Mother Earth - by DigitumDei
“The earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. The earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.”
[source: http://bura-bura.com/blog/]
MCG2当中的3名艺人成员齐分享环保心得，让培三学生获益不浅：左起为Azizi、Baki及苏盈之。（图：星洲日报）
（马六甲）大地之母生病了，8度空间电视台（8TV）巫裔艺人Baki Zainal“自私”地要大家响应环保，以实际行动救地球，让他的侄儿们在未来能够生活在最好的的环境里！
说得一口流利华语
说得一口流利华语的Baki说：“我还没结婚，我有几个侄儿，我当他们是自己的孩子一样，很爱他们。今日我很自私，我‘连累’其他艺人，还有同学们、老师、家长，要大家一起来做环保，我不希望因为我污染环境的行动，造成我的侄儿以后受害。”
“我不希望有一天接到侄儿来电告诉我：叔叔，我中了癌症……我快死了……”
想到如果地球环境没有变好，侄儿们以后的日子不好过，Baki的眼眶都红了。（图：星洲日报）
“我不要白头人送黑头人！”
目前也是8度空间《横行8道》节目主持人的Baki，是於週一（3月8日）早上联合艺人环保活动（MALAYSIAN CELEBRITIES GO GREEN，MCG2）成员Azizi（本地歌手）及2008年大马世界小姐兼艺人苏盈之，在培三小学举行，由马六甲假日酒店主办的“GREEN IS‘INN’”植树活动上，与家长及同学们分享环保理念时，道出心中的话。
想到如果地球环境没有变好，侄儿们以后的日子不好过，Baki的眼眶都红了。
Baki说，侄儿和他的感情很好，他不希望这一代留下的污染，害了下一代失去一个美好健康的生活环境。
Hakuin Ekaku (from www.shermanleeinstitute.org)
A soldier named Nobushige came to Hakuin, and asked: “Is there really a paradise and a hell?”
“Who are you?” inquired Hakuin.
“I am a samurai,” the warrior replied.
“You, a soldier!” exclaimed Hakuin. “What kind of ruler would have you as his guard? Your face looks like that of a beggar.”
Nobushige became so angry that he began to draw his sword, but Hakuin continued: “So you have a sword! Your weapon is probably much too dull to cut off my head.”
As Nobushige drew his sword Hakuin remarked: “Here open the gates of hell!”
At these words, the samurai, perceiving the master’s discipline, sheathed his sword and bowed.
“Here open the gates of paradise,” said Hakuin.
[source: http://www.davidpbrown.co.uk/nota-bene/paradise-and-hell.html]
A story is told about a soldier who was finally coming home after having fought in Vietnam. He called his parents from San Francisco. “Mom and Dad, I’m coming home, but I’ve a favor to ask. I have a friend I’d like to bring home with me.”
“Sure,” they replied, “we’d love to meet him.”
“There’s something you should know.” the son continued, “he was hurt pretty badly in the fighting. He stepped on a land mine and lost an arm and a leg. He has nowhere else to go, and I want him to come live with us.”
“I’m sorry to hear that, son. Maybe we can help him find somewhere to live.”
“No, Mom and Dad, I want him to live with us.”
“Son,” said the father, “you don’t know what you’re asking. Someone with such a handicap would be a terrible burden on us. We have our own lives to live, and we can’t let something like this interfere with our lives. I think you should just come home and forget about this guy. He’ll find a way to live on his own.”
At that point, the son hung up the phone. The parents heard nothing more from him.
A few days later, however, they received a call from the San Francisco police. Their son had died after falling from a building, they were told. The police believed it was suicide.
The grief-stricken parents flew to San Francisco and were taken to the city morgue to identify the body of their son.
They recognized him, but to their horror they also discovered something they didn’t know, their son had only one arm and one leg.
Moral of the Story…
The parents in this story are like many of us. We find it easy to love those who are good-looking or fun to have around, but we don’t like people who inconvenience us or make us feel uncomfortable. We would rather stay away from people who aren’t as healthy, beautiful, or smart as we are.
Thankfully, there’s someone who won’t treat us that way. Someone who loves us with an unconditional love that welcomes us into the forever family, regardless of how messed up we are.
Tonight, before you tuck yourself in for the night, say a little prayer that God will give you the strength you need to accept people as they are, not as you think they should be, and to help us all be more understanding of those who are different from us!!!
Take time to think about this…….
[source: http://www.citehr.com/121018-pls-do-read-very-touching-story.html]
Chinese version:
这是一个甫自越战归来的士兵的故事。他从旧金山打电话给他的父母，告诉他们：“爸妈，我回来了，可是我有个不情之请。我想带一个朋友同我一起回家。”
“当然好啊！”他们回答“我们会很高兴见到的。”
不过儿子又继续下去“可是有件事我想先告诉你们，他在越战里受了重伤，少了一条胳臂和一只脚，他现在走投无路，我想请他回来和我们一起生活。”
“儿子，我很遗撼，不过或许我们可以帮他找个安身之处。”父亲又接着说“儿子，你不知道自己在说些什么。像他这样残障的人会对我们的生活造成很大的负担。我们还有自己的生活要过，不能就让他这样破坏了。我建议你先回家然后忘了他，他会找到自己的一片天空的。”
就在此时，儿子挂上了电话，他的父母再也没有他的消息了。
几天后，这对父母接到了来自旧金山警局的电话，告诉他们亲爱的儿子已经坠楼身亡了。警方相信这只是单纯的自杀案件。于是他们伤心欲绝地飞往旧金山，并在警方带领之下到停？间去辨认儿子的遗体。
那的确是他们的儿子没错，但惊讶的是儿子居然，只有一条胳臂和一条腿。
故事中的父母就和我们大多数人一样。要去喜爱面貌姣好或谈吐风趣的人很容易，但是要喜欢那些造成我们不便和不快的人却太难了。我们总是宁愿和那些不如我们健康，美丽或聪明的人保持距离。
然而感谢上帝，有些人却不会对我们如此残酷。他们会无怨无悔地爱我们，不论我们多么糟总是愿意接纳我们。今晚在你入睡之前，向上帝祷告请赐给你力量去接纳他人，不论他们是怎么样的人；请帮助我们了解那些不同于我们的人。
[source: http://www.banbijiang.com/yipingushi/5132.html]
An endless journey by CJ
“The birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow. The longer he lives, the more stupid he becomes, because his anxiety to avoid unavoidable death becomes more and more acute. What bitterness! He lives for what is always out of reach! His thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable of living in the present.”
-Chuang Tzu
一个人去工作的时候，早上经过了一条河。放工后，又经过了那一条河。他和朋友说，他一天经过那条河两次。其实，所谓的河，是不断流着的水所形成。放工后，那人所经过的河，还是流着一样的水吗？
相对于河水，当我们观察周围的一切，它们都不断地变化：地球的转动、地核的波动、空气的流动等等。一切物品也慢慢的变旧、变坏，再被从新循环生产，变成新的物品。身边的人也是如此，健康变病弱，也可能再好转，还有人们性格、情绪、爱好等等，都时时地再变。一切都是我们的执着，认为一切都是永恒，痛苦就产生了。
人生其实也是没有起点和终点的路途，并不是出生的时候为生命的开始，停止呼吸的时候为结束。从当代物理学和物理学的角度出发，我们的生命体本就处于每时每刻分散离聚德运动变化之中，幻生幻灭，只不过我们习惯性的把它执着为一个粗大的，可以稳定存在的连续体。
就我们的生命来说，经历了不断的变化。生命的之前一个当下，我们的生命现在的当下正处于分散之后的从新聚合。相对于之后的一个当下，我们的生命又正处于从聚合走向分散。经历每一个当下，我们确实已经经历了一次生死，已经经历了一个轮回。
自己，就是意识到这个当下。当一个人对前一个当下的自己或之前的自己执着着，就会迷失自己。忘了活在这个当下的自己，就会不快乐。每一个当下，都是一个人生，都是一个自己。所以去学会改变每一个当下，当我们放下了这一个当下的爱欲执着，进而改变了自己以往的生活方式和人生态度的时候，我们的生命会发生灿烂的变化。
Vegetarians Make Chicks Happy!
What do you get when you cross a chick, a pig, and “the Queen of Beauty”? Four fabulous new ads featuring Taiwanese actor Barbie Hsu. The latest celebrity to pose for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Asia-Pacific’s vegetarian campaign, it’s easy to see why Barbie was recently crowned Asia’s Sexiest Vegetarian. And even though she has played opposite a menagerie of hot actors in numerous films and dramas, from Meteor Garden to Corner With Love to the upcoming Summer of Bubbles, Barbie’s PETA co-stars are her cutest yet.
Why does Barbie feel so “connected” to her cuddly co-stars? Unique and fascinating animals, chickens are not that different from humans. Like us, they experience fear and pain.
And from the moment they are born to the time of their death, pigs, chickens and other animals raised for food are subjected to fear, pain and suffering on factory farms. Confined to dark, filthy warehouses, animals are deprived of everything that is natural and important to them. They routinely undergo debeaking, tail-docking, and castration—all without any pain relief. At slaughter, many are scalded or dismembered while they are still alive.
“Animals are like my family, brothers, sisters and friends,” says Barbie. “We’re all equal. I love them all, that’s why I won’t eat them.”
I Love Animals, So I Don't Eat Them
Compassion Is Beautiful. Go Vegetarian! 爱素食
I AM BARBIE HSU, AND I AM A VEGETARIAN
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Hi! I am CJ, blogger of Juesatta and photographer of CJ Photography.
I love and enjoy photography, thus make me a lifestyle wedding photojournalist and portrait photographer based in Melaka, a lovely town full of history and characters in Malaysia.
Wedding is the sweetest thing of one’s life because it celebrates love, therefore I have always been passionate for capturing beautiful, natural and romantic wedding day images of moments for couples to be cherished a lifetime.
Drop me an email cj@cjfen.com and will be great to hear from you!
