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A friday night out

Last Friday, we had a marvelous time in Melbourne city for dinner and then just hanging around The Crown boulevard.

It is nice to meet Yan Guang in Melbourne, as he came almost the same time I touch down in Melbourne. As an exchange student from National University of Singapore, he is going back soon after he finishes his exam and tour with his family around Australia. Very active member of Soka Gakkai, and we really learn a lot from him.

So I made a video for him as a mementos:




Hope you all the best, and don't stop with your mission to encourage more people to happiness in future.

Determination!!!!!!

Thank you Racheal for organizing such wonderful activity at the 'Hardrock' rock climbing session. It is really a challenging sport, where I enjoyed it thoroughly. All 14 of the lab members enjoyed ourself there.















It is all about determination - Ichinen......
and don't forget about muscles training.

Many body in one mind

Many body in one mind, it seem like another normal term. But what is the essence of this? Why it is important to us, I never thought of it.

Last night I went to Yan Guang's house and chant, and then we had a chat regarding many body in one mind. And that discussion really refresh my understanding of many body in 1 mind.

I know this phrase for quite sometime, but it was until the Merdeka 50 Performance by Soka Gakkai Malaysia that I joined made me realize what it is all about. The greatness of human, is not an individual, but the greatness come from all people doing good for humanity and giving people hope and courage. Although the training was quite hectic in schedule, we had to prepare and rehearse for 16 days (8 months with only saturday and sunday) training whole heartedly for the success of the event. We know that we are making the good cause to brighten other people's heart. And 1500 people together working for 1 goal - kosen rufu (world peace) is such a wonderful experience.

So my past understanding of many body in one mind was just abundant of people working together for a project and then make it a success. But yesterday, I made myself think hard, whose mind we are following? Isn't is a freak if we are following someone unconsciously and at the end turning out to be mind controlled by some freaks?

With help of praying to Gohonzon, I try to make sense of this phrase again, then I have a new insight of this term. The one mind = the Buddha's mind, at least this is my interpretation at this moment, let me know if you guys have other angle to look at this phrase.

So I further question myself on this issue, why it is important for kosen rufu to have this many body in one mind, which I related to Buddha's mind? I try to find reason for this and I realized that because a Buddha is a person with WCC, wisdom, compassion and courage. And a Buddha is a person who is determined to use this WCC character to realize their vow, which is clearly stated in Lotus Sutra Chapter 16 (Buddha's Life Span chapter): This is my constant thought, how can I make everyone realize the Buddha's path and let them reveal their Buddha's nature as soon as possible. If everyone doing the buddha's work, and is constantly looking for happiness for others and one self, then world peace can be realize, kosen rufu can be realize. So the question of being mind controlled by a freak is not significant anymore.

However, we are living in a world with too much confusion. We are blinded with so much things happening around us, and forgot to ask ourself what bring us happiness in the first place. I need to emphasize that I am not a person who don't need material and still living happily. But material in our environment is just a tool for us and should not be mastered by those materials. Just for example, most of the guys love cars, computer, technology etc, and girl love shoe, handbags and everyone loves money. I have seen people who are crazily going after all these things. when a guy got his new car, of course he will be happy. But after a while, when he see other people have better car, and then he will not be as happy as when he got his new car. Like wise, when we ENTRUST our happiness on material and hoping it to reward us with happiness, it will do its magic, for a while I am certain. But it will not be long lasting. Worst of all, we are uncertain what we want in life, and we are always sway by different aspect of life, that we thought it is more important for us to pursue. By pursuing blindly something that we want without a reason, at the end, we will find our life without a reason. And that is ONE BODY IN MANY MIND. You will find yourself
constantly searching for happiness outside your heart and thought that things or people will fulfill your heart.

If we put ENTRUST our happiness from our heart, then we will know that whatever we have is just a tool for us to create the most value from it and the value will be expand to the fullest when we are doing for happiness of people around us.

You might say that it is such a hypocrite and just fake my vision to be so noble and even most of us can't be happy ourself, what can we do for other people? To answer this, I have to go back to my title, Many body in one mind (buddha's mind). We see other people suffering as our own suffering, we see other people happiness as our happiness. We are constantly thinking of how to make people understand that happiness is in you, but not externally.

I remember a passage from Ikeda sensei guidance, he state: "it is because there is death in our life, that is why it makes it so valuable. Because our value of life is determined by how much difference we make for the better of humanity and peace." We have been exposing ourself to too much Hollywood movie which always sound life is just being a net consumer and sound like this:" life is too short, so just enjoy life and let's party!!!!" Life is short, and that is very true, but enjoying life is not by being a net consumer. I belief it is to create more value to other people and yourself, like the sun shining endlessly to other people. It doesnt mean that you don't need to rest and relax your self with one or two parties session, but the point is we must create net gain value for our life and other people's life.

There are no external forces or higher intellectual being out there controlling our life. But it is us, ourself to understand that we give ourself a reason, and we burn our passion for this reason that we created. If you always wanted to be a singer, then work with passion as a singer and create harmony with your singing skill, that is your reason. If you want to be an engineer, than work hard in your skill and create value out of it. Don't give yourself excuses like people don't want me to be so or the god is prohibiting me to do such things.

For people who are not Buddhist, or can be a buddhist but not really understand the definition of Buddha, don't be intimidated if people telling you that you are a buddha. Buddha is not destination, like RPG game, you need to train your character until certain experience level only gain enlightenment. But Buddha is a life state, with abundant wisdom, courage and compassion, again, WCC. A buddha is not having supernatural power and can run like a bullet or produce lightning to zap the bad guys. It is all about life state, ie, buddha is every normal human being with wisdom, courage and compassion attitude within.

I am redetermined and focus myself to create more good cause for happiness of all, after these deep thought.

Hope everyone find happiness every moment.

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Father's Day special - Tribute to all dad

The son speaks again for Father's day special.

I remember last time when I was small (maybe when I was 5-6 years old), people ask me whether I love my mom or my dad more...... (I wonder people still ask that question or not, and I have to say that it is instigate a child to decide this way, although in the child's heart they might have their own preference already haha......)

So to answer that question, I answered to him that I love my dad more. This is because my dad doesn't use the 'magic wandsssssssssssssss' which was my mom expertise. (Just in case you dont know what is magic wandssssssssssss, just check this LINK). And above that, my dad used to buy us toys haha.. Children just love toys and they are easily happy if you get them happy meals (but for current parents and future parents, please don't get your child McDonalds or KFC anymore, because it is totally unhealthy, and I could write a thesis for that one day!!!!!!)

So my dad is a person which action speaks louder than words. He is a person so focus on his work, and whenever you see him, you will see him writing and writing and writing without stop. I wonder what else does he do whenever he is not eating, sleeping and meeting his boss... and the word writing will pop up to my head. It is not that he don't enjoy life, but he just enjoy working.

He is a person who try very hard to open a conversation with us, and his topic will always be the headline on the newspaper. So if you think that it is easy to make a conversation with a dad like that, haha, you better get yourself more reading of the current event and more headline. It is not like he doesn't have other better topic to talk, but you know la, a man got pride and it is not easy open for inner feeling. He has a lot of hope of us, but never say much about it. Any time when we hurt him, he will never say it out but just keep to himself, just like a sponge, absorbing all those dirty water and then will squeeze itself and clear it...... I don't know where he clear it, maybe to my mom? haha or maybe to his writing? or maybe just neutralize it himself.

I just remember once where I hurt him badly, when during my first year staying in CHKL hostel. If you are aware, hostel toilet is never as good as my own house. In addition to that, due to hormonal changes during my puberty stage, I have to admit that I have serious constipation problem during that time. And I could only release my so called 'internal pressure' immediately when I go back. As I remember during that time, I was a cool dude wannabe, which the definition was given during the mother's day special blog entry. So a mixture of 'constipated look' and too cool to give an answer kid, the journey back home during that weekend from CHKL to my home was seriously fanatically unpleasant. My dad will ask me how I am, I just say ok. Then whatever he told me about those "headlines', wanting to make a conversation with me, I will just reply 'erm....... erm........ oh........ erm .......erm....... erm.......'. Not that I purposely want to do it, it was just a moment I want to meditate and visualise my bowel movement and stimulate some parasympathetic nerve so that I could relief my 'internal pressure'.

As predicted, I went into the toilet immediately after I relief my 'internal pressure', my dad came to my room, and he was asking me:' What did I do to you that I deserve this kind of treatment from you?'. Then just went out from my room. Well, time has past and I finally put off my OSA (official security act - leyhian version) for this matter, so the confession is done on this blog entry.

I remember last time we often go out to have a meal in hawker stall, which was very fun. Then when he went back to work as the civil servant again, it was a change in our life. I was kinda feeling insecure to let people know about my dad occupation, as it might be not safe for me to walk alone on street. And so, it is hard to answer to my friends what my dad do during that time. And actually there are people who are intimidated with what my dad do.

My dad always say in chinese (translation) if you have the capacity, then you will have the fortune (有量就有福), so he is very generous in certain way to other people. I couldn't say it is like a philanthropy, because I am very aware that we are not that rich haha, but just will not kiam siap to other people lo. He, as a proud Eng Chun, always train us to remember our roots from Mainland China, and made us memorize who we are， and then we will answer with the standard answer wa si hokkien eng chun o niu lao...... (it means that we are from Hokkien Province Eng Chun Clan of Low's Family). Every chinese new year we MUST go back to MUAR BUKIT GAMBIR. As that is the only time he see most of the relative and I see him happy, I will also feel happy now.

After my Hons thesis submission, I went to Muar with Eng Tat and Yong. 3 guys having a road trip to Muar, and we met up with Jactty. When Jactty ask about my dad, and she was so shocked, and immediately bring me to her family, and only then I realized that my dad is a good friend of their family. And during the duration of the trip, I get to know more about my dad, and luckily I didn't do anything hanky panky in Muar or else with my dad reputation at stake, everything will go round the whole town haha.

What I really wish is that my dad have more rest and take good care of his body. One can never finish work, but they have the choice of arrange the workload. And I also really wish that my dad could one day start learning buddhism and do more reading on buddhism book but not only LAW books and newspapers. Hope that one day he could be active in Soka Gakkai also and have a strong heart for faith so that every slander that people do to us, we could accept it as a ocean but not as a cup of water. Nichiren Daishonin state: if you have a drop of black ink, when dropped into a cup of water, the water will turn black, but if it drops into the ocean, the ocean will not be affected. Same as life, it is not easy to work in your current position. However, buddhism will give you a new perspective for life and hope you attain happiness in every moment.


Finally, Dad, I love you. Happy father's day.

A Talk by a Neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga

Michael Gazzaniga, Neuroscientist came to Melbourne to give a public lecture on his work in Cognitive Neuroscience in Split Brain. The talk was really wonderful, where he has summarized all this life work for 40 years into 1 hour. The feeling is really wonderful, where 2000 people turned up for the talk.

Split brain, is occurs in patient where the corpus callosum was excised from the brain by operation to relief patients from epilepsy attack. The corpus callosum was the major tissue to connect the left and right hemisphere of the brain. So the initial idea of the operation procedure was to take out the corpus callosum and hence disconnect the left brain and the right brain. By doing so, when there is epilepsy attack on the patient, the episode of attack will only affecting one side of the brain and hence one side of the body only and the patient has another side of the body to control the attack.



However, the question after the operation was raised whether there is any significant function of the corpus callosum or just merely connecting two side of the brain. Micheal Gazzaniga used his lifetime to carefully observed these patients, and found some interesting discoveries. Left brain, which is known for its logic, verbal and analytical function and right brain is known for its image visualization function. So when was shown to a patient with a word 'spoon' with left eye (right eye was blinded), and the patient was asked what was the word. The patient cannot answer and say I dont know. But during the same instant, the patient was able to select the object in front of him and by using his left hand only, without any conscious image, the patient was able to pick up the spoon as a respond.