<?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[Cold  blow  /  Wistle blow&nbsp;?]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>Its getting pretty cold.  I saw beautifully frosted  decorated leaves.</strong></span></p>
<p>It said to be the coldest in 17 years, and some says the ill effect of the climate shift caused by  El Nino</p>
<p>or La Nana kind &#8212;&#8211;. (To know the detail, go to Wikipedia please  🙂  )</p>
<p>On my previous post I wrote  &#8220;To know the Truth wouldn&#8217;t change our life&#8221; <span style="color:#000080;">&#8212;&#8212;-<strong> then, the conflicting</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>question arose.</strong></span></p>
<p>In the Hinayana Buddhist&#8217;s view,  an attitude<span style="color:#008000;"><strong> &#8220;When its cold, just feel the chill and shiver with </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000;"><strong>other people who is suffering&#8221;</strong></span><span style="color:#000080;"> &#8212;&#8212; <strong>this is correct.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000;"><strong>Or, stand up and shout, telling the people  &#8220;What is causing the climate change, and the cause </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000;"><strong>of appearance of El Nino, in order to save the suffering of the people&#8221;</strong></span><span style="color:#000080;">&#8212;&#8212;-<strong> this is correct too,</strong></span> save</p>
<p>the possibility he might be barking wrong tree.</p>
<p>So, one sect might go out and walking in a chilling wind. ( Don&#8217;t catch cold or even worse, pneumonia )</p>
<p>And another sect may go to a demonstration banging their symbolic flat drams on the front line.  (Though,</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t seen them these days &#8212;&#8212; are they still alive ?    Do you know ? )</p>
<p>It&#8217;s better know the fact, better still the Truth. &#8212;&#8211; the one might be placed there to know and shout as</p>
<p>he (she) might be born for its purpose. &#8212;&#8211; though it may not be a license to become arrogant or snobbish.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; And my answer ?</p>
<p><span style="color:#008000;"><strong>I would stick with Buddha&#8217;s teachings &#8220;Don&#8217;t torture yourself. Don&#8217;t go extreme&#8221; therefore </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000;"><strong>sitting next to a heater. </strong></span>(How convenient  🙂 )<span style="color:#0000ff;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;">&#8212;&#8212;- <strong>Environment or external occurrence may give you a jolt to your unprepared mind </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>as it has been<span style="color:#000000;"> in the blank state</span>.   Its jolt may give you a sudden enlightenment, </strong><strong>though,</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong> if it was expected or a prolonged same condition, mind couldn&#8217;t be<span style="color:#000000;"> fresh and naked</span></strong><span style="color:#000000;"> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">&#8212;&#8212;</span><strong> </strong><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong> nothing </strong></span><strong>would happen  /  it&#8217;s a same cold day)</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">Better make a hot tea with honey and lemon  😀  <span style="color:#888888;">( The truth is in the cup.  Honest, I can taste it.)</span></span><br />
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<p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>PS </strong></span>:  It seems the world was so disturbed by the exposure of the confidential US diplomatic correspondences</p>
<p>by Wikileak. &#8212;&#8212; how silly.</p>
<p>Every body knows, politics, diplomacy, economics, even so-called big charities are dirty business and</p>
<p>having dirty linen and utter hypocrisy,  tons of it,  exactly same to everybody&#8217;s private life.  Yet still</p>
<p>we pretend to be clean face and  talking with others with sweet words.</p>
<p>Sneaking behind, and suddenly pull-down somebody else&#8217;s trouser and to expose dirty pants,  then</p>
<p>shouting  &#8220;Have look this is the truth&#8221; &#8212;&#8211;So, what ?   It wouldn&#8217;t help anybody.  History will tell.</p>
<p>It just filling the arrogant dirty satisfaction of  Wikileak&#8217;s  founder.  Much worse than a scavenger.</p>
<p>Because, if it was a whistle blow,  what the blower want to resolve or change and to which direction.</p>
<p>There is non. Could he expect the politics can change ? ( In any system or ideology &#8212;&#8211; because the</p>
<p>environment and the contents / human is the same &#8212;&#8211; no utopia nor ideal man exists)</p>
<p>It would only push the politics even more murkier business, deleting all the traces at once.  That all.</p>
<p>Since, clean man (and woman) wouldn&#8217;t become politician.</p>
<p>Since, ambition to the power and to become famous is the synonym of self-centered arrogance and the</p>
<p>manipulation of the others by deception as an effective means. &#8212;&#8212;- Hence it can not be clean by nature.</p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Still, we could have wiser life, accommodating and concealing smelly guts inside.  😀</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>(You are well aware this hidden truth  😀  )</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>The Truth of the life was clearly elucidated by Buddha as the Four Noble Truth</strong> &#8212;&#8212;<strong> and</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">its Fourth is the direction How to live</span> <span style="color:#ff0000;">DESPITE</span><span style="color:#0000ff;"> of Those TRUTH / Reality.</span></span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">Exposing smelly guts wouldn&#8217;t help anything.  <span style="color:#000080;">The MATTER is how to live with it.</span></span></span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#000080;">This is the Buddhism.</span></span></span></strong></span></p>
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