Doubt

I am filled with doubt after attending church services and surmons as they are contradicting themselve.Following are my doubt, not to denounce christianity, but to seek for clarification.

1) Christianity promotes toleration toward other religion

doubt : Why i kept hearing pastor in the church try to undermine other religion? particularly Buddhism, where he said" what is the old monk doing with his joss stick , sitting there not praying to god? " . Another instance is when my shepard said :" Why hinduism has so many god? dont they get confused? no wonder they are confused." I can only conclude that they are try to exclude or undermine other religion to justify their religion. Such is the irony.

2) Christianity promotes fundamental human right

doubt: The pastor kept assert that christian could not marry non christian. Is he not aware that that violate fundamental human right of freedom of association? Such is the irony.

3) Christianity is a religion which encourage people to live abundantly, but not with money and ambition. You like your life for god.

doubt: Can you fill your stomach just by praying to god? You cant neglect the reality that you need money to live a good life. Conflict in family bound to happen when you dont have money.Is that called live abundantly?Such is the irony

4) Christianity - abundance is promised in after life.

doubt: What about the present?

5) Pastor- dont just live a good life, live a god life

doubt: How do you live a god life without good life?

6) Pastor:" christianity promote peace and undestanding"

doubt : " Is he not aware that the " allah " issue is spark by chuch ?
" Is he not aware that in bible, god actually intruct moses to lead the israelis to invade other nation to claim the "land of god?" Is that not amounting to agression and violence ? " Such is the irony.

7) Pastor: " you will feel empty and lonely without religion"

doubt: " it is a feeling."You feel loneliness, hence you get loneliness.if you feel happy and abundant, you will get abundant.You just need to control your feeling.feel positive,think positive and your life will be positive. That is not religion. That is law of attraction.

haiz...so confusing...No offend to anyone. Just doubt and you may help me clarify it by replying me.thx

THE SECRET

The underlying concept of the secret is the control of your thought. Your thought is the most powerful tool could dictate how the universe might manifest itself. Below are the summaries of the " secret".

1) The great secret of life is the law of attraction
A) The law of attraction say " like attract like'. Hence, positive will attract positive and negative will attract negative.

B) Thought arre magnetic and have a frequency. As you think, you sent out a frequency to the universe and magnetically attract all like things of the same frequency. Hence, when you think of good things, the universe will sent back good things to you. when you thing negatively, the universe will sent back negative things to you.

Hence, It is important to control your thought, think positively and your life will be surrounded by positive things. The law of attracti
on will not differentiate between good and bad thought. Its only task is to response to what you think and the frequency you emitted.

if you want to change anything in your life, change your thought, and you will change the frequency that you emit to the universe. the universe will then reciprocate.

The law of attraction is like the law of gravity.You cant see it, but it is always there.So believe in it

People who pray to god will get what they want usually. However, it is argued that it is the law of attraction which answer your pray as that is what is being emitted to the universe.It is alleged that it is the law of attraction which answer your prayer, not god. People do say that there is a mighty force out there which dictate your life. They are true in the sense that the mighty force is the law of attraction

2) To have positive thought, first we must have good feeling. It is imperative to control how we feel as our feeling will affect our thought. When you feel bad, you will attract more bad thing. if you feel good, you will attarct good things.To have good feeling, fill yourself with love and gratitute.The feeling of love and gratitute is the most overpowering force that will change your feeling.

3) Three steps to utilise the law of attraction

a) Ask : Ask the universe for what you want. Picture it, visualize it as if it true.

b) Believing: believe that you already receive what you are asking for.When you emit the frequency that you have already received, the law of attraction will move thing and circumstances for you to receive

c)Receive : Feel the way you wil fill once your desire is fulfilled. feeling good put you on a frequency to receive.

Start with something small. As you experience it, you will attratc bigger think.

Start and End your day thinking what you want.

4)visualization allow you to better picture what you want. think of all the details.

5) Dont focus on wrong things. For example, dont be angry when you are discriminated by governemrent policy. Think that you are about to receive equal treatment and it will come to you.

When you didnt receive, instead of blaming the law of attraction, do some introspection.Maybe you dont have enough faith or perhaps you have doubt and cast some of your energy to negative thought. Whenever you have negative thought, change it immediately by feeling good through the feeling of love and gratitute.

For me, this is what i visualize

a) I will be a successful lawyer with bigh car, big house

b) I will be political leader who will make a change in malaysia where people have equal right, chinese independent school are recognised,primary chinese school receive similar treatment.i picture myself figting against injustice and corruption while protecting the right of all malaysia

c) I picture myself get TER 95 and above and the joy

d) I picture myself getting admitted to Monash university and pass clp.

e) I picture myself with a beautiful wife and healty children

f) I picture myself being more humble, tolerant, patient , caing, loving and lovable.

g) I picture myself in abundace of wealth and health

What about you? start using the law of attarction now and you will be surprised by the changes in your life.

An Eye-opening Conversation

During Chinese new years, i visited my secondary school chinese literature tuition teacher.In this case, i will refer him as MR S. He is both benevolent and wise where he analysed the current issue in our country impartially besides offered some constructive advice to me in which i will commit to lifelong memory.

Tan : Happy cny new year teacher. How are you recently?

Teacher S : I am fine. Thx you.How are you too? Can adapt to life in KL?

Tan: Not so well.I hope i can finish my study as soon as possible and get away from this place, leaving behind sorrow and hatred.Traffic congestion is a perpetual nuisance and people there are snobbish and inconsiderate.( I mean some)They only care for themselves and like to isolate people with different opinion.That is very immature and the tendency to form clique only reflect the insecurity and the need for others to accomodate them.Such foolish and idiotic.

Teacher S: OIC. Nvm. When i was young, i was like you too, full of passion but hindered by obstacle.Yes, I agree,there bound to be people who are narrow minded and small minded.They are reluctant to accept others opinion and therefore they could only live within their "small world".Like pepatah"Katak dibawah tempurung".As for the traffich congestion, you have to bear with it.Take all this challenges as a chance for you to grow and become more tough.Do not budge from your stand easily. Be who you are and dont be swayed by others opinion.They are like "Satan" , waiting to engulf you and your dreams by demoralising and discouraging you.

Tan: Thx teacher.I need your opinion regarding my studies. I am reluctant to go overseas for several reasons. Top among them is the need to do CLP which is not sponsored by Government.( NOTE that in contract, every 6 month extention of study amount to 1 year extra bond).Secondly, the expenses provided by government is not enough which mean you have to fork out yur own money.Thirdly, you dont have the chance to learn islamic law which has gained inroad into the judicial mainstream.Forthly, it is very hard for you to keep pace with the current judicial development in our country and the cultural difference(民情)make things worse.

Teacher S: I totally agree with you.I always encourage people to see things from practical aspects.It is true that people always think that it is glamorous to go overseas and evrything is better there.However, in my opinion, it is more practical for you to obtain your degree in Malaysia and then study do your postgraduate study overseas.Not the other way round.This especially applies to social science subject such as law where we have to take into consideration the plight and needs of the society.

Tan: But my friend all say they want to gain experience wo...

Teacher S:You can gain experience anywhere you wan .If you go UIA, you can learn how to get along well with Malay and know more about Islam.It is most useful if you wan to join politics next time.

Tan: Ya. Maybe because most of them plan to migrate overseas next time.

Teacher S: This is what worried me.People always think badly about malaysia.But for me, malaysia is a good place to live.No matter how unbearable the living condition is in malaysia, We could still live in peace and prosperity.Does our country experience eartquake, racial clash ,extreme poverty? Are we forbidden from practicing our tradition and learning our mother tongue?We could complain how unfair the government is and yet we are still rich and prosperous.So what the big deal? What seem to be bothering them? Do you think overseas country do not experience racism? Racism is everywhere.It is inherent in human nature where we bound to resist things different from what we believe and practice.Take for instance, In australia, there are alot of cases where the mat salleh refuse to serve chinese as they label us as " yellow skin".Do you experience this in Malaysia? Absolutely not.You can shout at a malay salesgirl for not serving you well and get her apologies.Try this at Australia to the mat salleh? The consequences is sure to be not pleasant.

Tan: ya, i totally agree.

Teacher S: Moreover, when you go overseas, you will suffer form inferiority complex because you are just niot up to standard.Not that you are no good, just that this is not where you belong.Malaysia need people with vision and good mentality to usher in a new era of social justice and prosperity.Overseas country dont need you to make things better for them.The onus is on us to make things better for our future generation.

Tan: Ya, i agree.But nowadays the youngsters are becoming more and more apathetic about politic and social responsibility.All the care is their own wellfare and all they want is to enjoy life without a single thought about people around them.

Teacher S : Yes, that the dilemma.You can see the different between those who graduate form chinese medium school and english medium school. For student who graduated from chinese medium school, they are more alert to the need to do their part for the betterment of the society.Whereas for student s form english medium school, they more likely not talk about politic and care about themselves more tham others.However, we cannot generalise.There are exception.

Tan :Talk about politic ( eye blinking), what do you think about the current MCA saga?

Teacher S: That is ridiculous. Ong Tee Kiat is having an suicidal attempt to overthrow Chua soi Lek. I dont know how he think. As for me, there are many ways to destabilise chua power base. Now all the power is in his hand, he could slowly erode chua power base by offering some " bait" such as postion in cabinet.In a few years time, Chua will fade into oblivion and he will have full control over the party.He is too impatient .He should not clash headlong with chua as the backlash from his supporter is inevitable.He second fatal mistake is his refusal to step down as MCA president as he promised before the GM.This is fatal because he does not keep his word.This is a worse case scenario,surely sounf a death knell to his political career.if he steps down,at least he retain some form of dignity.During this few years, he could rebuild his imej by exposing government scandal and rebrand himself as the one who dare to fight for the truth in the best interest of the people.This is how politics is played.When MCA could not find a suitable leader to replace him, they will choose him again.Sadly he missed the chance.

Tan:Is MCA still playing its role in BN.

Teacher S: MCA is ineffective, but there is no denial that we still need MCA to ensure there is a check and balance in the entire political machinery,in which decision to the detriment of chinese population would face opposing voice from within.Malaysia could not run away from racial politics.We are still divided along the racial line.Hence,we must not miss the whole forest because of a few tree or throw the cart away because of a few bad apple.Just as Pakatan rakyat has DAP, BN must have MCA, so that no matter which side gain power, our chinese community rights is still being protected .If MCA leave BN,it would be disastrous as the vacancy would be replaced by PAS, as BN now has more cabinet post to offer.This would be catastrophic for the whole chinese community as there is no opposing voice from within and the decision made bound to be bias.

Tan:So, what do you think is the criterion of a good politician?

Teacher: For me, the most essential quality of a good politician is sincerity and humility.Many politician are too arrogant and refuse to connect and interact with the grass root level.Some of them in their election campaign portrayed themselves as big lawyer and big doctors.People are not here to admire you,or serve you, they are here waiting for to to serve them, to listen to their plight.Hence, next time if you have the chance to go into politics, the first thing you must do is to walk along side the people, visit their homes once in a while. There is no need for you to visit every house. Just select a few,( including all races) and listen to their concern----words do spread.

Tan: Thx teacher.I really learn alot from you. i will remember what you said to me before. Hopefully i can be a good politician next time, the one who are about people and value integrity.thx

teacher S: Welcome.take care.hope to hear from you soon.

Furore Over a Word

I always know that pen is mightier than sword and words can hurt especially when they smack of sarcasm. A word can have positive, negative and neutral connotation. A word with positive connotation exudes light feeling and jubilation and in the same time people tend to agitate when harsh word are hurled ar them.

What confounded me is that a word which is neutral can also spark controversy and subsequently lead to outburst or anger and general swearing of vengeance. The word " Allah " is a neutral word which suppose to be just a noun refering to god. However, people are at each other throat professing that only muslim can use the word as it is sacred . Likewise, christians stand firm and refuse to budge as giving in would mean compromising and eventually lead to more daring encroachment by the authority.

In the end, it remind me of a parable of the two goat. A white goat wants to cross the river and the only option is the bridge.As it was crossing the river, it met a black ,fat,strong,stout goat coming in its opposite way.As the bridge was narrow, only one of them can pass through which require another to retreat back to the banks of the river.Both refuse to retreat, and start hurling bad word at each other.The black goat, upon seeing his opponent as weak and thin, decided to charge forward and confront the white goat.The white goat refuse to cave in and resist the charge with all its might. The end results could happen in three ways.

1) Both of them slip and fall into the river. As they cannnot swim, both drown and perish. ( Malaysia decended into chaos and disoder,all malaysians will perish)

2)The black goat win and kill the white goat. However, as luck would have it, it bump into a tiger along the way.Too tired after the fight, it is unable to run for its life and become the meal of the tiger.( Muslim will win but our image at the international level will be tainted)3)

3)Both of them after fighting for the whole day,decided to seek consensus by having dialogue.( we set up a commitee for religious dialogue. )

The issue of the usage of the word " allah" by christian should not be brought to court in the first place because the issue is too sentitive and it does more harm than good in promoting religious tolerant and understanding in our country.
This is evident in the recent demonstration and destruction of church. Eventually , admist speculation that the destruction is done by extreme muslims, two mosque was attacked . The chain reaction could be dire and chaos may ensue.Sentiment and ego should definitelt take a backseat when come to religion issue .Only when we are prepare to resolve issue through dialogue , without trying to impose our values on others, then we can claim to be truly democratic and multireligious.