5/12/2009

Web Articles


Learn, this is we should do from child until now and later, we should learn every thing even we have known, I mean for the good thing, like me, every day use Internet to do my job or write some blog at there, but until know I still learning. Today I have know an useful site, I think I should tell to every one, so we can learn from there.
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Do you know why we should submit articles at there? The articles directory proposes to be a useful resource of information, providing articles and tutorials about general interest life issues, they have many categories in here, so if we want to submit article we better have an unique content, no part of it already published elsewhere on the Internet. Like my blog, as a travel blog I learn more information about rental and vacation, the specific and the newest articles and tutorials are shown first in the list, really useful. If you want know more about the web articles information, come and join me in here.

5/08/2009

Happy Wesak Day

Tomorrow is the Wesak Day, let's we reminder again about the Enlightenment, what the meaning of that, and how we can get that. I get this story from Bhikkhu Samahita (Sri Lanka).

At this Fullmoon Da y do all Buddhas Awaken:
2009 Ma y 8 Wesak Da y celebrates the birth, Enlightenment and passing away of the Buddha Gotama. Keep Clean, Calm, Clever, Kind, Generous, and Gentle.

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Remember:
At this Ma y full moon in y ear 534 BC the Blessed Buddha awakened by completely perfect and utterly unsurpassable self-Enlightenment.
At that time a girl named Sujata Senani lived in Uruvela. When adult, she pray at before a certain Banyan tree, that she might get a good husband equal to herself in caste & that her firstborn ma y be a son. Her prayer was successful, since so indeed did it happen. At the full
moon da y of the Wesak month, she rose at earl y dawn & milked the cows. As soon as new buckets were placed under the cows, the milk poured in streams spontaneously all by it self. Seeing this miracle, she knew something special was going on. Now at that very night the Future Buddha had 5 dr eams that made him conclude: Surely, truly, without any doubt, today is the very day , I will reach Enlightenment.
His 5 colored radiance illuminated the whole tree. Then Sujata came and offered the cooked milk rice in the hands of the Great Being.


After that a grass-cutter came going with a bundle of grass just harvested from nearby . He offered the Great Being 8 handfuls of Kusa grass, when he saw that this Sage was a Holy Man. The Future Buddha accepted the grass & proceeded to the foot of the Bo-tree.
Reaching the imperturbable Eastern side, where all the Buddhas take their seat, he sat down sa y ing to himself. This is verily the immovable spot, where all the prior supreme Buddhas have planted themselves,
This is the very place for destroying this net of desire. Then the Future Buddha turned his back to the trunk and thus faced east.
Right there, he then resolutely settled on this mighty decision:

Let just blood & flesh of this body dry up & let skin and sinews fall from the bones. I will not leave this seat before having attained the absolute supreme Enlightenment!


So determined did he seat himself in this unconquerable seat, which not a 100 strikes of lightning could make him waver from. At this very moment the rebel deity Mara -the Evil One- raised exclaiming: Prince Siddhattha will pass beyond my power, but I will never allow it, and sounding the Mara's war shout, he raised his army & went out for battle. Then Mara said to his evil militia: This Sakyamuni, son of Suddhodana, is far greater than any other man, so we will never succeed to fight him up front. We will thus have to attack him from behind. Frustrated, being unable even to touch the Wielder of power with 9 mighty hurricanes of wind, rain,
rocks, weapons, red coals, hot ashes, sand, mud, and darkness Mara somewhat in panic commanded his army : Why do you all stand still?


Seize, kill & drive away this prince. Mara yelled: Siddhattha, leave this seat. It is not yours, but mine. Hearing this the Well-gone One replied: Mara, neither have you fulfilled the 10 perfections to the third degree nor have you given the 5 great donations. Neither have you striven for insight, nor for the welfare of all the world, nor for enlightenment. Therefore does this seat not belong to you, but truly indeed onl y to me. Suddenl y overpowered by fear Mara's followers fled helter-skelter in all directions. Not two went the same way , but leaving their weapons in a chaos all behind, the y all fled terrified by metaphysical panic. Seeing them flee, the great assembly of deities triumphantly shouted: Mara is defeated. Prince Siddhattha has Won.
Let us celebrate this trul y sublime, wonderful and unique Victory. It was before the sun had set that the Tathagata thus conquered Mara & defeated his army . That same night, after having bathed, while the Bo tree rained red sprigs on his robe, the Consummate One
gained knowledge of his prior lives in the first watch of the night: With the mind thus concentrated, purified, bright, fixed, unified, focused, tractable, compliant, steady & imperturbable, I directed it to remembrance of my past lives. I recollected many past lives, i.e.,
one birth, two...five, ten...fift y , a hundred, a thousand, 100 thousand, many eons of cosmic contraction, & many eons of cosmic expansion:
There I had such a name, belonged to such a clan & species, had such a body .
Such was my food, such my life of pleasure & pain, such was the end of m y life.
Passing away from that state, I re-arose there.
There I had such name, belonged to such a sort & famil y , had such a form.
Such was my food, such my experience of pleasure & pain, such was the end of m y life.
Passing awa y from that state, I re-arose here.
Thus I remembered my various past lives in all their various modes & manifold details.
This was the first knowledge I attained in the first watch of the night. Ignorance was destro y ed; the knowledge arose; darkness was destroyed; light arose as happens in one who is alert, aware, & determined. But the pleasant feeling that arose in this way did not invade my mind or remain. With the mind thus concentrated, purified, bright, intact, pliant, malleable, steady and imperturbable, I directed it to the knowledge of the passing away & reappearance of beings. I saw by means of the divine e ye, purified & surpassing the human eye & I saw beings passing away & re-appearing, and I realized how and why they are high and low, beautiful or ugly , fortunate and unfortunate all in exact accordance with the intentions of their prior actions: These beings who were endowed with bad behaviour of body, speech, & mind, who reviled the Noble Ones, held wrong views & acted under the influence of wrong views, with the break-up of the body, after death, have re-appeared in the plane of misery , the bad painful destination, the lower realms, even in hell. But these beings who were gifted with good behaviour of body,speech & mind, who did not revile the Noble Ones, who held right views and acted under the influence
of right views after the break-up of the body , after the death, have re-appeared in happy destinations, even in a divine world.
Thus by means of the divine eye, purified & surpassing the human I saw beings passing away & re-appearing, all in accordance with their particular mixture of good & bad kamma. But the satisfaction that arose in this wa y did not invade m y mind nor remain. With the mind
thus concentrated, absorbed, I directed it towards understanding the ending of the mental fermentations. I realized how it actually comes to be, that:

Such is Suffering...
Such is the Cause of Suffering...
Such is the End of Suffering...
Such is the Way to End Suffering...

Such was the mental fermentations...
Such is the Cause of mental fermentation...
Such is the End of mental fermentation...
Such is the Wa y leading to the end of fermentation.

When my mind saw that, it was instantly freed of the fermentation of sense-desire, it was released from the fermentation of becoming, and it became fully unobstructed by the fermentation of ignorance.
Full y & perfectl y Enlightened - The Buddha - perceiving this immense glory, spoke these 2 solemn verses, which never has been omitted by any of countless thousands of prior Buddhas:

Through this round of countless existences have I searched, but yet failed to find "the Creator", who framed this construction: What a Suffering is indeed such Endless Birth, Ageing, Deca y & Death!
Now I see that "the Constructor" of this structure is Craving...!!!
Never shall this construction be build again, as all the rafters are shattered and the main beam is busted & broken...
At this calming of all Craving, the mind was finally , irreversibly & ultimately stilled…
Then, friends, this revelation of certaint y arose in me: This release is immutable, this is the very last birth, this endless re-appearance has finally ceased...

5/05/2009

Life Solution

Last few week we always hear about the new virus, H1N1 from Mexico, every body worry, include me, I think in my country still have not met but the government have anticipated. I just read the world health officials stressed that the global spread of swine flu was still in its early stages and a pandemic could be declared in the days to come. Experts inside Mexico's swine flu crisis center warned that the virus remained active throughout Mexico and could bounce back once millions return to work and school, this is very serious.
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4/29/2009

Swine Flu Hits Mexico

I just read the news from Yahoo, about Swine Flu in Mexico, we can see some pictures and condition at there.

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday raised the pandemic swine flu alert level from phase 3 to 4, two levels below the declaration of a full pandemic. The elevated alert means there has been sustained human-to-human transmission of the new A/H1N1 swine flu virus and that scientists now believe government efforts should focus on slowing the spread of the virus rather than containing it at its source.

"We have taken a step in that direction, but a pandemic is not considered inevitable," said Keiji Fukuda, the WHO's interim director-general for health, safety and environment. "The situation is fluid and continues to evolve."


Hoping for Help
Lazaro Gonzalez, 40, wears a protective mask as he waits for passersby to donate money to him. Health experts said the virus comes from the same strain that causes seasonal outbreaks in humans. But they claim this newly-detected version contains genetic material from versions of flu which usually affect pigs and birds.


In Sickness and In Health
Erika Cruz, left, helps her husband Miguel Anguel Esquivel walk toward the emergency entrance of Mexico City's National Institute of Respiratory Illnesses. Esquivel was grunting, sweating and wearing tissue paper in his ears as the couple hurried to the hospital with him showing symptoms of the influenza virus that has plagued the city.



Taking Cover
A soldier hands out masks in central Mexico City. The E.U.'s health commissioner urged Europeans on Monday to postpone non-essential travel to Mexico and the U.S. The illness has claimed at least 152 lives, confined hundreds to hospital and brought Mexico City, one of the world's largest cities, to a virtual standstill.



The Mask of Mexico
A Mexican policeman patrols Mexico City's historic Zocalo square. José Ángel Córdova, the Mexican health secretary, said suspected swine flu cases in his country had risen to 1,614.



Quick Embrace
A couple attempts to kiss. Across Mexico more than 1,300 people were tested for suspected swine flu infection and 400 were taken to hospital for checks. Health officials believe that tens of thousands, and possibly more, have been infected but have since recovered.


Fears of a Clown
A clown wears a surgical mask as a precaution against infection. "[We are] monitoring, minute by minute, the evolution of this problem across the whole country," said the Mexican president, Felipe Calderón. The World Bank approved $205m in loans Sunday to fight the outbreak in Mexico.



Praying for Better Times
People wearing protective masks pay respects to Our Lady of Guadalupe as they passed Guadalupe's shrine at the Basilica de Guadalupe. Mexico's biggest Catholic church was shut down and masses canceled as a precaution to keep large crowds away. Many public buildings, including schools, have also been closed.

4/15/2009

Amazing Plant

Beautiful Sunday, with my friends from monastery, we went to the garden, this garden belong to our Monk, he is from Thailand, but he was here around ten years ago, so he can speak Indonesian. If we have time at sunday after we hear Dharma from him, we will go to his Garden. This place is not far from the town, there is so quiet, I like that situation, we can relax and get the sauna at there. This sauna who made by our monk, with spices and seasoning make our skin healthy, he said also can curative many kind of ilness, all of that we can get it free. I like look around at there, many specied of plant, like this one, you can see at this picture.


Do you know what kind of this plant?
Is this the kind of fruit?



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