Wu Chang (continuous change)

This world always continue to change, no day that same with other day. In fact, sun that we see today is different with yesterday. Every second it take outside the heat power to shine beside others planets, while in someday it will lost it’s power.
That is talk about our success. Success we get today maybe can’t be hold out until next day. It needs adaptation, changing, upgrading, and study incessantly.
Be brave to against new challenge, don’t be rivet on “comfort zone” that don’t need changing anymore. Finally, continuous improvement about science and technology will make us be hidden.
this is one story....

Tadpole

From a group of tadpoles that lived in small drain, there was one tadpole that felt worried about area condition, high population, and dry season. He often jumped out from the water and saw maybe that was a bigger area to be survived. And there was a place that bigger than his place, with more water. He taught to move over there.
When he told his friends, they refused. “We feel comfort there. Many food, many friends! So why we must move to other place that don’t know if it better or worse than there?”
His friends only saw now condition. They won’t think about challenge and threat at future. Besides enjoyed his life, this tadpole care too about his future. Everyday he observed the depth of water. He saw that the depth always taper off. He determined to move to the other drain. “When I don’t work way round, I will die soon. I must jump to there!” he taught. Then he jumped with all the power he had. He was brave to take all the risk.
The dry season came. Drag on too long. It made the water decreased-decreased-and all is up with. All the tadpoles that refused to move was dead.
Value: never say “ I will be enough, I satisfied of my condition, I am have many knowledge and experience.” It will make you will stay in your “comfort zone” and never be worked out.
Be modesty to hear your friend suggestion. Don’t be tough-minded. Having openness to see changing and do the best as you can. Do with spirit!

Wu Wei (Harmony)

Many people guess that if they try, work hard, and spend time more than normal, they will be success. But the fact isn’t always like that. Remember: we have definite power source, especially power and time. So that, do the smart idea than work hard or rely on muscle. Don’t just work hard, but work smart.
This is one story…

Kungfu Lao Shi and Two Followers

In China, there lived Kungfu Lao Shi who is very old. He has 2 followers who same in grade, spirit, and tenacity in Kungfu.
To heir his institution, he must chose one’s the best. The competition started. But, informed of strength, it always over with equal result. They could pervade the same knowledge from the Lao Shi. The two of them is often get exercises together until they know about the excess and sparseness each other.
To know who the best, Lao Shi told something to them, “Tomorrow morning you must go to woods gather the twists. One’s who return home with the more result, he become the winner. Time starts from 5 a.m until 5 p.m. Here is the chopping knife you can use. Now, take a rest for tomorrow.”
First student reflected an image that tomorrow he must work more hard and seriously because the time is definite. He was too focus at time: leave at 5 a.m. After sure about his time, he slept.
With the same challenge, the second student focus at the work that he must to do. He looked into the chopping knife; it was old and dull. So, he decided to search abrasive stone to make that sharp and ready to use. “With sharp chopping knife, the same result can be reached will less effort”.
The second challenge is how to carry twists with efficient and effectively?
While his friend is sleeping, he is thinking the best way to carry with more amount. After a while, he prepared rope and yoke stick. He can carry two big cord of tie in front and at the behind. So, it was very used. With satisfied then he slept.
Tomorrow, the first student that planning to work hard got up at the time and went to woods as fast as he could. While the second student slept. At 6 a.m, the second students woke up. Then he looked for rope, yoke stick, abrasive stone and sharpened the chopping knife. After finished, he left to the woods, and it was 7 a.m.
When it was 1 p.m, the second student success collected many twists. Then he bonded into 2 sides and carried on the shoulders. Arrived, he gave the twists to his Lao Shi. He was success got many twists and arrived earlier.
While the first student, didn’t sharpen his chopping knife, he must applied time and energy more to cut twists. So, he need more time to rest because of being tired. Beside that, it need more time to search rope and solved how to carry the twists on the shoulders, the amount was definite.
Value: Hard work is needful, but the most important that we must apply strategy, tactics, and technology for every action to get the maximal result although with less efforts.
Education applications: with continuous improvement of technology, we not have to trade on power and muscle to win. But the most important things that it needs artfulness and perspicacity on benefitted the technology.
Wu Wei is about “without action”. The meaning told us that to reach maximal result we must have harmony with nature, not struggle against the flow. Including, used of leverage will get the maximal result without great pains.
The example is water. It can adapt with every shape of it’s circles and area, including small hole that is very small too. With it’s liquid characteristic even it can destroy woods, stone, and any kind of solid things.
Like study, prepare everything well. Never against flow, but endure like water. Apply strategy, tactics, and technology for every action too.

Yin Yang (Balances)

Yin Yang concept is about thousand years ago. Yin is about darkness, sad, negative, passive, cold, and etc. Yang is about brightness, happiness, active, positive, and etc.
The symbol of Yin Yang is circle area which is divided into two part: dark area and bright area. In bright area there is one dark circle which is very small, and there are on the contrary.
Yin Yang symbol is use for:

Balance symbol. Everything which happens in this world must have balances between two sides that different or opposite. It is our duty to watch over the balances over the two sides. Like study or work, it must have balances between context and content.
Dualism reality. Everything in world one another is suspended. There isn’t brightness without darkness, beautiful without ugly, richness without poorness, etc.
Wheel which always rolling without stopping. It is about changing. From hot to cold, poor become rich, etc.
No perfectness. There is black circle in white area, and there are on the contrary. It means no perfect kindness or no perfect wickedness.
There is one story so we can know deeper yin yang…

Everything Has Special Quality and Frailty

One morning a mouse went out from a hole. He saw sun which shinning over the earth. With proud he said, “Oh, King Sun, you are the strongest!”
Sun said, “When cloud appears, you can’t see me again. Cloud is stronger than me.”
Then mouse turned to cloud, “Oh, King Cloud, you are the one’s that hold the power!”
“You are wrong. When wind comes, I will be chased. I can’t pass the wall, I’m not the stronger one,” replied the wind.
After thinking, mouse realized that there aren’t the strongest over the world. Mouse will be eaten by other animals, that the furthermorcoe.
Value: Everything don’t have absolute superiority. Superiority will along with frailty. Also human too; everyone has superiority or talents that specifics and unique. But, at same time it has special quality and frailty.
Like study in school. One class contain with many students. We study and play together. Every one has differences with the other one: talent, hobby, ability, and etc. We come together to equip and support each others. Togetherness is needed to minimally the frailty and maximally the superiority. Don’t let the worse attitude appear to surface.
Knowing about your talent or your ability and develop that. Completing each other to make class atmosphere feel comfort and enjoy. Modesty that not want to be the “stronger” will help us to be one family in one class. So, completing each other is important in class sociality to make balances.

Three Parts of Chinese Life Philosophies:

There are 3 part: Yin Yang (balances), Wu Wei (harmony), and Wu Chang (continuous change).

The Very Busy Father

There a father who is very busy of his job. Every day he always go work before his children woke up and back home at night when they are sleeping.
One night, his son who aged is 5th waited for his father until night. When he saw his father, the son asked, “Dad, can I ask some question?” The father answered “Yes, what’s wrong?”
“How much your income earnings for a hour?”
“Why you asked something that isn’t related with you?”
The son didn’t answer, but he tried to urge his father with the same question. After it took several minutes, father answered that his income is Rp 100000 per hour.
“Can I get Rp 50000 from Dad?” asked the son.
Then father gave 50000 to his son. His son very glad and said thank you. After that he went to take his savings and took out the money. He counted and summed it. It was 100000 that he had.
“Can I buy your time although it only one hour dad?”
“Can tomorrow Dad go home earlier and dinner with me?” his son asked with sad intonation that touched his father’s heart.
Value:
Life demands us (pupils) to study hard. It needs focus and seriousness to be the best. But, sometimes we are too closed to see and don’t know the important of “managing time”. Although in school there are too many assignment (individual or group) from teacher, soo tired, extracuricullar lesson (perbaikan-pengayaan), have many problem, until go home at noon or night, and etc.. Don’t forget to share our time with people around us. If your sociality is good, it can give you extra power to solve and pass everything because they can give you more spirit and support. That is your obligation to study, but remember: togetherness is necessary too.
Time and love can’t be changed or bought by money or every thing. So, let us spend our time for our families, friends, or people around us because they need care, warmth, love and our time too. “Managing time” is one’s that very important because it’s one’s part of life.

Western Philosophies and China

There are any differences between Western Philosophies that talk about ambition, individualist, rationalist, power, and freedom with Chinese Philosophies that talk about good deeds, wisdom, harmony and sociality. In daily life, Chinese Philosophies talk about harmony (Yin Yang) then Western Philosophies that talk us about how to win and win. So, sometimes it makes our life full of stress.
Life is about balances. We study, work, get money to support our life, not to seize life from us, example: work or study hard until don’t know time limit.
Life is not only about final purpose, but life is a journey. It means: when you try to reach your dreams, your purpose, or your ideas, you may not forget the other part of life. You must feel this life, there and now. Don’t delayed and wait until you can reach success then enjoy it. When you over focus, you will lost chance to enjoy happiness or life experiences that can give you happiness. The last, you may not out from the real you are. It’s one story….
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Chinese Life Philosophies

What is Chinese Life Philosophies?????
It is about Confucianisme that tell about ethics and moral, Taoisme which emphasized adjustment with nature to get benefit from it. Chinese Clasic Philosophies tell about how to adjust your self with life rhythm, find way to get life balances,calm and quiet, creativity, strategic, and how to grow maximality.
To get success, it need more than hard work. We must to realize that there are many factor about success: divine decree, destiny, momentum (the right time and place), support by people around us, and etc.

Why we must know about Chinese Life Philosophies?
Because it tells to us many things about life. We can take many lesson too from it: moral, ethics, balances, strategic, and etc that can be done in our daily life. So, with knowing about this, we can make our life better and enjoy day by days in our lives.