Mind activities of a Stone boy

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From http://www.davecheong.com/2006/08/14/18-ways-to-stay-focused-at-work/ Over the years I have worked at many client sites and a variety of office layouts. On one project in particular, we had as many as 80 people in a project team, seated via an open plan arrangement. It was pretty difficult trying to stay focused in an environment like this. These days, the projects I’m on are typically smaller, but there are still a number of distractions which frequently interrupt my working groove. So what are some of the things we can do to minimise such interruptions and distractions? Here’s my list of 18 ways to stay focused at work: 1. Write out a daily task list and plan your day. There’s nothing like a task list sitting next to you to keep you focused. When you have a list of the things you need to accomplish in a day, having that close to you constantly reminding you of what needs to be done is a great way of keeping on track. 2. Allocate time slots colleagues can interrupt you. In a busy...

Love is patient, Love is kind, It does not envy, it does not boast, It is not proud, It is not rude, It is not self-seeking, It is not easily angered, It keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. Love Never Fails. Corinthians 13 : 4 - 8

I did something different tonight. Went to the Freer gallery to see a Chinese film called Ox Hide, but the camera work was too low tech that it was difficult to finish. I walked out of the movie in the middle of it. I am back home now. I could sense that I could have spent all my time surfing mindfulessly. Instead, I caught myself and started to write this blog down. I just went to the library and borrowed a book about Sufism so I should go ahead and read that. There are mindful things I could always do. Don't live mindlessly! Live mindfully!

I was able to speak elegantly and fluently yesterday at the public at Shambhala Center. It was easier b/c I was speaking from the heart. How often do I do things based on my own heart? Like tonight, I went swimming and gardening through discipline and habitual pattern. I felt well and then I ended up surfing porn and saw some negative seeds (images) in my head. I know that those are unwholesome seeds. (Perhaps, just learn to live with them now. I have unwholesome seeds in me that I don't need to push them away.) The heart of equality... treating the positive seeds and negative ones equally. If I am able to do so, I could get through this mental jungle of bias and noise to touch my own heart. Once my action is based on my own heart, I will be at the better place. Why? I will feel less conflict. The action is more consistent with my intention which shall come from the heart. I will feel centered and equanimity. The heart (the power of spirits) need to be cultivated... When I am tired...

Here is what I did.. 1. Went to Ubuntu website, download ISO image for workstation version. 2. Burnt into a CD 3. Booted Inpiron with this CD. 4. It starts Linux in CD and has an option to install Linux. 5. Click on Install icon in Ubuntu. 6. Follow the steps 7. Surprisingly, it recognized the network cards (both wire and wireless) by default. 8. Use System->Administration->Networking to set up wireless network in no time. What an amazing and speedy experience!

1. Quote.. He was the buddy that I swim with when the sign posted "do not swim alone". * Technique 1. An actor perform the action with her own commentary about herself as the third person as she performs step by step. 2. Walk into the invisible house and show people what the house is like. * Think Why do we only need "I, you, s/he" in addressing people?

1. Irregularity 2. Board Walk (by the beach) 3. fringe festival

Speaking of "Bad Mojo", I can never escape it. We walked dowm on the beach drive and saw the HP beach bash by the ocean drive. Most of the alcohol has run out except for cheap Vodka. There was no ice, either. People seemed very enthusiastic and joyful, however. Steve and I had some shots and that made me out of control for the rest of the night. We left and went to Mango bar. The visual stimulation is beyond my description. The bartenders were all so beautiful in the extremely skin tight clothes. The dancers/singers... it is visual stimulation to its maximum degree.

1. All the profits should be cashed in immediately regardless the $$ amount. 2. Do not get attached to the particular stocks. Nothing ever stays the same or predictable. 11/03/2006 (Painful lesson from WFMI 20% crash after earning report) 1. Sell the shares while it is all time high. 2. Don't chase the shares thinking if it would go up more after it has run up in a very short period of time. 3. Stock do come down!!

Leonard Cohen - Suzanne Lyrics Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river You can hear the boats go by You can spend the night beside her And you know that she's half crazy But that's why you want to be there And she feeds you tea and oranges That come all the way from China And just when you mean to tell her That you have no love to give her Then she gets you on her wavelength And she lets the river answer That you've always been her lover And you want to travel with her And you want to travel blind And you know that she will trust you For you've touched her perfect body with your mind. And Jesus was a sailor When he walked upon the water And he spent a long time watching From his lonely wooden tower And when he knew for certain Only drowning men could see him He said "All men will be sailors then Until the sea shall free them" But he himself was broken Long before the sky would open Forsaken, almost human He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone And ...

It was such a delight to have them around at my place. John demonstrated how to say love to others in an open/spacious way rather than in a vulnerable way. He said to Kevin, "you are a wonderful guy," and to Brent, "I admire you", to Nick, "I always love you". Then there was a silence. The moment of silence is a great opportunity to observe what is the intention behind John's words. Here is the great quote from the Tibetan book of living and dying. "Compassion is far greater and nobler thing than pity. Pity has its roots in fear, and a sense of arrogance and condescension, sometimes even a smug feeling of "I'm glad it's not me." As Stephen Levine says: "When your fear touches someone's pain it becomes pity; when your love touches someone's pain, it becomes compassion." To train in compassion, then, is to know all beings are the same and suffer in similar ways, to honor all those who suffer, and to know you are n...

I went to the French embassy last night and heard the talk given by this monk. He is talking about what happiness is.. * Pleasure is different from happiness. * Happiness can't depend on the conditions. * Pleasure is a condition. It is so ephemeral. The normal sense of happiness is so linked with pleasure. When the conditions for pleasure don't exist, one ususally feel bad and negative. * The true happiness comes from within. * The basic level/state of happiness that a person can achieve can be improved through meditation. * The experiement on mice with agitated genes mingling with nurturing/peaceful mice produces the evidents that the agitated genes were blocked in the environment. * The meditation is an internal way of cultivating mind and stimulate the growth of mind. * The chart shows the curve of happiness experienced by marriage. It spikes on the first year and it goes down hill after 5 years. * The chart shows the curve of happiness experienced by windowhood. It sinks on...

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them. - Buddha A man who is seeking for realization is not only going round searching for his spectacles without realizing that they are on his nose all the time, but also were he not actually looking through them he would not be able to see what he is looking for! - Ask the Awakened by Wei Wu Wei

Este fue a la plaza Esta compro un huevito Este lo puso a asar Este le echo la sal Y Este gordito gordito, se lo comio todito todito

Saint Francis And The Sow The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don't flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing; though sometimes it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on its brow of the flower and retell it in words and in touch it is lovely until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing; as Saint Francis put his hand on the creased forehead of the sow, and told her in words and in touch blessings of earth on the sow, and the sow began remembering all down her thick length, from the earthen snout all the way through the fodder and slops to the spiritual curl of the tail, from the hard spininess spiked out from the spine down through the great broken heart to the blue milken dreaminess spurting and shuddering from the fourteen teats into the fourteen mouths sucking and blowing beneath them: the long, perfect loveliness of sow. © 1980 by Galway Kinnell My note: sow (n) 1. 1. An adult female hog. ...

This was the third time that I visited L's family. I could remember that her Dad used to be able to stand on a cane, but no more. I remember that I used not to have belly visible, but the belly showed up in front of the mirror in the locker room. Things don't change over night. That happens gradually. Patience is the key. Perseverance is the key, too. Doing little things step by step with every minute that I have. I will be alright.. Figure out that answer and go for that at this wonderful moment.

Almost 15 years ago now when I was fresh new in this country, it was my first time to go to NYC. I went to see my girlfriend then. The plan was to meet up with her brother who worked as a lawyer in midtown Manhattan and took the company taxi with him back to her parents'. I vividly remember how unsafe I felt when walking on the dark streets in Manhattan. I tried to follow a man who walking in front of me right after I exited the subway stop or port authority.. He seemed frightened, too.. It was obviously the projection of my imagination. The other week, I walked to a friend's place along the Conn Avenue. It was pitch dark and close to 11:00pm. The night walk reminded me of the previous experience in Manhattan. I didn't feel unsafe walking along the dark side of the street off Conn Avenue. It was the similar air of temperature.. not sure why.. I just thought about my first NYC visit experience then. It really validates that I conjure up the fearful situation in my head. I wa...

I tend to drink coke, hunch over staring at the computer screen, surf mindlessly, eat more than my body needs, have an extremely disheveled desk, feel sluggish, feel rigid, feel clogged in my qui flow inside, do not think clearly... I can stop and pause, then cultivate my awareness. Bring metta to myself. Ask myself what is the smallest step I could do now to remove myself from this state of unawareness. And Do it..

Talking to sister tonight regarding the rigidity that I have felt recently about my inability to communicate with other people. I started to sense my thoughts are not as fluid as before. I don't interact with people in a fresh way....