Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Happy Chinese New Year 2008!!!
Family gathering of past few years. Looking forward to this year's reunion...
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... be childlike without being childish ... revel the creative & silly side ... enjoy ANOTHER childhood as I grow and learn to be part of someone's childhood
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Status Anxiety By Alain De Botton
On Snobbery as a cause of Status Anxiety:
The company of the snobbish has the power to enrage and unnerve because we sense how little of who we are deep down...This unconditional nature perhaps pains us because adult love retains as its prototype the unconditional love of a parent for a child. Our earliest experience of love is of being cared for in a naked, impoverished condition. Babies cannot, by definition, repay their carers with wordly rewards. In so far as they are loved and looked after, it is therefore for who they are - identity in its barest, most stripped-down state. They are loved for, or in spite of, their uncontrolled, howling and stubborn characters.
Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achivement: being polite, succeeding at school and later, acquiring rank and prestige...
On Snobbery as a cause of Status Anxiety:
The company of the snobbish has the power to enrage and unnerve because we sense how little of who we are deep down...This unconditional nature perhaps pains us because adult love retains as its prototype the unconditional love of a parent for a child. Our earliest experience of love is of being cared for in a naked, impoverished condition. Babies cannot, by definition, repay their carers with wordly rewards. In so far as they are loved and looked after, it is therefore for who they are - identity in its barest, most stripped-down state. They are loved for, or in spite of, their uncontrolled, howling and stubborn characters.
Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achivement: being polite, succeeding at school and later, acquiring rank and prestige...
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Jing Si Aphorism
The reason we feel lost and unhappy is greed.
In fact, we need very little to sustain our life.
Leading a simple, well-grounded life,
we will naturally be happy and at peace.
by Master Cheng-Yen
In fact, we need very little to sustain our life.
Leading a simple, well-grounded life,
we will naturally be happy and at peace.
by Master Cheng-Yen
So let's together learn... I'm not teaching you, you're not teaching me, together we're going into it deeply.
- J. Krishnamurti
- J. Krishnamurti