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Bodhipakkhiyādhammā (qualities)

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三十七道品 (qualities related to enlightenment)
四念住 (frames of reference, satipatthana): 修行
身 (body)：六种修行方式：入出息、威仪路、正知、厌恶作意、界作意、九墓地
受 (feelings): 观受为苦, 九种受念（乐、苦、不乐不苦；有物染；无物染）
心 (consciousness): 十六种心
法 (mental qualities): 五盖、五取蕴、六处、七觉支、四谛
五盖: 修习禅定的五种障碍，欲贪、瞋恚、昏沉与睡眠、掉举和追悔、疑
四正勤 (right exertions, sammappadhana)
四神足 (bases of power, iddhipada)
五根 (faculties, indriya): 佛法的根本所在
五力 (powers, bala): 五根产生的五种力量
七觉支 (factors of Enlightenment, bojjhanga)
八正道 (Noble Path, Ariyo aṭṭhaṅgiko maggo)

三法印 (Three marks of existence)
诸行无常印 (inconstancy)
诸法无我印 (non-self)
涅槃寂静印 (dissatisfaction): 无为安乐

四谛 (Four Noble Truths)
苦谛 (Suffering does exist)：生、老、死、愁、苦、忧、恼、怨憎会、爱别离、求不得
集谛 (Suffering arises from attachment to desires)：
三毒
贪：世人引取各种事物、名分的欲望
嗔：对于一切违情之境起忿怒者，恼怒打骂伤害他人。最恶
痴：心性闇钝，迷惘于事理。或对事理颠倒，因果迷乱。也称无明。最重
十使（十种烦恼，种种苦之因）：
以烦恼得去的难易渐迅而细分。利者易生易断，钝者渐生难断
五钝使（见惑）：贪、嗔、痴、慢、疑
五利使（思惑）：身见、边见、邪见、见取见、戒禁取见。
灭谛 (Suffering ceases when attachment to desire ceases)
道谛 (Freedom from suffering is possible by practicing the eightfold path)：八正道
四圣谛三转十二行（十二因缘 same thing, different perspective）
初转四行：understanding
知苦；
观察到苦的集起之因；
知道苦的集起之因，而知苦的因若灭去则苦能灭去；
知道苦的集起之因，从而发展出灭苦的方法。
二转四行：action
对苦更深入了解；
对苦因更深入了解；
已经有些许的苦，因为执行灭苦的方法后而灭去；
对于灭苦方法积极的执行。
三转四行：result
知道苦已不再来；
苦因已消除完毕；
所有苦皆灭尽；
灭苦方法已经彻底执行完成。

无常
苦
无我：
人无我：上座部佛教
五蕴：五阴（对应五种妄想─“坚固、虚明、融通、幽隐、颠倒”）
色（形质）：地、水、火、风四大种（四大元素，印度教加以太/空）
受（感觉）
想（观念）
行（行动）
识（意识）
法无我（大乘佛教，因缘）

二执：我执又名人我执，即执著人有一个实体；法执又名法我执，即执著一切法都有实体。

十二因缘（也称十二缘起, Twelve_Nidānas, cause, foundation, source or origin）
interaction between mind and world
无明 ignorance：闇昧事物
行 (mental) formations
识 consciousness
名色 name and form
六入 six sense gates
触 contact
受 sensation
爱 “craving” or “desire” or “thirst”
取 attachment
有 becoming
生 birth
老死 “aging (old age), decay and death”

三科
五蕴，即五种色法：
色蕴，总该五根五境等有形物质。
受蕴，对境而承受事物之心的作用。
想蕴，对境而想像事物之心的作用。
行蕴，其他对境关于嗔贪等善恶一切之心的作用。
识蕴，对境而了别识知事物之心的本体。
十二处，即六根（眼、耳、鼻、舌、身、意）和六境（色、声、香、味、触、法），为六种感官及其相对的客观对象。
十八界，即六根、六境以及由此而产生的六识（眼识、耳识、鼻识、舌识、身识、意识）。

般若（智慧, the Perfection of (Transcendent) Wisdom）：空性与慈悲
空性：emptiness, nothing possesses an essential, enduring identity, by virtue of dependent origination
慈悲
摩诃般若波罗蜜多心经
“摩诃”：无边无际的大、心量广大。比喻宇宙万物大自然之间的规律与特质，约略相当于中国传统文化指称的道与广义的命。
“般若”为梵语音译，指通达妙智慧；
“波罗”为梵语音译，指到彼岸（不生不灭、不垢不净），有解脱挂碍的意思；
“蜜多”为梵语音译，意为无极。可联想比如蜜蜂采花酿蜜，能融合众多不同来源成分而归纳为一。
“心”：根本、核心、精髓。一方面表示内容所探讨的主体重心，另一方面也表示全篇内容的重要性。
“经”：字义是线、路、径，引申为经典。代表前人走过的路途、独特而深入的经历或见解，借口述语言或文字记载来传承后世，以供人们做为参考指引。

五行作用：生，被生，克，被克。必为五行

Today, most operating systems have become very stable that they can run many days without crashing, but Toyota’s cars, famous for quality and dependability, are crashing left and right, even after re-call service.  Even though Toyota claims it is mechanical problem, but people widely speculates that it is a software bug from dozens of micro-chips in the car.  The computer joke is creeping into my Camry now.

Nonetheless, I think the trend of increased computer use in automobiles will continue.  Ten years in the future, after numerous trials and errors, those software bugs will be worked out and safety laws will enforce software safety requirements.  Another ten years later, because software-controlled cars are so common place and the computer can drive so much faster and safer, some super highways might allow computer-drivers or computer-assisted driving only, like some sci-fi movies.

Meanwhile, "driving one of these suspect Toyotas raises your chances of dying in a car crash over the next two years from .01907 percent (that’s 19 one-thousandths of 1 percent, when rounded off) to .01935 percent (also 19 one-thousandths of one percent)", so I will continue driving my Camry, learn how to stop a gone-wild Camry, and prepare to enjoy the unexpected thrill.

Larry is an energetic and no-nonsense speaker.  With a fast pace, he touched many points.  I will just pick a few here.  He explained that alignment between IT and business is foolish, because IT is part of the business, just like accounting and marketing functions.  He thinks IT leader needs to understand the business vision, be able to manage fiscal responsibilities and engage the board (using language of the board).

He thinks marketing is important, part of everything.  His example is that he was able to market his value proposition to his wife, a beautiful and intelligent woman, 25 years ago, to persuade her to marry him.  He is adamant about honesty and transparency.  He is proud himself as being able to be read like a book.

He thinks leaders should focus on helping others succeed.  His sentence of the night was: “there’s no winner on a losing team.”

He argues that leaders bias towards action.  Break complex plan to bite size actionable chunks, track progress, then celebrate and communicate progress.

A few more interesting thoughts:

• Perception is the reality, and the perception of IT being a utility is bad, because there’re only 2 times a utility is being thought of: when it’s broken and when the bill comes.
• Authenticity: be yourself, but your best self.
• What you do speaks so loud that I can’t hear what you say.

It is already difficult to stop Chinese from smoking (the leading cause of death, more than environmental caused cancer) due to the social environment.  It is probably harder to erase their demand for something related to health, unless their cultural identities are changed.  It reminds me the human organ market, originating from Israel.

The video link provided in the article is in Chinese.  It argues that the farms are helping preserve tigers, incurring a cost of millions of dollars a year for feeding 1500 in the largest farm in Guilin.  After more than 18 years in operation, it seeks economic sustainability by tapping tigers from natural death (aging and fighting).

It seems to me that might be reasonable, but transparency and supervision are required.  I also need to think through the numbers to see if it makes sense.

• Machine intelligence (OCR, machine translation, etc.) acts as first response if no human helper is immediately available.
• Fellow users translate and rate translations.
• Human translations feed back to the machine translation data.

But even when Google stays, it needs another power to succeed in China, the power of focus.  China is a primary market in its own right, flock of people and businesses are thinking everyday how to succeed and survive there, purely thinking in Chinese.  Google sure can thrive in the US with all its top PhD talents single-mindedly pursuing product perfection, but can the same products succeed just by putting on a different resource bundle (tech term for user interface in another language)?

It is a given that people living in China think differently from those in America, but not that different and quite understandable if you give it enough thought and are willing to use all available and ethical means.  My proposal number one is that Google partners with Microsoft in China.  As far as I know, Windows (not Mac OS or Linux) is the OS in China, critical for MSN messenger to get a foot hold amid vast users of QQ.  Yes, you are fierce competitors everywhere else, as with Apple and Yahoo, but in China, it makes sense that you two (yes, you Google and Microsoft) work together.

I have not thought through the upside for Microsoft, so my proposal number two is that Google should make China the primary market of the upcoming Chrome OS.  It is free and it is all about online applications (including online games).

to be continued: champion of green tech and none pornography

He first asked the audience if anyone has heard that the only man-made structure visible to the eyes in outer space is the Great Wall of China. Many people raised their hands. He then said he was originally fooled by this urban legend himself too! Yes, the Great Wall is very long, but it’s also not very wide. So if it is visible from outer space, any 8-lane highway will do.

Professor Heath’s point is, without advertising budget and coordinated marketing effort, urban legends are able to stick to many people’s mind and spread far away. How can we learn from them to create messages for something as meaningful as helping countless children in poor areas of China? Professor Heath described the SUCCES formula in the book “Made to Stick” he co-authored with his brother Dan Heath. SUCCES stands for Simple, Unexpected, Concrete, Credible, Emotional, Story.

On the authors’ website, they provided some supporting materials for the book.  One of their handy PDF readings mentions the message from the Girl Effect organization:

“The world is a mess. Poverty. AIDS. Hunger. War. So what else is new?
What if there were an unexpected solution that could turn this sinking
ship around? Would you even know it if you saw it? It’s not the
internet. It’s not science. It’s not the government. It’s not money…”

Go to http://www.girleffect.org to find out what that is!

I believe both girleffect and CTEF focus on helping the children in need to become successful world citizens of the future. As CTEF has focused its effort on China’s poor rural areas, meaningful results are everywhere on its website and keep coming in all the time. By the way, my definition of a successful world citizen has 3 criteria:

* They are self-confident and self-reliant. They have faith in themselves and their future.
* They have empathy and respect for others. They care and unite others.
* They understand the world enough so that they know what will bring them true happiness and fulfillment. They know what they want, and know that when they relentlessly pursue their goals they’re also making the society better, better for their own future, for their family, and for everyone.

I want to work on my little definitions to make them meet the SUCCES criteria. I can definitely pick up tons of concrete examples from all the works done by CTEF.

Stories and movies have been rehearsing many of these possibilities in our consciousness (virus break out, wars, alien invasion, end of the world, etc.). However, all rehearsals are missing effective and systematic approaches to solutions. We depend on ourselves to avoid mistakes that lead to level 2 and ignite level 1/3 before they happen. We rehearse ourselves to prepare for and save ourselves from all 3 levels.

Both level 1 and 3 disasters have the potential to invoke level 2. To prevent level 2, using the power of identity is more effective than the power of consequence. Refer to The Power of Fear and Texas driver in the Made to Stick book.

We empower ourselves when our knowledge is holographic, as each individual knows all major knowledge, like each cell contains the genetic information for the whole body.

Education: use history as the main theme for introducing systems of knowledges.

That caused me to think some social issues. First, China has a problem with preferring boys over girls. Because of deep cultural tradition and perception of a son over daughter in elderly care, parents want to have boys. But when the boys grow up, there too many boys, and they need girls to get married. What if, with the switch of a gene, the hospital switch the gender of babies when they are little. When they grow up, they switch back, so everyone is happy. It is just like some of the fish which can “switch sexes at times when there is a scarcity of either males or females”.

Second, what if we turn on FoxL2 in male? Will that turn off Sox9 gene and testosterone in male, turning man into woman? It is a fact that, compared to women, men are predominantly the aggressors in the society, causing various social problems (crimes, wars, etc.). Rather than keeping men in prison, what if we give them a gene therapy, just turn off their Sox9? Is this a humane solution?

Certainly, there are broader considerations for both of these solutions. The China population issue, the real solution might be to give people real insurance when they grow old, and to change the cultural view on girls. For the crime solution, education might be more fundamental than mere gender switch.