Om mani padme hum

ओं मणिपद्मे हूं

Great Compassion Dharani SutraWonderful Phrases of the Vast, Perfect, Unimpeded, Great Compassionate Heart Great Dharani

般若波罗密多心经
唐三藏法师玄奘译

观自在菩萨 行深般若波罗蜜多时
照见五蕴皆空 度一切苦厄

舍利子
色不异空 空不异色
色即是空 空即是色
受想行识 亦复如是

舍利子
是诸法空相 不生不灭
不垢不净 不增不减
是故空中无色 无受想行识
无眼耳鼻舌身意 无色声香味触法
无眼界 乃至无意识界
无无明 亦无无明尽
乃至无老死 亦无老死尽
无苦集灭道 无智亦无得 以无所得故

菩提萨陲 依般若波罗蜜多故
心无罣碍 无罣碍故 无有恐怖
远离颠倒梦想 究竟涅盘

三世诸佛 依般若波罗蜜多故
得阿耨多罗三藐三菩提

故知般若波罗蜜多
是大神咒 是大明咒 是无上咒
是无等等咒 能除一切苦 真实不虚

故说般若波罗蜜多咒
即说咒曰 揭谛揭谛 波罗揭谛
波罗僧揭谛 菩提娑婆诃

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Today, 15 of 2nd Lunar month is Taoist Day and Birthday of Lord Tai Shang Lao Jun. I celebrated with my usual offerings and chanting :) and introducing to all a very good sutra from Lord Tai Shang Lao Jun .  May the Divine bless all with abundance of the highest good. Thank you Divine :) 

太 上 老 君 说 常 清 静 经

　　大道无形，生育天地；大道无情，运行日月；大道无名，长养万物；吾不知其名强名曰道。夫道者：有清有浊，有动有静；天清地浊，天动地静；男清女浊，男动女静；降本流末，而生万物。清者浊之源，动者静之基；人能常清静，天地悉皆归。

　　夫人神好清，而心扰之；人心好静，而欲牵之。常能遣其欲，而心自静；澄其心，而神自清；自然六欲不生，三毒消灭。所以不能者，为心未澄，欲未遣也，能遣之者：内观其心，心无其心；外观其形，形无其形；远观其物，物无其物；三者既无，唯见于空。观空亦空，空无所空；所空既无，无无亦无；无无既无，湛然常寂。寂无所寂，欲岂能生；欲既不生，即是真静。真常应物，真常得性；常应常静，常清静矣。如此清静，渐入真道；既入真道，名为得道；虽名得道，实无所得；为化众生，名为得道；能悟之者，可传圣道。

　　上士无争，下士好争。上德不德，下德执德，执着之者，不明道德。众生所以不得真道者，为有妄心，既有妄心，即惊其神，既惊其神，即着万物，既着万物，即生贪求，既生贪求，即是烦恼，烦恼妄想，忧苦身心，便遭浊辱，流浪生死，常沉苦海，永失真道。真常之道，悟者自得；得悟道者，常清静矣！

Sutra source : http://www.xiulian.cn/xmzhf/009shchqjj.htm

I went down to Krystalium for her last business day on 21 Feb 2010.  A place of many great memories and a place where I got to know many good friends.  Thank you Krystalium, thank you Mrs Yip for the gift. Good bye my Crystal friends.

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恭喜发财，身体健康，添富增寿，万事如意，福慧双修

Wishing all a happy, healthy and prosperous year of the Tiger. Roar Roar :)

 May the Divine Bless All with abundance of the highest good :)

Once again the website was hacked and reborn :) Hope no more hackers :)

I celebrated Taoist Day, 15 of 2nd Lunar month with a simple picture of the word Tao and my usual offerings and chanting :).  May the Divine bless all with abundance of the highest good. Thank you Divine :) 

Today is Medicine Buddha Day

I pray to the Medicine Buddha to bless all with good health and may the light from the Buddha purify our bodies, souls and mind and lead us to good health.

Thank you Medicine Buddha, Thank you Divine

Today we are very blessed to be able to participate in a Naga Puja. The Puja was conducted at East Coast. First Rinpoche started off with some chanting and then we were taught on how to make offering to all Buddhas and Sentient Beings using the Tsa Tsa offering cup, rice and water. The Puja ended with an dedication of merits and a Dharma talk by Rinpoche. 

One of the question asked is why are we doing water offering ? My answer, water is the basic of life ? Not sure if I am right :) Rinpoche just gave us a smile.  Well according to Rinpoche, water is in abundance and anyone, rich or poor, can make offering using water.  And since water is in abundance and usually free, when we make the offering ,we can do it whole heartedly without thoughts of constraint.  The important point while making offering is to feel happy and free our mind of all thoughts of constraint.

May the Divine bless all with abundance of the all highest good. Thank you Divine. 

Spiritual

 Avalokiteshvara

Statues of Deities

Today is an very meaningfull day to me.  First is the Day of Guan Yin's (Avalokiteshvara) Renunciation. Secondly is an auspicious day and I have invited home all the statues that I had earlier sent for repair and refurnished. 

The statues are statue of Guan Yin Pu Sa, and San Cai, Long Nu, NeZa, Guan Di Shen Jun and Guan Ping Zhou Cang. 

Welcome home :) and thanks to Divine for fulling my wishes.  Thanks :)

May the Divine, all Deities, all Bodhisattva,all Buddhas bless the family the world with abundance of highest good, happiness and good health. Thank you all.

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As promised, I'm here today to show you guys some pictures that I took from Czech Republic's National Museum in Prague. It is the first time in my life to see so many wonderfull specimens. My first reaction when I stepped in was "Oh my God !!"  and that attracted a couple of stares from other visitors :)

Prague is a very nice city to visit and the museum is a must if you are a crystal lover like myself.

Please pardon the quality of the pictures as most of them are taken at low light and without flash ( plus my hand is trembling with excitement :P ) There are so many different specimens and I think it would take me a couple of months to take picture of each and every one but nevertheless it is a wonderfull experience there and then:)

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 <- Pariba Tourmaline

May the Divine bless all wth the way to balance.

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NaNa, the beloved dog of a good friend had passed away today.  I was saddened by the news as I had met NaNa a couple of times before and he is a very cute and spiritual doggy.

May the Divine take care of NaNa as he crosses to other world and give strength to Angeline to accept the departure of NaNa.

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Was back from Yoga class after missing for 3 weeks.  Dr Kajal was not in today, another instructor Derek took his place.  I still prefer Dr Kajal's superprana yoga.  Looking foward to attend his class the week after :)

Have added a gallery of my amber collection.  More picture of my priceless piece of enhydro Dominican amber.  And some other rare pieces such as Red Chiapas amber that is blue under the UV.  Blue and Green Chiapas amber, a piece of Green Dominican amber and a piece of enhydro Colombian Copal.

     See more pictures here

More things coming up so stay tunned :)

Thank you Divine for all these wonderfull gifts :)

Crystals

Aura Quartz are created by infusing natural Quartz crystal with metal.  When the crystal is heated, the metal bonds with it to create a transparent shiny color layer.  Gold is the metal that is usually used to create an Aqua Aura Quartz.  

Aura quartz usually do not occured naturally, so far the only place that I know that have natural Aura Rainbow Quartz is the Arrowhead Quartz Crystal Mine in Mt.Ida , Arkansas.

This wonderfull piece of Quartz surprisingly is from China which make it even rarer. I am so thrilled to find this wonderfull gift and on top of it my friend from I love Rock gave me a wonderfull price which make it a double blessing.  

Thank you Divine for connecting me to this wonderfull baby.

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Finally I got the website up and running again after being hacked last month. :)

A feeling of reborn. When things seem to be at the end, with perseverance, patience and faith we will start to see another beginning. 

Have been so busy with so many things that I have to temporary put the developing of this site aside.  May the Divine bless me with wisdom and energy to improve on this site. :)

Thank you Divine.

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I think today is my negative karma release day.  I had a fall in the morning and lost my handphone on my way home from work.

But luckily I didn't hurt myself too badly.  It seems that someone was there to support me when I fell.

Although I loss the phone but somehow within me is a signal for me to renew myself.  Thinking positively I just take today as an negative karma release day and temporay relieve from the burden of the phone ?

May the Divine help and guide me to the way of better tomorrow and please also bless me and all around me with protection and abundance of joy, health and happiness.

Thank you Divine.

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Today is the day to collect my Guan Yin Statue from the shop.  I have sent my Guan Yin statue for repair and was planning to put in a scripture and some crystals before consecration. I have prepare many nice crystals, including a set of synergy 12 stones. 

I was very excited today but thing didn't really go close to what I planned. It started with me feeling sick this afternoon during work and so when I was there at the shop, I was feeling abit ill.

The statue used to be hollow with a small hole at the bottom.  I prepare many things to put into the statue but sometimes things can turn out quite different from what we planned.  When the uncle from the shop show me the half done statue, he told me he had already filled much of the hollow space with clay to stablise the statue and have left a small hole for me to put the things I want to put in.

I was a bit disappointed knowing that my effort in collecting all the crystals might go to waste now.  However I wasn't feeling sad or angry but rather it triggers a thought, maybe the Buddha just want somthing simple.

When I was home I tried to measure how much crystals I can put in. The fact is actually many stones are oversize in the first place, even if the clay are not there I won't be able to put them in.

Well now I just hope the scripture on paper can still be fold and small enough to be put in together with the gems and the items that are stated in the scripture.

Well sometime we must learn that certains things are better left to fate. Especially when practising and doing spirtual stuff we have to understand some things that does not turned out as what we thought and planned might be what the Divine have in plan for us.

The lesson I learnt is that whatever we do, just put in our best effort but when things don't turn out exactly what we think will happen, so be it and nature take it's course and still move on with what we can still do.  I also come to an understanding that simplicity might be better and more are not necessary better.

May the Divine, Buddhas and all Higher Being aid me in my preparation work for the consecration of the statue.

Thanks Divine, Buddhas and all Higher Being.

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