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| I thought about this subject before. Love.
Does a mother love her child unconditionally? Possibly yes.
What if the child is not hers? Will that make a difference? If it does then is that love?
Can a mother love all children? Possibly yes.
Can I love someone else’s child unconditionally? Possibly yes.
What if I have never been or seen the child? Likely not.
To me, it seems, love has a direct relationship with time, but a Buddhist breaks this relation.
A Buddhist loves me and you even if we know each other not.
These things do not matter: Appearance. Height. Weight. Age. Ethics. Etc.
It does not matter if he is the devil incarnate. Is this really love? This does seem like the closest to absolute love.
But love can it be towards everyone? Is not love selfish? Is the love to that unique, special someone not really love?
Can I love someone who is jealous of me? Can I love someone who hates me? Can I love someone who wants to hurt me? Can I love someone who is unattractive? Annoying? Arrogant? Angry? Buddhists seem to do so.
I am attracted to someone. We may be intimate.
Without physical attraction, can I still love this person?
Initially, I will not pursue someone unattractive to me.
What happens when the attraction is lost afterwards, will I be around?
If yes, is it because of history, because of loyalty and because of what have been.
However, it’s hard to say if that is love.
A love that is platonic in the beginning does not confuse a person so much.
It is when physical intimacy is in the mix that confuses.
Can I be intimate with someone who is not attractive? I cannot say. Very likely not.
Can I love that person? Yes, but it’s hard to answer. It’s difficult to show such love.
I love many people, but it seems for me being together has to involve more than love.
Buddhist monks will not be confused, but their expressions of love seem limited.
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| DiesmReasoning
Observation 1:
The universe has laws.
Observation 2:
The laws are precise, complex, logical, and inter-related.
Observation 3:
Coincidence cannot happen to create these complicated, etc. laws.
Observation 4:
If it's not coincidence, then it's artificial. A creator.
"I, at any rate, am convinced that He (Creator) does not throw dice."
Albert Einstein
"We are in the position of a little child entering a huge
library filled with books in many different languages. The
child knows someone must have written those books. It does
not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in
the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is."
Albert Einstein
My counter points:
Why does it have to be one creator? Why not a race, a civilization, or multiple gods?
So what if another life created us?
How does that make the Creator divine? Whatever that means?
Yes Creator is more powerful, more knowledgable, can crush me like an ant, etc., but why I should submit?
Why am I owned? I am no one's property.
That one life, how did it become? Can that just be? If so then tao created that? If we create clones, do we own our clones? Do they have to obey?
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| 也許一點
也許偶有一天會想起你
請不要懷疑 我不會刻意ㄉ忘記 而是會拼命ㄉ記起
因為我們ㄉ交點是如此ㄉ有真意 如此ㄉ讓我珍惜
也許我不是很有勇氣 也不是很有 Timing
但是我是真ㄉ有情有義
雖然緣份真ㄉ很迷惑我
機會也不會一直等候
但是我會慢慢讓它在我手中飄離
或是讓我ㄉ手緊緊ㄉ絞盡
不過不管怎麼樣
我會真ㄉ真ㄉ祝你一個心意
Maybe
Maybe, one day, I will think about you. Maybe today.
Trust me. I will never intend, to forget, but strive, to remember.
Because our crossing, has real meaning, and will be cherished, by me.
Maybe, I have no courage. Maybe, I also have, no timing.
But I have affection and devotion.
Even though our karma really, perplexes me.
And opportunity, does not always linger.
I will, slowly, let it float away from my hand.
Or let my hand, slowly, crush it, to dust.
But no matter what, I really, really wish you, an essence of the heart.
Truly yours,
Word Ush
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| bball
my friend asked me to play ball at nine thirty around eight
"tell me where. i would think about it"
"you would think about it. what u mean u would think about it"
"hey u know i called u last time to play ball at seven and u said u need 1 day notice. u know this kind of similar. i need 1 day notice"
"ok ok u think about it. come if u can"
"i didnt eat. i got to go do that first"
"ok go eat. so r u going to come to my place first or u going to go there"
"tell me where? i will go there"
"it's at that place near stelling and gomestead"
"what? gomestead?"
"homestead"
"ok man. i will go eat now"
so i surfed the web for 15 more minutes then i went to get something to eat
so the place is about 30 minutes from my place
i stopped at macdonald's near milpitas square. i called my friend a couple of times. no answer
then he called me.
"i m going to go. i m eating now"
where u eating
milpitas. macdonald's
where
milpitas
ok so i'll meet u there
so there is a macdonald around homestead right
which highway should i take? 237 then what
280 no. where u coming from milpitas take 85
ok i ll meet u. at ur house. once i finished eating.
i m not at my house. meet me there at the court.
where is the court. there is macdonald's there right.
yea it's across from there
ok i ll be there. i ll call if i get lost.
finished number 9 but kept the extra salad i ordered
went to homestead and stelling.
"hey man, i'm here where r u?"
"i'm outside at the parking lot. where r u? i don't see u. do u see me?"
"not yet man. i see u. i see u now. where should i park"
"park beside my car. park right here"
"where is ur car?"
"right here"
"is that ur car"
i hang up; his car was 2 feet from him
i saw 4 people
"so we are one short. we need another guy"
so we start shooting around
"hey we need one more call somebody"
"where ur friends? how bout co-workers?"
"my coworkers at other court"
"why dont they come over"
"why dont we go to other court"
"no it's dark there"
"man this rim is too high"
"hey man move out. we need to get some shots here."
"move further out"
"move further out"
"move further out"
"ok great"
"i think it's not straight (crooked to the side)"
"this is double-rimmed. i think the one on the other side is single-rimmed. no wait i think it's double-rimmed"
"i m missing all these shots. too much light"
"i know why."
"the ball is too heavy"
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| This past weekend I went to a Cal game. The stadium was packed. Lots of noise. GO... BEARS. GO... BEARS. I had fun. Oregon was hammered. I was laughing and had a huge smile. Then I felt sorry for Oregon... For maybe one second. Then I had a silly smile. We roasted those Ducks.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life
of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being
shared. Siddhartha
I shared my happiness with fellow Cal fans, but the Oregon folks did not seem too happy. The ones sitting behind us left after an interception.
"Let's go eat. I can't watch this anymore." Oregon fan
I am not sure what Siddhartha's words mean. I can understand in a way that probably in Buddhism happiness comes from within not from without. (I am guessing here like everything that I have been doing, I have some level of confidence here though.)
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. Siddhartha
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. Siddhartha
Then it does make some kind of sense, but the world seems a lonelier place when you work it out on your own. But I am not disparaging what he is saying or what he stands for. (He had no fear.)
I have great admiration. He is the most important existence of our history. His vision, his deeds have no peer. His vision of a society with no hierarchy, where everyone is equal, where no one owns more than the rags on their bodies. A vision that breaks tradition that has existed hundreds of years, that has contradicted ancient books, that has ran countered to wise men and benevolent authority. It has broken what have been held to be "truths". These breaks have been obstacles, but his vision has succeeded. His vision in a way is exceptional. It sounds like communism, but unlike its execution, it has been so natural and so unforced. It has worked as an order, as a neutral entity outside of power, outside of violence, outside of supernatural powers but (and only) with a lot of hearts. It promises no special riches, no special gift, no special glory, no special fame. It shows no special power, no special existence, no special sights, no special causes. People have not been awed by anything extraordinarily unbelievable. They have only felt his heart. With no promises of riches, powers, wishes, food, housing, he has succeeded. I adore his accomplishments. He has followed through. His deeds, his ideals are incredible. His execution so pure. I cannot but extol what he has accomplished.
He is the number one.
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