Natural Vision Improvement and Vision Goggles

I received a present from a dear friend, vision goggles. I started trying them 3 days ago on 27th August. Its like a pair of sun glasses that has pin holes in them. They are suppose to help your vision improve naturally but cutting out the extra areas that confuses the eye image. I'm suppose to have a better eyesight by 2-4 weeks time with consistent usage and lessening of the powered lenses.

Jobs - Steve Jobs Movie

I just watched Steve Jobs movie over the weekend and I must say, that he is indeed a very inspiring model.

He is an asshole in the show though, and I think perhaps he could very well be, if not, Apple won't churn out so many amazing products if his people were not pushed to the limit.

From that show, I saw a true life story of karma that played out right in front of me.

I also saw how the subtle consciousness of Jobs from young had dragged him all the way to adulthood and possibly to the end of his life.

For the first story of karma, which I found really amazing, is that Jobs fired his many friends who started up the company with him, and also his many subordinates in his company. His way of firing people was tactless, fierce and generally pride-hurting.

And karma has him to go through that experience that he brought to many people whom he heartlessly fired over the 5 years. And he was fired from his OWN company that he started.

This is the exciting part (I say exciting part because I am always excited when I find literal proofs in life with the law of karma), that its literally IMPOSSIBLE to have Jobs fired from his own company. Apple is the company that Jobs started. His position is the highest in the company. Who else in the company can fire him? NOBODY. But he got fired anyways. He needed to go through this "medicine" that he was giving everybody around him. Jobs needed to know how it feels like to be fired heartlessly. This is the amazing part. How? The company got listed and Jobs was fired through a unified decision at a board meeting. This is how amazing karma law play out. It always gets even. Even through in the most amazing way where its literally impossible. But it will happen. Might not happen in this lifetime though. But trust me, it ALWAYS happen.

Such is the gentle yet all surrounding energy of karma that one does not have any capacity to escape from it when it comes, be it good or bad.

The second thing I got from the movie is the intensity of his subtle consciousness. For this I am purely doing it on my own guess. So please don't quote me right or wrong on this. This is just my own feelings about Jobs in general.

Its a pretty known fact that Jobs was adopted. And very often, as an adopted child feels lonely and abandoned. This subtle 'condition' of being abandoned and lonely can remain in the mind for a very long time, while the main host (Jobs, in this case) goes about his daily event. This 'condition' or 'belief' - that he should be abandoned and remained abandon (the mind often subconsciously prefers to stay in the 'condition' or 'belief' that one has been brought up with) actually drives all his decisions in his everyday life, whether big or small. The unaware man is unable to change that, unless he has a certain amount of meditation and awareness in the things that he do to note the very subtle frequency of his own mind.

This is how I see why Jobs was an asshole to the people around him. His 'condition' or 'belief' = feeling of abandonment. And his fierceness cause his co-workers and even his friends to abandon him, which was exactly what his mind state prefers to stay in as a comfort zone. One may think this is ridiculous, why would one sabotage ourselves? But if we quiet down and observe the actions he made, we can see that it is quite apparent. One may be outwardly looking for love and support, where in fact, its own subtle beliefs are the ones that are actually driving the vehicle of life, totally unknown to the host.

This is how important a child's life is. His beliefs from the age of 0 years to (I say) 3 years or 4 years, will shape his entire life. Until he has gathered enough power from his awareness to break through the chain energy of beliefs that has held his entire life.

We have to note that our beliefs have very strong interconnecting energy links to our entire physic and physical body, often extending out to our environment, due to the long time that this belief has built up a support system of its own.

This is the reason why meditation is so important. It allows us to go back to ourselves, gently, little by little and discover how our own mind works, and then go deeper into our own negative beliefs to lessen, or strengthen our positive beliefs.

Our mind and body have the natural tendency to heal ourselves. We just have to be aware that we have such power within us.

Holding onto resentment, anger and sadness blocks your creative energy

When holding onto negative emotions, one blocks his own creative energy. The creative energy here means the energy that is used to create things and produces things. In Think and Grow Rich book, its mentioned as the productive energy aka the sexual energy that produces and creates another living being in the world.

This creative energy is so powerful, it can make something appear in existence out from nothing at all. And its how this world reproduces itself constantly. And this force is greater then any other force in this earth.

And when one is holding onto negative emotions, it blocks our creative energy to produce and create. And we need to forgive in order to release that energy back to the person or place that gave us in order to be free again to create. Forgiveness is not only for someone else, it is also for ourselves. Its a personal thing. It has nothing to do with the other person. Most of the times when we are hurt, we want them to pay us for what they have done to us. That makes us have to see it through that they get what they deserve. Karma works in a way we have no way of planning when it will happen. And forcing ourselves to see that karma play through binds us even more tightly to the very person that hurt us. Forgiving someone can release that negative emotions and release the binding force between you and the person who hurt you. Only when you forgive them and release them from that binding force, then you are free to go do something that you really love and give you joy instead.

Below are 2 very good links to the topic of forgiveness and how beneficial it is to oneself.
http://www.barbarapijan.com/bpa/Divination/Forgiveness.htm
http://www.barbarapijan.com/bpa/Divination/Cruelty_Forgiveness_Fierce%20Teachers.htm

Forgiveness literally means "to give forth". In other words, forgiveness is the act of returning foreign energy, from out of your personal space. Forgiveness is a psychic mechanical action to "give it back" to them from whom it came.

• Forgiveness is the single biggest gift one can ever give to oneself.
• Forgiveness will release one from the psychic and emotional bondage that keeps one imprisoned in bitterness, resentment, anger, grief, and guilt.
• Forgiveness is the key to creativity, energy, and freedom.

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Forgiveness does not mean condoning or justifying the harmful acts done by others.

• The laws of karma ensure that those who do harm will themselves be harmed, when their time comes. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, the basic tribal rules of social justice, apply in some version in all cultures.

"I complained I had no shoes until I met a man who has no feet."

Recently it got me thinking.. That a man's choices in life is reflected in his actions and also in his thoughts.

There are many people who sees other people who are richer, or more fortunate than themselves. And then get unhappy and start complaining about their own situation and want more stuffs.

At the same time, below this same group of people also have many others, whom are poorer than them, or less fortunate. And if they focus on this lower group, they can start feeling blessed that they are so lucky.

For the general people, we are floating somewhere in the middle. There are always people who are above us, below us, in all things, in certain things. We can't have the best of everything. That's reality. And we can't have the worst of everything too.

Upper Tier
Middle Tier **
Lower Tier

Most of us are always in the middle tier. There are always people who are richer than us, smarter than us, prettier/more handsome than us. And likewise vice versa, there is always people who are not so fortunate as us.

So how does the reaction to such things result?

The mind does the final picking. It can either pick itself to compare with the top, or pick the bottom. Or it can not pick at all, and remain happy and satisfied as it already is.

So the conditions of jealousy, anger, as well as feeling blissful, joyful, peaceful are all out there. Its just how the mind picks out which conditions to focus on that results in our emotions and actions.

Its all our own choices of picking which scenarios within the mind.

So to elaborate further, our actions/ reactions are actually a manifestation of what happens in the mind. Be it anger or joyfulness. When something keeps occurring that is unsatisfactory, for example, jealousy to others who seems more fortunate, its actually the imbalance of the self-esteem that caused the mind to nit pick at others who "looked more fortunate" and then display out our emotions.

And these manifestations of emotions are actually good, because its a sign or symptom to show out the imbalance of the inner self and if we are aware, we can go back to try and balance it.

Let me try and put it in equation terms.

 "Nothing happens to man that is not contained within man". -- -C Jung

Spirit of Peace

Most of us know whenever we have the spirit of peace with us.

Do we recognize the spirit of hate and guilt when it is there too?

Success Stories of Lee Kuan Yew

I just watched the DVD of the Success Stories of Lee Kuan Yew, and I was very lucky to borrow it from a neighbor.

I am very inspired by Mr Lee. Indeed, some may say that he was overly strong in his decisions and punishments, however, without it, I do wonder what route will Singapore take in these 40 years.

Particularly in one part of the show, it narrated that Lee Kuan Yew has not only given Singapore the direction to grow, but what moral values we should have, what languages we talk, who to marry, how many children to bear, even what are the things we should eat. Then at that very moment I realized.. Lee was not just a Prime Minister to us.. He acts more like our father, and showers us with his fatherly concern that I don't see any other Prime Minister doing anywhere else the world.

Perhaps I am not well informed, nor widely read on politics, but I have hardly, hear of any other Prime Minister anywhere else that is like a fatherly figure and thinks for his citizens the way a father thinks for his child.

And I also realized, just like a child that is rebellious and not grateful for his father's teachings, that's how most Singaporeans react to Lee (not to say all, but most, really).

It saddens me to see most Singaporeans talking bad about the one Prime Minister in the world that managed to curb corruption, bring prosperity and harmony to its citizens. And not acknowledging, that what Singapore is today, is the results of what Lee did in the past 40 years. And I have heard with my own ears that many Singaporeans did not even want to pay tax (which is very little compared to other countries) and they feel that the government owes it to them to make the roads, bridges, clean places for them to stay. The people of Singapore and the government are not tied up as one, but separated in the mind. And I do feel that its because the Singapore government has spoiled us badly. We grew up all in a super clean environment and has never seen nor experience anything drastic before, because we had a super efficient government to protect us from all that. We are very much like children who are blessedly protected by Lee and his good governing of this country. Just like how a father protects his family from harm.

Most people do talk about the ministers taking too much pay, that its just like corruption, but in the legal way. I do not deny the the ministers pay are high. But what most Singaporeans do not see, as they were bred here and raised here in this CLEAN Singapore, how it is to be a corrupted country with corrupted ministers on top. Because Singaporeans had not experienced it before, most do not know the consequences. If ever, corruption is given even the slighted chance to remotely develop, business will take more than double the time to set up, the rich gets richer, the poor will find it super hard to make a living, and have any dreams of prosperity. Even the rich will find it difficult to do business, as the officials come every now and then to create trouble and ask for money. And the nation's prosperity will fall. The top officials, who are corrupted, will find it much easier to extort money from the rich businessman, than to want to govern the country properly.

Lee, on the other hand, grew up in a period where he saw many corruptions and social unrest going on. To make a comparison with low pay for ministers and chance of corruption to breed, I am pretty sure that the logical way is to give a higher pay and get corruption completely out of the way.

Lee fought hard to keep peace in this small vulnerable country of four races. If any of the four races gain any slight power, it would have been so easy to tip over the whole harmony of this place. So Lee was strong and firm in his punishments in social unrest. Which, I personally do not think its a bad thing. Imagine Singapore fighting the way that Indonesia was fighting 1998, Singapore would have been completely gone. We are a small country, and we simply cannot afford this kind of social unrest. It would take us decades to repair.

And for Lee, he has never had any scandals in this political life, which I greatly admire him for. Most ministers, being men, have many affairs or many secret events. But clearly he is one clean man who thinks for his country and his citizens ahead of his own pleasures.

I am grateful to be a citizen of his country and am honored to have known him in his lifetime.

Good quote

Renowned Jungian psychologist James Hillman once said,"You have to give up the life you have to get to the life that's waiting for you.'