...So this story can go on and on but it is a very good story to see the difference between the mind of someone who practices and the mind of someone who doesn't. If you don't practice, you'll always see everything as either GOOD luck or BAD luck.When things go well, you get very happy, and when things go very badly, you get so depressed. It's going up and down, UP and DOWN all the time. But when you....
This is a story from China. It is a story about a man who has a beautiful horse. He is very proud of his horse. He keeps it in a big stable behind his house. One day, there is a storm and the lightning hits the stable. The horse escapes and runs off into the forest.All the friends of this man come to see him in the morning and they say."Oh! What bad luck! very bad luck! Your beautiful, expensive and....
Well ...well ...well ...I really want to be back here since I totally disappeared and left my blog seemingly like a haunted house for about a quarter of a year.You might guess that I am too lazy to write anymore ...Yeah! partly true because I let something stop me:First, the Complaning, or I'd better say Love and Care of my mom. "it's already been too much to see you in front of the computer all day....
In 2002, the unexpected happened. A 12-year relationship with the person who I had wanted to spend the rest of my life with came to an end. My home and job went with the package --dont they say that things come in threes? My comfortable lifestyle was gone and the future didnt look too bright. My dream of retiring to a house by the sea had to be put on hold, perhaps forever. Overnight I found myself....
In THAI: http://www.oknation.net/blog/songphasa/2010/12/12/entry-2"Are you happy?" I asked my brother, Ian, one day. "Yes. ...No. It depends what you mean," he said."Then tell me," I said, "when was the last time you think you were happy?""April 1967," he said.It served me right for putting a serious question to someone who has joked his way through life. But Ian's answer reminded me that when we th....
I was driving late one night, alone. This was not easy, as two feet of snow lay on the road. The heck with what lane I was in; I was just trying to keep my car pointed forward.A guy behind me in a four-wheel-drive vehicle began flashing his headlights. I figured there must be some danger ahead or that something was wrong with my car. So I slowed down. He pulled up beside me and gestured as though he....
I have the rare good fortune to live within walking distance of a bonafide national monument. Grant's Tomb is just a mile and a half from my apartment in northern Manhattan, and I visit it often.It's gratifying to live so close to something that draws tourists from around the world. I suppose I could say the same if I lived near the Empire State Building or Rockefeller Center in midtown. But Grant's....
There's still plenty of time for fame, fortune and bicycle ridingNot long ago, I reached 40. When Howard Florey was that age, he was working out how to mass-produce penicillin. By the age of 40, Jonas Salk had devised the vaccine against polio. So far, I haven't devised so much as a sticking plaster.Sherpa Tenzing Norgay was in his fortieth year when, with Edmund Hillary, he became the first to stand....
John was 18 months old when his father Alf Lennon, a merchant seaman, jumped ship in America and disappeared. Our mother couldn't divorce him because the law didn't allow for those circumstances. She eventually fell in love with my father but when I was born, our grandfather wouldn't allow John to live with us because my parents were unmarried. That's why John was raised by our formidable Aunt Mimi.I....
He is the only man who brings tears to my eyes everytime I read or listen to what he has been dedicated to this country as a Thai citizen ( "a citizen"said HE)...which is LARGER than life. I keep some of his books. And once in awhile, I would let words and pix review the memory of him ...which's the way I revive my spirit. With Respect and always being my HERO Were there to be a poll taken among a ....
Such joy. It was the spring of 1985, and President Reagan had just given Mother Teresa the Presidential Medal of Freedom on a Rose Garden ceremony. As she left, she walked down the corridor between the Oval Office and the West Wing drive, and there she was, turning my way. What a sight: a saint in a sari coming down the White House hall. As she came nearer, I could not help it: I bowed. "Mother," I ....
In Reader Digest 03/1999Every time I asked my parents for a drive to school, I would get the standard lecture: "When I was your age, we didn't drive to school. We had to walk 2 miles, barefoot, in the snow, uphill both way!"Listening to this was torture. And it got worse when I finally did get a ride, as I had to tolerate further criticisms of my "wimpy" generation.I now know my parents had to endure....
A mother once asked Gandhi to get her son to stop eating sugar.Gandhi told the child to come back in two weeks. Two weeks later the mother brought the child before Gandhi. Gandhi said to the boy, "Stop eating sugar." Puzzled, the woman replied, "Thank you, but I must ask you why you didn't tell him that two weeks ago." Gandhi replied, "Two weeks ago I was eating sugar."ครั้งหนึ่ง คุณแม่คนหนึ่งเคยขอให....
From All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten by ROBERT FULGHUMGood friends finally put their resources together and made themselves a child. Me, I'm the godfather in the deal. I take my job seriously.So far, I've introduced the kid to the good things in life -- chocolate, beer, cigars, Beethoven, and dirty jokes. I don't think he cares much for Beethoven. But he's only a year and a half ....
It might mean more or less to you but to ME, it brought tears ...of JOY once the calander rolled back to 2004. I didn't see the name of the author. Whoever you are, please know that accept my appreciation.One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do.Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be c....
What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly. Carl Rogers.The following was written in answer to a 15-year-old girl's question, "How can I prepare myself for a fulfilling life?"I am me.In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. There are people who have some parts like me but no one adds up exactly like me. Therefore, everything that comes out of me is authentically mine becaus....
The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.Abraham LincolnProbably the greatest example of persistence is Abraham Lincoln. If you want to learn about somebody who didn't quit, look no further.Born into poverty, Lincoln was faced with defeat throughout his life. He lost eight elections, twice failed in business and su....
On my first day as an assistant professor of education at the University of Southern California, I entered the classroom with a great deal of anxiety. My large class responded to my awkward smile and brief greeting with silence. For a few moments I fussed with my notes. Then I started my lecture, stammering; no one seemed to be listening. At that moment of panic I noticed in the fifth row a poised, a....
Setting: A school in rural Arkansas. The students consisted mainly of poor, underachieving African-American children. Thanks to a Rockefeller Foundation grant, "Chapter 1" first-graders would participate in a different kind of reading program. The brainchild of Dr. Marie Carbo, it is based on the notion that the important thing about learning to read has far less to do with how smart students are tha....
Some parents just don't want to hear any bad news about their children. Mr. Reardon seemed to be one of them. Though I needed his help, I wasn't getting anywhere with him. I'd spent my entire lunch period trying to convince him that his ten-year-old daughter was in serious emotional pain. I didn't succeed; talking to him as like talking to a prosecutor.After twelve years of teaching, I considered mys....
My plan was to slip out of the conference before the keynote speech to avoid rushing to the airport. The wind-up luncheon featured Sandra McBrayer, the 1994 National Teacher. I can't remember why I remained seated while she took her place at the podium, but I will never forget the story she told.Sandra discarded her prepared speech and talked straight from her heart. She told us about a bright, enthu....
When I am looking for English Version, Thai Version always pops up and that would work the other way around too, well, finally, I've found it! Chicken Soup Series are famous for inspiring and enhancing 'Self-Help'. Here would describe why it has to be this name, Chicken Soup ...The simple, soothing warmth of chicken soup is a time-honored remedy for healing the body from illness ...much as chicken s....
Here is the poem in the ethical calendar, May 1999. The theme is to know world; to know 'we, Thais'.BudDhaDasa BhikKhu's Ethical Poems Translated into English by SanTiKaRo BhikKhuFrom Ethical Calendars: 1998-2003The More Learning, The More StupidThe world today is encyclopediacally stupid,because the texts have piled up squeezing lifewith all sorts of books, journals, and the restthat are printed ove....
" Robert Fulghum, my favorite author! I knew him from 'UH-OH' ...Ha! good mood in every single short story there!...things through his eyes make this world worthy to live. His creative idea to sit in a coffee shop in Seatle with a sign that read, TELL ME A SHORT LOVE STORY AND I WILL BUY YOU COFFEE AND MAKE YOU FAMOUS ...gives birth of Black-Covered Book with Red Letters, TRUE LOVE. Here is the one, ....
Every move he makes is ...so graceful! His eyes' re like the tiger...how powerful! His manner is independent ...on his own, high pride! he will spend time with me during mealtime and then don't bother! He will leave me without a trace and see each other later.His look is clean and neat ....always shape it and lick it! Around his neck and breast ...what a fluffy, puffy place in the world!He must be th....
No, don't get me wrong!I don't own any car and I'm not that rich so how can I have my own chauffeur? No way! What I mean 'a chauffeur' is a taxi van's driver...mass transportation for me for always. No! I've never expected ...because I've never got what I want, never! or... "if it's possible, please turn it off, Thank you, Sir."No! I dare not to say that...because I know the fact that a chauffeur is....
If both of them want to know each other more by asking me,Am I involved with this Mission, Match Maker or Cupid?Maybe, I think too much and so far, I give (Rather say, 'answer') them information and try so hard not to add my attitude. I don't want to be a "Cheer Leader" (go, go go ...fight for this love!) or "Stopper" ( Are you sure?, better think twice!).Please put the right man (me), on the right j....
BOTH AUDIO AND SCRIPTS ON http://storynory.com/2009/10/26/the-watermelon-prince/#more-2176At first the King would not believe this lie against his adopted son, but soon others in the palace, who confused rumor for fact, backed it up With great sorrow in his heart the King decreed that MAT was guilty of plotting treason, and must be banished from the Kingdom for evermore. His wife, princess CB, swore ....
BOTH AUDIO AND SCRIPTS ON http://storynory.com/2009/10/26/the-watermelon-prince/#more-2176This is a story from VietNam about the origin of watermelons. Watermelons are delicious fruits. They are large round and green on the outside; and red on the inside; and they have lots of black seeds. They are too refreshing on a hot day when you are feeling thirsty but that is not the only way to eat them. In V....
"Miss you!..." voice of a guy on the phone.This kind of word will mean "Love You" to me if I use it ...but I'm not so sure about others ...anyway, I feel so good to hear it. Still, this time, it's strange because I have never heard "Miss you" from ...him! since I stayed in his house last 17 years when I was a freshmen. and another thing was that I made fun of it and he kept saying ..."When are you c....
ผลงานอะไรก็่ตามที่เกิดจากคนกันเอง 'ร่วมด้วยช่วยกัน' มันปลื้มไปกับเขาด้วยEdward กำกับเอง ก็ผู้กำกับใหญ่ ทักและหนุนเต็มแรง (Milos กำกับหนังรางวัล One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) Stuart เพื่อนซี้เขียนบท ซี้กันตั้งแต่เรียน Yale, เพื่อนอีกคน Peter ก็ทำเพลง พอดีเพลงที่ทำไว้แล้ว ' ใช่' ก็เพลง Heart of Mine, Original Soundtrack ของหนังรัก เฮฮา หาสาระได้ 'Keeping the Faith' 10 ปีมาแล้วนะ ยังอยากดูอยู่เลยดู....
Above was all about memorable time together there, Glen's: A Little Home in a Big Forest. While doing this journal, I sometimes laughed and talked to myself...like crazy, but So happy ...on the way back, we got the free ride from Bangkokian guy who lived and soon he would launch the PiLog mineral water.
Being on an open back of the truck, we needed to protect our skin from the strong sunshine. Cover....
The trip during the day was so fascinating. I wouldn't miss naming:
NoenChangSuk (Hill of Fighting Elephant), where to see the mountainous border, TaNowSri Mt. The wind kept blowing and growing...it was hard to stand stably. I could see grasses and trees covering mountains, tilting & waving along the wind direction...that could be what the audience on stand of the stadium tried to imitate grasses a....
I was thinking, if Auntie Glen didn't do the lodgings, she might own the bakery fanchise. We might see her name as a world-class brand, standing in the front row like Auntie Anne's, Mrs. Fields, or Betty Crocker. I was talking about her classic, homemade-style cakes ....IRRESISTABLE!!!
Every meal, except the picnic, I ate main dish less, and cake more and FIRST! Especially, classic choccolate hot fu....
Believed me for the rest of the trip...just like we were at the amusement park and we were taking the BIGGEST FUN ride. The ride would drive on the rough and broken path, which made us BOUNCE randomly so we had to tightly hold rods and rims...parts of the truck. Sometimes, the truck didn't 'run', but safely 'climbed' up and then down the slope. The challenge of the ride was time duration: not 5 or 1....
"Have I introduced all of us, yet? Two VIP were waiting...One probably didn't belong here, P'MaMeaw. To me, her look was close to an actress/ singer. I wondered ...
"does somebody lure her to come?"
or ...
"Does she really want to come?"
Time together would reveal that she was just fit in...funny, easy and as long as, the weather was cool, she was so fine.
Another was Kiang. She and I had somet....
I'm so glad to hear TAKE THAT reunited: they all 5 will have the concert, PROGRESS in May, 2011. After the mid of 90's of seperation, around 15 years, they live and learn, forgive ad forget...keep friendship last forever. The melodies had got me for so long and I wish it's time this song should be celebrated for all of them...back for good, TAKE THAT...CONGRATULATIONS!หวนคืนมาตลอดไปฉันคิดว่าถึงเวลาที....
"Are you sure? It's not too late to cancel or postpone, just wait until the rain's gone...the way you are going is winding, rough, up&down mountains...where is it, again?" said a friend of mine on the phone.
"Baan (=Village) E-Tong , TamBon (Area) Pi-Log. The news about the terrible flood in E-San scares me...hopelessly, our weather forecast is unreliable. Well, I will make sure with them again."....
"How do you feel when the visitors are leaving, Auntie Glen?"
"...visit me again, ...so I will not say goodbye, but bye for now."
This answer was repeated in my mind, at the time 'they' hugged me and I saw 'them' off at the taxi van. It was the last van from KAN to BKK that we made it thanks to my so kind and flying-like Song-Thaew (a taxi truck for rent).
I turned my back and fast followed up my ....
"Can't help, I've got addicted to this book, "opening the door of your heart." As long as I can find the stories inside this book on line, I will collect them in my Blog...so far there are about 20, still have around 100 to go.How do you like them?..."Another of the consequences of anger that we should keep in mind is that it destroys our relationships and separates us from our friends. Why is it tha....
One of the problemห with anger is that we enjoy being angry. there is an addictive and powerful pleasure associated with the expression of anger. And we don't want to let go of anything we enjoy. However, there is also a danger in anger. A consequence outweighs any pleasure. If we only realize the fruit of anger and remember connection then we're willing to let anger go. In a palace, in Rome a long t....
Anger is not a clever response. Wise people are happy, and happy people do not get angry. Firstly, anger is irrational. One day, our monastery vehicle pulled out at the red traffice light alongside another car. I notice the driver of the other vehicle would ranting at the traffice lights: ""You Damn Traffic lights! You knew I had an important appointment. You knew I was running late. And you let that....
The trick of a must of our anger is frustrated expectation. We sometimes invest so much of our soul on a project and when it does not turn out as it SHOULD, we become ...irate or ...'shoulds' point to an expectation --- a prediction for the future. We might have realized by now ...that future is uncertain, ---unpredictable relies on too much on expectation for the future. A 'should' is asking for tro....
In the previous story, it was the fear of the pain of that toothache that I had let go of. I had welcomed the pain, embraced it and allowed it to be. That was why it went. Many of my friends who have been in great pain have tried out this method and found it does not work! They come to me to complain, saying my toothache was nothing compared to their pain. That's not true. Pain is personal and cannot....
Fear is the major ingredient of pain. It is what makes pain hurt. Take away the fear and only feeling is left. In the mid-1970s, in a poor and remote forest monastery in northeast Thailand, I had a bad toothache. There was no dentist to go to, no telephone, not even electricity. We didn't even have any aspirin or paracetamol in the medicine chest. Forest monks were expected to endure. In the late eve....
After a wedding ceremony in Singapore a few years ago, the father of the bride took his new-in-law aside to give him some advice on how to keep the marriage long and happy. "You probably love my daughter a lot," he said to the yound man.""Oh yes!" the young man sighed."And you probably think that she is the most wonderful person in the world," the old man continued."She's soooo perfect in each and ev....
This was a favorite story of my teacher, Ajahn Chah of North-Eastern Thailand.A newly married couple went for a walk together in a wood, one fine summer's evening after dinner. They were having such a wonderful time being together until they heard a sound in the distance:"Quack! Quack!""Listen," said the wife, "That must be a chicken.""No, no. That was a duck," said the husband."No, I'm sure that was....
My view of relationships and marriage is this:When the couple are going out, they are merely involved; when they become engaged, they are still only involved, maybe more deeply;when they publicly exchange marriage vows, that is commitment.The meaning of the marriage ceremony is ...the commitment. During a ceremony, to drive home the meaning in a way people usually remember for the rest of their lives....
Since I became a celibate monk, I have married many women. It's part of my job as a Buddhist monk is to perform a religious part of Buddhist marriage ceremonies. According to my tradition Buddhism and a lay Buddhist is the official marriage celebrant, but many of the couples regard me as the one who married them. So actually, I have married many wemen and many men as well. It is said that there are ....
When I was around the age of 13, my father took me aside and told me something that would change my life. The two of us were alone in his beaten-up old car, on a side street of one of poorer suberbs of London. He turned to me and said this:"Son whatever you do in your life, know this. The door of my house will always be open to you." I was only young teenager at the time. I didn't really understand w....
Many years ago, an experiment in education was carried out in secrecy at the school in England. The school had two classes for the same age of children. At the end of the school year, an examination was held in order to select the children for the classes of next year. However the results of the exam were never revealed. In secrecy, with only the principal and psychologists knowing the truth. The chi....
Before I had the honorable but burdensome office of abbot dumped upon me, I used to visit the prisons around Perth. I kept a careful record of the hours of service I had spent in jail ...to be used as credit in case I ever got sentenced, myself! For my first visit to a big prison in Perth. I was surprised and impressed of the number of prisoners who came to hear me speak on the meditation. The room ....
A few years ago, a young Australian woman came to see me at my temple in Perth, Australia. Monks are often sought out for advice on personal problems, perhaps because we're cheap---we never charge a fee. She was tormented with guilt. Some 6 months in previously, she had been working in remote mining community in the north of western Australia. The work was hard and the money good, but there's not muc....
If you are interested in listening...this will take you to Free Download Audiohttp://english-for-thais-2.blogspot.com/2009/02/983-2-brahm.htmlAnd here is written word by word from the Audio.(2) The Two Bad BricksAfter we puchased the land for our Monastery in Australia 1983. We were broke. We were in debts. There were no building on the land, not even a shade. The first few weeks we slept on all door....
The CD Ive got from my sister is Opening the Door of Your Heart, the title of an audio book. It consists of around 100 short stories written by Ajahn Brahmavamso and narrated by Ajahn Krit Nimmalo. What makes it so special, I think...Voice of narrator. Despite of the way he reads, he would lead us think we are listening to radio drama. Instrumental background music....is just fit perfectly with the ....
THE CASCADES lyrics - Rhythm Of The Rain Listen to the rhythm of the falling rainTelling me just what a fool I've beenI wish that it would go and let me cry in vainAnd let me be alone againThe only girl I care about has gone awayLooking for a brand new startBut little does she knowThat when she left that dayAlong with her she took my heartRain please tell me now does that seem fairFor her to steal my....
Since it has been raining forever and I have been learning to live with it, I have been looking for songs about rain after one, Fon... Rain by Bird & Hart beautiful tune but sad meaning. Still, rain is another kind of nature it could make you sad and at the same time it could make you happy like Sai Fon Falling Rain by our beloved King RaMa IX. The first English song I can think is ...'....
We are Chinese-Thai people in a big family. Our bond is tight either between generations---between parents and children or among the same generation---among children.I felt love and care...always from my grandparents and parents. My brothers, sister and I were raised by them. Most of the time, we, kids were with mom. Grandparents came to help out the time mom was busy on chores and work with dad in f....
...As usual, we are on the phone at least half an hour or more...Eventhough he or I give a sign to stop, never be in short!He is the one I have never seen him get angry, Do you think he's real?What I see is real and What I don't see is also real. He will get angry like other humans, except that he doesn't express or let it out...anyway, it's hard to find and that's is his charm.Flash back to our plac....
Last night, I had to stop after writing about 10-12 lines. I couldn't go any further. I got stuck! "I really don't have any idea at all?"WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME?""Right, What's wrong with me,...All I can think...is "No! nothing's wrong, sometimes, while I am in the mood of something, other things (like tonight, writng)don't cross my mind..."Suddenly, I saw a scope on TPBS and heard that familiar voice. ....
What I like about "J"/ Vegetarian Festival is not only the food without flesh but also the atmosphere, like a fever in a good way, though. "Can you imagine how many people stop eating flesh around 10 days?"The amount is many enough to turn some regular restaurants into no-flesh ones and the rest can sell less and have more break. "How do I know?"Through my eyes : crowded yellow flags and banners, lon....
Proudly, I walk fast like a rabbit but Frustratingly, I work slowly like a turtle that's why...I have just showed up after I disappeared for almost a week. Well, top of that, my eyes's hurt! In school, being in front of the monitor longer than half a day almost everyday hurt my eyes real ...bad. Recently, that kind of hurt with me has come and gone back and forth...I try not to watch the monitor for ....
"Seriously, don't tell your kid to call me, AUNTIE"
"Hey, why don't you accept the truth, you are older that me. YOU ARE HIS AUNTIE!"
"Listen........, I don't want to be his AUNTIE and another truth is that...
I am a teacher...so he can call me TEACHER...or ...SISTER as a host of TV show for kids calls herself. I prefer either one of these.”
“SISTER!...that’s TOO MUCH!&h....
"Hey, what are you doing? I'm wondering why you haven't been home, yet."(My sister left home at 10:30am but right now is 4 something.)"What?...you're with that guy since then. You told me WE would have lunch at home.""I haven't got what I want...this guy never let me ask...he just talk and talk...""So what're you gonna do?""I don't know...""Maybe I need my colleague to come along next time. I bet she....
"What's eating Gilbert Grape***"*** "No Question Mark(?)", said the writer, Peter Hedges Life of Gilbert Grape would be ordinary to find in developing countries but must be hard to find in America. Since it portrays through Hollywood stars like Johnny Depp, Leonardo Dicaprio...I still wonder "do Americans believe that?" or they might question me back "Mam, it's just novel into film."This is his story....
The book I've got from my teacher, or "Auntie Add" of others is "A Year Of Solitude". Sometimes I am wondering how she truly knows me..know that I'm gonna love this book. Yes, I do.
By 2 mornings and a later half of day, I've finished it.It perfectly pictures lives of aboard-studying people and students who have finally found themselves...
"who am I?"
"What do I want?"
and
"What's next?"
Thos....
On this second trip, it was called by her "heal my heart"On the way to Kanchanaburi, it had been raining "cats & dogs" and that kept her and my sister on the road for 4 or 5 instead of 2 hours. My sister seemed so tired while she, a driver showed up as if she got fresh after bathing. Even late night, after taking a shower and planning for the morning trip, she continued her story which she hadn't fi....
Around four on one Saturday, I called my old friend."Hey, I saw your missed call. I am wondering where you are...are you coming?""I'm with my friends. We're singing Karaoke and I don't think I can't go this time."...Above conversation happened last 2 months and then last week she came to visit me and offered a ride, back and forth, Bangkok-Kanchanaburi to my sister...just like that always she does he....
I've just found that The Carpenters' songs are talking to me...Today I took my 2 CD of Yesterday Once More, Hits Collection to choose "Just Lively" songs such as Top Of The World, There's A Kind Of Hush, Only Yesterday, Sing, ...and "It's going to take some time"...Wow! Eventhough I have listened to it, just this time I really get it...like I said Songs could talk and point me see... "For anyone, it'....
From Stars' Unwanted Pregnancy, both of them get hurt. We, audiences make a lot of comments after we were so into their story as if we were watching drama and chose side: loved one and hated another...which hurts us, too. I would like to talk about Unwanted Pregnancy . This time, this talk is free of Hurt. Since it is the problem, how to get rid of it?When we don't want to get pregnant, How not to?"....
"Once I am thirsty, I drink from daddy's glass...Yuck!The taste is so bad...Just one swallow, I have to throw-up in the sink...I wonder why daddy likes "it" a lot and daddy has a lot in the cupboard. My brother loves playing with "it" because daddy tries to keep "it" away...he might think daddy play "hide- and-seek" with him. Daddy always sneaks down stair and finish "it" sometimes a half of "it". Us....
Let me disagree with the English to Thai translation of this movie title. The title in Thai doesnt tell about friendship being true friends at all. One in English is the name of the dish and the restaurant of two friends who together build their own restaurant and raise a baby. When you look at the big picture, the ones with hearts of gold can sit inside other hearts. When you feel it, which gives y....