Author: Derek

  • Timing is always perfect

    Timing is always perfect

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    When the ego is transcended, mental notion of time disappears. What left then, is the unseen propensities and intentions come into menifestations, when conditions are right. In such state, timing is always perfect, universally fair, and just. Level of truth 950

  • Taochat 2024 – Transcending Emotions

    Taochat 2024 – Transcending Emotions

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    How do emotions arise? How to manage and transcend them? 4 steps to emotional stability Mindfulness training Live Q&A Come join us on first session of Taochat 2024 – Transcending Emotions Online Zoom meeting Date: Apr14th (Sun) Time: 8-9pm Hong Kong time Bilingual English & Chinese Free of charge PM Derek to RSVP 情緒如何生起? 如何管理並超越情緒?…

  • Human intelligence vs. artificial intelligence

    Human intelligence vs. artificial intelligence

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    What is Intelligence? What is fundamental difference between human intelligence and artificial intelligence (AI)? When AI becomes more developed, what value could human still brings to the world, and to our own lives? A forum is upcoming this year, that brings together technological and traditional cultural leaders, to start discussing the above. If you are…

  • Taoist teachers, students

    Taoist teachers, students

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    The universe responses, continuously. When we humble our “selves”, and ask for guidance, teachers and teachings appear. They could appear in different forms (a teacher, friend, family member, colleague, boss, team, customer, client, regulator, stranger, or even as general phenomena). When the student is adapt and mature, the “selves” become quiet, and the separation between…

  • New Year insight

    New Year insight

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    Besides exchanging blessings and red pockets, some Chinese would ask fortune at temples during Chinese New Year, to get direction and insight for the year. Insight are divided into three groups, (上) refers to positive messages, (中) refers to neutral messages, and (下) refers to cautionary messages. May your insights be the most positive ones…

  • New Year of the Dragon

    New Year of the Dragon

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    Happy Chinese New Year of the Dragon! May your year be filled with strength, vibrancy, and prosperity! #CNY2024#blessings

  • Transcending the ego-mind

    Transcending the ego-mind

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    Life constructed by the ego-mind, is known, linear, logical, therefore is rigid, and limited. Life transcending the ego-mind, is nonlinear, lead by vision, integrated with wisdom, thus is flexible, and unlimited. #life#ego#logical#rigid#limited #life#vision#wisdom#flexible#unlimited

  • Negotiation, Customer Service, Healing

    Negotiation, Customer Service, Healing

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    Masters settle conflicts before they arise – Inner Canon of Yellow Emperor Applicable in Negotiation, Customer Service, and Health. Amateurs struggle from conflicts to conflicts, Smart ones settles early when conflicts start to arise, Masters maintain oneself and relationship in optimal states.

  • Integrity (誠信)

    Integrity (誠信)

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    Translates as (誠信), has two components in Chinese interpretation: 1.    (誠) refers to sincerity, which refers to 1) honesty, 2) sincerity, and 3) pure in intention: 1)   Honesty (誠實) refers to truthfulness and consistency in body, speech, and mind. i.e. speech aligns with mind, action aligns with speech. When one maintains truthfulness and consistency across mind, speech, and…

  • Life is a garden 生命大花園

    Life is a garden 生命大花園

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    Life is like a garden,where flower of all colors blossoms.Allowing all to grow in light or darkness,boundlessly unfold from our true origin. 生命是個大花園 紅藍黃綠萬花全 向陰向陽任你長 無邊綻放自心源 你, 要成為什麼樣的花呢？

  • Taochat Dec 2023 – Essence of Zen

    Taochat Dec 2023 – Essence of Zen

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    What is Zen?Origin of Zen, Magic of ZenDifference between concentration, sitting meditation, and ZenCultivating Zen – blockages and sidetracks3 levels of SurrenderSurrender MeditationQ&A Join us in Dec10 online community zoom Taochat, last one in 2023 – Essence of Zen Date/Time:Sun (Dec10), 11pm-12am (Sydney/Melbourne)Sun (Dec10), 9-10pm (Tokyo/Seoul)Sun (Dec10), 8-9pm (Beijing/Hong Kong/Taipei)Sun (Dec10), 1-2pm (Stockholm)Sun (Dec10), 12-1pm…

  • 阿彌陀經淺釋

    阿彌陀經淺釋

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    阿是無量經是法, 彌是福德陀智慧 一切諸佛所護念, 譯者智慧方便題 西方成就東方始, 十萬億正法圓行 福慧具足阿彌陀, 時空之中本自在 極樂全明故無苦, 心一境性捨識根 自証眷屬器世界, 四念四勤四神攝 心地清淨金沙佈, 菩提正道池水滿 三七分中起樓閣, 四花相映器世界 心地清淨自証覺, 天籟聲會花雨景 智慧主導身口意, 動靜一如自性海 器世自証成就後, 繼續饒益眷屬世 四正四勤四攝上, 三七道品眾成長 前行要先立資糧, 福德善根先具足 正法需一心不亂, 持號七日生極樂 清淨行能遍十方, 東方始行南正行 西方成就北作用, 下方攝受上景仰 一切諸佛所護念, 真理遍行圓十方 聞經受持聞諸佛, 不退轉於無上行 立人立己佛功德, 五濁惡世行難行 娑婆成道希有事, 殊勝說法難不難

  • 4 Benefits cultivating the Moment:

    4 Benefits cultivating the Moment:

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    More Energy – through lessened mental energy wastage More Experience – through sustained relaxed focused awareness More Wisdom – through pre-mental access to the universal database More Truth – through direct alignment with Life, despite of mental distortions

  • What is Reality?

    What is Reality?

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    Reality, is the ultimate source of all, that is beyond (yet allows and includes) all forms, descriptions, polarizations, and dualities. It is of unlimited power, kindness, and wisdom that out of it all possibilities and manifestations arise. It is everlasting, ongoing, and is just is. – level of truth 960 To supplment, the even higher…

  • Transcending the ego-mind

    Transcending the ego-mind

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    Life constructed by the ego-mind, is known, linear, logical, therefore is rigid, and limited. Life transcending the ego-mind, is nonlinear, lead by vision, integrated with wisdom, thus is flexible, and unlimited.

  • Lunchtime qigong

    Lunchtime qigong

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    Lunchtime qigong this week, as group is generally healthy, we did meditation instead. After about a year of practice, we sat and it was a meal’s time. All is well, with many healthy reports in body and mind. Actually, meditation is an advanced form of qigong, much like how martial artists sit and heal in…

  • Health Tips during Virus Outbreak

    Health Tips during Virus Outbreak

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    Health tips during Virus outbreak: Basic hygiene: 1) wear a mask in public place 2) wash hands frequently (soap better than hand sanitizers), and avoid touching face 3) avoid crowded area 4) keep good 6-8 feet distance from others 5) careful of dirty public items (handrails, door handles, toilet water tap, door, seats) 6) stay…

  • Ordinary people, Hinayana, Mahayana

    Ordinary people, Hinayana, Mahayana

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    凡夫淨放，放完休息，休完再放，命終隨業去 小乘淨收，如封似閉，入大休息，訓醒又再來 大乘慧定，能收能放，不來不去，乘願而往來 Ordinary people knows only to use, after depleted rest, after rest deplete again, when physicality ends goes with karma; Hinayana knows only to close, close up and seal, into big deep rest, when wake up continues again; Mahayana aims wisdom concentration, can use and can close, not here and not there, come…

  • 修行 Cultivation

    修行 Cultivation

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    家人囉嗦煩惱生，靜觀承擔任運消，解使結，便前行；同事爭功氣又生，折騰半天覺醒來，無一物，誰來爭；生活，就是修行。 Close ones complaint emotion rises, contemplate own surrender dissipate, knots untied, move forward; Colleagues fight credit qi arises, half day inflated but after rest, nothing there, who to fight; Life itself, is the cultivation ground.

  • Health reminders

    Health reminders

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    During virus time, everyone please upkeep hygiene, keep the body and mind strong, and maintain healthy lifestyle with adequate exercise, food, and rest. It will be over in a few months time.