Reality follows Mind vs. Mind follows Reality

In simple terms, "reality follows mind" (境隨心轉 jìng-suí-xīn-zhuǎn) implies one's perception, intention or thought controls one's own reality and affects how one acts and behaves.  "Mind follows reality" (心隨境轉 xīn-suí-jìng-zhuǎn) means one's perception is dictated or manipulated by one's own reality and becomes a slave of this reality.

This topic may sound "sleepy" to you.  But if you grasp the concepts behind, you will have one foot stepped inside "Club Enlightenment".

To make these concepts easier to understand, please watch a 98 seconds video below about a 11 years old boy who had failed his exams in China, the land of "tiger moms":

The boy and his father

The video may run too fast.  Let me recap the contents for you:
1.  This 11 years old boy got 7 points (out of 100) from a school exam.  A Chinese boy with this low and failing score is very likely scolded or beaten up by his parents.
Academic failure is a cardinal sin in the mind of traditional Chinese parents.
2.  Surprisingly, his father was very happy to see his boy get 7 points.  He had even bought a car-load of fireworks that costed him US$160 to celebrate the boy's exam result.
3.  It is because this boy had zero scores in his previous exams.
4.  After this incident, this boy has a change of attitude towards school works and become self-motivated to study.
5.  He got 57 points in an exam held a few days ago.

Originally I have planned to explain the dynamics behind.  But I don't want to sound like a preacher.  So I let you figure this out and make your own judgement.

Happy thinking (and weekend)!

P.S.  Consult "Diamond Sutra" if you want to know more about "reality follows mind".

Ken Lai
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"Brother Sharp"- Fashion Icon 2016 Updates

Note:  I had written about the 4P of "Brother Sharp" in 2010.  It was one of the most read messages in this blog.  Below are recent updates of Brother Sharp.  I have included the original message here for those who have not read it.

"Brother Sharp" 犀利哥 is the nickname given by netizens in China to a homeless man for his chic fashion taste. A photographer took his picture and posted it on the web. He becomes a fashion icon and web sensation overnight. His fame has spread to Taiwan, Japan and even UK's Independent newspaper has an article on him.

Brother Sharp has mental disorder and can barely communicate with people!

Click here for his "fashion show" on the street:
http://www.whatsonxiamen.com/news10678.html

You can do a Google search on "Brother Sharp" if you want to know more about him.

Here is some life events of Brother Sharp:

• He was born in Oct. 10, 1976 in a rural area.
• His family is poor. He has a brother and sister.
• He got married, has two boys.
• He became a migrant worker in 2000. He had lost contacts with his family after 3 years.
• His father and wife had died in a traffic accident in 2009.
• He had been roaming around the street of Ningbao city, Zhejiang Province for years.
• In early March of this year, someone took his picture and posted it on the web. The rest is fashion history.

 Here is his 4P chart. Hour unknown:
Y: bing-chen
M: wu-xu
D: yi-wei
H: (not known)

Current 10- Year Luck
Xin-Chou

Annual Luck
2009 Ji-chou
2010 Geng-yin

What do you see? Xu-chou-wei 3-penalties (3P)! Do you remember that I have written about 3-Penalies previously that it can be negative and positive? 3P also is likely to jinx the daymaster's close relatives.

Brother Sharp's natal chart and 10-year luck period form a 3P. In 2009, another Chou (ox) comes to activate the 3P--- wife and father died of traffic accident. Why wife and father got the jinx? (see the answer in 4PBC list)

Interesting thing is the suddenly fame through NO effort of his own-- also due to 3P! But why this happens in Yin (tiger) year and is "positive"? (answer in 4PBC list)

Brother Sharp before and after "cleaning up"

Because of his sudden fame, he has reunited with his family and received assistance from the government. A famous movie director plans to use his image and develop it into a movie. There are already fashion packages based on his look sold in China.

The sad thing is-- after his hair-cut and clean up with "normal"' cloths, people no longer see him as "Brother Sharp". He has lost his "chic".

Brother Sharp working in a theme park

I have tested his 4P chart using all the possible hours. All except one will give him a real or fake follow wealth chart. But reality shows he is dirt poor with a chart that is full of wealth elements. So it must be a weak chart or he would have been rich. It is a case of "failure to become a special chart" (implies miserable life!). 

BROTHER SHARP UPDATE-- Feb. 2016

Brother Sharp resumes his homeless life.

Brother Sharp was a media darling in 2010

After Brother Sharp became a "fashion icon" and famous in Feb. 2010, he had worked for a theme park as an "attraction" and also as spokesman for some products.  All marketing plans had failed due to his mental problems.

Owing to his "fame", media people got him free therapy from a mental institution 2013.  But his mental problems persists-- dislikes human contacts, does not bath or change clothing and lacking personal hygiene.  He had left the institution in 2014 and gradually lost contact with his own family members.

This iconic smoking posture of Brother Sharp 

An elementary classmate of Brother Sharp had reported seeing him wandering on the streets, picking up cigarette butts and food from garbage cans. He has not been seen for over a year.

The younger brother of Brother Sharp,  Cheng Guo-sheng comments,

" (In 2010) my brother was famous all over the country.  I was given over 100 business cards from media reporters.  But this was just a giant bubble.  My brother's internet celebrity status did not mean anything to him or his life."

Cheng thinks his brother is only lazy and lacking focus in life.

"Like a philosopher or someone who does self-cultivation, he has reached a higher level of consciousness.  But people said he is mentally sick.  Probably he has attained enlightenment and understood the meaning of life.  Maybe he wants to live his life as a vagrant."

Brother knows best about Brother Sharp.

Brother Sharp now lives the "good life" that he cherishes.  He has escaped the media circus and materialism.



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Happiness from borrowed light

On March 12, someone had posted a blog message titled "Touching!  Nan-Chang female beggar 'borrows light' to read for almost 3 years" onto a Chinese website.  Within 2 days, over 6 million page views and 20 thousands netizens discuss about this woman online.  So here comes the birth of another Chinese internet celebrity, "Sister Novel"小说姐-- right after "Brother Sharp".   Newspaper and TV reporters hound around her ever since.

"Sister Novel" is a 35 years old homeless woman who is seen reading books with "borrowed light" from the door-steps of a business in the evening after hours.  She does not really read anything profounded but just novels, especially the martial arts novels written by the famous Hong Kong writer Jin Yong.  People seemed to be touched by her persistence to read with "borrowed light" despite misfortunes and hardship.

"Sister Novel's" real name is Chen Mui.  She had lived in a happy family until she was 10-- when her father had indulged in gambling, lost everything and disappeared.  She was forsaken by her mother when she was 12.  Her grandmother had passed when she was 14 with no relatives left to support her.  Chen had left her village and begins her "wandering" or homeless life.

Chen had married when she was 18.  She gave birth to a girl.  The couple made a living by scavenging.  But the husband took away her life-savings and ran way with her daughter.  Her second husband did the same thing to her-- ran away with her savings.

The worst thing of being homeless is not hunger or cold weather but when to expect sexual assault coming.  It happens to her every year.  "I had resisted assault in the beginning.  But I dare not resist later or I'll be beaten up."  Said Chen. 

Chen does not like people calling her "beggar". "I'm a wanderer, not beggar." She does not beg and refuse taking money from people.

Chen's happiest time is when she reads in the evening.  During the day, she picks up empty mineral water bottles to make enough money to pay for her book rental and nothing more.   If there is no money for food, she will pick up left-over food from garbage cans.  She does not want to have any saving for fear of being swindled again.

People are deeply touched by Chen's inner-strength and simple happiness--  being homeless for 21 years due to father's gambling and mother ran away, dumped and swindled by two busbands and under the threat of sexual assault-- yet she refuses handouts and money from people, subsists on her meagre income and finds happiness through reading with "borrowed light".  She only had a grade 5 (primary school) education.

What can we learn from "Sister Novel"?

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A conversation on the Chinese character "hate"

Ken says:
Tell you something interesting--- the Chinese character "HATE" (恨 hèn) has the heart prefix and GEN suffix.

Ken says:
Heart prefix means heart or "thought", GEN suffix as in the Gen trigram, which means stagnation or stopped. When you hate, your heart stops.

Ken says:
When you kick away the heart prefix, then you stop hating! The word is no longer "hate".

Friend says:
Interesting.

Friend says:
Stopping the heart

Friend says:
Pretty much correct

Friend says:
Actually westerners talk about mind. Easterners talk about xin or heart. But they are talking about the same thing.

Ken says:
Yes.

Friend says:
In the end, it is neither.

Friend says:
Because mind is associated with brain. Heart is associated with feelings and the physical heart.

Friend says:
The thing that is discussed is actually a formless thing, almost like a ghost or water.

Friend says:
Water has no form until you put it in a container.

Friend says:
Same with conscious awareness.

Friend says:
Enlightenment simply means free-- not attached to the container.

Friend says:
That's why Lao Zi talks about behaving like water.

Ken says:
Bruce Lee liked to say something similar, "Open your mind, be water, be formless, be shapeless. If water is poured into a cup, it has the shape of a cup. If water is poured into a teapot, it has the shape of a teapot."

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