Showing posts with label advice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label advice. Show all posts

Sunday, July 31, 2016

You Gave Life to Your Heart's Demon 你生起了你的心魔!



Above:
LL: the soup is from earl grey tea and milk.

AA: oh now that will have a fragrant smell of bergamot 💟

LL: hehe! real fragrant lol
and with strips of red chilli too!
the flavors of sweet, sour, bitter, spicy!
and the colors too is attractive.

 Above: Steam Minced pork with lots of garnishes!

 Above: Rice with spinach, pumpkins & lean pork stir fry in soy sauce.

Above: Angel's hair spaghetti!

Above: At a Full month party this afternoon!

Hahaha!

What am I trying to tell you?

I want to say that I eat and play like most!
I want to say that whatever you "Deemed" as Lotuschef in which you Fired missiles at, all didn't hit target!

This is advice I gave to many in sales and marketing and from my own experiences in the Business Arena.

To be successful, one must know one's product extremely well.
Rival or Rivals?
Don't exist!

Before you go into "battles", you created rival or rivals that you perceived have power or ability to harm you!
Hahaha! YES!
You gave life to your own heart's demon that only distract your focus or concentration on what you are going to face!

For example:
A client said to me that so and so has a similar product (In-dash DVD player) that is USD 20 less than mine.
I asked him what he is looking for as to performance expected from my product!
I told him that I use a shock absorbing mechanism for the DVD deck and High Quality LCD screen from renown suppliers.
 I went on to show him the specifications of the screen and the shock absorbing mechanism......
Finally, I told him that if he can find another that is exactly the same, then he can go ahead and get the cheaper product.

Hahaha!
He came back a week later and bought from me without bargaining.

Sources fed me the info that his clients were angry that the product he sold to them don't work and they wasted their time to have the product installed and then again having it removed!

Warranty?
Hahaha!
The rival's set were sent back to repair and dead silence after that.

The USD 20 difference in price is a huge saving in the long run because the cheaper set is junk to be thrown away after a few day of use!

Dear all, before you start a war or join a war, be wise and refrain from doing so without Wisdom of Discernment!

AND, most important, A Genuine Buddha's student will never enter or instigate a WAR unto anyone!

Knowing Buddha Dharma well, you will never give birth to your Heart Demon or allow anyone else to breathe life into yours too!


With Metta,


Om Guru Lian Sheng Siddhi Hom
Lama Lotuschef

Sunday, March 3, 2013

Thangka Gift & Questions



Terjemahan Indonesia: Hibahan Thangka & Beberapa Pertanyaan
Image © Taste & Tribute


AA: Dear Lotus Chef,

Hope you are in good health as always. Have you receive the thangkas and statue I have sent previously through N?

Hope it could bring more happiness to the attendees who join the fire puja you led.

When I saw the photos of the happy attendees who join the puja, it gives me a reason to give what belongs to me before. 
I don't want only me alone to adore the beauty of the thangkas but also other people too. 
I will help and donate more if you need another specific thangka for the upcoming fire pujas

Fashe, previously in your blog, you mention about V.M ZZ. 
He will go to Jakarta, Indonesia on March to lead a fire puja and meditation course. 
Me and my brother would like to attend but I need your advise first. 
Could I attend it? 
I haven't read the rest of your blog mentioning about V.M ZZ.
Twice I have attended his fire puja and speech around 2011 in Jakarta, Indonesia. 
He seems to be a good man and smart one. 
Many people resembles him as XX padmakumara? 
He once shared about cultivation method and I leaned a lot from him before I learn from your blog. There are some similarities though.

Attached here is the poster of the upcoming fire puja lead by V.M ZZ. But need your advise though?

GM's smiles upon you always

Om Guru Lian Sheng Siddhi Hum
Thanks

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Reply: 

Hi dear,
I really don't know how to advise you to attend or not, anyone's event.

However, I have shared the Sadhana that I developed online. You can cultivate pretty well that way.

Guru said when you are clean n pure, meditation is not a problem.

Meditation can't depend on others but self, just like cultivation.

The 6th Zen patriarch used the verse written by his senior, which fringes on enlightenment, but still Not Enlightened as there is the Element of Physical attachment and presence or existence, during certain events.
Why?
I have explained in certain articles already.

The mental capacity of the majority, cannot accept his enlightening verse n won't understand, thereby bringing feelings of inferiority to arise, which is making others unhappy! :)

Writing about the misdeeds of the various VMs actually also not right if you have or harbors bad intentions to ruin them or defame them.
However, my intention is to knock and shake them hard so that they wake up and realized what they are doing is not good for themselves and also sentient beings that follow them or listen to them.

I am well prepared to even go to hell, so to speak for knowingly making them unhappy! :)

I believe you need to learn that you have to reflect n drop whatever you don't need to be free from unnecessary attachments n you can meditate well following the Sadhana steps by steps.

Why learn from others when you can just simply follow Shizun's method?

He was the one that re-hatched the alleged scandal against Guru last year, to cover up his chapter being closed by authority since june 2010.
It was VM HJ that went around being nosy n dug out his secret.

Think: he has been keeping this secret from all in TBS n even think he can bluff guru!
Think: Isn't he living a big LIE for these years?
How can a True Yogi LIE?
Guru also talks about Lying being Taboo today!

You go choose who and what you want to do.
Don't say I advise you in any way though.
Hahaha!

Cheers dear.
O! we might be in Jkt this June!

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AA: O fashe! Though he was a good guy before. I remembered he saying that he want to share about cultivation methods based on his observation towards GM. How to visualize well, how to respect GM, etc. Cannot imagine he has lie all this time, cannot imagine that he has lie about his respect towards GM.

I have been fooled again and again, first the three V.M's from PP, now one from QQ. It doesn't make me mad but sad about them, and sad too thinking the people who have trusted them and also GM of course.

All the sacrifice we have done to attend their fire puja, the donation spent, the time spent, the energy spent, etc etc. Makes me a little bit traumatic, I mean....who could be else? The V.M lady (forgot her name) from Canada? The five V.M's from Indonesia which 2 based in Jkt, one in Medan, one in Sby, one in Palembang? The V.M from Malaysia? 

O fashe, in RR, where my parents and most of my family lived, they wished to see and attend a cultivation in a TBS temple. But the once so call TBS temple in RR have lost affinity with GM since their V.M resigned and does not acknowledge GM anymore. 

Its hard for them to learn from the internet. They prefer a old fashioned one though. Maybe if there is an affinity, my parents and old folks could attend one in the future. Sorry for you to read my "frustrations" in this email. Thanks

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Reply:


see how nice is the fire?
its like a 5 or 7 buddha crown
hahaha!

relax and be cheerful, Guru always reminds us about Each bearing own Karma.

just cultivate diligently with Guru as your guide.
No need to look to those with titles but really out to reap $$ from all that buy their lies!

cheers

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Dear all, I have started to share Avatamsaka Sutra. If you have been following, you will slowly realize the enormity and variants of sentient beings.
You will also get to understand that Buddhas like our Root Guru is everywhere!

Stay firm with your Trust & Faith in your own Root Guru, and cultivate diligently which include practicing Boddhicitta!

A simple way to cultivate for the aged is to just chant Guru's mantra, as much as possible, as when you do so, you will light up from your Heart Chakra and all your darkness will gradually be expelled.
You not only light up but the light or blessing from Guru will slowly spread out to include or engulf all around you.
This is Dharma Charity! Also a form of Boddhicitta! :)

The absence of a temple or chapter should not affect our sincerity in cultivation, agree?

It is better without a chapter than have one that only reap off attendees and not sharing authentic Buddha Dharma, concur?

Guru said as you follow the Sadhana set out, you gradually clear your thoughts and easily enter Samadhi. Or doing 9-steps breathing can also helps you enter Samadhi easily as you are concentrating on ONE thought of moving you Qi energy in Light form around, thus excluding other thoughts.
:) You just need to pay more attention to what Guru is teaching and not what anyone else Pretend or Put On a Show of Intelligence or knowledge.

The said ZZ has instructed me to write my English version of 4 Preliminaries for him to look through before I can lead cultivation! 
I remember sharing with him how to write the seed syllable HOM in the sky, beam light with the Vajra/Dorje; to purify and bless all that the light shines upon.
He told me can't do this way as Core will axe his head.
However, I personally saw that he teaches fellow students to use this method, as if it is his idea! 

Hahaha! 

The Lying and the Re-hatching of Scandalous case against Guru by this person is truly beyond forgiveness, agree?
However, we should not harbor these type of thoughts and ill-feeling towards anyone, we should just leave well alone until their affinity surfaced, for Guru or Buddha to succor him, agree?

Just like the one that I was assigned to help this trip to Taiwan, her affinity has yet to surface as she has been lying and also not cultivating at all.

Karma is of one's own responsibility!

Cheers all


Om Guru Lian Sheng Siddhi Hom