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Groundhog Day

I saw this movie probably twenty years ago when it came out. I vaguely remember that it was a very inspirational movie. I was such a lonely young man who knows only love in theory. My take away from the movie is that one has to love everybody in order to gain love from that special someone. That message has stuck in me ever since. Twenty years later now, to love everybody still remains a elusive goal. I could only try and work hard on it. Watching this movie this past Saturday on the Solstice night brings a fresh perspective again. The story of the movie somehow reminds me of the practice of Buddhism. We are given constant rebirth to the human realm to have the chance of practicing spirituality. We'll do it again and again through lots of sufferings and misgivings.. then one day finally awakened and learned... Then really work hard toward the *goal*... I saw this post by a monk online and found it very appropriate. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new lan

Satipatthana Sutta (The Discourse on the Establishing of Mindfulness)

Satipatthana Sutta (The Discourse on the Establishing of Mindfulness), which is the one of the core scripts for Theravada Buddhism school. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satipatthana_Sutta ) I found this a pretty good interpretation on "contemplating the body in the body". http://buddhism.about.com/od/theeightfoldpath/a/Mindfuless-Of-Body.htm This is even better interpretation: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/soma/wayof.html Here is the Chinese translation regarding that contemplating the body/feelings/mind/mental qualities in the body/feelings/mind/mental qualities 安住於身,循身觀察 安住於受,隨觀感受 安住於心,隨觀心識 安住於法,隨觀 諸法