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Showing posts with label Let go. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Let go. Show all posts

Sunday, November 04, 2012

Letting go means to come to therealization that some people are a part of your history,

but not a part of your destiny.

---  Steve Maraboli

Thursday, June 14, 2012

I am grateful for all of my problems.

After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come.

I grew in all my difficulties.


-- James Cash Penney (1875-1971, Founder of J.C. Penney Department Stores)

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Bukit Brown Cemetery vs 心中的坟

I think for those who follow the Bukit Brown Cemetery's walk this few months may like to read the following poem written in Chinese.

The poet is Ms Lim May Lang, an ex-higher Chinese teacher from National Junior College.  Though she did not follow the BBC's walk with the group, her poem captures the spirit of life after death, and reflects the same thought some of us have after the walk.

If we are not able to have Bukit Brown Cemetery kept in physical form, many suggested to use modern technology and create the same in virture reality. 

In whatever form it maybe, the most important is what one holds in one's heart!

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心中的坟 by Ms Lim May Lang on 2011/12/09 at
http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/yongyala/article?mid=611&next=610&l=d&fid=5

生命如蜡烛,
只要曾经点燃
只要曾经照亮他人,
长短并不重要。

坟未必是立体的
也无需有浓荫或香花相伴。
它就是不见形体,
也能永驻心头。

这一生长长短短
曲曲折折的路
走完了的时候
如果还能脸带微笑
如果不再有所期待
就算没留下什么
也就心满意足了。

要做的事不过是
为自己找个清静的地方歇脚
可以在香烟缭绕的寺庙
可以在大树的脚下
可以在浩瀚无边的海洋。

记得或者忘记
一点也不重要
因为那时候
我的记忆早已尘封
而我的知觉
也已经烟消云散了。

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Here is my translated version, embedded with some of my own thought:



Life is like a candle!
As long as the light once illuminated,
Lights the path of others,
Length is not important!


A grave need not be three-dimensional,
Even without shady old trees and prayer flowers,
Even intangible,
It will live in the heart of the beloved, forever!

Life may be long or short,
Journey twists and turns,
When we face the end
If with a gentle smile,
And satisfied with no lingering thought,
We can let go!

When the time comes,
Find a quiet place and have a good rest
Incense smoke in the temple
At the foot of a big tree
Or ocean that frees your soul!

Remembered or forgotten
It’s not important!
Memory is like ash to ash, dust to dust!
Perception and consciousness,
Like clouds, once free
Will have no attachment!


Notes: Translation revised on 9 Jan 2012, and I would like to thank my friend, Susan Chua from Heinemann Southeast Asia, for her advices on grammatical etc...  Good writing is always re-writing, and good translation, goes the same way! Thanks! Susan!


Dexterine Ho Soo Miang

Sunday, January 09, 2011

Words of wisdom

Just found these "Words of wisdom" forwarded via email from a friend sometime back:

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On Pain...
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人之所以痛苦,在于追求错误的东西。

如果你不给自己烦恼,别人也永远不可能给你烦恼。因为你自己的内心,你放不下。

好好的管教你自己,不要管别人。

你随时要认命,因为你是人。

这个世界本来就是痛苦的,没有例外的。

你什么时候放下,什么时候就没有烦恼。

每一种创伤,都是一种成熟。

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On Worry...
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当你烦恼的时候,你就要告诉你自己,这一切都是假的,你烦恼什么?

根本不必回头去看咒骂你的人是谁,如果有一条疯狗咬你一口,难道你也要趴下去反咬他一口吗?

忌妒别人,不会给自己增加任何的好处。忌妒别人,也不可能减少别人的成就。

永远不要浪费你的一分一秒,去想任何你不喜欢的人。

得不到的东西,我们会一直以为他是美好的,那是因为你对他了解太少,没有时间与他相处在一起。当有一天, 你深入了解后,你会发现原不是你想像中的那么美好。

这个世间只有圆滑,没有圆满的。

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不要刻意去猜测他人的想法,如果你没有智慧与经验的正确判断,通常都会有错误的。

你要感谢告诉你缺点的人。

时间总会过去的,让时间流走你的烦恼吧!

不要因为小小的争执,远离了你至亲的好友,也不要因为小小的怨恨,忘记了别人的大恩。

感谢上苍我所拥有的,感谢上苍我所没有的。

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当你手中抓住一件东西不放时,你只能拥有这件东西,如果你肯放手,你就有机会选择别的。

人的心若死执自己的观念,不肯放下,那么他的智慧也只能达到某种程度而已。

如果你能够平平安安的渡过一天,那就是一种福气了。多少人在今天已经见不到明天的太阳,多少人在今天已经成了残废,多少人在今天已经失去了自由,多少人在今天已经家破人亡。

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恶口永远不要出自于我们的口中,不管他有多坏,有多恶。你愈骂他,你的心就被污染了,你要想,他就是你的善知识。

你不要常常觉得自己很委曲,你应该要想,他对我这样已经很好了,这就是修行的功夫。

世界原本就不是属于你,因此你用不着抛弃,要抛弃的是一切的执著。万物皆为我所用,但非我所属。

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学会用理解的,欣赏的眼光去看对方,而不是以自以为是的关心去管对方。
成熟的人不问过去;聪明的人不问现在;豁达的人不问未来。

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发光并非太阳的专利,你也可以发光。
你可以用爱得到全世界,你也可以用恨失去全世界。

爱的力量大到可以使人忘记一切,却又小到连一粒嫉妒的沙石也不能容纳。

人总是珍惜未得到的,而遗忘了所拥有的。

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On friendship
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如你想要拥有完美无暇的友谊,可能一辈子找不到朋友。

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Letting go and holding on

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

-- Henry Ellis (1721-1806)


I am in library field and practicing librarianship for some decades.  Since I was a reference librarian and an adjunct lecturer in National Institute of Education, librarianship and digital literacy skills gave me an opportunity to engage in education and training.

I understand learning can only take place if one is willing to learn.  Acquisitions of knowledge can only happen at the time when you allow what is outside you to be inside you.

If the door of the learner is not opened, it is hard for the teachers or educators to teach them.  As intruders are not welcome!

I enjoy teaching self motivated learners.  I am glad that most of the course participants in many of my classes are eager to learn and enjoy the process of translating learning into practice. 

Nevertheless, there are some learners who are not self-motivated. They are against learning and do not see the needs at the first place.  They are always in defensive mode and build mental wall to block all the new input. 

If one is unwilling to learn, it is easy for one to find all the means and ways to avoid it.  I may try and hold on and do my part, yet, time wait for no man.  If they are unable to use their learning time within my coaching period, I feel sad for them and hope things may change or get better in the future. 

I learn to let go, as I can only be with them for so long.  I just hope that when they miss learning now, they will catch up some other time in the future when they realise and make a change in their mind set.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

一個“放”字

Just received the followings today from a friend:

千般哲理, 一個“放”字
有一種養心方法叫“放下”。
擅樂者希聲,養心者留空。
何時放下,何時就會獲得一身輕鬆。


有一種處事方法叫“放棄”,
放棄無法擁有的,
重要的是放棄之後就不要悔恨。
獲得幸福的不二法則是珍惜所擁有的。

有一種辦事方法叫“放置”。
放置不是閑置,
今天無頭緒可能明天有條理,
因為事緩則圓,事緩就有變。


有一種管理方法叫“放手”。
管理不是緊緊抓住不放,
更非事必躬親,
而是有條有理地調動大家的積極性,
捆住了手腳當然就無活力而言。


有一種思考方法叫“放飛”。
放飛思緒才會天馬行空。
創造源於想象,想象力遠比知識重要。


有一種表達方法叫“放聲”。
若不影響他人,不妨放開喉嚨,
壓抑是致病的罪魁。
需要注意的是,放聲之後應知道何時收聲。


有一種觀察方法叫“放眼”。
能放眼時應放眼,放眼之處皆風景。
目力所及可見銀河星瀚、
高山流水、雲卷雲舒,遠比眼前風景好看得多。


一個“放”字,千般哲理。

運用得好,就會使復雜的生活回歸簡單,
紛亂的思緒回歸明晰,浮躁的心境回歸淡然。


“放”作為生存之態,是化繁後的睿智,
是畫龍後的點睛,是深刻後的平和。


梭羅說:“一個人越是有許多事能夠放得下,
他就越是富有。”


“提得起”常被人稱道,
“放得下”則更令人贊嘆。

Source of original information: Unknown

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Attachment

I like these quotations someone sent me:

"The worst in life is "ATTACHMENT", it hurts when you lost something!"

"The best thing in life is " LONELINESS", because it teaches you everything and when you lose it, you get everything!"

Sunday, July 25, 2010

任何事情都会过去的

Here is what I just received from a friend:

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没有任何事情是不会过去的

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不顺心是必然的,顺境不是境界如自己的愿,
而是顺应境界而进退取捨。

当任性时立即有不顺心的烦恼。

人事如海滩不可胜数的沙子,一个人寡不敌众,一个境界
怎能满足千变的心呢?

其实没有任何事情是不会过去的,没有人是
不会改变的。

不顺心也是一时的心情。

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施比受更有福。
人生无常,把握《当下》!

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