29
May
2008
Making sketches of elephants and tigers, The Painter went deeper into the life of those animals, where he met several answers of his questions. He used to think that tigers are fierce and cruel animals. They ready to kill. Their eye sight is cunning.
But while skething them, The Painter got an insight that tigers kill other animals not because they love killing, not because they are thirsty for blood. They just follow their dharma, which was installed by the universe. They eat meat not because they prefer meat to vegetables or cereal. They eat meat because it is their dharma. They have to kill to carry out their dharma, not they want to.
With such an insight The Painter appreciates the beauty of tigers. He admires the colour of tiger skin with its effective as well as artistic design. Their gesture, their sight, their courage, their speed, agility and flexibility, their wisdom, love and responsibility, the simplicity and sincerity of their life, all of them are the source of their beauty and dignity.
Yes, their beauty and dignity.
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10
May
2008
Sometimes his friends or his trainees say that he is a multi-talented person. His British and Canadian friends said that he is a renaissance man, a man with various aptitudes. He is happy of those compliments, although those are not quiet right.
The Painter understand that every body has multi talents. The difference is that The Painter has intentions more than others. He has an intention to get his Ir, Dr, Mr, and he got it. He had an intention to have a teacher wife, and he got it. He had intentions to become a guru and trainer of aikido, taichi, meditation, hypnotherapy, Neuro Linguistic Programming, painting, spiritual leadership, and the universe support his intentions.
When he teaches painting to kinder garten children or scientists, he makes a conclution that every body has an aptitude to become a painter. The problem lais on the comments which come from her parents or her friends, about how awful her paintings are. And she takes the comments seriously to become her hurdle. The Painter knows how to break this hurdle, and how to show people to do it.
The Painter remember his mother’s comment when he showed one of his drawing to her: “Very good.” One sentence is enough to push and ignite the flame of his intention to become a painter.
When he teaches aikido, he realize similar things. People comes to dojo to learn aikido, but only a few reach the first Dan. The Painter knows that it is not because people do not have aptitude. No, their intention is not great enough.
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28
December
2007
INDONESIA MEMBUTUHKAN SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP
Indonesia adalah sebuah negara yang kontras. Wilayahnya luas dan kaya, tapi rakyatnya miskin; penduduknya banyak, tapi mutunya rendah; kemerdekaannya berhasil diraihnya dengan heroik, tetapi semangat kepahlawanannya kini hampir pudar; cita-citanya agung seperti yang tertulis dalam Pancasila, tapi langkahnya se-hari2 seperti orang mabuk, tidak tahu arah; hasratnya ingin menjadi degara hukum, namun kondisi hukum negeri ini justru serba meragukan; semua ingin maju, tetapi tingkat kedisiplinan masyarakatnya rendah; bangsa ini beragama dan menafikan atheisme, namun korupsinya termasuk peringkat teratas di dunia.
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26
October
2006
In this Iedul Fitri, I would like to invite you to focus our mind to our wives, to the pleaseure they have given to us, to their smiles, to their sacrifice of their life to their duties as mothers and wives.
When we just finished our wedding ceremony, we feel that we loved our wived very much, we can not stand apart for even one minute from our wives. But when time goes by, our eyes are covered by dust, so that we have difficulties to see our wives’s gratitude. This is a very common attitude. It is so common that we tend to take it for granted that the longer the age of our marriage, the less attention , the less appreciation we give to our wives. But we understand that common does not always good.
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