Reading Dr Tan Kheng Khoo's website on Meditation

I met an old friend and former neighbour one day at Lor 8 Toa Payoh market. During our chit chat we also touch on Buddhism. When talking about meditation, he mentioned about Dr K. K. Tan, well known meditation teacher, and gave me the website address. I managed to locate Dr K K Tan's homepage address after a few attempts. See the following websites:-

http:// www.kktanhp.com

http:// www.kktanhp.com/doctoring.htm

I find his website interesting and beneficial as I am a keen learner of Buddhism, meditation esp Vipassana, Anapanasati- Mindfulness With Breathing. The knowledge enables me to have a deeper understanding of Buddhism and Meditation. Combining meditation with Yoga is indeed beneficial holistically for both body and mind and can overcome much worries, pain, anxiety. From my own experience, I experienced peace and harmony in daily living and I try to share this knowledge and experience whenever possible, without offending anyone and respecting their choice and situation.

Interesting Story - What appears to be safe now, may hurt you, even seriously, later

The following is from an email circulated to me today. The moral of the story is ...what seems to unconcern you may in fact later cause serious harm to you...Read on and see what way, we in our own individual effort, can save the environment, pollution, help those who are seriously in need, etc.

The story goes like this:

One day, a mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package. He thought: What food might this contain?

The mouse wondered and he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap. Alarmed. Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning :
There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!'

The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said,

'Mr..Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered by it.'

The mouse turned to the pig and told him,
'There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!'
The pig sympathized, but said, I am so very sorry, Mr.Mouse, but there is nothing I can do about it . Be I will be thinking of you.'

The mouse turned to the cow and said
'There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!'
The cow said, 'Wow, Mr. Mouse. I'm sorry for you, but it's no skin off my nose.'

So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap . . . alone.

That very night a sound was heard throughout the house -- like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey.

The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught.

The snake bit the farmer's wife.

The farmer rushed her to the hospital , and she returned home with a fever.

Everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient.

But his wife's sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig.

The farmer's wife did not get well; she died. So many people came for her funeral, the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them.

The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness.

So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it doesn’t concern you, remember ---

when one of us is threatened, we are all at risk. We are all involved in this journey called Life.

We must keep an eye out for one another and make an extra effort to encourage one another.

SEND THIS TO EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER HELPED YOU OUT AND LET THEM KNOW HOW IMPORTANT THEY ARE.

REMEMBER . . .EACH OF US IS A VITAL THREAD IN ANOTHER PERSON'S TAPESTRY;

OUR LIVES ARE WOVEN TOGETHER FOR A REASON.

*One of the best things to hold onto in this world is a FRIEND ! ! !*

YOGA AS MEDICINE, A Yoga Journal Book By Timothy McCall, M.D. and "things to do now that you're retired"

Few days earlier my nephew gave me this book "YOGA AS MEDICINE, A Yoga Journal Book By Timothy McCall, M.D." and another book "things to do now that you're retired" by Jane Garton.

I am half way through the first book and had glanced through the second book. At this stage I can say that this book will very beneficial to all Yogis as the correct understanding of the principles, the body, the body flow and the mind will go a long way to improve the body, mind and feeling. Thus health will be much improved and may also avoid many unnecessary surgeries.

The book Yoga As Medicine deals with how to overcome pains in joints, backpain, asthma, etc. If such knowledge can be brought to many, many people, then numerous people can benefit. But I think it is not easy as many people have their own beliefs and assumptions and have much tendency to listen to hearsay.

With knowledge and practice, the experience will be very pleasant and money cannot buy.

I will continue to read, re-read, and re-read and practice yoga with meditation and hope to share further in my blog or with friends and those who wish to know too. I must say I am no expert but a continous learner who can only share. Decision will rest with whoever heard the knowledge.

The other book "things to do now that you are retired" give a wide range of things one can do and how it can enlightened our lives....there are the simple things and not so simple but do-able things to do..least of all give inspirations when one is at a stand-still...