Remembering My Good O Days! Part 2

Background: In the 70s, the Singapore Polytechnic Welfare Services Club was a hive of activities. We stayed back after lectures for meetings, sketch practices for old folks home, song practices for children, bamboo dance practices for lepers' Home, study sessions for the diploma, sports sessions for fun, discussions, more discussions, more singing...etc, till late at night.

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We were in our late teens with a common goal to serve the under-privileged. Also, at that age, romance easily fills the air.

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Then it came a time, when it became difficult to gather big groups together, as some were already pairing off somewhere and not joining the main group. A rather anti-social act, but they were in love and oblivious about anything outside their little world. :) This was particularly difficult during work camps, training camps and campus group activities, where group efforts were essential. So the Central Committee (CC) decided to make an announcement, that male and female volunteers were discouraged from 'pairing off' during Club activities. A rather draconian rule, but at the time somehow the guilty obliged and attempted to comply.

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So there on, all Club activities were planned in such a way that there were precautions to prevent girl-boy pairing off into the romantic sunsets. Similar announcements were made in the 'Welscope', the Club newsletter. Soon, everyone was talking about it.

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Mind you, we were still innocent teens and you probably won't bat an eyelid over the lame things we did, which were nowhere near the hotstuff we see today. During those ultra-conservative days in Singapore, it was still taboo for a guy even to hold a girl's hand, unless you are serious about being a couple together. So, those who were straying away in pairs were merely mesmerised, in love, indifferent and together. Sorry no juicy stories to tell even if I want to! :)
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Eventually, everyone was overly conscious about who is interested in who and who is going out with who secretly...etc. It became one of the Club's favourite gossips and hence dominant thoughts. The CC started off doing a good job, but realised that more and more members were 'pairing off' despite all the measures taken. More suprisingly and quite hilariously, all too soon, some in the CC found themselves pairing off within, or finding their boy friend/girlfriend within the Club. Now, no one was safe from Cupid's arrows. And of course, the problems which the Club had mobilising the whole group, became worse.

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The next year, a new CC came in and dropped the whole idea of enforcing anything. They just turned away from the problem, and guess what? The problem disappeared!

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Bucky Group 30 - Leonardo Da Vinci

I am not in this Bucky Group session yesterday, Saturday 26th July 2008. I was about 13,000 kms away but yet able to write something about it. Well, thanks to one of our regular attendees who prefers to be called WhatIDiscover, who has contributed the following email; and thanks also the technology that makes it all possible.

Hi Bucky Fellows
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Today we watch part 1 of the Leonardo da Vinci documentary by BBC.
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Thanks for lending us the video, Michael. It shows the life and inventions of Leonardo da Vinci. It was cool and interesting.
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[End of Part 1]
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During the discussion, Eric asked why is it that Leonardo da Vinci is usually associated with the man in the circle logo (the Vituvian Man) ? If any one knows the answer, please let Eric know.
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[Note: The Vitruvian Man is a world-renowned drawing with accompanying notes created by Leonardo da Vinci around the year 1487[1] as recorded in one of his journals. It depicts a nude male figure in two superimposed positions with his arms and legs apart and simultaneously inscribed in a circle and square. The drawing and text are sometimes called the Canon of Proportions or, less often, Proportions of Man.

See Wikipedia]
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After that, Joo Hock introduced a book - "How to think like Leonardo daVinci". The book is about the Seven Principles Leonardo had lived by. As Joo Hock was introducing the book quickly, I think many of us could not remember them. So, I had borrowed the book and list the principles out below.
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Seven Leonardo da Vinci principles

1. Curiosita - An insatiably curious approach to life and an unrelenting quest for continuous learning.


2. Dimonstrazione - A commitment to test knowledge through experience, persistence, and willingness to learn from mistakes.


3. Sensazione - The continual refinement of the senses, especially sightas the means to enliven experience.


4. Sfumato – ( literally "going up in smoke" ) A willingness to embrace ambiguity, paradox, and uncertainty.


5. Arte / Scienza - The development of the balance between science and art, logic and imagination. "Whole-brain" thinking.


6. Corporalita - The cultivation of grace, ambi-dexterity, fitness, and poise.


7. Connessione - A recognition of and appreciation for the interconnectedness of all things and phenomena. Systems thinking.

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How to think like Leonardo DaVinci, by Michael Gelb
Page 9, Delacorte Press

ISBN: 0385323816

Regards :)


WhatIDiscover
What is the meaningful connection I can make between what you are curious about and what I know?

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My Comments:

While Googling around, I found this other text on "How NOT to think like Leonardo DaVinci". The most prominent being that,

"There is something ironic about the fact that the Mona Lisa was painted by a man with no women in his life. Leonardo da Vinci never married, and he never had any children. Most historians agree that Leonardo was gay, but that doesn't explain why he didn't have some long-term companions other than a 10 year-old boy he adopted."

It has the following advice about Leonardo's Seven Mis-Steps:

1. Don't procrastinate. Finish all projects.
2. Communicate your ideas to others using standard notation.
3. Develop some long-term relationships.
4. Study basic math even if you are an art student.
5. Do not over-engineer your inventions.
6. Avoid fads in most things but especially intellectual pursuits.
7. Don't work for the military industrial complex.

For more info, click here

What I find most amazing...

Despite being born a bastard, Leonardo grew to be one of the greatest in his time, ironically because of his lack of education and therefore could not understand the Greek or Latin which all books were written in at that time. He therefore couldn't refer to those books initially and had to rely on his endless curiosity and fresh observations of nature to know the truth.

Have you ever wondered why most prophets in history were illiterate? :)

As what Mike George in one of our post "Hunting Life's Oxymoron", puts it:

"One oxymoron that influences us all is the idea of 'academic learning'. Our academic education is called learning but its mostly memorising, which is not learning, it's memorising. It's also the memorisation of other peoples memorisations, people who are positioned as authority figures of the past. Their ideas are held in the highest esteem and passed on as 'authority'.

But real learning can only happen when the 'self' recognizes itself as its own authority in the universe of its own consciousness. Only then is real learning possible, which is learning what the self is and how the self works and how the self relates to other selves and how the self creates their world and why the self is here. This cannot be learned by a process of memorization, only from personal experience or what is sometimes called self realization. And if there is one subject in life that can never be academic it is that of the 'self'. " For the full post, read here

I also note that he was an expert salesman who could communicate his ideas through to his sponsors and wouldn't mind working for what most people would consider as 'pain-in-the-ass' bosses. Instead of complaining about them (well may be he did), he made what good he could get to test his ideas and inventions.

Our Bucky Group is composed of people from many different walks of life. Some of us have postgraduate degrees some barely making secondary school education. I think for those of us who are highly educated, it is time to throw all aside and observe all afresh. For those less educated, seeking the mathematical and analytical aspects from observations will further their awareness.

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In Sickness or In Health 6 - Fair Weather

I am happy. The weather is sunny and dry, after weeks of continuous rain. It is easier to be happy in fair weather. I feel more energetic soaking up the sun and getting chores in the house and garden done.

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But isn't happiness independent from anything 'outside' myself? Hmmm... sounds good, but how do I put it to practice? Does that mean that if I am absolutely peaceful, then it wouldn't matter if it is dark, wet, cold and gloomy outside and I would be equally happy and energetic?

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Those of you in the tropics who have not lived in cold climates may not even understand what I am moaning about when I speak of depressing weather. You probably have taken all the sunshine everyday for granted. So the next time you see your sunny skies, give your gratitude. It is not the same every where you know?

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To give you a better idea, I have taken the picture below...

Imagine it is also gloomy and cold the whole day and try feeling happy in weather like this. When it is like this, it is very uncomfortable to go out for a walk to get some exercise and fresh air. That dulls the body.

A few days ago, I chatted with a friend of mine online whilst he was in Dubai. He said he wished he was where I am (during the wet spell), as it was 45C and extremely humid there. I guess he is right. In comparison, I will rather choose it here. I then felt better instantly! :)

There will always be ups and downs in our life, but we must not let it affect our inner peace and strive to stay happy. That's the challenge!

Also, what is desirable is mostly taken from the human perspectives. It is gloomy when it is rainy here, but farmers love it and there are many creatures in nature that need the rain to live. So, whilst I would prefer sunny skies, there will be times where the rain will have to come to give life and make the flowers grow. Thinking about it makes me feel happier already!

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Spiritual Parenting 3a - Voice of Authority

I have just finished reading Mike George's book "Don't Get Mad, Get Wise". Click here
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What I learn from the book is that nobody can make me angry, other than myself; and that it is silly to get angry over something for a long time, sometimes years, over something someone did for 5 minutes. If I am angry, it means I am turbulent inside to start off with and the turbulence became active because I allowed it to be so.

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In it, it says that parents who get angry with their children amounts to making their children feeling guilty and shameful of themselves, resulting in low self esteem. Where the low self-esteem persists, the child will grow up as ill-adjusted adults, some even committing crime. That's why I think anger does not solve anything. Actually, this inflicting of guilt and shame extends to our relationship with adults too, when we get angry with them.

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I think anger is fear motivated. In the absence of anger and fear, peacefulness reign.

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Some quotes from the book:

Page 64

Peace is the state of being, which shapes a state of mind, which generates positive and focused thinking, which are expressed as proactive attitudes and behaviours.

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The presence of peace means the absence of emotional disturbance, and when there is emotional freedom it means the inner eye is not distracted by the world outside or by memories of the world inside.

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page 75

To go with the grain of truth about peace is to realise your peace is not just for you, it is also for the world... when you realise this, you will also recognise how the vibration of peacefulness radiates outwards. When you consciously realise your peace to others and to the world, that's when you will feel its power.

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page 80

Your peace is unquestionably yours, it is you, but unless you channel its power and give it away, it will disappear... when you give it away, it increases in depth and therefore quality.

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In the example of Hadri and his mother getting angry with each other, the father in contrast was peaceful and radiated the peace to both of them. In the end peace and normality resumed in the family. See Spiritual Parenting 3 - Voice of Authority

Political Small Talk

Outside the building of a government ministry, during a smoking break, a conversation goes between an old employee who has been there for 30 years and a fresh intern...

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Veteran: I have been here for 30 years and everytime I leave this door, I clock out, even for short smoking breaks. Without clocking out, even 15 minutes unaccounted for is the same as stealing from the ministry.

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Intern: I don't understand. Out here you are honest with these 15 minutes. Inside those doors, you are not doing anything a good part of 8 hours a day you clocked-in for! Isn't that stealing too?

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Silence.

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Spiritual Parenting 4 - Toys

Boys outgrow toys. Their toys get more expensive every time they outgrow the old ones. Soon they will outgrow their parents. In time, there will be somebody else in their life that will be more important to them than mum and dad. Such is the progression of bringing up children. Such is the way they too, like their parents, will walk their own path and their own journey in spirituality.

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Transformer robots.

Now in a heap! :)

Spiritual Parenting 3 - Voice of Authority

There was a commotion in the house: Hadri (10yo) did not want to have his dinner. He said he didn't like the food. His mother was upset as she had spent time and dedication to cook, what was to her, a good meal. She then insisted Hadri to sit around the table with the family even if he didn't want to eat. A shouting match ensued...

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Mum: You come down here and sit with everyone.

Hadri: But I am not eating.

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Mum (shouting): You come down here immediately!!!!

Hadri(also yelling): But what for??!!! I am not eating!!!

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Then reluctantly, he dragged himself to the table and said derogratorily...

Hadri: This is shit food!!! I can cook better than this!!!

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By this time, mum was so angry she sent him upstairs to his room. After that, she chided Hadri's father for not using his voice of authority and raise his voice to discipline Hadri.

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An hour later, after dinner, Hadri's father went up to Hadri's room. Hadri was slumbered on his bed, face downwards - sulking. He refused to acknowledge his father's presence and entry into his room.

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Dad (said softly and calmly): No use getting angry. I was an angry man myself in the past. It solved nothing.

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Then he left the room.

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About half an hour later, Hadri was hitting the wall in his room trying to attract attention. His parents refused to go up to his room or acknowledge the noise he created.

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Another hour later, Hadri's father went to his room again.

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Dad (again softly): Do you think it is time to apologise to your Mother?

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Hadri extended his hand and held his father's and they walked together downstairs and Hadri apologised to his mum. Twenty minutes later, Hadri was again hugging and kissing his mum. The atmosphere was once again cordial and peaceful. Back to normal.

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Environment 5a - Balance

The tub of the beer drowned many slugs in the garden. The one further down the garden which we filled with beer the day before, however, is bone dry in the morning. I think the deer might have drunk it. There is this deer that wanders into the garden in the night every now and then to sleep. Now we have one drunk deer! :(

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Environment 6a - Self Service Bicycles

I have just learned from my friend in Singapore that there is a self-service bicycle service, similar to the one in Paris, in Bukit Batok, run by NTUC Income. The service has been around since 2006, but I think many Singaporeans do not know about it. I didn't.

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Perhaps NTUC Income should take a leaf from the Parisian Velib system and base their docking stations in the city centre. They will be more visible there. Demand is also likelly to come from tourists and city centre dwellers, just like the case in Paris. To find out more about the Paris Velib system, click here.

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It is good to know that Singapore has already started thinking green from 2006 and have thus implemented the bicycle system. Now it is time to package and market it effectively! Hurray!

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Environment 6 - Self-Service Bicycles

It has been some years since I last was in Paris. It is ever so beautiful, but this time, it is much cleaner and the locals are even friendly! Yes, Parisians can be friendly. :)
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There are many monuments like the Opera House above, but what impressed me this time round is the self-service bicycle system they have in the city, called Velib. I guess it stands for "Ve" as in "Velo" (bicycle) and "lib" as in "libre" (free).
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Basically, there are several bicycle parking centres, that locks the bikes electronically with a device fixed on a stand to the ground. You can pick up a bike from any of this stands and return it at any other stand you find in the city. This service started about a year ago on 15th July 2007.

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This is the cash-card dispenser and top-up machine.

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Behind the machine is a map of where the bicycle stands are in the city.

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Bicycle lanes are allocated in the city.

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Due to the success of Velib, the city council is now planning to have Voilib, which is a self-service electric car system. For more information on Velib, click here.

So perhaps very soon, we will see cute little cars like this Smart, but electrically powered, self-serviced and commonplace within the city of Paris.

Taking the self-service electric car a step further, can we have driverless electric car service on demand? This will in turn lead us to PRT or Personal Rapid Transit. You may like to read my previous post on PRT here.

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Kids Play 13 - Heaven Knows

Zee (6 years old) asked her father what a funeral is, as they passed by one...
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Zee: What is a funeral?
Daddy: It is a ceremony for someone when they die.
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Zee: Where do people go when they die?
Daddy: They go to heaven.
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Zee: So is grandpa in heaven?
Daddy: Yes.
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Zee: Where is heaven?
Daddy: Oh... it's far away.
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At this point, Chris, a friend of her dad was also with them. She wanted to say to Zee that heaven is in her, but thought she'll let it pass. Then to her surprise...
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Zee: No, heaven is everywhere....
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As Zee went up the bus, she touched the bus and said...
Zee: Heaven is here, (then she touched the seats) and here, and here... (as she touched everything around her).
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Then, she started to say "hello" in the open.
When Chris asked her why she is saying "hello" to seemingly no one, ...
Zee: I am saying hello to grandpa. Grandpa is in heaven and heaven is everywhere. We cannot see grandpa, but he can see us.
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Environment 5 - Balance

A slippery problem

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It has been a rainy summer. Slugs abound. Slugs are tough creatures, they multiply every four weeks and can stay dormant in dry weathers for up to 4 years!

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Hedgehogs and birds who are their natural predators die after accumulating the human introduced 'slug poison' eaten by slugs. So now there are too many slugs.

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It is hard to say who the 'bad guys' are, but ecology needs balance. This prevailing imbalance has cost my friend her veggie patch tomatoes, as they were eaten almost entirely by slugs.

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There are ecological ways to get rid of slugs, by introducing nematodes (worm like creatures) and hedgehogs that feed on them. A hedgehog eats up to 120 slugs a day. You can also leave a tub of beer in your garden and very soon you will see many of them coming for a drink, then get drunk and drowned in the alcohol. Sounds familiar! haha.

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Note for the pure Buddhists and other non-killing religions, that the last method also amounts to murder. Or is it man-slaughter slug-slaughter or abetting suicide? :)

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Spiritual Parenting - Putting to practice

There was a misunderstanding between Hadri (ten years old) and his mother. Hadri's classmate's mother is on the phone expecting Hadri to go to their place for the evening. Hadri claimed that he did not agree to it. The mother remembered otherwise, and wanted to enforce the agreement that Hadri made.
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Mother: Look you have to keep to your agreement. They have been waiting for you at home already for an hour.
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Hadri (very angry): But it is not my fault! I didn't say that I will go to their place.
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Mother (now angry with Hadri's recurring denials and violation of several of their agreements recently): Now you come downstairs right now!
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Hadri: Why? I told you I didn't agree to go to my classmate's house. It's not my fault if they have been waiting for me for one hour... and I don't belong to you!
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Question: So, what do you think? :)

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Read also: Spiritual Parenting - the Seminar

The Secret Behind "The Secret" 2

I watched "The Secret" DVD again two nights ago (my fourth time) and noticed one of the commentators called "Esther Hicks from Abraham". Then last night, I stumbled upon her clips on Youtube. Apparently, she channels a group of masters who use her body to communicate with her students. I found her (or the masters') messages enlightening and they have helped me to clarify where I have not performed well enough recently.

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Listen intently to that certain depth in her voice during her channeling, it is very different from when she is not.

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What I have learned:

• FEEL GOOD: That I must do things that I feel good, for that is the only way that will bring me joy and therefore what I really really want. I tune myself to the 'downstream vibration'. My emotions is an indicator of my vibration. Therefore I would pay attention to what I am feeling. For instance, I feel better when I praise than when I criticize. Yet I do the latter sometimes. Why?

• FEEL MAD: However, I am glad even when I am feeling mad, because it is a just reminder to me that I must get back into alignment. So I embrace even my negative emotions. It shows that my guidance system is working.

• FEEL HAPPY: I need to be 'this happy' to achieve 'this', not 'I need this amount of time' to achieve 'this'. I feel good before I get 'there', not only when I am 'there'. I may need more time to be 'this happy' to get 'there', but this is because I choose to subconsciously.

• FEEL IN LOVE: When I am in love with somebody, it means that that person is coming into my life to help me get into alignment with the downstream vibration. That is why I am feeling so good about that person.

• CLARITY: Clarity is my natural state of being.

Once we understand that we have to put our minds into what we really want, we will get what we want and we have to watch our emotions constantly as they are indications of our vibrations. Life is not a frenzy.

You may find other points that are pertinent to your own development.

Below are some of her clips.There are many other of her clips available on Youtube - take your own pick.
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You may also like to read my earlier post on The Secret Behind The Secret

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Revolutionary Wealth 2

I would like to share these paragraphs in the Epilogue of the book:

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Waxing pessimistic is one of the easiest ways to masquerade as wise. And there is plenty to be pessimistic about. But permanent pessimism is no substitute for thought.

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"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed into an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit, " wrote Helen Keller, the remarkable blind and deaf author who traveled to thirty-nine countries, wrote eleven books, inspired two Oscar-winning movies and fought for the rights of the sightless until she died at the age of eighty-seven."

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Kids Play 12 - Everyone's a Winner

Bernie, 4 years old, was playing the board game with his dad. Each player starts from 'start' with 4 'seeds' and then successively move forward to 'home' in the middle of the board, by the count at the throw of the dice.

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As it went, Bernie finished the game first with all his seeds 'home'.

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Bernie's daddy congratulated him and went on to pack up the game, since it was finished. However, Bernie insisted that his dad continue to throw the dice and move his 'seeds' so that they too will all get home and daddy too will be a winner.

A child, in their innocence, just wants to play and wants everyone to win.
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Somewhere, as we grow up, Fear somehow sets in that resulted in many of us adults wanting to win without regards that others have to lose.

Read also In Memory of my school Principal Ong Kim Siong - he too, wanted a system where every child is a winner.

Bucky Group 29 - Rise of the Amateur Professional

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21st June 2008

We have a double video session this week.

1. "The Rise of the Amateur Professional", a talk by Charles Leadbeater at TED talks seminars.

2. "A way to God - Peace" by Anthony de Mello

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Discussion:

Alvin Toffler wrote about on the rise of the prosumer (= producer + consumer) in his book "The Third Wave" and "Revolutionary Wealth"; and it appears that we are moving towards the direction of Bucky's dream of a World Game such that nobody will work for money because what they need are already paid for.

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Vasu said that it will be wonderful the day if public transport are free. At the moment in Singapore, public buses are privatised and profit making. "But, it won't ever be free isn't it? Someone somewhere else will be paying for it", someone interjected.

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This is a common notion in the current world economy and world accounting system. In Bucky's World Game, he mentioned about how life supporting wealth can be distributed and how a global electricity grid can be constructed to facilitate this transfer of wealth. In Bucky's mind, we are living in an eternally regenerative universe where nothing is created and nothing is destroyed, so there is abundance and enough for all. Besides, with technology, we are progressively getting more strength per pound of metal from newly discovered alloys. Such discoveries and efficiencies ought to result in lower prices to consumers. However this do not happen because the salaries of managers in large corporations benefit from a rise in prices of goods that they manufacture. For further commentary on World Game, read

Bucky Group 4 - Local, Global and Universe - Penang Hill

Usury 2b - World Game

Usury 2a - World Game

Usury 2 - World Game

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For a quick introduction to Toffler's book, "Revolutionary Wealth", you may like to read

Revolutionary Wealth

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Back to our discussion in the salon...

"But how will the government fund a 'free transport'? It will have to come from taxes. I will hate to pay the kind of taxes like in Sweden (up to 60%), " someone retorted.

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Perhaps it is difficult for most of us to conceive a world that Bucky could see in his mind's eye. A world that Lenon sang, where there will be no country, nothing to kill or die for, no possessions and no religion too, living all in peace... Do we dare to be this dreamer?

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But this is no longer all dream stuff. As Charles Leadbeater has pointed out, there are many prosumer (unpaid worker) groups sprouting up and serving communities. These communities grew as a result of collective passion. Examples are getting more common place, eg. Volunteer paramedics, Open Source programmers, bloggers, self-help groups (not confined to charity, but also IT/technical interest groups), free online seminars (like TED talks), free online health care information,...etc.

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This includes this blog, where I have started with merely a 'good feeling', but have now made new friends, many whom have thanked me for putting those notes from the seminars I have attended, such as "A Course In Miracles" and "105 Universal Laws".

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There are also less obvious free labour that we provide to big corporations, many of which we are no longer conscious of, eg. withdrawing money from the ATM, buying DIY products, and online booking of air tickets, concert tickets, hotels, holidays and purchase of books.

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"But some of these still doesn't work," someone commented, "I have friends who are into Open Source and are yet to make money".

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I think there will be a transition period before we move into the ideal state as espoused by Bucky's World Game, since prosuming works only under the following conditions:

1. Low cost and easy availability of technology
2. Pervasive access to the Internet and mobile telephony
3. A highly educated and community spirited populous
4. Political freedom and expression

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Questions: Where do you think your community or country stand with respect to the above conditions? How far has your society progressed towards being a prosumer society?

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Some countries are some way yet towards those conditions for prosumers to grow. That is why certain prosuming activities have not entered mainstream. However, what is evident now is that we are certainly moving towards that direction. It may be interesting to see how all these prosuming activities will synergise with social enterprises, where business objectives must be to serve communities first and not to profit first (though profits are allowed and are not restrained).

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kids play 11 - Politics

Vic's (12yo) conversation with mum after his exams.

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Mum: How are your exams?

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Vic: Very simple. I don't know why they bother setting such questions. I think the Ministry doesn't know what they are doing... Anyway, it's all politics (to pass many). If you are clever you won't end up being a politician. It is when you can't do anything that you go there to hide. That's what you call political refugees!! :)

Environment 4 - Political Small Talk

Somewhere in the European Union. Two politicians talking.
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Politician A: I am proposing that we subsidise 75% of the cost of all energy saving upgrades to existing buildings.
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Politician B: What??!!!! SEVENTY-FIVE PERCENT!!! NO!!! THEY WILL ALL BE RUSHING INTO IT YOU KNOW!
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Politician A: THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE WANT!
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