www.Go To The Mountain - Musings of a Potential Guru

Following up on a previous article - Four Types Of People : http://gforce-guru.blogspot.sg/2013/05/four-types-of-people-part-one.html Continuation: When a bird is alive it eats ants. When the bird is dead, ants eat the bird. Time and circumstances change all the time and at any time. Do not hurt or devalue anyone in life. You may be very powerful today but time is the most powerful. A single tree can make a million match sticks but only one match stick is needed to burn a million trees. So be good. Do good. Evil lurks at every corner and leads to destruction. It sneaks into you stealthily. Last time I shared about 227 rules you ought to keep everyday of your life from a Buddhist's perspective. You need a sort of perfect obedience to escape karma and achieve nirvana. I'll give some simple ones - no lying. Many if not all of us can fail here. No insults. Most of us do not just insult, we abuse others and take advantage of others. Do you know that you are not supposed to even...

There was a saying that there are three types of people - those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who  wondered what happened. Today, I will be sharing with you that actually there are four types of people. Vesak Day This week is a short week ending on Friday as Vesak Day, the name of this observance is derived from Pali: vesakha or Sanskrit: vaisakha which is the name of the lunar month falling in April-May.  In a world conference in 1950 it was decided to formalised it as Buddha's birthday. On this day, Buddhists all over the world commemorate events of significance to Buddhists of all traditions. The birth, the enlightenment and passing away of Gautama Buddha.  Devotees may bring flowers, joss sticks and candles which reminds us that just as flowers will wither away, joss sticks and candle will burn out, so too our human life. Also birds and fishes are released as a symbolic act of liberation.  Buddhism Simplicity, humility and ...