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Garbage Man Story

Long time ago in one street called Wijaya Kusuma there was a problem. The problem is garbage is every where and air is become smelled stink. It happened cause the garbage man from government is came just every Saturday even sometimes it become 2 week and even worse 3 week. So people that live there feel it very annoying and the decide to make meeting about this problem.

And the meeting is held and it resulted that they must have their own garbage man. So they need too have a garbage car first, and then they collect money to buy the car. And the time passed for 6 month and the money is enough to buy garbage car. So, they held meeting again to choose a garbage man and suddenly someone volunteer and chosen as a garbage man. And the meeting resulted since next week they will have their own garbage man and the garbage will be taken every day.

And the next week is came and the garbage man is on duty. The first week is very hard cause garbage is every where but slowly the garbage is decreased. And then finally on the second week the garbage mountain is cleaned and just garbage from today. And people live lively again but they forgot it is because of the hard work from garbage man.

The day passed one by one and the garbage man is still working. In the night to clean the garbage silently then throw the garbage in TPA (place is used for collecting garbage to be processed). After finish throw the garbage the garbage man is always clean the garbage car in late night, and keep the car clean and tidy like a new car. And the garbage always do this routine with enthusiastic and never miss a day even people never thanks him cause it will make garbage mountain again.

One day i realized that the garbage man hard work, determination, and consistency in work. And i learned that “to overcome problem we need hard work, determination and consistency“. So, i post it to say thanks for garbage man hard work, even though is not enough to express thanks you. And hope every one can learn too from this garbage man. Happy Weekend.

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Rules Wisdom

Rules is something to lead us for doing something. Rules is used everywhere to control member of organization like UUD 45 in my country, Indonesia or just the rules man can’t come to woman boarding house after 10 pm. The rules can be written or just convention. And because rules is control our behavior then sometimes it’s feel to strict and hard to do. Then came jokes about Rules, which is “Rules is made to be broken“.

Rules for some people is like cage in their mind in worries, but for some people is like free their mind from worries. Then rules is actually depend on our mind, if we look from positive way then is like free our mind but if we look in negative way then came first definition. But if we think more deeply actually rules is release our mind and body from worry.

Why? it’s so simple when we not doing something against rule then our mind always at ease. So, when we see police we not afraid and hide, it’s not like when we just pass light lamp and saw police right after that or when we see our boss we not afraid and hide, it’s not like when we just skip our work and play then see our boss right after that. So rules it actually just set our mind free from worry cause without doing something wrong we will be not worry anytime we see anybody.

Then if we look more widely it can be like our life. For some people life without entertaining it’s okay,  or for some people life very economical it’s okay, or for some people life saving and economical for buy something we want it’s okay, or for some people life to work it’s okay even for some people life for other person wish it’s okay. why? cause it’s right thing to do for them. So, it’s like Rules wisdom which is “Do the Right thing then No More Worries Anytime and Anywhere“.

Today is time when Justice Defeat Evil so the right time to start the right thing, Happy Galungan for people who celebrate.

source : Gede Prama

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Turn Signal Lamp Wisdom

Please Use Us

What is it Turn Signal Lamp ? It’s a yellow lamp in corner side of vehicle that flash every second. Turn Signal Lamp used to give signal when we want to turn right or left, or when we want to pass a vehicle we turn in on at direction of center at the road, or when we don’t want to allow vehicle to go before us, or just give signal when we want to change line of road. Turn Signal Lamp is  so useful in vehicle but people tend to forget the benefit of Turn Signal Lamp and sometimes it make accident happen.

When i’m driving my car to pass 2 turn then this wisdom of Turn Signal Lamp just poop out in mind. The wisdom is very simple even i don’t know it can be called wisdom or just thought. It says “Just do one thing at a time” then why it’s important? because people tend to do something but their mind in other thing, so you need to focus in your work to give best result.

Okay then don’t forget “Just do one thing at a time” hope you happy weekend.

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Happy New Year

In blink of eye then one day, one week, one month, one year is almost past by. Now almost time to celebrate new year and it make me thinks what different one year before and now? what is better? what is worsen? what is achieved? what is fail? what is hope for this year? what is goal for this year? what is plan for this year? what is your dream in this year?

Wait the second, Now is not 1st January, Oops you right is not 1st January but it is not to late to feel that as long as it’s still January February, :P. Actually it kinda late for new year, but not for Chinese New Year. And another reason is that i think of this matter is because my English teacher on my company told to me that “Fail to Plan is Plan to Fail“. It’s so wise and it slowly grow in my mind and then *boom*, and born this writing.

Okay then i will tell my plan for this year, writing a post a week because now work is very demanding, so i can’t free to post in office and also my mind is tired just for work when get’s home. I’m say Sorry for reader of this blog because i don’t post more than 1 month almost 2 month.

Now that’s the plan, and “Happy New Year and Gong Xi Fat Chay” for all of the reader, hope you with prosperus and happy year to come.

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Campaign Slogan Wisdom

Since November 2008 in Bali there are many Campaign Slogan in banner from all Candidate to become new member of legislative. This banner is placed in public area and make the city look crowded. All candidate is not follow the rules to campaign and they make early campaign. Actually almost all their banner is look the same and just different in color, design placement, faces, names and expression in their face. If we looked in their expression then we will feel funny because we can tell their expression is fake.

But there are one of the candidate that different than the other. This candidate has orange banner, the design is little bit different, and had extreme different in slogan. The slogan is “you cannot lose unless you quit” and purpose of this slogan actually is first step to become legislator is become candidate legislator and fight until the end.

Although it can be used for other purpose like when you have a dream and you don’t have courage to make it reality. Then you must realize that you lose before you try it, and then you must take action until your dream come true or die trying because you will regret it another time if you don’t try.

Or when you want to be a leader and you don’t have courage to compete with other. Then you must try to compete because you will grow your self esteem in the process and you will had courage even when you not become a leader.

Or when you in love with someone and you get rejected then you feel like it’s better die than suffer the pain. Then maybe he or she is not your soulmate then you must realize world is larger than you think and you can find soulmate there but you just not met with them. Or you think he or she is actually is your soulmate then you must trying to become his/her soulmate until he or she realize it. But if he or she still don’t realize this for a longest time you can hold then you must forget him or her and continue your life to searching another soulmate.

There are many applicable in life for this slogan and the campaign slogan wisdom is “you cannot lose unless you quit“. And it means is you must take action for your wish until the end or you will regret if you don’t trying for rest of your life.

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Learn To Be Upset

We’re feeling happy when we have what we want and it can be anything, Like when we graduate from school or when we get a job or when we can win a race or when we become a champion or when we beat our competitor, or when we destroy our enemy. But maybe sometimes to be happy doesn’t need to make other people sad or upset, it can be when we can eat everyday or when we can see person that we love or when we can doing our hobby or when we can rest or when met old friend. To be happy is easy thing to do because to be happy just need to fulfill our need. So we don’t need to learn to be happy.

We’re feeling upset when we don’t get what we want, other people mess with us, the climate is not right, and many thing that can cause it. And when upset usually we doing something that we will regret later or something that destructible, or something that unreasonable or even something that against the law. But sometimes the effect is hidden in our feeling like we feel depressed, easy to angry or feel very energized and many other effect.

Actually there are 3 main reason why we become upset, there are :
a. everything is not everlasting (sabbe sankhârâ aniccâ)
This reason is actually simple and happened because we want to keep our stuff always good or keep good friend is around us, or in more specific is we want to keep our condition is still the same. But when it’s changed or broken then it will make us upset.

b. everything is grasp by sadness (sabbe sankhârâ dukkhâ)
This reason is actually simple and happened when we born then sadness will haunted us because there are no everlasting happiness or in bright side there are no everlasting sadness. And Happy and Sad is change every time, but if we don’t aware it then we will become upset.

c. everything is without self (sabbe dhammâ anattâ)
This reason is actually simple and happened when we want to claim something or even someone as ours, it like when we see good stuff and want that stuff become ours. But we didn’t get it then we will become upset.

Now we known what make us upset, and then we need to know way to remove or lessened upset. The way is actually simple, just be patient and acceptance. Patient it mean when we don’t get what we want then just wait someday we will get it, or when we had sadness then just wait because it will change. And acceptance is mean when we don’t get it until our tolerance time then accept it that thing or people is not for us, and let it go.

Be Happy.

source : tripitaka

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Mirror Manner

There are times when we aware that everyone hates us, everyone keep distance from us, everyone pretend to be our friend, everyone talk behind us, everyone keep grudge of us, everyone not values our work, everyone think we have motive behind our act, everyone isolate us, everyone avoid to meet us and many other act. They think they can cover their act and we will not aware, but they wrong.

Usually we pretend it is okay but actually it’s not and our subconscious keep it. Next time when we see them we will react same act without our awareness and they will do the same to us. This is calling mirror act and gradually affect our relationship with them will becoming more worse every times we make contact with them. So, we know this relationship is bad but we will pretend everything still fine until some time when we thinks it’s enough. Then we will keep them away from us or we will keep ourselves away from them or we will make fake relationship.

What solution to this problem? of course it’s simple we just tell what is our feeling. But it’s not that easy because it will not resulting a good reaction. And i just proved it with one of my post and now I’ll careful when posting. Why? because people doesn’t want to hear their weakness even they know. They want their friend pretend to accept it and they will pretend to accept their friends weakness too. We learn about it when child and when we grow up we will keep our true feeling away from the other with wall, wall, and wall until someday we will know that our friends is not understand us at all. Because they just now what mask we show to them.

So, it not weird then just when we in trouble then we will know who our friend? Why? it’s simple because our friend not pretend and they know ourselves through our wall. Afraid our true feeling to be exposed that make us keep people away from our life, because it will cause more hurt when they don’t react like we hope. So, this thing make we value child, because they always show their true feeling and friendship between them easy to be bond.

To always show our true feeling is hard because it will cause problem like when we mad with our boss and we show it then it will make us fired. To surpass this problem then first we must aware it’s not okay and try to fix it. We fix it with good reaction, like when somebody avoid us then we will looking for them, or when somebody give fake smile then will give them smile from the heart. It’s will be weird for them and us then it will make them afraid but still do it because it’s gradually fix the problem. It’s easy to say but hard to implement but you must do it if you want to fix your problem.

End of the word, actually when someone avoid us, maybe we are the problem. Let’s try to fix the problem inside ourselves first. Why not just avoiding them? It’s because the problem will still occurs with the other until we fix it. So, why keep running? And even when the relationship is still broken we are not loss, and then we will find good relationship with other, because they just not know value of us.

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Extraordinary People Wisdom

Heroes one of film about extraordinary people. In this film there are many extraordinary people with one specific ability and some with many abilities. There are people that can fly, people can travel time, people can run fast, people can telekinetic, people can read mind, people with great athletic skill, people can look future, people with regeneration ability, people can vanish, people can erase mind. And even with people can mimic skill from media, people can absorb ability, people with great analytic skill, and people can heal people.

All of this is skill is the skill that people wish they had in reality in their dream. Imagine when we can fly then we can travel around world without worry. Then if we imagine that we can travel time then we can be rich if we put our money in good place. Next imagine if we can telekinetic then we can move thing free. Or imagine if we can vanish then we can go around forbidden place without seen. There are so many dream that to be good to be true and if it goes to wrong people than it will become disaster to world.

But actually in reality there are people that can heal people. If you think it’s doctor you wrong because that not people that i talk about even doctor can heal people sick. What i mean is people with extraordinary skill that can heal people like blind, deaf, and etc. I had seen this people do this miracle in GOR Ngurah Rai, even i myself still have doubt to this miracle but this skill is actually can be learned by meditated. So, i think it’s real, but what i don’t like with these people is they always bearing their religion. So they just want cure people with same religion and it’s not right i think.

So, like Uncle Ben in Spiderman says “with great power there must also come great responsibility” if you have been gifted with great ability and become Extraordinary People than you must remembered that gift for help all people not just some of them. Even not everyone is Extraordinary People but we can be Extraordinary People by doing good thing and help people around us every day. Or you can be Extraordinary People by become people in high authority like President, Governor, Etc. But you must remember what Uncle Ben says “with great power there must also come great responsibility“.

source : Heroes, Spiderman

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Glow In The Dark Wisdom

When I’m in high school there are new trend, this trend is about everything that can glow in the dark like T-Shirt, Watch, Sticker, accessories and many other. And then time goes on and i forgot about thing that can glow in the dark. But 2 days ago i found my Glow in the dark T-Shirt and then i wore it to sleep. When i woke up early in the morning and i saw my T-Shirt is glowing then the wisdom is come to my mind.

The Wisdom is we don’t know how precious ourselves if we always compare ourselves with the other. It is like Glow in the dark thing when in the bright light then it will not show any light because it’s too busy to compare it’s own light with the other. And when there are no light then it will illuminate it’s own light because nobody to be compare and naturally it’s have potency to illuminate light. So, don’t compare yourself with the other because everyone is unique and have it’s own abilities and life.

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Desire Wisdom

“With Desire emerge Sad, with Desire emerge Fear, Person without Desire than will not feel Fear and Sad” It’s one of Buddhist enlightenment and hard to implement in real life.

But there are an easy way to control our desire. First we must know what desire is happen when we want something, it is like when we want to eat more than we can take that it’s a greed desire. Or when we want to punch people that it’s a hate desire. After we know what desire happen then next step is think benefit of our act. If it is give you a benefit like when we buy food for extend our life or when we buy dress for cover us from heat, then just do it but not overdo it. But if it is not give you any benefit than leave it in your mind like when we buy dress for style, or even for a show then don’t do it.

Last step is knowing our ego because we tend to think our act is right or in this case give benefit if we want it. So, after you think it’s give you benefit than you must filter it with your ego. Do the act really give benefit or your ego tell that the act is give a benefit? how can we seperate it, of course no easy way to know it but deep in your feeling you know it. It is like when we want to eat in expensive place and we think it is for extend our life, but deep in your heart you know that is your ego talking then you must don’t do the act.

But what will life become if we follow it? of course it will be sad for us because nobody is perfect. This is just for your information and you can try to doing that sometimes and control your desire but if you want to follow your desire at least you aware what desire is come and give a peace in your heart.

Source : Samanera in Vihara