第一声 请不要不理我 我只是健忘
第二声 请不要讨厌我 我只是糊涂
第三声 请不要不要我 我只是迷茫
第四声 请不要放弃我 我只是害怕
第五声 请不要忘记我 我只是忘了
简单熊 《被自己遗忘的自己》
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
呐喊
呐喊
第一声 请不要不理我 我只是健忘
第二声 请不要讨厌我 我只是糊涂
第三声 请不要不要我 我只是迷茫
第四声 请不要放弃我 我只是害怕
第五声 请不要忘记我 我只是忘了
简单熊 《被自己遗忘的自己》
第一声 请不要不理我 我只是健忘
第二声 请不要讨厌我 我只是糊涂
第三声 请不要不要我 我只是迷茫
第四声 请不要放弃我 我只是害怕
第五声 请不要忘记我 我只是忘了
简单熊 《被自己遗忘的自己》
Sunday, September 11, 2016
Alone.
Friend: "You spend a lot of time alone. You even eat alone during lunch time. Don't you get bored?"
Simple Bear: "It is not boring. In fact it can be quite entertaining."
Friend: "Entertaining? I don't see how entertaining can it get, being alone. Unless you play with your phone, watch dramas etc"
Simple Bear: "Even without your phone, it can be quite entertaining. The entertainment comes in stages. First, you get entertained by the world around you. Then slowly, you get entertained by the world within you. Then after that, you get entertained by the silence."
Friend: "Entertained by silence?"
Simple Bear: "Yes. Silence is enjoyable too"
Friend:
-_-!
May all be well and happy
Simple Bear 11.09.2017.
Friend: "You spend a lot of time alone. You even eat alone during lunch time. Don't you get bored?"
Simple Bear: "It is not boring. In fact it can be quite entertaining."
Friend: "Entertaining? I don't see how entertaining can it get, being alone. Unless you play with your phone, watch dramas etc"
Simple Bear: "Even without your phone, it can be quite entertaining. The entertainment comes in stages. First, you get entertained by the world around you. Then slowly, you get entertained by the world within you. Then after that, you get entertained by the silence."
Friend: "Entertained by silence?"
Simple Bear: "Yes. Silence is enjoyable too"
Friend:
-_-!May all be well and happy
Simple Bear 11.09.2017.
Friday, September 9, 2016
My Name is Not Winnie
My Name is Not Winnie
Got on the bus to meet a friend for breakfast. I was sitting behind two young girls, siblings. As I sat down, the younger girl (probably in kindergarten) turn to look at me with a stuffed Eeyore in her hands, as if she wanted me to participate in her imagination game as an audience. Her sister, slightly older was visibly embarrassed, initially at her sister's actions.
She asked her sister to stop looking at me. And then, she turned around and looked at me, I was smiling at them. I was finding this entire situation rather amusing. She realized that I was not in any way displeased with the behavior, smiled back and picked up the Eeyore. Both of them took turns displaying the Eeyore in front of me throughout the entire journey.
They kept putting the Eeyore in front of me throughout the entire journey.
Maybe they think I am Winnie the Pooh.
Got on the bus to meet a friend for breakfast. I was sitting behind two young girls, siblings. As I sat down, the younger girl (probably in kindergarten) turn to look at me with a stuffed Eeyore in her hands, as if she wanted me to participate in her imagination game as an audience. Her sister, slightly older was visibly embarrassed, initially at her sister's actions.
She asked her sister to stop looking at me. And then, she turned around and looked at me, I was smiling at them. I was finding this entire situation rather amusing. She realized that I was not in any way displeased with the behavior, smiled back and picked up the Eeyore. Both of them took turns displaying the Eeyore in front of me throughout the entire journey.
They kept putting the Eeyore in front of me throughout the entire journey.
Maybe they think I am Winnie the Pooh.
Sunday, September 4, 2016
Saturday, August 27, 2016
Be the Sun
Be the Sun.
A friend had recently confided in me an issue he had.
Friend: "I need you advice. I have a close friend who had cultivated some bad habits. I tried to save him from destroying himself but its difficult. Any way I can save him?"
Simple Bear: "Don't save him."
Friend: "And leave him to walk towards his own demise? I can't do it."
Simple Bear: "I mean don't have the mentality of being a savior. We are the only ones who can save ourselves; no one else can. He is the only one who can save himself. We can only facilitate the process of him saving himself through support."
Friend: "But I can't just ignore him."
Simple Bear: "Do your best. Be there for him. If he doesn't develop any self awareness or insight into his own problems, there is a limit to what others can do for him. It is like a person lost in an underground maze but doesn't realize that he is lost. Be like the sun in the sky at the end of the maze to guide him into the sunlight. Till then, if he doesn't realize that he is lost, telling him that he is lost may not work."
Friend: "Just be the sun."
Simple Bear: "Yes. You need to be self-illuminating."
Friend:-_-!
To light up the worlds of others, we must first light up our own worlds by ourselves, to be our own Suns.
May all be well and happy.
With Loving-Kindness
Simple Bear 27.08.2016.
A friend had recently confided in me an issue he had.
Friend: "I need you advice. I have a close friend who had cultivated some bad habits. I tried to save him from destroying himself but its difficult. Any way I can save him?"
Simple Bear: "Don't save him."
Friend: "And leave him to walk towards his own demise? I can't do it."
Simple Bear: "I mean don't have the mentality of being a savior. We are the only ones who can save ourselves; no one else can. He is the only one who can save himself. We can only facilitate the process of him saving himself through support."
Friend: "But I can't just ignore him."
Simple Bear: "Do your best. Be there for him. If he doesn't develop any self awareness or insight into his own problems, there is a limit to what others can do for him. It is like a person lost in an underground maze but doesn't realize that he is lost. Be like the sun in the sky at the end of the maze to guide him into the sunlight. Till then, if he doesn't realize that he is lost, telling him that he is lost may not work."
Friend: "Just be the sun."
Simple Bear: "Yes. You need to be self-illuminating."
Friend:
-_-!To light up the worlds of others, we must first light up our own worlds by ourselves, to be our own Suns.
May all be well and happy.
With Loving-Kindness
Simple Bear 27.08.2016.
Sunday, August 7, 2016
Pokemon Go (A Life Perspective from a Bear's Perspective)
Pokemon Go (A Life Perspective from a Bear's Perspective)
Yes. The craze is here. Everyone is out in the streets, in the parks, in the malls looking for the cute pokemons.
The eccentric bear in me was thinking about how the augumented reality Pokemon Go game relates to our reality.
Disclaimer: the following perspectives is from a non-player's limited understanding of the game.
Pokemons
The cute creatures are like the positive values e.g. empathy and compassion in our lives. We need to go around to find opportunities such as doing volunteering work to 'catch them all' The values (pokemons) may arise (appear) anywhere, anytime; we need to be aware to 'catch them within'
Pokemon Gyms
The gyms are like our daily interactions with everyone especially in difficult situations and people (strong pokemon gym leaders) in which we can have an opportunity to train ourselves and 'grown the values (pokemons) within'
Pokemon Stops
The stops are like opportunities in which we can learn skills e.g. meditation, mindfulness techniques (pokeballs) to help us in 'catching more values (pokemons)' in our daily lives. We need to have self-awareness to 'catch and grow the positive values within'
The pokemon eggs are like concepts e.g. compassion and empathetic joy, values that we can learn theoretically and grow within (the hatching and growing of pokemons).
Pokemon Go Incense
The incense is like generating positivity within. I believe adopting positivity (utilizing incense items) will attracts positivity (pokemons). When we are positive (utilizing incense items), we are more likely to be aware and notice the positivity (pokemons) around us.
Of course there is the risk of injuries in the craze of catching pokemons. Likewise in the cultivation of values (training of pokemons), we need to take care of ourselves. In the 'craze' to cultivate (train), we may just do the opposite and hurt ourselves and others in the process.
While everyone is catching pokemons outside
I think I will get myself busy in finding my opportunities. Have a safe and good time everyone. Be well and happy.
With Loving-Kindness
Simple Bear 07.08.2016.
Yes. The craze is here. Everyone is out in the streets, in the parks, in the malls looking for the cute pokemons.
The eccentric bear in me was thinking about how the augumented reality Pokemon Go game relates to our reality.
Disclaimer: the following perspectives is from a non-player's limited understanding of the game.
Pokemons
The cute creatures are like the positive values e.g. empathy and compassion in our lives. We need to go around to find opportunities such as doing volunteering work to 'catch them all' The values (pokemons) may arise (appear) anywhere, anytime; we need to be aware to 'catch them within'
Pokemon Gyms
The gyms are like our daily interactions with everyone especially in difficult situations and people (strong pokemon gym leaders) in which we can have an opportunity to train ourselves and 'grown the values (pokemons) within'
Pokemon Stops
The stops are like opportunities in which we can learn skills e.g. meditation, mindfulness techniques (pokeballs) to help us in 'catching more values (pokemons)' in our daily lives. We need to have self-awareness to 'catch and grow the positive values within'
The pokemon eggs are like concepts e.g. compassion and empathetic joy, values that we can learn theoretically and grow within (the hatching and growing of pokemons).
Pokemon Go Incense
The incense is like generating positivity within. I believe adopting positivity (utilizing incense items) will attracts positivity (pokemons). When we are positive (utilizing incense items), we are more likely to be aware and notice the positivity (pokemons) around us.
Of course there is the risk of injuries in the craze of catching pokemons. Likewise in the cultivation of values (training of pokemons), we need to take care of ourselves. In the 'craze' to cultivate (train), we may just do the opposite and hurt ourselves and others in the process.
While everyone is catching pokemons outside
I think I will get myself busy in finding my opportunities. Have a safe and good time everyone. Be well and happy.
With Loving-Kindness
Simple Bear 07.08.2016.
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Interpretation of a dream.
Interpretation of a dream.
Woke up in the middle of the night with my heart racing.
It was a vivid dream.
In the dream, there was a man filled with egoistic rage, wishing to destroy the worlds and there was another man, filled with pain, wishing to save the worlds.
The dream ended when the man, filled with pain invokes a 'curse' by sacrificing his life, condemning the man, filled with anger, to be trapped in a mirror.
In the dream, I can feel what the anger and also the pain. I was both. It was as if I took turns acting as one in the moment and another in the next.
As I woke up and sat in my bed, feeling the anger in one moment, and the pain in another, I remembered I had a similar dream once, a couple of months ago. In the earlier dream, the two men were there but the ending is different. The man, filled with rage was torturing the man, filled with pain. Both seems so real.
Instinctively, my breaths slowed down as I sat at the edge of my bed. The anger and the pain ebbed away. I could feel myself slowly coming back to this sensory world; I could feel the touch of my body with the fabric of the bed, the smell of rain, the sound of the rain drops outside the windows.
The question arises. Was it just a meaningless dream? Or does it have a more metaphorical meaning behind it?
What is the possibility of two dreams with the same characters with different endings occurring in a time period?
It was the manifestation of my thoughts, my emotions. I was both.
In the earlier dream, the man filled with anger was my own frustrations with my own expectations and disappointments, which manifested itself as the man, filled with pain. I was 'torturing myself' with my own unfulfilled expectations. Subconsciously, I was struggling within but denying it externally. The anger (frustrations) was the pain (disappointments with expectations).
The dream last night was symbolic of the fruit of my struggles. Giving up my expectations, the disappointments and the frustrations which accompanied it, diminishes within. It was only a momentary victory, I have not gone beyond them yet; the mirror is symbolic of introspection. It is a reminder that peace within requires constant awareness and introspection, like the first light of dawn, which breaks the darkness of the night.
"The future is unknown, have faith in peace as your company; even when the end is near, there is no fear."
Simple Bear 21.07.2016.
I fell asleep again, with peace as my blanket covering me. And I woke up to a new self again, with the morning light illuminating my room. Grateful.
May all be well and happy.
With Loving-Kindness
Simple Bear
Woke up in the middle of the night with my heart racing.
It was a vivid dream.
In the dream, there was a man filled with egoistic rage, wishing to destroy the worlds and there was another man, filled with pain, wishing to save the worlds.
The dream ended when the man, filled with pain invokes a 'curse' by sacrificing his life, condemning the man, filled with anger, to be trapped in a mirror.
In the dream, I can feel what the anger and also the pain. I was both. It was as if I took turns acting as one in the moment and another in the next.
As I woke up and sat in my bed, feeling the anger in one moment, and the pain in another, I remembered I had a similar dream once, a couple of months ago. In the earlier dream, the two men were there but the ending is different. The man, filled with rage was torturing the man, filled with pain. Both seems so real.
Instinctively, my breaths slowed down as I sat at the edge of my bed. The anger and the pain ebbed away. I could feel myself slowly coming back to this sensory world; I could feel the touch of my body with the fabric of the bed, the smell of rain, the sound of the rain drops outside the windows.
The question arises. Was it just a meaningless dream? Or does it have a more metaphorical meaning behind it?
What is the possibility of two dreams with the same characters with different endings occurring in a time period?
It was the manifestation of my thoughts, my emotions. I was both.
In the earlier dream, the man filled with anger was my own frustrations with my own expectations and disappointments, which manifested itself as the man, filled with pain. I was 'torturing myself' with my own unfulfilled expectations. Subconsciously, I was struggling within but denying it externally. The anger (frustrations) was the pain (disappointments with expectations).
The dream last night was symbolic of the fruit of my struggles. Giving up my expectations, the disappointments and the frustrations which accompanied it, diminishes within. It was only a momentary victory, I have not gone beyond them yet; the mirror is symbolic of introspection. It is a reminder that peace within requires constant awareness and introspection, like the first light of dawn, which breaks the darkness of the night.
"The future is unknown, have faith in peace as your company; even when the end is near, there is no fear."
Simple Bear 21.07.2016.
I fell asleep again, with peace as my blanket covering me. And I woke up to a new self again, with the morning light illuminating my room. Grateful.
May all be well and happy.
With Loving-Kindness
Simple Bear
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