With metta, ^_^
By Wakeupnow, on 8th August, 2009 
Many years ago, a few hundred moons gone past, a boy was born to a family of the Forest (Lim) clan, on an Island they say once had a Lion roar The boy grew up, loving the land that fed his family, he had this thing with flags crescent moon and five stars, decked in red and white halves Perhaps he knew what these stood for, perhaps he is a patriot or perhaps he just love the chocolate candy that came in the flag stem core So many years have passed, he’s gone through some studies, work and play, he decided that life is too precious to not try the Enlightened Buddhist Way Following his preliminary monastic training, in a foreign land of freedom, he return to find his island country decked not with crescent moon and stars, but a ferris wheel and racing track Give me Merlion or the Angmo Raffles guy anytime instead, he shouted! A statue of our founding statesmen like LKY would be something he would be proud . . . → Read More: Happy National Day Singapore!
By Wakeupnow, on 4th August, 2009 These days, you got to bring the cow to the pond, build a shade, do manicure for the cow, and then if it still fail to make it drink the water, give the cow a kick in the butt!
By Wakeupnow, on 1st August, 2009 In May 2009, Venerable DingRong and me conducted a Students’ Heart Corner Programme (quite wordy in retrospect!) at Manjusri Secondary School.
The Students’ Heart Corner Programme (SHC) is a pilot programme aimed at giving the students at Manjusri Secondary school an additional avenue to interact with members of the Buddhist Sangha (monastic) community so that they may learn to cope with their emotions and be able to better handle stress and pressure in school. Structure and Duration
The pilot programme ran successfully every Friday for a group of 10 to 15 students, for the month of May, 2009. The programme included activities such as: Simple Awareness Meditation • Group Dialogue • Sharings • Hymns • Each session was conducted by us venerables and was assisted by Mrs Cheng and Mr Ng. The sessions was conducted at the Dharma / Multi-purpose Hall and lasted over 1.5 hours each.
Photo collage from the second session
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Tue Nite Meditation
Sun Puja-talk-Bodhikids
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Thu SIMBB Dharma classes @PMT
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