Dear Readers,
I hope everybody and family is all right and not affected by the recent tsunami disaster. I don't know what you all think about this event. For me it serves as a reminder that death and disaster can happen any time to any of us.
I mean, who would think that a young man of 21 years of age born into a family with supposedly a lot of Boon (merit) will perish at such a tender age? Many of you reading this blog are in your early 20s, well, what do you think if your friend dies in the Tsunami like Khun Poom, grandson of H.M. the King. He is your age, you know!
Lord Buddha said the "Avijja" or ignorance ingrained in our mind for many lives only make us see the happiness of life. Just a few days ago my Nitade Class 21 saw the picture of the birth of Kaewjai 21's 2nd son and we congraturated her and think of it as the moment of joy and happiness and nothing else...
And now with the news of the tsunami, it'd be better if we take all the necessary precautions about our life and the lives of our loved ones, isn't it? Both in the daily life, safety-first, way, and in the mental way.
I mean, those who have children might understand it better now than the rest of us ner? Think about Princess Ubolrat, who would want to go to their own child's funeral? How tough would it be?
Are we all mentally prepared for death and other kind of big losses in our lives? My humble suggestion is not to wait until you are "older" to think about this.
Contrary to many people's thought, the average age-range of people who go to the meditation center in Chiangmai is 25-35. I have attached a sample of Jan's applicants for you to see for yourself in the link below na ja.
http://www.vipassanachiangmai.com/webboard/view.php?category=general&wb_id=317
As popular among the world now with Dalai Lama's endorsement, it is no debate anymore about the necessity in training one's mind. As Lord Buddha pointed out, it is not something you can just read about or think about and practice at home. Like sports, we need a coach that can bring out the best in us in our individual way and can answer all questions we have during practice and to steer us away from possible injuries. We all heard of stubborn people who become sort of crazy (เพี้ยน ๆ) before.
I hope you all have a chance to try going to a good mind-training school near you before it's too late na. The younger you are, the better. Remember, Lord Buddha ordained and went in search of the best mind-training technique when he was only 29 na!! He didn't wait until he's "older" to try to do it!
And it took him as many as 6 years to perfect the skills and another 49 days and nights to come up with the solid curriculum that has been withstanding the test for more than 2,547 years. You can all have a crash course within 7 days, that's the minimum you need according to Lord Buddha himself.
Now, how many thousand days have you lived now in this life? If you are 22 years old, you have lived at least 8,030 days. Considering Thai people's average life expectancy, we all have gone passed the first quarter of life already, if you think about it like an NBA game or American Football game na.
7 days out of 8,030 is almost 1/1150. You've spent your lives running, searching, waiting, trying, working so hard before. Assuming you'll live at least more than the national average to 76 yearsold, don't you think it's worth it to spare 1/4000 of your time for giving your life your best shot?
Reward yourself with the time that you would be spending totally for the benefit-only of yourself and loved ones, undisturbed. It's a worthwhile investment of your most valuable resources: time.
Have you ever been sitting around waiting? Like 10-20 min for your clients, half an hour for your friends at pubs, 1 hour in a traffic jam? That is the valuable time that you can effectively use. This mind-training will show you how to make the best out of it, and out of your daily activities like driving, walking, showering, etc. also.
It's not hypnotizing or trying to detach you away from the world na. It is NOT about closing your eyes and thinking only of one word only na.
Mindfulness Meditation (what farangs call Vipassana Meditation) lets you totally live and engage in your life, loved ones, work as always, but with an extra perspective to look at things, extra immunity against the world's problems we all have to face, extra understanding of the world around us: work, nature, people, etc. And all will come automatically to you, once you have trainined your mind how to do it.
It's like giving your life a bonus na, so to speak. It takes only 7 days to bring out the part you don't know existed in your mind to come into work. Scientists said we only use 10% of our brain. Same idea. Don't you want to try to use the other 90%? Well, if I can use another 10% I'll be so happy already!
And until we get enlightened, we won't really know actually how many more percent we can use but it will come to help you in time of disaster or serious unexpected problems na, this is all I can say now. Have you heard about people suddenly can carry heavy stuff when their house's on fire? Well, that's adrenaline to the body. But what triggers it is the mind. Your mind can do many other wonderful things and you may have known that already, right?
Well, back to the issue, Khun Poom was only 21 years old and it didn't come to his mind at all that he wouldn't live long enough to have lunch on Dec 26., let alone seeing the 2005 countdown.
How do we know we'll live long enough for lunch or dinner today? What insurance company will guarantee that you'll live to see the 2005 countdown?
We all have plans in our lives, either short-term plan like where we'll go for vacation next year or what to do to have enough money for a new car, condo, etc.
But what if we don't live long enough for next year or long enough for the new car, do we have enough foul-proof plan long into next life or life after death?
Do you notice we all don't want to talk about this? Or, even if we want to talk about it and be prepared, we don't know what to talk about?
At least prisoners with death sentence more or less know when they will have to die (some die earlier, though), but we don't have the luxury of seeing the dates of our death in advance. Or even how our death would come.
If you see the big Tsunami wave in front of your eyes about to hit you, what would your mind say to you? Are you prepared?
Tuesday, December 28, 2004
Monday, December 27, 2004
TIME's Magazine's Article about Blogs
If this hype about blog things bugs you, don't feel down. Check out this interesting writing wrapup from TIME's magazine.
Don't like to read in English? Try looking for my Thai version written 2 months ago in the archive section. I'll find a link to that article and post here again soon.
Now, from TIME magazine.
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10 Things We Learned About Blogs
Radio had its golden age in the 1930s. In the 1950s, it was television's turn. Historians may well date the golden age of the blog from 2004—when Merriam-Webster.com's most searched-for definition was blog. How long can it last? Who knows? Here's what we discovered about the new medium this year
By CHRIS TAYLOR
Posted Sunday, December 19, 2004
Blogging Can Get You Fired
When Delta flight attendant Ellen Simonetti, 30—a leggy blond and self-styled "queen of the sky"—began her blog, she thought it would be fun to post pinup snapshots of herself in uniform. Delta wasn't amused and promptly fired her. Undaunted, Simonetti retitled the blog Diary of a Fired Flight Attendant and detailed her legal battle to get her job back.
GO TO: queenofsky.journalspace.com
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Bloggers Get Scoops Too
After book editor Russ Kick read that the U.S. military was clamping down on press photos of coffins coming back from Iraq, he didn't just pen an angry rant on his blog, the Memory Hole. He filed a Freedom of Information Act request—and embarrassingly for the Pentagon, was mailed a CD from the Air Force with 361 coffin snaps, which he promptly posted. The national press, which hadn't thought to ask whether the military had pictures, beat a path to Kick's door.
GO TO: thememoryhole.org
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Bloggers Keep News Alive
So your blog hasn't succeeded in getting national attention for your pet issue? Don't lose heart. Just blog, link and repeat. It worked for conservative bloggers like Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit, who trumpeted the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth's claims this summer, as well as for liberal blogs like Daily Kos, which investigated evidence that President Bush wore a wire in his first debate. Some of the issues had questionable merit, but persistent bloggers made the subjects tough to ignore. Say it enough times online, and someone is bound to hear you.
GO TO: Instapundit.com, dailykos.com
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Bloggers Can Be Titillating
In May a blog graphically detailing the sex life of an anonymous Capitol Hill staff member prompted D.C.'s most intriguing game of guess-the-author since Primary Colors. Jessica Cutler, a.k.a. Washingtonienne, was later outed and fired by her boss, Ohio Republican Mike DeWine, for "inappropriate use of Senate computers." (Her site is not for kids.) In another sign of the times, her first postfiring interview was with Wonkette, another Washington blogger.
GO TO: washingtoniennearchive.blogspot.com, wonkette.com
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Bloggers Can Be Fakers
Plain Layne, a highly personal blog supposedly belonging to a Minnesota lesbian named Layne Johnson that drew thousands of fans over 3 1/2 years before mysteriously disappearing, was revealed to be a hoax. Hundreds of fans helped track down the real author, Odin Soli, 35, a male entrepreneur from Woodbury, Minn. Later in the year, fake Bill Clinton and Andy Kaufman blogs became hits.
GO TO: plainlayne.dreamhost.com, billclintondailydiary.blogspot.com
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Bloggers Make Money
Earn a living in your pajamas! Online ads (along with Google's automated ad server) allow popular bloggers to go pro. Joshua Micah Marshall of talkingpointsmemo.com, a political blog, says he makes $5,000 a month from banner ads—enough to hire a research assistant.
GO TO: talkingpointsmemo.com
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Most Bloggers Are Women
Men may have taken the lead in the early (read: geeky) days of blogging, but that's not the case now. According to a survey of more than 4 million blogs by Perseus Development, 56% were created by women. More bad news for the boys: men are more likely than women to abandon their blog once it's created. Call blogging a 21st century room of one's own.
GO TO: blogsisters.blogspot.com
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Candidates Love Blogs
O.K., so Howard Dean never wrote his blog. But his campaign workers posted a surprisingly intimate online diary of life on the road, and Dean had collected $20 million in contributions via the Internet alone by the end of January 2004. It didn't take long for other politicos to catch on. When New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer announced that he was running for Governor this month, he did so on his blog.
GO TO: blog.deanforamerica.com, spitzer2006.com
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Pets Have Blogs Too
It started as an in-joke among feline-friendly bloggers: why not post pictures of their cats every Friday afternoon? Friday catblogging became a hit, and soon even NASA was playing along by posting pictures of the Cat's Eye nebula.
GO TO: carnivalofthecats.com
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Anyone Can Do It
Blogs wouldn't be such a democratic medium if they weren't so easy to set up. The most popular service, Blogger, owned by Google, boasts features like push-button photoblogging. Microsoft has launched a trial version of its own blogging service.
GO TO: blogger.com, spaces.msn.com
Don't like to read in English? Try looking for my Thai version written 2 months ago in the archive section. I'll find a link to that article and post here again soon.
Now, from TIME magazine.
---------------------------------------------
10 Things We Learned About Blogs
Radio had its golden age in the 1930s. In the 1950s, it was television's turn. Historians may well date the golden age of the blog from 2004—when Merriam-Webster.com's most searched-for definition was blog. How long can it last? Who knows? Here's what we discovered about the new medium this year
By CHRIS TAYLOR
Posted Sunday, December 19, 2004
Blogging Can Get You Fired
When Delta flight attendant Ellen Simonetti, 30—a leggy blond and self-styled "queen of the sky"—began her blog, she thought it would be fun to post pinup snapshots of herself in uniform. Delta wasn't amused and promptly fired her. Undaunted, Simonetti retitled the blog Diary of a Fired Flight Attendant and detailed her legal battle to get her job back.
GO TO: queenofsky.journalspace.com
------------------
Bloggers Get Scoops Too
After book editor Russ Kick read that the U.S. military was clamping down on press photos of coffins coming back from Iraq, he didn't just pen an angry rant on his blog, the Memory Hole. He filed a Freedom of Information Act request—and embarrassingly for the Pentagon, was mailed a CD from the Air Force with 361 coffin snaps, which he promptly posted. The national press, which hadn't thought to ask whether the military had pictures, beat a path to Kick's door.
GO TO: thememoryhole.org
-------------
Bloggers Keep News Alive
So your blog hasn't succeeded in getting national attention for your pet issue? Don't lose heart. Just blog, link and repeat. It worked for conservative bloggers like Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit, who trumpeted the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth's claims this summer, as well as for liberal blogs like Daily Kos, which investigated evidence that President Bush wore a wire in his first debate. Some of the issues had questionable merit, but persistent bloggers made the subjects tough to ignore. Say it enough times online, and someone is bound to hear you.
GO TO: Instapundit.com, dailykos.com
-------------------
Bloggers Can Be Titillating
In May a blog graphically detailing the sex life of an anonymous Capitol Hill staff member prompted D.C.'s most intriguing game of guess-the-author since Primary Colors. Jessica Cutler, a.k.a. Washingtonienne, was later outed and fired by her boss, Ohio Republican Mike DeWine, for "inappropriate use of Senate computers." (Her site is not for kids.) In another sign of the times, her first postfiring interview was with Wonkette, another Washington blogger.
GO TO: washingtoniennearchive.blogspot.com, wonkette.com
-------------------
Bloggers Can Be Fakers
Plain Layne, a highly personal blog supposedly belonging to a Minnesota lesbian named Layne Johnson that drew thousands of fans over 3 1/2 years before mysteriously disappearing, was revealed to be a hoax. Hundreds of fans helped track down the real author, Odin Soli, 35, a male entrepreneur from Woodbury, Minn. Later in the year, fake Bill Clinton and Andy Kaufman blogs became hits.
GO TO: plainlayne.dreamhost.com, billclintondailydiary.blogspot.com
-----------------------------------------
Bloggers Make Money
Earn a living in your pajamas! Online ads (along with Google's automated ad server) allow popular bloggers to go pro. Joshua Micah Marshall of talkingpointsmemo.com, a political blog, says he makes $5,000 a month from banner ads—enough to hire a research assistant.
GO TO: talkingpointsmemo.com
-------------------------------------
Most Bloggers Are Women
Men may have taken the lead in the early (read: geeky) days of blogging, but that's not the case now. According to a survey of more than 4 million blogs by Perseus Development, 56% were created by women. More bad news for the boys: men are more likely than women to abandon their blog once it's created. Call blogging a 21st century room of one's own.
GO TO: blogsisters.blogspot.com
----------------------------------------
Candidates Love Blogs
O.K., so Howard Dean never wrote his blog. But his campaign workers posted a surprisingly intimate online diary of life on the road, and Dean had collected $20 million in contributions via the Internet alone by the end of January 2004. It didn't take long for other politicos to catch on. When New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer announced that he was running for Governor this month, he did so on his blog.
GO TO: blog.deanforamerica.com, spitzer2006.com
-------------------------
Pets Have Blogs Too
It started as an in-joke among feline-friendly bloggers: why not post pictures of their cats every Friday afternoon? Friday catblogging became a hit, and soon even NASA was playing along by posting pictures of the Cat's Eye nebula.
GO TO: carnivalofthecats.com
---------------------------------
Anyone Can Do It
Blogs wouldn't be such a democratic medium if they weren't so easy to set up. The most popular service, Blogger, owned by Google, boasts features like push-button photoblogging. Microsoft has launched a trial version of its own blogging service.
GO TO: blogger.com, spaces.msn.com
Tuesday, December 21, 2004
Live & Learn ชีวิต คือ การเรียนรู้
ถ้าคุณยังไม่เคยปฏิบัติธรรม ด้วยการเจริญสติภาวนา วิปัสสนากรรมฐาน อยากให้ลองฟังเพลงนี้ ของคุณกมลา สุโกศล แล้วคุณจะเข้าใจว่า คุณจะได้อะไรกลับออกไปบ้าง จาก ๗ คืน ๘ วัน ที่ ศูนย์วิปัสสนาเชียงใหม่ (ฟรีตลอดโปรแกรม)
Live & Learn ชีวิตคือการเรียนรู้
เมื่อวันที่ชีวิต เดินเข้ามาถึงจุดเปลี่ยน
จนบางครั้งคนเรา ไม่ทันได้ตระเตรียมหัวใจ
ความสุขความทุกข์ ไม่มีใครรู้ว่าจะมาเมื่อไหร่
จะยอมรับความจริงที่เจอได้แค่ไหน
เพราะชีวิต คือชีวิต
เมื่อมีเข้ามาก็มีเลิกไป
มีสุขสมมีผิดหวัง หัวเราะหรือหวั่นไหว
เกิดขึ้นได้ทุกวัน
อยู่ที่เรียนรู้ อยู่ที่ยอมรับมัน
ตามความคิดสติเราให้ทัน
อยู่กับสิ่งที่มีไม่ใช่สิ่งที่ฝัน
และทำสิ่งนั้นให้ดีที่สุด
สุขก็เตรียมไว้
ว่าความทุกข์คงตามมาอีกไม่ไกล
จะได้รับความจริงเมื่อต้องเจ็บปวดไหว
เพราะชีวิต คือชีวิต
เมื่อมีเข้ามาก็มีเลิกไป
มีสุขสมมีผิดหวัง หัวเราะหรือหวั่นไหว
เกิดขึ้นได้ทุกวัน
อยู่ที่เรียนรู้ อยู่ที่ยอมรับมัน
ตามความคิดสติเราให้ทัน
อยู่กับสิ่งที่มีไม่ใช่สิ่งที่ฝัน
และทำสิ่งนั้นให้ดีที่สุด
คลิกเพื่อฟังเพลงนี้ได้ที่ลิ้งค์ข้างล่างนี้....
Live And Learn - บอย โกสิยพงษ์ Feat. กมลา สุโกศล
www.365jukebox.com
Live & Learn ชีวิตคือการเรียนรู้
เมื่อวันที่ชีวิต เดินเข้ามาถึงจุดเปลี่ยน
จนบางครั้งคนเรา ไม่ทันได้ตระเตรียมหัวใจ
ความสุขความทุกข์ ไม่มีใครรู้ว่าจะมาเมื่อไหร่
จะยอมรับความจริงที่เจอได้แค่ไหน
เพราะชีวิต คือชีวิต
เมื่อมีเข้ามาก็มีเลิกไป
มีสุขสมมีผิดหวัง หัวเราะหรือหวั่นไหว
เกิดขึ้นได้ทุกวัน
อยู่ที่เรียนรู้ อยู่ที่ยอมรับมัน
ตามความคิดสติเราให้ทัน
อยู่กับสิ่งที่มีไม่ใช่สิ่งที่ฝัน
และทำสิ่งนั้นให้ดีที่สุด
สุขก็เตรียมไว้
ว่าความทุกข์คงตามมาอีกไม่ไกล
จะได้รับความจริงเมื่อต้องเจ็บปวดไหว
เพราะชีวิต คือชีวิต
เมื่อมีเข้ามาก็มีเลิกไป
มีสุขสมมีผิดหวัง หัวเราะหรือหวั่นไหว
เกิดขึ้นได้ทุกวัน
อยู่ที่เรียนรู้ อยู่ที่ยอมรับมัน
ตามความคิดสติเราให้ทัน
อยู่กับสิ่งที่มีไม่ใช่สิ่งที่ฝัน
และทำสิ่งนั้นให้ดีที่สุด
คลิกเพื่อฟังเพลงนี้ได้ที่ลิ้งค์ข้างล่างนี้....
Live And Learn - บอย โกสิยพงษ์ Feat. กมลา สุโกศล
www.365jukebox.com
Monday, December 20, 2004
:: JEDI RADIO ::
If you have a taste for both local and international music and find that Yahoo Launchcast can be too slow, I found a simple yet fast and functional, no-frills web site you may want to check out.
It's still in a beta-testing version. But I am quite happy with the speed (super fast on my 128kps ADSL) and the variety of radio stations from all over the world. And I noticed they have added more stations very regularly. I especially like the European's classical stations, I hardly found it anywhere online (for free, of course!)
My personal tip: for pop music, UK's has better music taste than the US's stations. heh-heh
Ciao for now!
Nitade Web Board, anyone? :)
Nitade dot Net's CenterBoard for all classes. :)
If you know anyone who graduated from Nitade Chula, please tell them we now have a web board.
Now and then we all need networking, ain't we? Not to mention the wedding invitation or birth announcement!
How come very few of my classmates are active on the web?
Are they too busy?
Are we too old?
Oh...no! :-P
Saturday, December 18, 2004
Being an Early Bird for New Year's Resolution!
Heh-heh. Talking about being an early bird! I went to the gym today! Actually it's one of my perpetual New Year's Resolutions--meaning I repeatedly make it every year.
Not that I manage to be good all year, every year. But at least this year I'm starting early!
Although I've been working out sort of regularly at my condo now in the past 3-4 months, nothing compares to the total gym experience.
From the warm-ups to the work-out to the weight-training, I thoroughly enjoyed it. It feels so good to re-live the old routine once again. You know, the works. Complete with post-excercise Gatorade and the smell of aromatic kamphor from the steam room when I finally walk into the locker to take a shower.
I must have been away from the gym for quite some time because the front guy is new and he handed me the blue towel set (meaning men's locker room) without even look up at me. I had to clear my throat and try to lift up the pitch of my voice a little to state that I'm actually a woman. The guy seemed startled and quickly apologized. I apologized, too, for not showing up for so long (that they don't know me and learn to get over the confusion of my androgynous look.)
Anyway, I sort of understand him. Many things about me confuse people. Not only the external appearance (hey, i can't help it, but i look like my dad than my sweet mom), but my psychological profile as well. I just love hanging out with the guys at the gym, pumping iron, sweating it out on the machines, etc. I feel relaxed in there. Very natural me.
Yes there are women who work out at the gym, too. But I found it strange that I feel like a stranger to them. And they to me! There are times when a few complained to the management, thinking that they let a guy (me) into women's locker. And those hostile or at least questionable stares I got in the locker! I sort of shrug it off and stay cool.
But I have to admit I sometimes get impatient at them also. Women take forever to do their things, you know. Be it showering, dressing up, or giving a final touch in front of the mirror. And sometimes their strong perfume really makes me nauseated. Honestly. I wonder what got into the head of the designer when he/she concocted the perfume!
So, here I am, nagging away like an old lady! Serves me right! hee hee hee Anyway, I plan to go back tomorrow and everyday after this if I'm in town. Let's see if the front guy will remember me this time and hand me the pink towel set!
Must meditate tonight so that I don't go on an eating binge again late at night otherwise my workout will all go down the drain! Ahh...temptation, temptation. May be it's time I get rid of all those chocolate in my fridge as a preventive measure!
Gosh, it felt really good to go back to the gym again!
Not that I manage to be good all year, every year. But at least this year I'm starting early!
Although I've been working out sort of regularly at my condo now in the past 3-4 months, nothing compares to the total gym experience.
From the warm-ups to the work-out to the weight-training, I thoroughly enjoyed it. It feels so good to re-live the old routine once again. You know, the works. Complete with post-excercise Gatorade and the smell of aromatic kamphor from the steam room when I finally walk into the locker to take a shower.
I must have been away from the gym for quite some time because the front guy is new and he handed me the blue towel set (meaning men's locker room) without even look up at me. I had to clear my throat and try to lift up the pitch of my voice a little to state that I'm actually a woman. The guy seemed startled and quickly apologized. I apologized, too, for not showing up for so long (that they don't know me and learn to get over the confusion of my androgynous look.)
Anyway, I sort of understand him. Many things about me confuse people. Not only the external appearance (hey, i can't help it, but i look like my dad than my sweet mom), but my psychological profile as well. I just love hanging out with the guys at the gym, pumping iron, sweating it out on the machines, etc. I feel relaxed in there. Very natural me.
Yes there are women who work out at the gym, too. But I found it strange that I feel like a stranger to them. And they to me! There are times when a few complained to the management, thinking that they let a guy (me) into women's locker. And those hostile or at least questionable stares I got in the locker! I sort of shrug it off and stay cool.
But I have to admit I sometimes get impatient at them also. Women take forever to do their things, you know. Be it showering, dressing up, or giving a final touch in front of the mirror. And sometimes their strong perfume really makes me nauseated. Honestly. I wonder what got into the head of the designer when he/she concocted the perfume!
So, here I am, nagging away like an old lady! Serves me right! hee hee hee Anyway, I plan to go back tomorrow and everyday after this if I'm in town. Let's see if the front guy will remember me this time and hand me the pink towel set!
Must meditate tonight so that I don't go on an eating binge again late at night otherwise my workout will all go down the drain! Ahh...temptation, temptation. May be it's time I get rid of all those chocolate in my fridge as a preventive measure!
Gosh, it felt really good to go back to the gym again!
The Perils of Ph.D. Studies
I start to fret my blogs will be filled with only my complaints about studying.
It's not that I want to discourage anyone from pursuing their Ph.D. goal, I just want to let them know upfront before they take a plunge that they have to be prepared for the emotional roller-coaster.
I have my highs and I have my fair share of lows. Yesterday I got a very good news that I got A- in statistics. That is worth a big celebration, considering that I have had virtually no math background, whatsoever.
The joy didn't last long when I was faced with what seems like endless deadlines of endless papers. As I am struggling to keep up wit everything, I ask myself once again, whether I made the right decision. Would it have been better, I coined casually in my mind, if I'd just stick with my meditation and keep on trying to get myself enlightened.
The answer for that, I don't know. All I know is that I just have to keep my cool and stay "in the present," and that I have to learn to be able to pick myself up when I feel down. In the Tripitaka (พระไตรปิฎก), there is a saying "We have but ourselve to turn to."
How very true it is.
It's not that I want to discourage anyone from pursuing their Ph.D. goal, I just want to let them know upfront before they take a plunge that they have to be prepared for the emotional roller-coaster.
I have my highs and I have my fair share of lows. Yesterday I got a very good news that I got A- in statistics. That is worth a big celebration, considering that I have had virtually no math background, whatsoever.
The joy didn't last long when I was faced with what seems like endless deadlines of endless papers. As I am struggling to keep up wit everything, I ask myself once again, whether I made the right decision. Would it have been better, I coined casually in my mind, if I'd just stick with my meditation and keep on trying to get myself enlightened.
The answer for that, I don't know. All I know is that I just have to keep my cool and stay "in the present," and that I have to learn to be able to pick myself up when I feel down. In the Tripitaka (พระไตรปิฎก), there is a saying "We have but ourselve to turn to."
How very true it is.
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