<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Yoshizen&#039;s Blog]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://yoshizen.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[yoshizen]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://yoshizen.wordpress.com/author/yoshizen/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Which  DIRECTION ?]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Time to time I was asked to give an advice to a friend or friend of friend etc, in all sorts &#8212;&#8212;</p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>Some time, how to deal with family or woman to electronic circuit</strong></span> &#8212;&#8212;- 🙂</p>
<p>While talking with computer programmer, a man (say Mr.A ) told me the pressure he is feeling from</p>
<p>the family or relatives who <strong>expecting he should be a genius and become a millionaire. </strong></p>
<p>After that meeting, while dealing with Emails I just got a thought, why not Mr.A develop an  App</p>
<p>for mass user of such as iPhone etc &#8212;&#8212; may make him quite rich as his concept to deal with programing</p>
<p>is rather novel.  Market system, whether its got bad name of capitalism or not, it is quite democratic,</p>
<p>if it is good for the people it sell.   Not Mr.A  not me having wishful thinking &#8212;&#8212; let the people to decide.</p>
<p>So, I send him short Email saying  &#8221; How about, to develop App for iPhone kind&#8221;.</p>
<p>Soon after,  I received his reply in which he explained this and that, and mentioned  &#8221; By the way I just</p>
<p>have  received an <strong>Email from Intel&#8217;s</strong> development director, asking whether am I interesting to take part of</p>
<p>their development project &#8221; &#8212;&#8212; then I realized the time-record of his Email was &#8212;201<span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>0  8:15</strong></span> &#8212; M m m ?</p>
<p>( I hope I&#8217;m not paranoia though, as it happened in the same time of me to suggest him, and it must be a</p>
<p>peculiar coincidence )  I took this as a sign and Email backed him mentioning this number</p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>&#8221; Be honest, do what you want.  Dharma is watching you &#8220;) </strong></span></p>
<p>As he knew about this number, read of my post / 8150 Story,  he replied  &#8221; Oh, dear God,  SCARY !&#8221;</p>
<p>Exchanging the mail with Intel, he found he is not very keen with their business, and found his</p>
<p>direction &#8212;&#8212; not the money but to keep what he really want to do.</p>
<p>Which he said <span style="color:#003366;"><strong>&#8221; Keep my path is what Dharma directed&#8221;</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;"><strong><span style="color:#ffffff;">&#8212;</span><br />
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<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>Despite popular misconception, DIRECTION is not an external menu which we can choose by will.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>It is what we ourselves having in us.  It is in fact synonym of the self.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">Here, the source of all the misconception and confusion lies</span>, to be true to yourself, reset your mind</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>to the default state, have a blank space in your mind is in fact Just to be yourself.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;">In most of the case, what we are thinking <span style="color:#000000;">This is Me</span> &#8212;&#8212;&#8211; is in fact The imaginary Self, the Role to</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;">play or the tactical Pretence to chase a goal (such as power, fortune  or delusion to be a Macho Man).</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;">This is why, the Buddhism says,</span> <span style="color:#333399;"><strong>There is no such thing like the SELF</strong></span><span style="color:#000080;"> &#8212;&#8212;&#8211; <span style="color:#333399;"><strong>so-called Self is not</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>there, yet Buddha taught Watch it by yourself.  Watch who you are.</strong> &#8212;&#8212;-<strong> <span style="color:#ff0000;">If the self is not there,</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">Who is watching ?</span> </strong>&#8212;&#8212;<strong> What Buddha meant was, not by such imaginary fixed figure of the Self<br />
</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>(as the Self is continuously changing with Karma, no still photograph exist</strong> <span style="color:#000000;">&#8212;&#8211; You can&#8217;t capture an </span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;">image of running horse / still horse is a dead horse.(forget hi-speed camera which Buddha didn&#8217;t have   😀 )</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>but by the eyes, free from the conscious of self.</strong>&#8212;&#8212;<strong>simply, just who you are.</strong></span><br />
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<p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">&#8212;-</span><br />
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<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>Unlike awkwardly dressed masquerade, the person inside is the real self who can spontaneously</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>respond the Situation and the feeling (unconsciously) like natural Flow.  Buddha saw this ability </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>to respond the Karma is, it is because of the fundamental rule / Dharma. </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>Hence it is not the SELF but the Dharma.</strong></span> &#8212;&#8212;-<strong></strong><span style="color:#000080;"><strong> of which everybody has inside and born with.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="color:#000000;">( As you are born with it, it is easy to be, though, strangely it is a hardest thing &#8212;&#8212;- so that, when it was </span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="color:#000000;">achieved it was described as a Dog Shit )</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="color:#000000;">So, I&#8217;m watching what next move Mr.A will takes.</span></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">___/\___</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">&#8212;</span><br />
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