Practicing the Middle Way the Shaolin Style

Check out how a Shaolin Monk approaches life in general. I love it when I hear he says the middle way is not extreme left or right but a big circle in the video. He uses the example of eating meat as a monk is not OK when there is a vegetable, but he is practicing the middle way and so when he only has a choice of eating meat at the moment because someone offers him meat only — he would not deny since the animal is already dead. For example, this person would tell him that he or she could throw away the meat as waste if he isn’t going to accept it — thus he must do so since the animal is already dead. Moreover, he said that embrace change and middle way and do not stick to extreme concept since in life things are changing naturally and never stay the same, and by not saying eating meat is bad or eating vegetable only is bad — he is practicing the middle way by being a monk and yet he eats meat when a good samaritan is offering him meat only. So, looking at both extremes and yet don’t deny any and only do what is making sense at the moment could allow a person getting closer to the middle way.


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Slavery (Poem by Vinh Nguyen)

Slavery, comes and goes,
common sense or no,
slavery comes and goes.

When slavery was around,
suffering was guaranteed,
a relief as it went away.

Thus men declared we’re freed,
from a slavery of men,
celebrating a newfound freedom.

No longer in chains,
yet men somehow felt being bound,
by invisible chains of everyday.

Men are freed,
yet men are not freed,
from invisible forms of slavery.

If not financially chained to serve,
it must be old age which whips weeped men,
into slavery men shall forever be bounded.

Can men ever be freed?
Arrogantly, men declared freedom,
without seeing the invisible chains.

From birth men were being chained,
to serve the invisible masters,
and men shall serve till death comes.

How ironic it is,
as men try to stay free,
but men are free only in death.

How ironic it is,
as men declare freedom,
men serve masters till death comes.

Death Is An Illusion

String theory is a complex subject, and I’m not sure I would care to understand it at all.  Nonetheless, one memorable thing I’ve remembered of string theory is that the theory has mentioned how the string would vibrate.  What on earth is a string theory?  Like I said, it’s scientific, theoretical stuff, but scientists have been studying and forming and shaping this theory to try to explain the physics of the universe that we’re living in.  Regardless what a string theory is about and how grand it is, I’m not going to talk about it in this blog post beyond what I’d already mentioned of it.  Instead of talking about the string theory, I like to talk about the vibration.

What on earth?  Let me assure you, we’re not living on Mars.  I had this eureka moment today on vibration, and I was so excited.  I’m still excited about this whole eureka moment on vibration.  Instead of trying to be all that scientifically sound as in string theory, my idea of vibration is that even in death, death is vibrating.  Let me expand this a little more before you even know what I’m trying to get at.

Before you even open your eyes in the morning, in sleep you breathe and snore.  You’re vibrating pretty much in sleep!  The rhythmic breathing you breathe in sleep vibrates for life.  As you open up your eyes in the morning, the sunlight (daylight or any sort of artificial light) vibrates for your eyes, and you see life.  The molecules within your morning coffee vibrate for your taste.  The sounds that you hear from the wind, trees, birds, and whatnot vibrate for your hearing (ears).  Even the symbolic smell of happiness vibrates for your successful, gratifying life.

When you see someone is passing away, you would think in death the deceased would cease to vibrate.  That is not the case at all.  In death, the deceased’s body would have experienced countless vibrations that dictate how a body would be decomposed.  Even when someone cremates the deceased, the deceased’s ashes would vibrate to keep the ashes in the ash form.  Tiny atoms that make up a single grain of ash vibrates throughout, keeping the memory of a deceased alive in life.  Death is an illusion to life, because even death is alive (vibrating) when dying.

It’s common sense, scientifically or not, that tells me everything is vibrating in the universe we’re living in.  It’s common sense, scientifically or not, that tells me nothing is truly dead (not vibrating).  When something is truly dead, it won’t vibrate at all.  Nonetheless, I’m not sure you can find something that is not vibrating.  Simply put, our universe’s dictionary does not have a word for non-vibration or lifeless.  Simply put, from the thought of non-vibration, we’re already propagating the vibration of life.  Perhaps, thinking very deep to the point of confusing oneself, string theory, indeed, is onto something, right?

Another Easiest Answer? (Poem by Vinh Nguyen)

Just another poem I had written thus far.  Enjoy!!!

  • Why are we here?
  • To live and let live?
  • When did we arrive?
  • How did we multiply?
  • Did we multiply with one?
  • Did we multiply with two?
  • We might never know,
  • but why didn’t we try to know?
  • Why are we so forgetting,
  • where we had come from?
  • Perhaps we don’t care,
  • or had we truly forgotten?
  • Nonetheless, we did find,
  • dinosaur bones didn’t we?
  • Nonetheless, we did think,
  • they were here before us?
  • Similar curiosity raged on,
  • why they had come before us?
  • Had the dinosaurs were wiped out,
  • just so us humans could live?
  • What if they had not been erased,
  • would we be able to thrive on?
  • Sure it was a survival of the fittest,
  • or had we gotten so much luck?
  • We thought simple is that simple,
  • but had simple ever is?
  • Back to the basic we hoped,
  • but had we found hope?
  • A hope of finding a human origin,
  • which might forever be lost?
  • Stardusts they surmised,
  • could have planted us seeds?
  • If this is so,
  • a human origin might not be so simple?
  • Infinite stardusts had always been out there,
  • we might as well were one of them?
  • Perhaps, stardusts might be it,
  • as it’s the easiest answer?
  • Not so fast methinks,
  • stardusts too, want to know their origin?
  • Perhaps the answer would be,
  • singularity?
  • .
  • Another easiest answer?

Alice Would Know?




