Dreamy Wonderland

I want to share an essay I had read somewhere...

 Jumat, 21 Nov 08...

Walau fotonya agak blur, tapi tetap membawa kenangan tersendiri buatku...

WJ-Leo

Ardi-Tanri-Marilyn-Wiga-Andrea

Hmm...ini kami semua di Lobby-nya Hanamasa (tanpa Vanesha yang sudah pulang duluan)

Pelanggan terakhir..., dah hampir diusir waktu itu..., hehe

(sebenarnya masih ada banyak foto2 bagus, cuma malas uploadnya, habisnya lama..., hehe)

Walupun panita PPAB 2008 telah resmi bubar, namun persahabatan kami tidak akan..

Semoga persahabatan kami semua tetap bertahan selamanya...

semoga juga kenangan2 bahagia ini tidak terlupakan oleh kami semua, terutama saya (yang amat sangat pelupa, hehe)...

Dari hati terdalam, saya merasa...

Senang sekali dapat bertemu dan mempunyai teman-teman seperti kalian...

benar-benar merasa senang dan beruntung...

PPAB 2008 KMB Dhammanano ITB

Have all of you done your responsibilities towards your pareents..?
Maybe most of us thought that, ‘ I have done my best to cared for them...’ but if we are willing to spend a little time to really thought about it, maybe we have done nothing...
Maybe all of this time we are just hurting them without we really realized it. Instead of showing care to them..

Here is a short story, taken from http://www.inspirationallane.com.
I’ll always remember this story in mind, so that I won’t go over the same mistake in this story..

An 80 year old man was sitting on the sofa in his house along with his 45 years old highly educated son. Suddenly a crow perched on their window.
The Father asked his Son, "What is this?"
The Son replied "It is a crow".

After a few minutes, the Father asked his Son the 2nd time, "What is this?"
The Son said "Father, I have just now told you "It's a crow".

After a little while, the old Father again asked his Son the 3rd time,
What is this?"
At this time some ex-pression of irritation was felt in the Son's tone when he said to his Father with a rebuff. "It's a crow, a crow".

A little after, the Father again asked his Son t he 4th time, "What is this?"
This time the Son shouted at his Father, "Why do you keep asking me the same question again and again, although I have told you so many times 'IT IS A CROW'. Are you not able to understand this?"


A little later the Father went to his room and came back with an old tattered diary, which he had maintained since his Son was born. On opening a page, he asked his Son to read that page. When the son read it, the following words were written in the diary :-
"Today my little son aged three was sitting with me on the sofa, when a crow was sitting on the window. My Son asked me 23 times what it was, and I replied to him all 23 times that it was a Crow. I hugged him lovingly each time he asked me the same question again and again for 23 times. I did not at all feel irritated I rather felt affection for my innocent child".


While the little child asked him 23 times "What is this", the Father had felt no irritation in replying to the same question all 23 times but when today the Father asked his Son the same question just 4 times, the Son felt irritated and annoyed.

In my life, I once witnessed quite a same scene, my friend got irritated and shouted back at her parents when her parents go over the same sentence asking her to take care of herself in the journey which we are taking and don’t forget to let them know how she’s been. Can you imagine how would you feel if you are in the parents position..? You’ve got nothing instead of your child anger when you showed him/her concern.

So...., If your parents attain old age, do not repulse them or look at them as a burden, but speak to them a gracious word, be cool, obedient, humble and kind to them. Be considerate to your parents. Always remember how they had cared for us, how they had worked hard to educte us, and how much they had loved us, regardless what we had done, regardless the troubles we had caused.

I once hear that, “parents don’t demand that we repay their money which was spent on us. Parents also don’t demand their children to give them a luxurious living. All that they ask for is our love and care for them. It means so much more than anything else in this world. You may not understand or realized it until you are a parent yourself.”

From today say this aloud, "I want to see my parents happy forever. They have cared for me ever since I was a little child. They have always showered their selfless love on me. They crossed all mountains and valleys without seeing the storm and heat to make me a person presentable in the society today. I will serve my old parents in the BEST way. I will say all good and kind words to my dear parents, no matter how they behave.".

Blaise Pascal : “All of man’s misfortune comes from one thing, which is not knowing how to sit quietly in a room”

Maybe most of you has already know meditation.
But is meditation really benefits us ?

Here is the list of benefits by doing meditation daily in our life
 Increases happiness. Scientists at the University of Wisconsin reported that people newly trained in meditation have shown an increase in electrical activity in the left frontal part of the brain, an area associated with positive emotion and happiness.

 Boosts the immune system. In the same study, meditators also showed a significant increase in immunity to the flu.

 Enhances memory and attention. A study at Massachusetts General Hospital found that parts of the brain’s cerebral cortex were thicker in people who had practiced meditation daily for just 40 minutes for several years. The cerebral cortex is the part of the brain that deals with attention and processing sensory input and tends to thin with age.

 Reduces the physical pain, anxiety, and stress of fibromyalgia. A study published in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics showed sustained benefits over a three year period in a group of women who had taken an eight-week course in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.

 Lowers blood pressure. A 2004 study published in the American Journal of Cardiology showed meditation can lower blood pressure and mortality rates in older people with hypertension.

 Helps alleviate mild to moderate anxiety and depression. Researchers at the University of Louisville found that mindfulness meditation alleviates depression in women with fibromyalgia.

 Increases alertness. University of Kentucky researchers found that sleepy people who meditated for 40 minutes did better on a test of mental quickness than people who had taken a 40-minute nap.

 Helps control binge eating. A study at Indiana State University found that obese women who practiced mindfulness meditation had an average of four fewer binge-eating episodes a week than before they took up the practice. Mindfulness can help bingers recognize when they want to overeat and lower the odds that they will.

 Helps lower blood sugar: Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles showed that patients were able to lower their blood pressure, blood sugar and insulin by practicing transcendental meditation.
For more information about meditation, please visit http://www.wildmind.org



Finally, sedikit iklan..., hehehe....


Keluarga Mahasiswa Buddhis Dhammañano
INSTITUT TEKNOLOGI BANDUNG
Akan mengadakan

MEDITATION WORKSHOP
15 November 2008 : 09.00-selesai
16 November 2008 : 11.00-selesai
bertempat di
Gd. BSC-A
Kampus ITB
Jln. Ganesha 10 Bandung..

Akan ada talkshow serta praktik meditasi
Acara terbuka untuk umum dan gratis !!!