2nd Verse

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty
only because there is ugliness..
All can know good as good only because there is evil

Being and nonbeing produce each other
the difficult is born in the easy..
long is defined by shorth,the high by the low
before and after go along with each other


So the master lives openly with apparent duality
and paradoxical unity
the master can act without effort and teach without word
Nurturing things without possessing them
he works , but not for rewards
he competes , but not for results

when the work is done , it is forgotten...
that is why it last forever....



The second verse is all inspiring..
it teaches us how to accept things as they are.
Most of us desires happiness but we forgot that along with it is the reality that it has the innate polarity of sadness.
One way or the other what is on top will come down and vise versa....
In a way this gives me the insight that has created an inprint in my soul.
I believe that if we understand this powerfull words this will change our ways and perception about life...
A good example of this is letting go of the person you love
It may be because of distance, inreconsilable difference,that of permanent separation because of death......or for no reason at all
One should accept that possessing is not loving.....
letting go is in fact practicing the polarity of possesing thus loving...
It may sound paradoxiacal but that is the fact.
All of creation is created by this principle... Polarity principle
I am able to share my thoughts about this because one time in my life my thoughts were foolish... thus learn to seek wisdom...
Once there was no ronie.. there will never be, then out of nothingness came to be the material me.. as a human we are ought to be called and so THERE came Ronie....But actually even with or without name i existed.....I existed because once i didnt exist.....
What im trying to establish here is that we have to learn to flow with what life has to bring .... may it be good or bad... for life is not life without death....and death is not death if there is no life.... It is what it is or is not.....
If we learn to live by this principle we may be able to reflect our purpose of this never ending flow of paradoxical unity.....

1st verse

The Force that can be told is not the eternal force
THe name that can be named
is not the eternal name

The force is both named and the nameless
As nameless it is the origin of all the things
as named it is the Mother of of All things

Ever desireless, one can see the mystery
ever desiring, one sees only the eyes allows them to see
and the mystery itself is the doorway
to all understanding........

beginning this day ill be using verses from the teachings of Lao Tzu...
with this, i'll give my thoughts and insights....

... All comes from the force... Human as we are we love to name things .. Our mind cant conceptualize the UNKNOWN...
So with our rational mind we call this force as GOD, Allah, TAO.....
We try to study GOD - by studying divinity and creating DOGMA .. to which for me is futile....
.... A masterpiece cant study the details of the MASTER.....
All it can do is to know that sometime and for a purpose it was created...
It is the reflection of the MASTER itself...
My insight for this is ...
STOP LAbelling .. Stop NAMING things..... For everything ... as in everything comes from the Force...
And no matter how hard we try to Study and understand the reasons of things we just cant....
So better allow yourself to let things be.. Knowing that everything comes from the force... Our challenge is this .. HOW to be connected and stay connected to the source..
I have no answers for this but i believe that in our own way as we ourselves are individual Materpieces of the FORCE we know in our personnal way how to connect and stay connected to the FORCE.....
........ Take time then .. Being alive and knowing your purpose is the greatest ACHIVEMENT.....

"strange"

Its my 2nd week here in LA yet it still feels very strange.
......Me, my cousin meck and her husband james went to Glendale today.
Meck and I went to a supermarket, we went to a BENCH store and bought some stuff... the cashier looks filipina yet she spoke DEFFENTLY ...... the merchendise were all BENCH yet it feels very Different.... We went to CHow King and order Fried Rice and chicken wings!.. It taste different..... We went to Burbank and watch a Movie ... the people looks very different..... the place .. SO STRANGE.....
then it dawned on me that I am the ONe who is a STRANGER in this place....
Suddenly I start to miss the Philippines.....Davao is what i realy miss...
.... ITS strange ..... we were in the freeway.... Theres no Jeepney, no traffic aids.... its just cars..... and cars.. and cars.....
Everything is just very Strange.....
.......Hope one day ill be No stranger in this place... and maybe... just maybe... by that day DAVAO once i called home will be STRANGE for me...Hope not or maybe

Change

Hello everyone! My apologies if ever I have not added new Blog. Anyways Let me share my thoughts about CHANGE!



..... FOr a couple of months I was very anxious and fearful for the imminent CHANGE that is about to take place. I received My immigrant visa and my employer called me that my depoyment will be by the end of September.




Great! I should be thankful and happy for this is the most awaited thing in my life at present. This is a dream coming to reality! Yet as the day draws near the more I became restless, ambivalent and depress. Whoa! Depress? One mytthink that I must Be crazy! I am about to migrate to the US and I am depress? SHOOT! Yeah I am perhaps crazy! or not? ......
Finally the Day came. September 23 when I Boarded Cathy Pacific bound for Los Angeles Via Hong Kong. Nothing unusualduring flight except that when I tune In My Radio, the DJ was discussing about the REALITY about CHANGE. Heres What I learned:
Ways to embrace Change:
1. Take time
Change is permanent! there is nothing you can do about it. No matter you like it or not, change will STILL take its own course. Do not resist it, allow yourself in your own phase to follow the flow!
2. Its OK to be emotional!
The BEST thing in life is to be in your COMFORT ZONE! to feel the comfort of your own shell! Well when change is to happen One is to be in Uncharted waters! and this brings forth Anxiety and discomfort! So feel your emotion! I bet you It is normal..
3. Have a perspective
Knowing that There is nothing you can do the prevent it. Try to be in your best stance! What do you want to happen? would you like to feel anxious and be fearful about the future? or take a brave heart knowing that THE BEST IS YET TO COME in your life! its a matter of perspective!
4. Inlist your friends and Family!
Change is better handled with if you ask the support of your family and friends. In my part I have contacted my classmates, friends and relatives in Los Angeles.And they provided me the WORDS that I needed the MOST. ASSURANCE that I can make it. If anything happens in the wrong course its good to know that you have someone to lean on
5. Simplifly things!
Migrating to a place you have never been into is no easy business. Its like a fish in the aquarium transfered to the OCEAN! Its a course of Uncertainty, risk and danger!.. yet when you do things according to priority, then it is allot more safer.
6. Follow the flow!
It is easier to swim along the river than opposing it....Let go and learn to ride on the flow of things
7.Learn form IT.
This change will eventually become a ROUTINE in the future and then another CHANGE will take place! So learn from it so the next time around it will be allot more easier to adjust.
8. .... This is my own way of dealing cHANGE ..Ask for guidance! you may call it GOD, Divine! spiritual!- its soothing to know that there is someone, something greater thanall of us that is in our side!