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Egoistic Nature of Human

An old woman, Marsha, had a relationship with a man who was also old for about 20 years, and although they are not married, the man loved her very much. Nevertheless, Marsha was always afraid that his friend would leave her someday when she grew older and looked for other younger women. Secretly, she believed that men had a child. As the time went by, this belief became an obsession for her, so that wherever they went and whatever they did, Marsha became increasingly convinced that this was the situation. This attitude was damaging no matter what they did, and disrupt their togetherness that should be fun.

On a spring, they were on vacation to the beach and got a room with a terrace overlooked to the sea. Meanwhile, terraced room next to them rented by an elderly man with a younger woman, and a little baby. This was the thing feared by Marsha most.

It was not unusual if we got what we fear most, and what was worried by Marsha had present, right next to her room. Seeing the family, friends, Marsha said, "Wow, look at that. Lover of the person is still very young. "

At this point, the holiday was already over for Marsha. She was devastated, she could not sleep, did not want to eat, and felt as if her world was collapsed.

"I’m nothing at that time," she said. "The energy of my youth, beauty, all of my grades as a human have been taken from me."

The next day, as they sat on the beach, the couple arrived with their small children and Marsha began to be afraid. A huge hatred arose, and it made her more afraid. She was on vacation in a beautiful place, with the sun shining, but at the same time filled with fear and hate.

However, when she began talking with them, she knew that they were not lovers, but the father and daughter. "Ah," she said, and since that time, she began to like the little charming boy. Moment later, she realized that besides her daughter, the old man has no partner. How wonderful, she thought, now her friend got to know that older man was often left alone. Then, she saw that the man looked at her with admiration. Now, she feels pretty, like being on top of the world. The previous night, she suffered greatly; now, she sat on the beach with great joy.

This was the machination of ego and false pride. A time filled with hatred for a child for no clear reason, the next moment feel on top of the world, because the circumstances seemed different and because the ego felt loved. 

Zazen (note: meditation) destroying this great suffer by constantly helping us to realize the difference between fantasy and reality, between seeing who we really were and what we dreamed.  
Truly Free human is an individual who does not need to project anything. He is a clear mirror, just look at what the present is, offer compassion, and enlighten anything.

Source : Unknown

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So, where do we start?

Hola… New chinese year finally come.
This is a year of Tiger. Tiger is a fierce animal, but in this year somehow tiger will make friends with piggies. Good news!

But you always know that the pig is always lazy. Even if you give them a plate of delicious cakes, maybe they are reluctant to walk for a few meter to get the food.

The same happens to me. Sigh… Maybe I’m already overslept these recent days.
The job is on waiting list. First, I need to complete my ebook about meditation. Then I have to finish my translation service website. It’s a lot of work of course. But it can’t be helped.

You must work diligently in order to achieve what you want in life, right?
No need to say, I’m sure that most of you will agree on what I said.

But, why… Why do my eyes can’t kept open in daytime. I’m half aware.

Maybe I’m lack of motivation. That’s why I need to sort out my priorities and the objectives, the goals I want to obtain in near future.

Work.. work… work… work… Sigh… Ganbatte !!!

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Moving Forward, Moving Backward, or Just Stand Still?

It’s near end of year right now.
Usually, every end of year we will try to review what we have achieved in this year. Did we make any progress this year, or just suffering a set back or no progress at all?

For me this year somehow better than previous one. But strangely, I feel the same. Nothing improve too much this year. I’m still lonely, searching for something that I don’t really want… etc etc… I realize that something which is not easy to attain is satisfaction.

As human, it’s natural that we want more and more. Every time we get something, we’re tend to search more and more. It’s not uncommon when we do love more than one thing. We’re not only seeking for love, we’re also seeking for money, fame, adventure, etc. When we try to stop, we often feel empty. Our mind is keep yelling “Hoi… do something… It’s boring in here !!!”.

People often tell me if I have a lot of money, I will happy. If I have a goddess like beautiful wife, it will be a bliss.
Is that true?

I have seen my neighbor committing suicide. He has beautiful wife, a lot of money and good fortune. But what happened was the good fortune come to turn into bad fortune.The lucky star turned into bad luck star which is become the reason that force him to commit suicide.

So… what’s happiness exactly?

If you have a lot of money, you will be haunted by fear. If you have someone that you love the most, you’ll keep missing that person when they are not around. That’s why I’m starting to think that worldly happiness is just another mask of suffering.

So whether I make any progress or no at all it’s not important. The more important thing is whether I’m fully satisfied with my life. Am I making too much complaint or not?
I remember a quote from a story about wishing game… The only happiness that I wished for is when I don’t need any wish to be happy. :)

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Letter from my friend

This is a letter from my friend. So long not to see him… I think he is very well right now. :)

How are you doing brother…
I hope you are fine there.

Here,… I think I’m fine too… but…. eh Can’t be helped, right… human is always complaint about their life. Just like me. Hehe.

I wonder… always wonder… why I live in this world for so long?
Why do I live? It seems like I’m complicating myself huh?? Haha
Ok then let’s think simple way.

In my life, I always thought that I need to have this or that, I need to pursue my dream. Why? Of course because I love it ! Why I love it? Duh… I’m complicating myself once again. Haha

I don’t know… but I feel the harder I try to reach my dream, the more unpleasant feeling I got. It feel like I force myself into the cliff.
I realize that the pleasure need to be paid with suffering and pressure from the environment where I live right now.

Even though I get all I want, will I be satisfied with all of it? *sigh…
I feel that I’m very stupid.
Maybe I’m not fully aware about my consciousness. Maybe I’m still dreaming and never wake up even though I got bad dreams.

No satisfaction at all.

Brother…Did you ever loved someone? I think I’m falling in love with… more than one person.
Please don’t judge me as crazy but this is the truth. I’m easily attracted with girl. I don’t know why. If you wise you’ll say that I’m good at looking at someone’s quality, but if you not- I think you’ll say that I’m flirtatious. Haha..

You know what,… Usually I’m not easily bribed with money, but if it’s about women… I think I’m not firm enough to stand against them… haha KicK My AsS !!! :P

Maybe this is my last obstacle. If I can get through this… maybe I’ll feel better. But who can guess.. :)

Woman is not easy to handle… they’re just like small little cup… so fragile. You always want to handle it with care because you don’t want to make it break…. That’s why it’s not easy to get along with them. Somehow,… you’ll feel that you’re already lost your freedom.

But this is life, and it can’t be helped that I love them so much.

Brother… how about you? You’re always silent about your feeling. So long we have become friend but I never know much about your relationship with woman.
Brother… maybe I can give you some advice… If you can let go of everything, you will not afraid of losing anything. So, just be calm and see this life the way it is. OK?

Brother… see you later.

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Wrong Thoughts

What will you do if you get in trouble.
what I do I do?
I looked at others to learn how they solve their problem
I found someone
He is really uncommunicative
He is always smiling… but never explain why is he smile.
I try to make him happy… and he is smiling again.
I try to make him sad… but he keep smiling.
I try to make him angry… but he give me some a glass of water and keep smiling.
Whatever I do, he is not bothered at all.

At first, I thought he is a man without emotion, but it’s not possible. How can someone without emotion can have a very sweet smile?

I think… even if I take his life, he will never complaint !
What the hell !!

Ow… who said hell?

I try to make him angry, but the one who gets angry is me.

Now… who is the loser.

Then he said : “No one win.. no one lose”

Now I know what he means by that.

Thank you very much. Arigatou. Terima Kasih. Xie xie ni. :)

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Controlled by Emotion

Frankly said,human is really weak. That’s also apply to me. At this moment, I’m very weak.
We can see that human can easily controlled, easily demolished. If you want to destroy someone, you just need to make him/her feel angry.
If you want have control over human, you just need to give them what they want : money, power, respect, reputation, love, etc.

That’s why I think that we are slave of our own desire.

Even when we have control over anything. Even if we have money, power, love, everything… we’re still a slave of master of deception.

That’s no doubt about it. It’s like cancer. Cancer live within ourbody and ourbody accept it as a part of our own body, even though it make so much desctruction within our body.

I’m still struggling… I will never give up, even I have lost in every battle that I start.

I know this life is short, but I won’t to be in hurry. Because doing something in rush will just end up in vain.

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Change

There’s a story about a doctor in a period of war.
Everytime he heals someone, another one is getting hurt. After contemplating, he think that there is no use for him to heal them, because wounded soldier is like non stopping flow of water. What he did is just a vain.
Then, he stopped being a doctor and start his journey as a hermit.

Someday, he met a Zen Master, and he told him about his past.
Then, he ask the Zen Master, “Why should I become a doctor if they are keep getting hurt all the time?”
The Zen Master gave him simple answer : “It’s because you’re a doctor.”
Upon hearing that response, he feel enlighten. Then he made decision to become a doctor again.

Some of you may get confused why just a simple answer can change someone’s decision?
Let me give you a simpler analogy.
If you feel hungry, what would you do? The most reasonable answer is to eat something. By eating something, do you think that you will never get hungry again? You keep eating and you keep hungry all the time, is that mean that you’ll stop eating?
Of course not… haha

Everything in this life is changing. You can’t get away form change, therefore the first lesson for us is to learn to accept change. If you try to avoid change, then you’ll keep suffer all the time.
Accept change, look at everthing as they are, and ultimately, find the way to free yourself from unstopping circle of birth and death.

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How Should We Live

Work as if you have no need of the money.

Love as if nobody ever made you suffer.

Dance as if nobody is watching you.

Sing as if nobody is hearing you.

Live as if the paradise were on this earth.

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Ilusi Kehidupan

Sometimes you got a feeling that you can’t explain. Somehow you feel upset for nothing. It feels like you want something you don’t really want. Strange… eh?

Yuppieee… ada beberapa hal yang bahkan tidak bisa dijelaskan dengan sempurna. Mood seseorang bisa berubah ubah dari waktu.

Meskipun mungkin kita tidak kekurangan apapun, kita tetap bisa merasakannya. Itulah salah satu sifat keras yang dimiliki manusia, termasuk saya sendiri.
Saya percaya bahwa semua ini terjadi karena ego yang tidak bisa dikendalikan, selalu ingin lebih dan mengejar kesenangan tanpa akhir, padahal diri sendiri juga tidak banyak berbuat banyak demi mencapai tujuan itu.

Itu adalah satu hal. Hal lain adalah berhubungan dengan gengsi.
Terkadang saya sulit mengakui kepada orang lain kalau saya memiliki masalah, just because I don’t want they think that I’m weak.
That’s the negative, the positive is I never want to tell negative things about my current condition because it may somehow tempt other people to think negatively too. And also to keep the heart of people who always regards me as a “strong” person, altough in reality I’m not. For the sake of others and also my pride I won’t tell anybody. So, why I write it in here?

The answer is because : ini semua hanyalah pelampiasan.
Saya tahu bahwa blog ini tidak memiliki banyak pembaca, oleh karena itu saya tidak perlu khawatir jika seseorang yang saya kenal membaca tulisan ini. Dan bagi yang tidak mengenal siapa saya, mari saya beberkan sisi gelap yang mungkin tidak hanya saya yang memilikinya, tapi mungkin juga orang-orang lain termasuk Anda sendiri.

Manusia adalah makhluk yang egois.

Mungkin sudah dari sananya kita mempunyai bibit untuk menjadi orang egois. Mungkin saja mekanisme pertahanan diri yang membuat kita menjadi orang yang egois. Sangat jarang dimana bibit egois tidak tumbuh subur dalam diri manusia, kecuali manusia tersebut punya kemampuan kontrol diri yang kuat.

Sebagai manusia kita punya banyak kebutuhan, mulai dari materi, ataupun yang sifatnya abstrak seperti kasih sayang dari orang lain, pengakuan dan penerimaan dari orang lain, dan lain sebagainya. Tentu saja hal itu adalah lumrah mengingat kita adalah makhluk biasa, namun ada hal hal lain yang ikut menentukan hasil akhir.

Seberapa banyak yang kita harapkan dan seberapa banyak harapan yang menjadi kenyataan akan menjadi sebuah cobaan bagi kita, apakah kita menerimanya atau sebaliknya tidak menerimanya dan terus menggerutu.
Jika kita tidak bisa menerima apa yang terjadi pada kita dengan lapang dada (meskipun mungkin itu adalah akibat kesalahan sendiri), maka pada akhirnya kita hanya akan jatuh ke dalam penderitaan.

Saya sudah menemui dan berbincang bincang dengan beberapa orang yang menurut saya memiliki pemikiran dan filosofi yang luar biasa. Jika pemikiran dan filosofi itu benar benar diterapkan, seharusnya hidup tidak lagi menjadi terlalu bermasalah. Namun pada kenyataannya, hampir semua orang hebat yang saya temui pada akhirnya juga harus jatuh ke dalam jurang penderitaan, kekecewaan, kesepian, dan lain sebagainya.
Kata kata yang indah tidaklah lagi indah, dan mutiara yang berkilauan sekarang menjadi kusam – setidaknya begitulah cara mereka melihat pemikiran dan filosofi hidup mereka sendiri – saya berspekulasi.

Tentu saja mutiara tetaplah mutiara. Namun masalahnya bukan terdapat dalam filosofi, namun dalam bagaimana mereka mempraktekkan apa yang mereka percayai sebagai benar. Orang bilang lebih mudah bicara daripada berbuat – ini mungkin ada benarnya, karena saya juga mengalaminya.

Contohnya, ada orang orang tertentu yang sangat tidak tahu malu, sedangkan saya sebaliknya sangat tahu malu. Terus terang saja ini tidak dapat dibanggakan karena sifat sangat tahu malu ini tidak lain adalah sifat pemalu. Bah !!
Bukan hanya itu saja, bahkan saking pemalunya jadi mudah tersinggung. Sedikit sedikit malu, dan jika respon orang lain tidak sesuai harapan lantas jadi malu dan tersinggung, kemudian pengen bunuh diri !!!
Untungnya saya nggak (atau belum) sampe kesitu. haha

Kebutuhan kebutuhan (dan juga keinginan keinginan) manusia pada akhirnya menjadi titik lemah manusia. Lihat saja bagaimana orang-orang bisa saling membunuh gara-gara makanan, uang ataupun kekuasaan. Juga lihat bagaimana orang-orang pada berlomba lomba bunuh diri gara gara nggak naik kelas ataupun cinta ditolak. Jah… terlalu banyak kekacauan disini… bahkan menjabarkannya saja sudah membuat saya sakit kepala !

Lalu, jika kita sudah mengetahui hal ini mengapa kita masih saja terperangkap dalam hal ini?
Itu karena kita sudah terbiasa hidup dalam ilusi tak berkesudahan. Uang membuat kita gelap mata, pujian membuat kita menjadi angkuh, cinta membuat kita mudah cemburu, perhatian dan kasih sayang membuat kita candu, dan lain lain dan lain lain.

Hidup dalam ilusi, kita tidak sadar bahwa ini semua hanyalah ilusi. Jika kita tidak menyadarinya, bagaimana kita bisa keluar darinya? Film the matrix menggambarkan dengan cara yang mirip, meskipun mungkin tidak sempurna.

Cobalah untuk berpikir secara rasional, meskipun sebenarnya rasional itu sendiri mungkin tidak absolut.
Jika kita hidup di dunia ini, lahir menjadi remaja, kemudian dewasa, kemudian tua, dan lantas mati. Membangun rumah yang bagus kemudian lapuk, reot terakhir jadi makanan rayap, apa yang Anda pikirkan?
Jika Anda berpikir logis tentu saja Anda akan berpikir bahwa semuanya itu tidak berguna. Kalau begitu untuk apa hidup? Untuk apa bekerja, makan, minum, tidur, eek? Kalau makanan yang masuk ke perut lantas jadi eek untuk apa coba??

Jadi apakah itu artinya kita harus menyerah pada hidup? Kita ini siapa? Kenapa kita ada disini?
Jika Anda tanyakan ke saya, saya juga bakal bungkam, karena jujur saya juga tidak tahu jawabannya !!

Tapi ada beberapa orang yang memberi satu petunjuk buat saya. Jika hidup tidak ada artinya bukan berarti benar benar tidak ada artinya. Ada satu kondisi yang tidak bisa dijangkau logika biasa, dan mereka sering menyebutnya “pulau seberang”. Rasa makanan tidak bisa diberitahukan kepada orang lain melalui kata-kata, oleh karena itulah bagi yang ingin tahu harus memakan sendiri makanan tersebut.

Saat ini saya sedang berusaha menggapai “makanan” itu, dan ketika saya tahu rasanya ya nggak apa apa…haha…
Emangnya apa yang Anda harapkan? Saya juga masih dalam tahap belajar dan saya tidak bisa meramal masa depan. Namun yang bisa saya katakan untuk hari ini adalah saya akan berusaha meyakinkan diri saya sendiri agar tidak termakan ilusi. Saya akan berusaha, dan Anda juga harus berusaha… siapapun Anda.

TETAP SEMANGAT !

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