Tsunami Catastrophe

It's been a tough 5 days since the Asia Tsunami strike asian countries. With around 100,000 death tolls, it is expected one of the greatest natural disaster humanity have been faced. I'm in Thailand and see lots of news, increasing death tolls, rescue attempts, cleaning up attempts, real-events video candits, etc. Yesterday after I recover from getting sick, I tried to find anything I could help to "practicing the obvious," and found myself in the Thai Red Cross Society, piling bags of clothes prepared to send to those who were affected in the southern part of Thailand.

There seems lots of scattering helps and unsystematic planning to deal with the situation. Anyway I blame no one since there has never been Tsunami attacks in Thailand before in its history. I cancel all my plans to go anywhere around New Year vacations and standby to help anything as much as I can. I intent to go into the area in Phuket and Khao Lak, but there seems to be too many volunteers down there with not much helps and, goshhh, my arms gets hurts from helping to piling bags of clothes yesterday.

All holons above the physical realm and all of their artifacts inside the turmoil physcial system were striked equally. The physical disaster affects all the emotional realm, mental realm and all realms above. Epedimics in the biological realm are going to come. Ecological problems is going to come. Emotional shock already occur. Mental disorder already occur. I'm waiting to join a group of counselors to go into the areas to help those of survivals, may be next few weeks. And that's the most suitable work for me to help in this situation.

The feeling of sorry is overwhelming over me. With the deepest awareness and compassion, I will practice Karma yoga as much as I can.

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Achieve Once, Achieve None, Achieve More

I woke up this morning with a feeling of lack in the second chakra [emotion, vital]. I see it and embrace it with deep breathing in and breathing out. I feel the lack quite a while and feed it with the lively breathing. Another new day comes...

Today I look back to how far I've been walking... I just finish the course on the integral theory and practice at IUP/IU, with an "A". Yes, I already achieve it. Once again, my enneagram type three fully functions. The drive to achieve has been floated over me throughout my ages.

Along the transcendental path I have kept walking, I deny the drive as the source of all evils. Once I realize my type and learn to befriend with it (if not, it'll be your enemy). I come back to the drive again but, for now, with full embracing of compassion and awareness. In fact, I can achieve in every moment by the Pure Witnessing. From moment to moment, all things arise and I achieve by witnessing them arise as they are. From moment to moment, all things fall apart and I achieve none by witnessing them fall apart. In the very next moment, things arise again and I achieve more.

Achieve once, achieve none, achieve more...

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Transverbal Awareness

Thoughts arise and fall apart. As I read a book, meanings arise and fall apart. As I take a bath, thoughts arise. As I bycycling, thoughts also arise. There are thoughts everywhere from choosing what to eat to planing to reading a newspaper to watching a movie to...

There are only two choices. One is to get drowned unconsciously into the ocean of thoughts (rational or prerational) or two is to aware of thoughts whenever they arise. It's not quite often for me to see that thoughts arise within, but I know wholeheartedly that's the only way to take a first step towards a truely transpersonal realm.

Embracing all arising thoughts, good or bad, in the ever-present awareness, and let's them go. It's the path that any integral movement MUST set off.

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