Lin Yu Zhong's latest album

I got Rynn Lin's review from this site. As for now I only heard 4 songs, so I can comment those four. My comments will be on this format

This is Lin Yu Zhong's latest album, where you can find his latest single, Gan Wu Nu.
This is my review of the album after listening to it over and over again. Overall, I love it. I'd play it again and again (and again!).


01. Shang Lou / 上樓
One-minute instrumental intro (guitar).

02. Gan Wu Nu / 幹物女
His first single. It has a fun melody and very easy to listen to. Love the MV too! And the lyrics are cute too! Though I understand very little Chinese, I find the lyrics amusing.
yes, it has a funny melody. i always smiled when heard the girl mumbling about "ai wo, bu ai wo"

03. Yuan Yuan / 遠遠
This is a ballad that is fairly likeable. I didn't like it the first time I heard it. But the sound gets better after several times listening to it.

04. Gai Jia / 改嫁
Another ballad. Somehow the intro sounds like Chinese music from traditional ceremony (e.g wedding, praying, funeral, etc...). Can somebody explain why? The chorus will easily get stuck in your mind, though. The music arrangement has a very "Chinese-style" sound to it. (Or what Leehom would describe as 'Chinked-Out', right?). I love the easy-flow of the song.
hmm... Gai Jia means remarriage, right? that explains why he put the sound like that. This is my most favourite song from this album.

05. Ping Gai / 瓶蓋
An easy-flow track. With by-the-beach feels to it. When I first heard it, I thought I've heard something like this in his previous album. It is just mediocre for me. I hope he won't release this as a single, though.


06. Wei Ta Ming C Wo Jia Ni / 維他命C我加你
This is a fast number. Slightly (only slightly) rock-ish. It gets more fun when the song progresses. From 02:50 onwards, the song gets faster and made we wanna create a video of me running around, with THIS song as the background music.

07. Fang Kong / 放空
37 seconds of instrumental intro for the next song.

08. Di Liu Ge Di Dian / 第六個地點
I suppose this ballad is based on a really sad theme. Cos his voice is sort of sobbing in it. (Try singing after you cried your eyes out). The song is good, it could make a really awesome Korean drama OST (make sure the drama is super sad!). This is my favourite ballad of the album. His voice breaks my heart, even though I don't know what the song is about!

09. Ni Tiao Biao / 逆跳表
This is another easy-flowing song. I think this song is very romantic. Even though I don't know the words (again!). But I think it's a great dating song. Hao lang man!


10. Zhi Shao Ai Guo / 至少愛過
Here we go, another sad ballad. Again, his voice sounds draggy. Maybe he really feels the song that hs voice sounds sobbing. But hey, it works! I feel how sad a guy could be, and even sing about it. Hehe~


11. Xing Fu Ma Xin Tuan / 幸福馬戲團
This sounds has a midnight-clubby feels to it. It kind of reminds me of JJ Lin's Sha Shou. A little hip-hop and rap here and there. Very un-Yu Zhong. Somehow I don't like that little giggling sound in 02:16 - 02:23. Freaky.
haha... it's not freaky, though... quite nice to know that rynn give a good effort on new style.

12. Qiang Mei Gui / 搶玫瑰 - Feat. Lin Jun Jie
To be honest, I actually waited for this song from the moment I press play! I love JJ's voice (as I always do!). I expected this song to be more lively, though. But this is OK. I'd say this is a progressive ballad. I like it, but it's forgettable (sorry!). But I'd listen to it over and over again because of JJ.
yes, i'm totally agree with this. i loved this duet when first heard this, but later on i felt this song quite boring.

13. Xia Lou / 下樓
Instrumental outro. End.

blog posting categories

in order to make blog easier to read, i categorized the entry into 6 labels:
1. My Life
about my personal life, work life, experience, feeling, opinion, environments, and many other stuffs that related to me. (As I ever mentioned before, I will avoid this topic if possible)

2. Complicated
quite similar to My Life, but it is all related to other people. (As I ever mentioned before, I will avoid this topic if possible)

3. gossinfo buzz
gossinfo is gossip + information, so any good, bad, true, fake, confirmed, unchecked news will go to this category

4. just for fun
you can find jokes or funny articles here

5. That's IT
if you are looking for any tech-savvy stuffs, this is the place

6. healthy is worthy
it is worth to concern about your health

can cuil overcome google?

"can cuil overcome google?"
That question crossed my mind after reading the article about cuil on detikom.

As you can guess, cuil is search engine like google. According to the detikom, cuil is developed by Anna Patterson, ex google scientist, along with her husband, Tom Costello and few others ex google scientist. Costello claimed that with 120 billion web pages, cuil is much bigger than its rivals.

On cuil's about us page, it explains that Cuil is an Irish word for knowledge, and it also stated the below:

Welcome to Cuil—the world’s biggest search engine. The Internet has grown. We think it’s time search did too.

The Internet has grown exponentially in the last fifteen years but search engines have not kept up—until now. Cuil searches more pages on the Web than anyone else—three times as many as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft.

Rather than rely on superficial popularity metrics, Cuil searches for and ranks pages based on their content and relevance. When we find a page with your keywords, we stay on that page and analyze the rest of its content, its concepts, their inter-relationships and the page’s coherency.

Then we offer you helpful choices and suggestions until you find the page you want and that you know is out there. We believe that analyzing the Web rather than our users is a more useful approach, so we don’t collect data about you and your habits, lest we are tempted to peek. With Cuil, your search history is always private.

Cuil is an old Irish word for knowledge. For knowledge, ask Cuil.

After goes through some searches using this two search engines, i conclude that google is still much much better than cuil on some ways.

Let's discuss in what extend i prefer google than cuil:
1. appearance

both of them has simple interface. it sure makes the loading more faster (if compare to yahoo), but what i dislike about cuil, is the color background. i have no idea why cuil choose black. i just feel my eyes is not comfortable with this (yet). on the other hand, google has a clean background and sometimes has a theme on its logo. i am always entertained by it.
(1 point go to google)

2. search by simple keyword
simple keyword here means that the keyword is in the domain name, e.g. google or cuil itself.
for this searching, i start with my blog keyword: "sugilee". As you can see in below image, cuil cannot find anything that match sugilee, meanwhile with google my blog is 5th of the list.


Probably you think that this is not fair as blogspot is belong to google. ok, let's try another one. this time i use my company name "starhub" as the keyword. Here is the result and see the different.



So where does the "120 billion pages" claim comes from????
(another point for google)

3. search by a question
For this purpose, i use question "how to convert c# to vb.net" as keyword. See the result...


(3-0 to google)

4. search by special keywords
I try to search a currency converter from SGD to IDR.


(4-0 to google)


Conclusion:
This is why google is called a smart ass search engine, it knows exactly what people are looking for and what people wish to search for. Google's inteligence is much beyond than cuil.
So to answer the question i raised before, there is an absolute NO for cuil to be able to overcome google (not now yet, probably)

S.H.E concert in Jakarta (1 Aug 08)

S.H.E will held an upcoming concert @ Sands Jakarta, Mangga Dua Square on 1 Aug 08.

Seat price of this concert:
VIP : Rp 1.250.000
Gold : Rp 750.000
Silver : Rp 500.000
Festival : Rp 200.000

Contact persons:
sisilia@sandsjakarta.com, fransiska@sandsjakarta.com , robenson@sandsjakarta.com

or call this number:
6231 2888, 6231 3300

Corporate Lesson (Just For Fun)

CORPORATE LESSON # 1


A junior manager, a senior manager and their boss are on their way to A meeting. On their way through a park, they come across a wonder lamp. They rub the lamp and a ghost appears. The ghost says, "Normally, one is granted three wishes but as you are three, I will allow one wish each"

So the eager senior manager shouted, I want the first wish. I want to be in the Bahamas, on a fast boat and have no worries. "Pfufffff, and he was gone.

Now the junior manager could not keep quiet and shouted "I want to be in Florida with beautiful girls, plenty of food and tails. "Pfufffff, and he was also gone.

The boss calmly said, "I want these two idiots back in the office after lunch ".

MORAL OF THE STORY:
Always allow the bosses to speak first


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CORPORATE LESSON # 2



A priest was driving along and saw a nun on the side of the road, he Stopped and offered her a lift which she gladly accepted. She got in and Crossed her legs, forcing her gown to open and reveal a lovely leg. The priest had a look and nearly had an accident.

After controlling the car, he stealthily slid his hand up her leg. The nun looked at him and immediately said, "Father, remember psalm 129?" The priest was flustered and apologized profusely. He forced himself to remove his hand. However, he was unable to remove his eyes from her leg. Further on, while changing gear, he let his hand slide up her leg again. The nun once again said, "Father, remember psalm 129?" Once again the priest apologised. "Sorry sister, but the mind is weak." Arriving at the convent, the nun got out, gave him a meaningful glance and went on her way.

On his arrival at the church, the priest rushed to retrieve a bible and looked up psalm 129. It Said, "Go forth and seek; further up, you will find glory."

MORAL OF THE STORY:
Always be well informed in your job; or, you might miss great opportunities!

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CORPORATE LESSON # 3


There were these 4 guys, a Russian, a German, an American and a French, who found this small genie bottle. When they rubbed the bottle, a genie appears. Thankful that the 4 guys had released him out of the bottle, he said, "Next to you all are 4 swimming pools, I will give each of you a wish. When you run towards the pool and jump, you shout what you want the pool of water to become, then your wish will come true."

The French wanted to start. He ran towards the pool, jumped and shouted WINE". The pool immediately changed into a pool of wine. The Frenchman was so happy swimming and drinking from the pool.

Next is the Russian's turn, he Did the same and shouted, "VODKA"
and immersed himself into a pool of vodka.

The German was next and he jumped and shouted, "BEER".
He was so contented with His beer pool.

The last is the American. He was running towards the pool when suddenly he steps on a banana peel. He slipped towards the pool and shouted, "SHIT!!!!!!!........."

MORAL OF THE STORY:
Mind your language, you never know what it will Land you in.


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CORPORATE LESSON #4


A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower & the doorbell rings. After a few seconds of arguing over who should go and answer the doorbell, the wife gives up, quickly wraps herself up in a towel and runs downstairs. When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next door neighbor.

Before she says a word, Bob says, "I'll give you $ 800 just to drop that towel that you have on". After thinking for a moment, the woman drops her towel and stands naked in front of Bob. Bob has a close look at her for a few seconds, hands over $800 and quietly leaves. Confused, but excited about her good fortune, the woman wraps back up in the towel and goes upstairs.

When she gets back to the bathroom, her husband asks from the shower "Who was that?" "It was Bob the next door neighbour," she replies. "Great," the husband says, "did he say anything about the $! 800 he owes me?"

MORAL OF THE STORY:
Share critical credit information with your stakeholders
to prevent avoidable exposure!


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CORPORATE LESSON #5

A little bird was flying south for the winter. It was so cold the bird froze and fell to the ground in a large field. While it was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on it.

As the frozen bird lay there miserably in the pile of cow dung, it began to realize how warm it was. The dung was actually thawing him out! He lay there all warm and happy, and soon began to sing for joy.

A passing cat heard the bird singing and came to investigate. Following the sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile of cow dung, and promptly dug him out and ate him.

MORAL OF THE STORY:
1) Not everyone who shits on you is your enemy.
2) Not everyone who gets you out of shit is your friend.
3) And when you're in deep shit, it's best to keep your mouth shut!

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CORPORATE LESSON #6

A turkey was chatting with a bull. "I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree," sighed the turkey, "but I haven't got the energy." "Well, why don't you nibble on some of my droppings?" replied the bull. "They're packed with nutrients."
The turkey pecked at a lump of dung and found that it actually gave him enough strength to reach the first branch of the tree. The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second branch. Finally after a fortnight, there he was proudly perched at the top of the tree.
Soon he was promptly spotted by a farmer, who shot the turkey out of the tree.

MORAL OF THE STORY:
Bullshit might get you to the top, but it won't keep you there.


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CORPORATE LESSON #7


A crow was sitting on a tree, doing nothing all day. A small rabbit saw the crow, and asked him, "Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long?"
The crow answered: "Sure, why not." So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested. All of a sudden a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it.

MORAL OF THE STORY:
To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very,
very high up.

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CORPORATE LESSON #8

Usually the shop-floor staff of the company play football.
The middle-level managers are more interested in tennis.
The top management usually has a preference for golf.

FINDING:
As you go up the corporate ladder, the balls reduce in size.

writing homework

as i mentioned in the last blog, i will post my writing homework here.

The task is to write the following topic:

Creative artists should always be given the freedom to express their own ideas (in words, pictures, music or film) in whichever way they wish. There should be no government restrictions on what they do.

To what extend do you agree or disagree with this opinion?

Here is my writing:

Democracy and liberalism has touched many of life aspect, including arts. Most artists expect they will no longer dependent to or interfered by government rules on creating their own creativity. In this essay I intend to discuss my point of views to this matter.

I always believe that if someone is given a chance to express their own ideas, it will lead to a new thingy or so-called invention. In music history, rap is considered as a big breakthrough. Eminem, an American white rapper in one of his interview, once said that rap was born as a freedom form of music which you can see from the lyrics. Film also does have an invention of its own. I refer to the animation film. Some producers or directors use this kind of film to show a different angle in which they cannot find if they cast the real actor or actress. Beowulf is a good example. In this film, you can see much nudity. If this is to performed by an actor or actress, there might be a negative talking about them.

Freedom is indeed a good thing, but must not be misused or misplaced, especially in Asian country. If the artis is not careful, it will sure harm himself or even can create a chaos in society. For such case, i agree that government will have to interfere. In my country, Indonesia, sex is still a taboo, let alone using sex as novel topics, it would result a controversy. Ayu utami, a young generation novelist had shocked the public in 1998 with her novel called Saman, in which she described the woman genital very clearly. In order to calm down the situation, government had to censor it.

Apart from negative side that can be created, the creativity might give the benefit to the society. People will have more choice in choosing what they like and what they don't. When Singapore government run the Mandarin language policy back in 1970s, others Chinese dialects like hokkian, teochiew, or hakka was banned from public appearance, including film. But since the government gave a green light few years ago, now its citizen can enjoy their local taste of films. For example 881, the first full hokkian made by Singaporean film. Its success in achieving box office has proved it.

As I have discussed before, freedom in creativity is indeed a good thing, and sometimes can give the benefit to people, even might resulting to an invention. But there is still need a government role to ensure the freedom is not misused and misplaced.

sense of words

i should have realized before that blogging or telling stories about life either it is our own life or others is harmful. people reading it may interpret differently. people can sense the words wrongly. for example, the two singapore bloggers fought each other because of the words. What make everything worsen is lacking of vocabulary and grammar like me that can cause people reading it become miss understanding. sometimes their perception is running far from my original thought.
it happened on my previous blog entry. actually i'm not telling a story about me, but high school friend of mine. she has a complicated problem and i had no advice for her except being a good listener to her.
anyway back to the topic, in that blog i said something about "people who stand alone like me. family is far way from distance. So how?" what i'm trying to say is "bagaimana rasanya kalo hal itu terjadi pada gw yg hidup mandiri dan jauh dari keluarga?", but somehow my friend who read my blog said i'm so pity to have such lonely life... you see how i wrongly make a sentence with my bad grammar and vocabulary and lead to misunderstanding...

the main reason of me blogging actively recently is to practice my english as advised by some friends and my teacher. but i think from now on i must avoid this kind of topics and choose more general topics.

anyway, i have a writing homework. the topic is about artist. i will post it after i have done it... wish me luck then... ^_^

time flies by

two nights ago, i called my senior high school friends, eni dahayu... she came to singapore since last week to accompany her mom for medical check up. her relative, eddy susilo, which is my friend also had asked me to meet her last saturday, but was canceled because eni had no time.
anyway as we talked in phone, we flashed back about memories of our high school... wew... it was a decade ago... time is flying by so fast. many of our school mates got married and have kids already. sansan, siti, fancy, hengki, senpri, laura are among the list. eni will join the list soon. she will get marry this September... then she kept asking me why eddy, me and jan andre still in the jomblo club... hahaha... i guess we are too picky, aren't we? haha....
during today lunch time, i got called by eddy whether i can join their dinner together as eni will fly back to jakarta tomorrow... too bad i can not join due to my english course huhuhuhu...

life lesson i must look for

Once saying in Indonesia "karena nila setitik, rusaklah susu belanga" or "panas setahun dihapus hujan sehari"...
It roughly means that all the good things you've done in your life becoming useless once you did a bad thing.
Why? it is due to human nature on how easy people remember and see others badness.
It could happened in any kind of life aspect. It could be your job, career, business, loveship (shit, -red), friendship (shit, -red), or social life.
The only exceptional i could think of is family. However your love has broken you, or your friend has let you down, or job has stressed you, or life has failed you, the family will never fail you. It's the only place where you can feel comfort, and where you can distressed.
But for people who stand alone like me, it's hard. Family are far way from distance. So how? Luckily i have few person i can rely on...

*updated*
I just read my friend's email about Zen of Kungfu Panda:

Oogway utters thoughtfully that "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present." Perhaps it was inspired by the heart of the Bhaddekaratta Sutta (translated by Thich Nhat Hanh below), where the Buddha taught...

Do not pursue the past. Do not lose yourself in the future.
The past no longer is. The future has not yet come.
Looking deeply at life as it is in the very here and now,
the practitioner dwells in stability and freedom.
We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late.
Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?

This quote might be useful for me in order to seek what i'm looking for

19th Taiwan’s Golden Melody Awards

Source from Channel NewsAsia, 6th July 08

TAIPEI - Malaysian singer Gary Cao and Tanya Chua of Singapore scooped top honours Saturday at Taiwan's Golden Melody Awards, dubbed the Chinese-language Grammys.

Cao saw off favourites Eason Chan and Khalil Fong of Hong Kong as well as Taiwanese rocker Shin to receive the Best Mandarin Male Singer accolade for his album "Super Sunshine."

"My family, my friends and fans, thank you," said an emotional Cao.

Chua was crowned Best Mandarin Female Singer for the second time for "Goodbye & Hello," the first album she produced that also brought her Best Producer award.

"I didn't expect to receive two awards, they are very big encouragements for me... I want to thank my fans who have given me strength," she said.

Chua triumphed over industry heavyweights including Taiwan's pop diva A-Mei, Hong Kong's Karen Mok and Singapore's Stefanie Sun. But Mok walked off with Best Album of the Year for "Live Is" featuring songs all composed by her.

Taiwan's pop prince Jay Chou won the most gongs, bagging various awards for his latest albums "On the Run" and "Secret."

Chou won Best Composer for single "Blue and White Porcelain," which was also named Best Song of the Year.

His long-time collaborator Vincent Fang finally took home the Best Lyricist prize for the same song after being nominated for an eighth time.

Chou also added the titles of Best Instrumental Producer and Best Instrumental Composer for "Secret," a piano soundtrack for the movie of the same name which he directed and starred in.

Performers from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore competed in over 20 categories at the 19th Golden Melody Awards.

- AFP /ls

beyond my limit

what is limit? how can one measure and set the limit? what would happened when someone stepped on behind their limit?

according to dictionary, limit means the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure. for me, how to measure and set the limit is very relative to each person. one can set the same or higher limit than others for the same occasion.
then when someone already set the limit, what if he/she pass by the limit? what if it is over limit? usually over something is not a good thing, i.e. over weight... then what about over limit?
should be not a wise thing to do...

it happened this week when i forced myself beyond my physical limit. I felt sick from last sunday but I still had some projects on the go that I had to complete by the end of this weeks, which is today. Later I treated myself real hard. I consumed every what I thought can help me to go through this, i.e vitamin C twice a day, Mr. P aka Panadol, tolak angin, chicken soup, etc. yes, it was worked. I was able to deliver the project on time as well as I still could manage to attend the courses.

As I said before this is not a wise thing to do... My stamina drop very fast now. I felt body aching, coughing, sore throat, cold, headache. But at least tomorrow is weekend so I can take a good and long rest...

Berlindung yang benar

I got this article from Mr. Suwarno Liang


BERLINDUNG YANG BENAR,

BERLINDUNG YANG BAGAIMANAKAH ?



Ketika seseorang bertemu dengan ajaran yang kita sedang pelajari ini dan
mungkin melaksanakannya pada taraf tertentu, kadang kala mereka berharap
untuk menjadikan ajaran tersebut sebagai penuntun hidupnya. Pada saat itu
pikiran mereka beralih menjadi seorang pengikut ajaran ini. Mereka akan
menyadari bahwa pelaksanaan ajaran dengan sepenuh hati tidaklah mungkin
apabila masih 'duduk-duduk di bangku'.



Namun kemudian, apakah hal ini bukan pe-label-an terhadap diri sendiri,
mengadopsi pandangan, bahkan membatasi seseorang? Marilah kita meninjau ke
dalam penolakan-penolakan ini dulu sebelum kita melangkah kepada pembicaraan
lebih lanjut.



Segala sesuatu di dunia ini memiliki label - sebutan, nama. Nama atau label
hanyalah kata-kata yang secara intrinsik maupun ekstrinsik sesungguhnya
tidak mengandung bahaya. Hanya apabila orang-orang menggunakan, mengadopsi
untuk membesarkan rasa kepentingan mereka, meningkatkan kesombongan, atau
untuk beberapa motivasi tersembunyi misalnya - untuk memperoleh kekuasaan,
kekayaan atau prestise - mereka telah menggunakan label tersebut secara
salah. Di dalam label ajaran yang kita bahas ini tidak mengandung bahaya
apapun karena seseorang yang mempraktekkan ajaran ini sungguh-sungguh tidak
akan bertengkar dengan mereka yang memiliki kepercayaan berbeda, juga tidak
merendahkan penganut kepercayaan yang berbeda tersebut; ia bergembira bahwa
ia memiliki beberapa ajaran yang patut dihargai.

Ketika seseorang mengadopsi ajaran ini, ya, ia mengadopsi beberapa
pandangan, antara lain, pertama :sebab dan akibat perbuatan; kedua mengerti
kenyataan mutlak yang nampak bahwa :

a. segala sesuatu yang berkondisi (terdiri dari paduan) tidak memuaskan
/ tidak membahagiakan

b. segala sesuatu yang tidak memuaskan / tidak membahagiakan ini pasti
memiliki sebab

c. secara logis karena ada yang tidak memuaskan pasti ada yang memuaskan
/ kebahagiaan sejati yang dapat direalisasi dengan:

d. menghancurkan penyebab ketidakbahagiaan melalui cara / jalan / metode
yang akan mengarahkan kita untuk merealisasi kebahagiaan sejati



Di dalam menganut suatu ajaran, seseorang umumnya dilibatkan dengan harapan
perlindungan, misalnya akan: keselamatan, kekayaan, kesejahteraan, entah
dari ruang / bangunan, dari mahluk yang dianggap memiliki kekuatan di luar
jangkauan awam, atau dari mahluk yang di-pra-anggap sebagai pencipta /
pelindung / pengatur segala sesuatu (termasuk cacat mental / fisik sejak
lahir, perbedaan kesejahteraan sejak lahir, perang, pembunuhan, kelaparan,
epidemi dan sebagainya).



Perumpamaan cara-cara berlindung

Ada beberapa ilustrasi tentang bagaimana seseorang berlindung di dalam
ajaran ini, banyak yang tergolong cara yang 'bodoh' dan ada satu cara yang
bijaksana, sebagai berikut:

1. Seseorang berlindung seperti burung beo. Burung ini cukup pandai dan
adaptatif serta dapat me-manage untuk mengulangi kata-kata yang diucapkan
manusia - namun mereka tidak memiliki ide apa yang dikatakan oleh manusia
itu ! Dengan cara yang sama kita dapat menjumpai penganut ajaran ini hanya
mengucapkan kata-kata yang secara umum disebut 'doa', namun hanya mengerti
tidak lebih seperti seekor burung beo.

2. Jenis lain cara berlindung adalah dengan cara seperti sapi. Binatang
yang memiliki sedikit intelegensia ini mengikuti pemimpinnya tanpa
mengetahui kemana mereka akan pergi, juga, di dalam cara yang sama, beberapa
orang mengulang 'doa' perlindungan hanya karena pemimpinnya membacakan 'doa'
tersebut. Seyogyanya janganlah mengajarkan umat untuk menjadi pengikut
seperti sapi tersebut; namun mengajarkan ajaran sedemikian sehingga
pendengarnya dapat menyelidiki sendiri dan mengetahuinya sendiri, sehingga
mereka tidak seperti sapi.

3. Ibarat keledai adalah ilustrasi lainnya dari cara berlindung yang
salah. Keledai sangat bodoh dan hanya dapat digerakkan dengan hukuman yang
berat atau bujukan sebatang wortel. Demikian pula terjadi pada beberapa
orang yang kuat melekat kepada pandangan: mereka hanya dapat digerakkan
untuk mengulangi 'doa' perlindungan apabila mereka melihat 'sebatang wortel'
- yaitu beberapa keuntungan baginya, atau 'sebatang pemukul' - beberapa
hukuman atau kesulitan. Di dalam ajaran kita ini, 'batang pemukul' (ancaman
/ hukuman) tak pernah dipergunakan untuk mengkonversi / mengubah pandangan
orang lain, juga penggunaan 'sebatang wortel' (hadiah / iming-iming) bukan
merupakan cara yang baik. Mereka yang membutuhkan 'batang pemukul' atau
'wortel' dalam mengikuti ajaran / berlindung di dalam suatu ajaran seperti
keledai dungu.

4. Berlindung seperti seekor rusa juga sangat mungkin. Rusa adalah
binatang liar yang penakut yang selalu siaga akan bahaya. Demikian pula
beberapa orang yang karena ketakutan dan didorong oleh ketidak-mengertian
menjadi 'umat ajaran ini.' Memang benar bahwa dunia ini diancam bahaya dan
ketakutan, namun ini bukanlah motivasi yang terbaik untuk berlindung.

5. Kemudian, terdapat cara berlindung seperti seekor burung gagak.
Dengan matanya yang jalang, burung gagak itu berkeliling selalu dalam
pencarian penganan kecil. Apabila berlindung dengan cara ini, maka cara
berlindung tersebut dilakukan hanya untuk keuntungan pribadi, dengan kata
lain dimotivasi oleh keserakahan.

6. Seekor kera dapat juga dijadikan ilustrasi. Kera adalah binatang yang
hampir tidak pernah tenang, selalu berpindah dan mencari sesuatu yang baru.
Demikian pula apabila seseorang dengan pikiran yang goyah berkata:"Saya
berlindung kepada ...", pikirannya selalu menyimpang ke hal lain dan bahkan
ia tidak dapat mengucapkan satu kalimat pun dengan lengkap dan penuh
konsentrasi.

7. Terakhir, berlindung seperti seorang bijaksana. Metode ini dianjurkan
karena motivasinya adalah pengertian yang jelas / benar, bukan kekotoran
batin.



Bagaimanakah cara berlindung yang benar ?

* Berlindung yang benar adalah berlindung tanpa rasa takut akan
ancaman (misalnya jika tidak jadi pengikutku kamu akan masuk neraka) juga
tanpa tergiur oleh 'iming-iming / janji (misalnya dengan mengikuti ajaranku
kamu pasti masuk surga).

* Berlindung yang benar adalah berlindung dengan pengertian bahwa
semua yang dilakukan dengan sebab yang tidak baik dan tidak benar maka
secara alamiah pasti akan menimbulkan reaksi/akibat yang tidak menyenangkan
(salah satunya mungkin masuk neraka).

* Berlindung yang benar adalah berlindung dengan pengertian bahwa
semua yang dilakukan dengan sebab yang baik dan benar pasti akan
menimbulkan reaksi/akibat yang baik dan membahagiakan (salah satunya masuk
surga).



Kepada siapakah berlindung yang benar ?

* Berlindung yang benar adalah berlindung kepada guru / nabi pembabar
ajaran yang dianutnya bukanlah untuk dilindungi oleh 'pribadi' guru atau
nabi pembabar pertama ajaran yang dianutnya. Namun seyogyanya berlindunglah
kepada guru / nabi pembabar ajaran yang dianutnya dengan maksud bahwa mereka
akan terlindung oleh perbuatannya sendiri yang mencontoh sifat sempurna guru
/ nabi pembabar ajaran yang dianutnya dalam hal: kemurah-hatian,
moralitas, tidak melekat pada keduniawian, kebijaksanaan, semangat,
kesabaran, kebenaran / kejujuran, tekad yang kuat, cinta kasih tanpa batas,
keseimbangan batin,

* berlindung yang benar adalah berlindung kepada ajaran yang
dianutnya bukanlah berlindung untuk dilindungi oleh 'materi' ajaran yang
dianutnya. Namun seyogyanya berlindunglah dengan maksud bahwa mereka akan
terlindung oleh perbuatannya sendiri dengan melaksanakan secara konsisten
ajaran yang dianutnya dengan pengertian benar secara bijaksana dalam rangka
mengikis keserakahan, kebencian dan kebodohan batin.

* Berlindung yang benar adalah berlindung kepada orang suci dalam
ajaran yang dianutnya bukanlah berlindung untuk dilindungi oleh 'pribadi'
orang suci yang telah berhasil mempraktekkan ajaran yang dianutnya. Namun
seyogyanya berlindunglah dengan maksud bahwa mereka akan terlindung oleh
perbuatannya sendiri dengan mencontoh usaha orang suci itu dalam
melaksanakan ajaran secara konsisten, dengan pengertian dan kebijaksanaan
hingga terbebas dari keserakahan, kebencian dan kekotoran batin.



Dengan berlindung seperti ini, diharapkan mereka akan terhindar dari
kekecewaan. Di samping itu, mereka menjadi tidak akan pernah mendiskreditkan
atau meng- kambing-hitam-kan konsep Tuhan. Mereka justru mendudukkan konsep
Tuhan pada proporsi yang sesungguhnya, sebagai Yang Esa dan Suci, konsep
yang diagungkan oleh sebagian besar manusia di dunia ini.