MENGENAI PUASA DAN PEMAKANAN

Saudara pembaca yang budiman lagi dikasihi!

Cuba renung dan nilai 'diri sendiri', mengenai "puasa dan pemakanan". Jika kita 'orang Islam', pastinya menjelang Ramadhan, kita 'diwajibkan berpuasa'.
Mengikut sebuah hadis mengenai 'pahala puasa', adalah datangnya "terus dari Allah". Ertinya "tidak ada perantara". Tetapi pahala yang layak baginya adalah "yang berpuasa KERANA ALLAH..." Bukan "kerana lapar dan makanan".

Ertinya: Kita "diuji nafsu" - "Kuat mengingat makan, dengan kuat mengingat Tuhan". Mana lebih kuat?.. Jawapannya ada pada pengamal-pengamalnya sendiri.

Mari kita kongsi pandangan mengenainya:

Kita boleh perhati - Orang-orang yang berpuasa "sekadar percaya dan mengikut-ikut," pasti godaan mengingat makan lebih kuat tarikannya daripada yang berpuasa Kerana Allah. Maka ramailah yang hidupnya berpura-pura. Ada orang cerewet tentang makan, apa yang perlu dan apa yang tidak perlu dimakan. Seolah-olah itulah saja perkara penting dalam hidup ini.

Saudaraku!

Cubalah "berpuasa tiga hari" saja. Cuba fikir apakah yang akan masuk ke akal itu?... Kita akan terus saja 'mengingat makan' terus menerus. 'Puasa' membuat orang "tergoda kuat untuk makan". Macam mana kita boleh menang untuk "mengingat Tuhan". "Tuhan bukan makanan".

Memahami pemakanan kita adalah bagus, kalau kita benar-benar hendak makan. Belajarlah makan secara betul. Pilihlah makanan yang betul, pada masa yang sesuai dan betul. Pilihlah makanan yang sesuai untuk tubuh badan itu, "makanan apa yang subur dan menyegarkan".

Percayakah anda, kalau saya katakan makanlah 'ice-cream' banyak-banyak... Cara begitu pun boleh kita berpuasa, kerana 'ice-cream' adalah sejenis makanan yang tidak sesuai dan tidak menyuburkan. Samalah seperti kita menyumbat sesuatu yang kotor atau busuk ke dalam perut kita... Ia tidak memuas dan mengenyangkan.

Dalam ertikata lain:

"Ia memenuhi perut kita... Tetapi ia tidak memuaskan kita."

Makanan yang salah, tidak akan membuat kita puas. Kelaparan kita tidak akan berasa puas. Kerana "kelaparan memerlukan pemupukan dan kesuburan"...Bukannya makanan.

Ingat!... "Kelaparan adalah untuk kesuburan, bukannya apa yang kita makan!"

Dan kelaparan pula tidak peduli soal 'rasa'... pokoknya, sama ada ia sesuai atau tidak untuk tubuh badan itu, sama ada makanan kita itu memberi tenaga kepada tubuh badan atau tidak. Jika ia memberi tenaga kepada tubuh badan, maka ianya okay!...

Bila 'rasa' pula seiring dengan 'kesuburan', pasti ia memberi kepuasan yang amat. Saya selaku penulis pula, tidak menentang 'rasa'. saya gemar segala-galanya, tetapi 'berprinsip'. Kalau sekadar 'rasa' saja, ia tidak memupuk kesuburan. Jika makanan pula, tanpa rasa, tidaklah bijak, bodoh!..

Jika kita ada kedua-duanya,... Kenapa tidak?
Orang-orang yang bijak, akan memilih 'yang seimbang dan menyuburkan', yang sedap-sedap itu tidak menjadi persoalan besar. Manusia boleh saja pergi ke bulan, tetapi tidak boleh mencari makanan yang subur untuk dirinya.

Manusia telah melakukan pelbagai keajaiban, tetapi tidak pernah puas dan memuaskan kelaparannya.

Ada ramai orang percaya dan kuat berpuasa - secara melampau dan merosakkan tubuh badannya dengan menyumbat pelbagai makanan, tanpa pertimbangan.

"Orang yang berpuasa adalah orang yang berlapar, ia sama seperti di dalam sebuah sampan yang sama... Ia berpuasa dan ia juga tergoda dengan makanan, dalam waktu yang sama".

Orang yang berpuasa, kalau 'kerana berlapar, dahaga dan makanan semata-mata, pastinya bila ia ke Pasar Ramadhan, ada pepatah mengatakan:

"MATANYA AKAN LEBIH BESAR DARIPADA PERUT"

Itu dinamakan "puasa kerana nafsu", "tidak kerana ALLAH".


"SELAMAT BERPUASA!"


From Empty Hands,
A.Rahman bin Mahadi
Labis, Johore
016-6020321

12 OGOS 2010 (Ramadhan)

Next Topic: 1. "When You Look Into The Nature Of Desire"

2. "Memahami Konsep Bai'ah - Perjalanan Dan Sejarahnya"

SEDIKIT NASIHAT - BAGAIMANA INGIN JADI MURID KEPADA GURU KETUHANAN

Setiap 'Murid' adalah... 'Soalan'
Setiap 'Guru' adalah.... 'Jawapan'
Setiap 'Murid' adalah... 'Kegelapan'
Setiap 'Guru' adalah.... 'Cahaya'

Bagaimanakah ingin jadi seorang 'murid'? Apakah perlunya ingin menjadi seorang murid? Adakah kita merasakan hidup ini sudah tidak bermakna dan bererti lagi? Atau kita memerlukan sesuatu yang sangat berguna dan bermanfaat? Adakah kita merasakan hidup ini sudah hampa, bosan, dan kosong, lalu kita memerlukan pengisian?

Atau adakah "kita merasakan kita hidup di dalam kegelapan dan dirasakan sudahlah sampai masanya kita mesti berada di dalam cahaya?"

Sudaraku yang dikasihi!

Semuanya itu terpulang kepada kita. Jika kita rasa hidup ini sudah memenuhi apa yang kita kehendaki, jika kita rasa kita tidak kehilangan apa-apa... tidaklah perlu kita menjadi murid kepada sesiapa. Apa perlunya guru dan kenapa perlu bersusah payah mencari dan ingin tahu?

Tetapi saudaraku!..

Jika dirasakan diri itu 'jahil', 'kekosongan', 'tidak berguna', 'hampa', 'sentiasa cemas', 'gelisah', 'sentiasa takut', 'bingung', 'sengsara', dan 'kegelapan'... Dan jika dirasakan 'seluruh hidup ini' sentiasa 'menyulit dan menyusahkan'... Maka jika dirasakan kita perlu 'mencari guru'dan 'ingin menjadi murid'... itu semua sangatlah mudah.

Tugas kita hanya perlu mencari dan menghubungi seseorang yang benar-benar sudah 'terisi', seseorang yang tidak lagi 'ketinggalan soalan'... Cuma yang ada padanya adalah 'jawapan'. Itulah yang dimaksudkan...

"Murid Adalah... Soalan"
"Guru adalah... Jawapan"

Untuk pengetahuan saudara pembaca, saya selaku pengkaji sejak puluhan tahun, ditanya sama ada syarat-syarat tertentu untuk menjadi seorang 'murid' atau 'pengikut'... Jawapan saya: Adalah "tidak perlu"... "Tidak ada syarat" yang dikenakan. Sebaliknya, mereka ditolong untuk "menggugurkan beban-beban berat" yang tidak perlu dan tidak penting di dalam otaknya agar bertambah ringan dari masa ke semasa.

Jika kita ingin mencari seseorang untuk kita 'jadikan Guru', mudah saja. Kita cuma perlu tahu "apa yang kita cari",dan kita mesti "ada pemahaman", dan kita sendiri "mesti rasa selesa".Dan orang yang hendak kita jadikan 'Guru' adalah "orang yang tidak membebankan kita". Ia menyenangkan kita, tanpa meletakkan apa-apa syarat... Lazimnya, 'dia' adalah orang-orang yang "Arif Ketuhanan".

Bila kita berhadapan dengan orang-orang Ketuhanan, kita rasa ghairah "ingin tahu!" "Ingin tahu lagi!"Sehingga kita dapat rasa kita "disinari kegemilangan"...di hadapannya. Kita dapat merasakan 'ketenangan', 'kesenyapan', "menyelinap masuk ke dalam diri kita."


Kita pula berlapang dadalah dan bukalah 'hati' itu kepadanya. Kita tidak akan rugi apa-apa, kecuali kita "kehilangan beban-beban masalah" yang dipikul ke sana ke mari selama ini.

Dalam konteks inilah, kalau seseorang benar-benar berjumpa dengan 'Guru Ketuhanan', ia sangat-sangatlah menarik, ia sangat-sangatlah 'indah'. Ingat! Kata-kata ini:

"Kita tidak hilang dan merugi apa-apa, kecuali kita kehilangan
beban-beban berat, seperti 'dukacita', 'permasalahan' dan lain-lain".

Tetapi kita semua terus saja menyembunyikan masalah. Pergi cari 'guru' tersebut, yang 'di matanya' ada sedikit 'cahaya' yang melampaui "kegelapan kejahilan".

"Teruskan Mencari Guru Ketuhanan!"Selamat berjaya menjumpainya.


From Empty Hands,
A. Rahman bin Mahadi
Labis, Johore
016-6020321

11 OGOS 2010

Next Topic: "Mengenai Puasa dan Pemakanan"

GUNAKANLAH LIMA PANCAINDERA SECARA BETUL DAN BIJAKSANA

'TUBUH BADAN'kita terjadi dan terbina daripada 'empat anasir', iaitu 'Tanah', 'Api', 'Angin' dan 'Air', dan ia pasti akan 'hancur' suatu hari nanti. Justeru, janganlah disalahgunakan tubuh badan, gunakanlah ia bagi tujuan yang berguna dan suci.

Tubuh badan kita itu banyak 'pintu'. Tetapi 'pintu deria'
kita seperti; 'Telinga, Mata, Mulut, Hidung, dan Kulit(sentuhan)', sangatlah penting. Jangan dibiarkan ia dimasuki oleh segala 'kejahatan' ke dalam 'tubuh badan dan akal', melalui pintu-pintu tersebut.

Keselamatan dan kesucian 'lima deria' dan 'tubuh badan' itu bergantung kepada kita manusia selaku 'penggunanya'. Di dalam dunia ini, kita manusia 'terikat dengan tindakan dan perilakunya'. Kita tidak boleh hidup tanpa tindakan. Biarlah segala perilaku dan tindakan kita itu merupakan 'ibadah kepada Tuhan'.

Tubuh badan yang dicipta itu adalah bertujuan untuk digunakan bagi "berkhidmat dan berbakti untuk masyarakat"... Kerana setiap individu pada dirinya "ada hak masyarakat", bukannya untuk 'kepentingan diri'.

Bercakap mengenai '5 deria' yang dimiliki oleh setiap individu, perlu kita semua ketahui bahawa ia merupakan ... "pintu pengertian dan penyengutuan", dan ia juga merupakan "tingkap ke alam realiti".

"Apakah MATA itu?"
"Apakah TELINGA itu?"
"Apakah MULUT itu?"
"Apakah HIDUNG itu?"
"Apakah SENTUHAN itu?"

Semuanya itu merupakan "pintu atau tingkap" untuk "menuju ke alam realiti".

Contoh:
Kalau kita betul-betul tahu dan pandai menjaga kesuciannya - MATA, contohnya - Kita akan dapat 'melihat' apa yang tidak dapat dilihat oleh orang lain. TELINGA, - Kita akan dapat
'mendengar' apa yang tidak didengari oleh orang lain. Demikianlah deria yang lain-lain itu.

Justeru, janganlah kita berjalan dengan 'mata' yang 'tertutup'... Lihatlah dan pandanglah betul-betul. Mata atau telinga, janganlah ia dirosakkan, kerana apa yang dilihat atau didengar, semuanya "tersirat rahsia ketuhanan"yang sangat halus.

Bunyi-bunyi burung juga merupakan 'zikirullah'. Pokok-pokok juga menyampaikan 'khutbah' secara senyap. Banyak lagi yang bersifat 'ghaib', yang tidak kita ketahui kerana semua 'deria' kita telah 'tercemar'. Justeru, jika kita tidak punya 'sensitiviti', mana mungkin kita tahu "Keagongan Tuhan?"

Untuk mencapai tahap 'kesucian' dalam 'memandang', 'menghidu', 'merasa', dan 'menyentuh' - semuanya perlu 'dijaga' dan 'dikawal', kerana; Sekali lagi saya ingatkan bahawa "kesemua deria itu adalah merupakan TINGKAP atau PINTU ke alam pengertian yang sangat dalam".

Kerana 'kejahilan' kita itu, maka deria kita itu telah membuat kita menjadi bosan, GUGURKAN 'kebosanan' begitu. 'Suci' dan 'bersihkanlah' ia.

Semua deria kita itu adalah umpama 'CERMIN' yang berkabus, berdebu dan berhabuk. Maka semua itu perlu 'dibersihkan'. Jika kita sudah benar-benar dapat membersihkannya, maka:

"Sentuhlah apa saja secara total sehingga kita benar-benar meyakini yang kita sentuh, pandang, dengar, hidu, dan rasa - semuanya bertukar menjadi IBADAH".

Sentuhan, penghiduan, rasa, lihat dan dengar - jika dihayati secara sesungguhnya, ia... "punya bahasanya yang tersendiri", dan ia perlu dipelajari bahasa itu. Kerana, masyarakat di sekeliling kita masa kini 'jahil' tentang 'bahasa' tersebut, dan telah
'melupakannya'.

Setiap kanak-kanak dilahirkan dengan 'derianya' yang sangat indah. Perhatikan kanak-kanak kecil - bila ia 'melihat' sesuatu. Ia benar-benar 'menyerap' dan 'melekakan'; bila ia bermain-main dengan anak-anak patung, ia benar-benar menyerap, leka dan terpaku.
Dalam erti kata lain:

Bila ia 'melihat', ia benar-benar menjadi 'MATA';
Bila ia 'mendengar', ia benar-benar menjadi 'TELINGA';
Bila ia 'makan' sesuatu, ia benar-benar 'berada di lidahnya' - "ia jadi 'perasa' itu sendiri".

Lihat bila ia memakan buah epal, dengan penuh semangat dan kesungguhan! Dengan penuh tenaga! Lihat juga bila ia berlari ke sana ke mari dengan penuh keseronokan dan kesungguhan... Tanpa usaha dan disuruh.

Perhatikan juga bila ia bermain di pantai - mengutip siput-siput, cengkerang, seolah-olah ia mengutip 'berlian'. Semua padanya sangat 'bernilai', apabila derianya benar-benar hidup. Semuanya kelihatan jelas dan terang. Ingat! Semuanya akan kelihatan telus, jelas, dan terang, apabila deria kita itu benar-benar 'hidup'.

Tetapi tidak lama selepas itu, budak yang sama seperti kita semua, apabila membesar; bila kita melihat realiti alam yang sama, seolah-olah kita dilindungi oleh cermin yang sangat gelap, banyak debu dan habuk berkumpul di permukaan cermin. Kita 'terselindung' dan 'terhijab' oleh debu-debu tersebut. Kerana itu semuanyalah, apa jua yang terlihat dan dilihat menjadi beban kebosanan, bosan, bosan dan mati.

Bila kita melihat pokok-pokok itu kelihatan membosankan, kerana mata kita itu telah bosan.

Bila kita mendengar bunyi muzik atau nyanyian, tiada tarikan langsung kerana telinga kita telah bosan. Kita langsung tidak tahu hendak menilai dan menghargai; kerana 'kebijaksanaan' kita itu juga telah bosan.

Saudaraku pembaca yang budiman lagi dikasihi!

Buatlah 'penebusan semula' terhadap 'bahasa deria' yang telah lama kita lupakan; boleh dikatakan 99% di antara kita mengalami sindrom seumpama itu. Malah boleh dikatakan 'jahil' langsung, suatu cara atau teknik yang mudah bagi kita memenuhi 'sunnah' agama dengan mendalami dan menghalusi fungsi-fungsi deria.

Berilah masa, jika kita ada masa. Selalulah berada di dalam 'deria kita'masing-masing.

Contoh:

Kalau makan; jangan makan begitu saja. Cubalah belajar bahasa yang telah lama kita lupakan, atau memang kita tidak tahu langsung bahawa pada makanan yang sedang kita makan itu 'ada bahasanya' yang tersendiri. Ianya adalah 'bahasa rasa' dan 'sentuhan'.

Sentuhlah roti tersebut, rasakanlah 'texture'nya, jalinan adunan, rupa, warna dan asal usul roti tersebut. Rasa dan nikmatilah dengan mata yang luas terbuka dan rasakanlah juga dengan mata yang tertutup.

Semasa mengunyah makanan, kunyahlah semampu selama yang mungkin agar dapat membantu usus mengeluarkan kadar asid yang sepatutnya dan memudahkan penghadaman. Ingat! Ada kata-kata yang sangat tua mengkhabarkan:

"Seseorang yang tidak mengunyah dengan betul makanannya,
merasa dengan betul makanannya, dikatakan mereka tidak
menghormati makanan yang dimakannya. Kerana setiap kunyahan
adalah dianggap ibadah. Dan dari kunyahan tersebut akan terbit
dan membangkitkan kesedaran baru di dalam diri seseorang."

Sentuhan seperti bersalam, bersalamlah sebanyak yang mungkin. Ada orang tidak suka bersalam dan disentuh. Ia mudah rasa tersinggung dan mengundurkan diri bila seseorang itu datang manghampirinya. Seolah-olah kita buat sempadan untuk kita. Kita tidak mahu menyentuh dan disentuh, jauh sekali memeluk, kerana kita tidak suka atau sebagainya. Itu semua kerana kita sudah hilang 'deria sentuhan'.

Pergi mendekati sepohon pokok, sentuh pokok itu. Sentuhlah batu-batan itu, pergilah ke sungai-sungai, letakkan tangan kita di air yang sedang mengalir. Rasakan air tersebut sebagaimana... ikan-ikan menikmatinya. Saya nasihatkan!.. Jangan lepaskan peluang untuk menghidupkan semula kelima-lima deria kita masing-masing.

Ada 'seribu satu cara' , ada 'seribu satu peluang', untuk kita dalam tempoh 'dua puluh empat jam'.

Dalam ertikata lain:

"Sehari suntuk itu adalah tempat melatih sensitiviti kita masing-masing."

Gunakanlah segala peluang tersebut, sedang kita bersiram di dalam bilik air - ambil peluang tersebut!.. Rasa dan nikmati sentuhan air yang jatuh ke atas badan kita. Baringlah di pantai, di padang, rasakan bumi tempat kita berbaring itu, lihatlah dada langit yang terbentang luas itu dengan pancaran matahari yang sedang menyimbahkan cahayanya di seluruh pelusuk dunia yang asalnya gelap gelita tanpanya. Rasakan pasir-pasir halus di pantai, yang menyentuh badan kita, dengarkan bunyi-bunyi pasir tersebut. Dengarlah bunyi ombak-ombak kecil dan besar.

Gunakanlah setiap peluang, peluang yang tidak akan dapat kita 'rasa', 'pandang', 'hidu', 'dengar' dan 'sentuh', bila "nyawa sudah bercerai daripada badan".

Nanti barulah kita tahu dan pelajari bahawa "wujud bahasa deria".Itu pun hanya boleh kita faham bila tubuh badan itu benar-benar hidup dan seluruh deria kita dapat merasainya.

Nasihat saya:

"Bebaskanlah diri itu dari tabiat lama; Tabiat itulah 'punca atau akar umbi kepada kebosanan'. Cari cara baru seperti yang telah saya terangkan di atas tadi. 'Ciptalah suatu kasih sayang yang baru', secara meluas dan mendalam. Tetapi kita manusia memang penakut untuk mencuba sesuatu yang baharu."

"Selamat Membaca, Merenung dan Memikir!"


From Empty Hands,
A.Rahman bin Mahadi
Labis, Johore
016-6020321

4 JULY 2010

Next Topic: 1. "The Body The Senses Is Marvelous. It Is The Greatest Of Mystries"
2. "Sedikit Nasihat Bagaimana Ingin Jadi Murid Kepada Guru Ketuhanan"

CIVILIZATION HAS NOT HAPPENED YET - HYPOCRISY OF A BARBAROUS SOCIETY

When a bad man gets educated, he gets immersed in disputation and education itself gets polluted. Education wealth and strength are necessary for everyone. But the value of each of them depends on the way you use it. When a good man gets the benefit of education, it ripens into... 'Wisdom' and makes his life an ideal one. When a good man gets wealth, it is used for charity and righteous causes.

He redeems his life by sacrifice. But wealth in the hands of a bad person promotes arrogance and pride and ultimately causes its downfall.
Strength in a good man enables him to help the weak and serve the society. Strength in a wicked person encourages him to cause harm to people and harass the weak. Thus education, wealth and physical prowess derive their value from the way they are used.

It is only when the individual is transformed and becomes good that society can be changed for better. So, men must engage themselves in a constant process... of 'self-correction'. Instead of seeking to find faults in others. If instead of searching for a hundred faults in others, one corrects any one of his own fault, he would be sanctifying his life.

Once, somebody asked me; "What do you think of civilization?"
I said; "It is a good idea, but somebody has to change the idea into a reality."

Civilization has not happened yet. It is a dream of the future.

So, the first thing I want you to understand is that we are still... Barbarous! Only barbarians can do things that we have been doing for thousands of years - not human being. In three thousand years, five thousand wars... and you call man civilized?

And man's weakness is that knowing perfectly well there exists no such thing as civilization. Still he starts believing in all the lies that the politicians have been speaking and preaching, the educationists have been teaching - because it seem simpler to just believe, you don't have to do anything for it.

Millions of people have lived and died believing that civilization has happened. One of the most fundamental things to be always remembered is that we are living in a hypocrite society.

The people who have been for thousands of years in power - the politicians, the super - rich, they have all the powers to prevent human evolution. But the best way to prevent it is to convince man.

"You are already civilized, to convince man. You are already human being. You need not go through a transformation, it is unnecessary."

Exactly in the middle of twentieth century - Adolf Hitler was produce, Josef Stalin was produce and others, like Benito Mussolini, Mao Tse-tung, and still you believe man is civilized?

Adolf Hitler alone killed... Six million human beings, and killed with great sophistication. Science and technology have been used. One million Jews have been simply burned in gas chambers - within seconds thousands of people are nothing but smoke going out of the chimneys. He killed so many people that it was impossible to give each person the conventional grave.

Man has never been so poor - even beggars have graves, but he had killed so many people that to make graves for all of them... the whole of Germany would have become a graveyard.

So he had deep ditches prepared, and people were simply thrown into the ditches and covered with mud. Before throwing their bodies in the ditches, he destroyed even those dead peoples' dignity. Their clothes were taken away; their heads; their beards; their moustaches were shaved, so you could not recognize the face of the the person.

Their heads were cut off; So you would find somewhere the head and somewhere the hand and somewhere the leg and somewhere the remaining parts of the body. And thousands of people - it was impossible to figure out who you were looking for.

Why did he do that? So that nobody could be recognized. Even if somebody was found dead, he could not be recognized; he did not even have his whole body... and you say that man is civilized?

"Preparing for The Third World War - the last."

Seeing the Second World War, one would have thought that just a little intelligence is needed and the Second World War should be the last world war - seeing "what man himself has been doing to man." But no, we are preparing for the Third World War - and that the last.

Albert Einstein was asked, "Can you say something about what is going to happen in the Third World War?"

And Einstein said, "Excuse me, I cannot say anything about the Third World War, but I can say something about the fourth."

The questioner could not believe it. He said,
"You cannot say something about the third - and it is so complicated - yet you are ready to say something about the fourth, which will be even more complicated!"

Albert Einstein said,
"You don't understand, I can say something definitively, categorically, about the fourth. And that is that the fourth is never going to happen, because the third will destroy all life - not only human beings, roses too. All that is living will disappear from the earth."

"And you say that humanity has become civilized?"

No, you have been deceived and this declaration of human rights by the United Nations is nothing but the same hypocrisy.

Politicians... They are the cause of all the wars, they are the cause of all kinds of violence happening all over the world. These politicians all over the world are articulate, clever, cunning... mostly coming from the legal profession. This what I call a bad man gets educated, he gets immersed in disputations and education itself gets polluted. They are saying there should be no discrimination between man and woman, between black and white. Between races, religions, political ideologies, there should no discrimination.

And who is making the discrimination?
These are the same people who are making the declaration of human rights. They have been the parasites, and it is hilarious that all these parasites are now declaring human rights. This is a deception. It is not meant; What they are saying they don't mean. It is just to give you an idea that you are equal to everybody, you are a brother everybody, that you have all the human rights.

But I know - all these human rights are just hypocrisies.

When gun are answers, then you can be certain civilization is far away. On the surface man has become civilized, but deep in the darker parts of his unconsciousness, he is still... Barbarous.

In these fifty years we have done more barbarous acts than in the whole history of man. In the thousand years we have not been able to do so many barbarous activities as we have done just within fifty years. We are becoming more and more barbarous - of course with a style and method.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki - What do you think? Are these barbarous acts, or an effort to send the beautiful people of Nagasaki and Hiroshima directly to paradise together?

More than two hundred thousand people died within three minutes and the man whose order killed them, slept very 'peacefully' as he had never slept before. And if this is the situation of President True man. 'True-man' then what about the people who are not such true men?

As far as I am concerned, civilization is still a dream, a hope, a utopia.

Most people are not born with a conscience. You can watch small children, if they see an ant, they will kill it. Do you think the small child has some conscience? Do you think the small is a criminal? A murder? No, nothing like that.

It is just out of curiosity, he just exploring his world. He has entered into a new world, and he is exploring it. But there is no question of conscience. He does not feel that when he has been beating a dog for no reason,... the dog also feel pain.

Children don't have any conscience, they have only seeds.

But all the politicians are trying to convince humanity.
"You have a conscience. No, you don't have. More than two hundred thousand people died within three minutes... And the politicians are trying to convince humanity. You have a conscience."

These people don't understand what conscience is. They have learned only words.

Politicians always use beautiful words which influence you and deceive you... And hide the reality.

People talk about civilization, and we talk about humanity, and still seventy per cent (70%)of our income goes into killing. Adolf Hitler has written in his autobiography that if you want to remain in power, keep people always afraid. And he is absolutely right. Sometimes mad people are also right.

"DEMOCRACY HAS FAILED"

Now we have seen the whole world getting addicted to the idea of democracy. But democracy has not solved any problems; it has increased the problem.

Democracy means government by the people, of the people - but it is only in words. If a big country have nine hundred million people, how can nine hundred million people have power? They have to delegate the power to somebody. So it is not the people who rule, but the people who are chosen by them. What are your grounds for choosing? How do you manage to chose? Have you been trained educated for a democratic life? No, nothing has been done.

The ignorant masses can be exploited very easily by insignificant things. That's why my idea is that the days of democracy are over.

To all readers, I hope you all go on continuing breathing. I hope... it is time that man should become more conscious on a worldwide scale - nothing can save humanity from the destruction of the Third World War, that is looming darker every day on the horizon.

Naturally in war, love is no use, truth is of no use, beauty is of no use, aesthetic sensibility is no use. In war, you need a heart which is more stony than stones. In war, you need simply hate, anger, madness to destroy. In three thousand years, man has fought five thousand wars. Yes, this is strength but not worthy of human beings. This is strength derived from our animal inheritance.

But, now things have come to a peak. Man is falling apart. Things have come to such a point that either man has to change totally and change his vision of life... or has to commit suicide... We are all on the verge of committing a global suicide. And that's what your world political leaders are trying to do:

"Preparing atom bombs, hydrogen bombs, super hydrogen bombs - piling up bombs, one after another".

They already have too many!... They are ready to destroy this earth seven times... "Although a person dies only once!..." You need not kill him twice, that will be unnecessary... "But in case somebody survives"politicians has to take care - they plan perfectly.

Do you realized? Now, you will be surprised;

"They can destroy this earth 700 times - each single person can be killed 700 times!!!..."

This is too much, and absolutely unnecessary.

Seven is okay - There are a few cunning people who may not die. But 700 times? The race continues. Even poor countries are joining the race, hankering to join it - Starving, but more power to fill and destroy.

Millions of people have been murdered, butchered, burned alive in the name of religion, in the name of 'GOD', in the name of freedom, in the name of democracy, in the name of communism - 'beautiful names'. But what has happened behind those beautiful names is so ugly that one day man is going to look at history as if it were the history of insanity, "the history of a.. Barbarous Society".
Not of a sane humanity.

"Civilization has not happen yet."

Man is a machine, that's why. Man, as he is, is utterly unconscious. He is nothing but his habits, the sum total of his habits.

Man is a robot. Man is not yet man; unless consciousness enters into your being, you will remain a machine. I believe it shocked many people, but I am saying the truth.

It is very rare that you are conscious. In your whole fifty years' life, if you live the ordinary so-called life, you will know even seven moments of awareness in your entire life. And even if you know those seven moments, or less, they will be only accidental. For example, you may know a moment of awareness, if somebody suddenly comes and puts a revolver on your heart. In that moment, your thinking, your habitual thinking, stops.

For a moment, you become aware, because it is so dangerous, you cannot remain ordinarily asleep. In some dangerous situation, you become aware. Otherwise, you remain fast asleep. You are perfectly skilful at doing your things mechanically.

Just stand by the side of the road and watch people, and you will be able to see that they are all walking in their sleep... All are sleepwalkers, somnambulists... and so are you!..

Man is an animal too - as much of an animal as any other. But when I say that man is an animal, I don't mean that man finishes with animality; He can be more than the animal, he can be less also. That is the glory of man, the freedom and the danger, the agony and the ectasy. A man can be far lower than animals, and a man can be far higher.

A dog is a dog; He remains a dog. He is born a dog and will die a dog. A man can be become a saint, and can become an Adolf Hitler too. So, man is very open-ended on both sides - he can fall back.

Can you find any animal more dangerous than man, more mad than man?

"Just think of a scene": 50,000 monkeys sitting in a stadium killing small children - throwing them into a fire. What will you think about them?

Thousand of children are being thrown into a fire... A great fire is burning just in the middle of the stadium, and 50,000 monkeys enjoying, dancing, and children are being thrown - their own children. What will you think about these monkeys? will you not think that the monkeys have gone mad? "But this has happened in humanity."

In Carthage, it happened: 50,000 men burning children. They burnt 300 children at one time as an offering to their God... Their own children!!!

Forget about Carthage, it is long past. What did Adolf Hitler do in this century? Of course, this is a far advanced century, so Adolf Hitler was capable of doing greater thing than Carthage.

He killed millions of Jews, thousands at a time would be forced into a chamber and gassed. And hundred of people would be looking from the outside... Watching through one way mirrors. What will you think about these people? What type of men? People being gassed, burnt, evoporated, and others are watching? Can you think about animals doing such thing?

During 3,000 years, man has been through 4,000 wars - killing and killing and killing. Animal have never done anything more 'animalistic' than man. And you think man is not an animal? And you think man has civilized.

Man is an animal. And the idea that man is not an animal, is one of the hindrances for your growth. So when you take it for granted that you are not animals, you stop growing. The first recognition has to be this: "I am an animal and I have to be alert and go beyond it!"

The politicians all over the world, go on giving you hope that soon there will be no poverty - and poverty goes on growing. It is not decreasing, it is increasing.

In Ethiopia, thousands of people are dying every day. And you will be surprised, in America, there are half a million people who are suffering from overeating, obesity; They go on becoming fatter and fatter. In Ethiopia, people are shrinking, starving and dying. In America, people are dying from overeating. In Ethiopia, they are dying because they have nothing to eat!

Do you think this world that we have created is sane?

There are country that is going to face. The same fate as Ethiopia soon - and the government is selling wheat, exporting wheat to the outside world. Their own people are going to die - not in small numbers. Fifty per-cent of this country is just in the boderline, any moment it can become a bigger Ethiopia.

But the political leaders are selling wheat to other countries because they want nuclear plants, atomic energy, so that they can also compete in the foolish race that is going on.

Do you see on your generals, many coloured stripes? What kind of stupidity is this? Those stripes go on growing as the generals goes on killing. Those generals, they don't look foolish - they are respected, they are great heroes, and what have they done? They have murdered many people of other country. The murderes are rewarded. Have you seen any society rewarding its lovers?

Right now, twenty, thirty, fifty or seventy percent of the national income of every country goes to the army, and the rest of the country lives on thirty percent. On the other hand, we are creating great armies and on the other hand, we are killing human beings through starvation. And these armies are doing nothing. They are simply professional killers, professional criminals, trained criminals. We are giving them training in how to kill.

And we talk about humanity, we talk about civilization, and still, forty, fifty or seventy per cent of our income goes into killing.

All readers! Please bear in mind, one of the most fundamental things to be always remembered is what we are living in a hypocrite society.

Once a great philosoper was asked:
"What do you think of civilization?"

The philosoper said, "It is a good idea, but somebody has to change the idea into a reality. Civilization has not happened, it is a dream of the future."

But the people who are in power-politically, socially- are in power, because civilization has not happened. The people who have been for thousands of years in power-the politicians, the super-rich, they have all the powers to prevent human evolution. But the best way to prevent it is to convince man. "You are already civilized; to convince man. You are already a human being. You need not go through a transformation, it is unnecessary."

And man's weakness is that knowing perfectly well there exists no such thing as civilization, there exists no such thing as human sensivity, still starts believing in all the lies that the politicians have been speaking, the preacher, the educationists have been teaching- because it seem simpler to just believe, you don't have to do anything for it.

Truth makes you utterly naked- naked of all lies, naked of all hypocrisies. That's why nobody wants truth; everybody believes that he has
got it.

Millions of people have lived and died believing that civilization has happened. So the first thing I want you to understand is that we are... "Still barbarous".

Only barbarions can do things that we have been doing for thousands of years - Not human being. In three thousands years, five thousand wars... And you call man civilized?

Seeing the Second World War, one would have thought that just a little intelligence is needed and the Second World War should be last world war - Seeing what man himself has been doing to man. But no, we are preparing for the Third World War - and the last. About the Fourth World War is never going to heppen. Because the Third World War will destroy all life, not only human being, roses too. All that is living will disappear from the earth. And you say that humanity has become civilized?

No, you have been deceived and this declaration of human rights by the United Nation is nothing, but the same hypocrisy.

Unless we recognize the uniqueness of each individuals, there are not going to be any human rights, and there is not going to be a civilized world - human, loving, rejoicing.

In the declaration of human rights, they emphasized the fact again and again, that you should love all human beings; you are all brothers. But have you ever seen brothers being in love? Have you ever seen brothers being friends? The way brothers fight, nobody fights.

And just saying,"You are brothers," does not make it a reality. These people who declared these human rights - what authority have they got? Who are they?

Politicians... and they are the cause of all the wars, they are the cause of all kinds of violence happening all over the world: Do you see the politics behind it? Politicians are very, very cunning. They don't want to be controversial, so they say only things which you like or everybody is going to like. They are not concerned with the actual situation, and the changes it need. Their whole effort is in how to make you happy just "giving you bogus words".

Nowhere in the world are any of the basic rights being applied. On the surface, man has become civilized, but deep in the darker parts of his unconsciousness he is still barbarous.

We are becoming more and more barbarous - of cause with a style and method.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki - what do you think? Are these barbarous acts, or an effort to send the beautiful people of Nagasaki and Hiroshima directly to paradise together? Whole cities, more than two hundred thousand people, entered within five minutes. I don't think there was such a crowd at the gates of paradise. Man is not important... but money.

They had put so much money and energy and genius into creating atom bombs, they wanted to try them.
Man is not important, but money...

And you say that because of barbarous acts, the civilized people feel a prick of conscience. Was President Truman a civilized man or not? Even his people who understand military science had told him that dropping the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was absolutely meaningless, unnecessarily destroying human life. But he went ahead.

As far as I am concerned, civilization is still a dream, a hope, a utopia.

The Third World War is coming closer, and I want you to become aware that this earth is not going to live for long.

If this becomes an awarness in you, it will be a transforming force. And if millions of people are transformed in this way, "this earth may be saved" - but that will be just a payoff, a consequence.

"I am not desiring that the world should be saved. It such a stupid world, it is such a stupid humanity - If it is gone, it is good! I am not very much interested in saving this stupid lot. They have lived here for millions of years and they have proved only a burden and a corruption, they have polluted everything."

Thr Third World War "is coming closer everyday", because Russia is preparing, China is preparing, America is preparing, India is preparing, even small countries is preparing.

They go on piling up atomic bombs, hydrogen bombs, super nuclear bombs!.. Death bombs.

And they go on inventing new ways of killing humanity instantly. So it is a very - very real danger. Why not use it as a device? It can shake you up, it can wake you up. Please imbibe.

To all the scientists all over the world - Science is confined to the head, reasons, logic. The heart is confined to feeling, emotions, sensitivities. Don't denying the 'soul', please understand a little bit of the heart. Even greatest Scientist falls in love.

"What is the physics behind it?"
"What is the chemistry behind it?"

Please move from... thinking... into feeling. I would like all scientists to listen to the heart. That would change the very character of science. It wouldn't be in the service of death, you are wise enough.

You can transform poison into medicine. And if you are foolish even medicine can be dengerous, it can become poison.

The perfect man will create a perfect world. Don't be in the service of death, don't create more destructive weapons be in the service of life.

It would creates better roses, more fragrant roses; it would create better plants, better animal, better birds, better human beings. But the ultimate goal is move feeling to being.

And if a scientist is capable of using head as far as the objective world is concerned, using his heart as far as the interpersonal world is concerned, and using his being as far as existence is concerned, than you are a perfect man.

"VISION OF THE NEW MAN"

My vision of the new man is of a perfect man; perfect in the sense that all his three dimensions are functioning without contradicting each other. But, on the contrary complementing each other.

My approach is that all these three centres should be functioning in every person, because;

"Even a single individual is a world unto himself and these centres
are in the individual, not in society; hence my focus is on the person".

If I can change the individual, sooner or later, the world is to follow. It will have to follow, because it will see the beauty of the new man, with tremendous relaxation for his head. And the new man is not only of the heart, there are moments when he drops even deeper and simply is. The source of your very centre of your life. To touch it, to be there is to be rejuvenated. All the energies of your heart and of your head will be tremendously multiplied because you will be getting newer, energy every day... every moment.

Do you know that, what is reported, right now , even a great scientist like... 'Albert Einstein' uses only 15 per cent of his potential. So, what can one say about ordinary people?

They never go beyond 3 to 5 percent. If all the three centres are functioning together, man will be able to function totally, 100 per cent. We all can create a paradise in this universe.

It is in our hands. Just a little effort, a little courage and nothing more is needed.

The world has to be scientific for all technologies, for all comfort. The world has to be peotic, otherwise man becomes just a robot.

The head is a computer. Without poetry and music and dance and song.
"What your head does can be done by a computer far more efficiently and infallibly."

The heart is a totally different dimension - of experiencing beauty, love and expressing it. But that is not all. "Unless you reach to your very centre'. You will remain discontented. And a discontented man is dangerous because he will do anything to get rid of his discontentment.

So, the first thing I want you as readers to understand is that we are still barbarous. Only barbarians can do things that we have been doing for thousands of years - not human beings.

Just follow your nature:

"Each generation destroys the other. Unless somebody very alert, aware. The destruction is bound to happen."

Please response and share your views. Please forward to all mankind - kindman.


From Empty Hands,
A.Rahman bin Mahadi
Labis, Johore
016-6020321

24 JULY 2010

Next Topic: 1. "Gunakanlah Lima Pancaindera Secara Betul dan Bijaksana"
2. "The Body The Senses Is Marvelous. It Is The Greatest Of
Mysteries"

WHERE IS PEACE?

Where is peace? It comes only from your heart. Remember! Our heart is the source of peace. Such as truth, righteousness and love. You have forgotten the heart and are searching for peace in the external world. You don't get peace in the bazaar... You get only pieces.

Peace is only in your heart. Fill your heart with 'love'. Whatever work you do, do it with total love. But now, wherever you go, there is only selfishness. Man has lost purity as his mind is polluted. Where is peace in the world? When you do not make your mother happy. How can there be peace in the world?

Every man's heart is the abode of peace. Only when you fill your heart with love will there be peace in the world. The world is in turmoil today as man lacks total love. Peace will reign supreme in this world only when man develops total love.

Man from head to foot is filled with anger today. He has become like an animal. Even an animal is better than man. An animal has a reason and season.

Today man has no reason and season. You behave in this manner, how you call yourself a human? To call yourself a human, first and foremost show humanness in action. Just because you love a human body, you cannot yourself a human. The human body will have value only when you cultivate human values, namely..., truth, righteousness, peace, love and non-violence.

Of what use is human birth if human values are absent?

The foundation of real peace is the quality of amicability, friendship,
compassion kindness. It can also taken to mean "my three" that is to say, "my word, deed and thought". In other words, we shall speak, think and act together, without friction or faction in the atmosphere of love and understanding. That is what is wanted in the world today.

Now the cry from the heart of everyone is for peace, from the prime minister down to the beggar. All ask for peace and aspire for peace. Again I said peace cannot be purchased from the bazaar, it cannot be manufactured by industrial undertakings.

It can be secured by activities, charged with love.
"Holding a cup of salt water in the hand, you cannot, by mere slogans,
make it portable and sweet".

You can turn this universe into hell or paradise or a holy place. Because if you pay sincere attention to proper development of the children under your care and devote your efforts to transmit them into sublime individuals... Worthy sons and daughters of this holy universe. This is the only means by which we can ensure the welfare and prosperity of this world.

Politics is powerless, it cannot rescue us. Only by installing in our hearts the sacred ideals of human culture and marching forward towards those goals can... Peace be attained.

The Peace of the World, depends on peace and amity between nations, the peace of a nation depends on the peace between the concomitant units - the village, the families and finally, the individuals of each family... So every individual has a responsibility to love others, have faith in them and revere them as "sparks of the Divine". Every man has to cultivate the virtues of tolerance, forbearance and brotherliness.

The greatest of the virtues is 'LOVE'. "Love is the basis of character". You may have all other desirable things in plenty; but if you have no character, that is to say, virtue, which is all "Strong on LOVE". You can have no genuine peace. Money comes and... goes!!!

But morality?... It comes and ... grows! Morality has to be grown in the heart by feeling it with 'LOVE', then only can we have justice, security, law and order. If love declines among the people, nation will weaken and mankind will perish.

By peace, western countries means the interval between two wars, when vigorous efforts are made to avenge the insult of defeat and consolidate the spoils of victory and prepare for the next round! That is no peace!

When man thinks good and speaks good and does good, peace will ensue. But he now speaks good, though he thinks evil and purposes to do evil!

Man gather in Peace Conferences in order to plan wars. He ignores the principle of immortality that is his core, the principles of love that is the life-blood of the human community. He denies himself the boon of peace and rushes towards destruction. Destroying others... He destroys himself.

It is only in the contemplation of the beauty, 'majesty' and "Omnipresence of God", that one can be at peace... Remember! Life is not all smooth riding, it is a series of ups and downs.

Learn the art and be at peace. Those who plan for the nation today, are planning only for roads, dams, factories and farms. They ignore the path of the spirit... The fields where 'Love', 'Humilinity', 'Service' and 'Sacrifice', can be cultivated. They lay emphasis on such developments as can be measured, seen and put into impressive statistical tablets. Not the intangible motives that urge man to live in peace and brotherliness.

Man is now able to sour into outer space and reach up to the moon, earth and sky are his playgrounds. But though he is intelligent enough to sail through space and under the sea and shoot bombs across continents, he is not moral enough to live at peace with his neighbour!

"A few handfuls will satisfy his hunger;
A short length of cloth will cover his nakedness;
A few square of shade are enough to sheild him against sun and rain".

But for the sake of these, he slaughters his brethren and his sisters... You all see the tragedy in GAZA... And not only GAZA!..

He steals, he plots foul conspiracies, he revels in lies and breaks the law and destroy peace in his own heart and society of the world.

Schools, colleges and educational institutes multiply everywhere. But the educated are a danger to themselves and to the country. Hospital and medical research, drugs measures increase, but the percentage of insanity and illness also increase. Everywhere there is the dark cloud of anxiety, discontent and agony, disturbing the rich as well as the poor of the world.

Where is peace?

When a bad man gets educated, he gets immersed in disputations and education itself gets polluted, seeking faults in others, cause harm to people and harass the weak. so, where is peace? On the surface man has become civilized, but deep in the darker parts of his unconsciousness, he is still barbarous.

Please follow the next topic on:
"Civilization Has Not Happened Yet - Hypocrisy Of A Barbarous Society".


From Empty Hands,
A.Rahman bin Mahadi
Labis Johore
016-6020321

10 JULY 2010

MANUSIA TERHUTANG KEPADA ALAM DAN LUPA TUHAN SELAKU PEMBEKAL BAGI SEGALA KEMUDAHANNYA

"Segala Puji Bagi Allah... Tuhan Pentadbir Alam".

Ertinya; Segala peraturan dan undang-undang di Universe ini dicipta oleh Allah; Dan setiap individu tertakluk kepada apa jua peraturan yang telah ditetapkanNya;

Sama ada ia seorang jutawan atau yang miskin dan papa kedana;

"Di bumi yang sedang kita berpijak, punya kuasa tarikan. Jika kita tergelincir, pasti kita akan terjatuh, dan mungkin kita tercedera."

Tubuh badan kita juga tertakluk kepada peraturan alam, maka kita semua perlu awas dan berhati-hati. Kita semua mesti berusaha untuk memahami apakah hakikat di sebalik dunia ini dicipta. Kalau kita menghalusi firmanNya:

"Segala Puji Bagi Allah; Tuhan Pentadbir Alam".

Itu ertinya; "Tidak Ada DUA Kuasa" di dunia ini, yang dihuni oleh semua manusia di universe ini; Kecuali "Allah Itulah Pemerintahnya". Jika kebenaran itu dapat kita fahami, maka buatlah penyelidikan terhadap apa saja di muka bumi ini, termasuklah di "tubuh masing-masing yang penuh dengan kekaguman dan keajaiban".

Sebagai contoh:
"Kenapa dan untuk tujuan apakah dunia ini wujud?"

Kewujudan alam dan peranannya adalah untuk membantu manusia, agar manusia sentiasa berada di kedudukan yang tertinggi sekali dalam segala ciptanNya... "Bagaikan Mahkota Yang Tempatnya Mesti Di Atas Kepala"; "Bagaikan Akal Yang Tempatnya Tinggi Di Kepala".

Fenomena di dalam setiap pencapaian seseorang itu, mestilah menyedari bahawa "Allah Yang Kekal dan Abadi" itulah yang mencipta segala ciptaan; Sama ada yang kasar atau halus, yang nampak dan yang ghaib.

Justeru, masa yang diberikan kepada manusia untuk menyelidik hanyalah "Dua Puluh Empat Jam" sahaja. Tidak pernah lebih dari itu. Jika kita asyik berkhayal dan berillusi di muka bumi ini, maka kita adalah dikategorikan "orang-orang yang merugi".

Mari ikuti sedikit singkapan untuk kita renungkan bersama. Apakah telah kita buat dan lakukan terhadap alam yang sedang kita huni? Dan apakah sikap kita terhadap alam dan Tuhan selaku Pencipta dengan segala kemudahan ciptaanNya?

Di muka bumi ini terdapat bukit dan gunung-ganang, serta pokok-pokok. Sedarkah kita bahawa bukit, gunung dan pokok-pokok itu telah membantu dan menolong manusia dengan mendirikan rumah, batu-batan yang diambil dari bukit-bukau, dijadikan tembok dan lantai tempat kita berpijak. Tengok di sekeliling, di sekitar rumah kita semua. Kayu-kayan juga membantu manusia untuk dijadikan kayu api. Dan setiap yang hidup, dari yang sekecil-kecil seperti semut; sehingga sebesar-besar seperti gajah; banyak membantu kita manusia dengan pelbagai dan caranya yang tersendiri.

Lembu mengeluarkan susu yang bersih kepada manusia. Kerbau pula sangat membantu manusia untuk membajak di bendang dan sawah padi. Lain-lain seperti ikan, kambing dan yang lain-lainnya, berkhidmat untuk manusia, dengan cara dan bakatnya yang tersendiri.

Jika kita semua nampak dengan jelas akan "cahaya yang menyuluh dan menyimbah ke seluruh pelusuk alam ini"; Maka adalah amat jelas bahawa segala benda yang dicipta oleh 'Pencipta', sangatlah membantu kita semua selaku manusia.

Sedarkah kita bahawa kita manusia memperoleh apa saja? Kita semua bagaikan 'terhutang' dan 'berhutang budi' terhadap alam yang sedang kita huni ini, dengan menikmati segala kemudahan melalui 'Nature' dengan pelbagai cara.

Tetapi apakah balasan kita terhadap alam yang telah banyak membantu manusia dengan pelbagai cara itu? Bagaimanakah pula kita selaku manusia terhadap Tuhan?

Ya!.. Kita "manusia semuanya mudah lupa terhadap Tuhan selaku pembekal terhadap apa jua kemudahan yang sedang kita nikmati".

Maka tidak usahlah kita hairan jika kita "menjadi mangsa dan ditimpa kesengsaraan". Semuanya itu adalah kerana; "Kita hanya tahu menerima" pelbagai nikmat kehidupan daripada 'Pembekal'(Allah). Tetapi kita "manusia langsung tidak menyumbang apa-apa terhadap alam dan Tuhan selaku Pencipta".

Semuanya itu merupakan "lambang atau sikap kita selaku manusia", yang "bertentangan dan tidak berhati perut". Malah kita "menyumbang kebaikan dengan kejahatan". Jauh sekali bagi kita dapat bersikap "membalas kebaikan dengan kebaikan!"

Jelas, kalau kita lihat bahawa kita "manusia tidak pernah belajar apa-apa terhadap alam di sekelilingnya", yang boleh diperoleh dan dipelajari.

Saudaraku pembaca!

Perkara yang paling penting dan yang boleh dipelajari dari sumber alam yang banyak kita nikmati adalah; "Belajarlah berkhidmat, membantu dan menolong dengan tidak mengharapkan balasan, seperti pahala, syurga, nama, kemegahan, keegoan, dan sebagainya". Buatlah "KERANA ALLAH" seikhlas-ikhlasnya.

Ingat! "Kita manusia tidak pernah dan tidak mampu menyumbang apa-apa terhadap alam... Maka itu, kita perlu beringat!"

Ramai orang bertanya; "Di manakah Tuhan itu?" Jika kita benar-benar 'celik akal' dan 'celik mata hati'... Jawapannya; "Ada pada Nature(Alam)".

Siapakah yang mencipta 'Empat Anasir' seperti Tanah, Api, Angin dan Air? Siapakah yang mencipta 'deria organ' kita yang sehingga kini tidak putus-putus berfungsi mengikut kaedah dan peranannya masing-masing?

'Musim' yang "datang dan pergi", juga banyak mengajar kita manusia. Justeru, saudaraku pembaca yang dikasihi!

"Alam ini mempamerkan bukti Kewujudan Tuhan". Alam ini tidak berhak mengikut perintah manusia, dan ia tidak akan ikut perintah manusia, ia hanya "berjalan dan berfungsi mengikut KEHENDAK TUHAN".

Seperti firman Tuhan:

"Segala Puji Bagi Allah Tuhan Pentadbir Alam".


---- BAIT ----
"SEGALA PUJI BAGI ALLAH"

Keagongan, Kekuatan, dan Kebesaran Tuhan,
memanifestasikan Alam;
Mengagumkan, menghairankan,sangat menakjubkan;
Keindahan, berkhayal, maya, illusi, persembahan;
Bergelar ALAM!!!

Segala Puji BagiMu Allah!..

Bukan sahaja suci dan menghairankan,
Alam ku lihat mengembang, tumbuh, musnah;
Atau ...
Apa yang diberi, dikurnia, dan diambil semula,
sangatlah menakjubkan;

Bukanlah mudah bagiku memahami keajaiban Alam!
Ramai yang lahir ke dunia ini,
tetapi ramai yang tidak tahu tujuan kelahiran itu.
Lalai dan lupa akan tujuan kelahiran itu.
Maka bongkak dan sombonglah ia.

Jawablah!..
Apakah peranan yang telah kita lakukan
untuk lahir ke dunia ini?
Apakah peranan kita
untuk membolehkan kita bernafas?
Apakah peranan kita
agar kita dapat sedar semula
setelah kita ditidurkan?

Semua itulah yang dikatakan
dan diungkapkan,
setiap waktu dan ketika;

SEGALA PUJI BAGI ALLAH
SERU SEKALIAN ALAM!!!...

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From Empty Hands,
A.Rahman bin Mahadi
Labis, Johore
016-6020321

30 JUN 2010

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TRUE KNOWLEDGE CONSISTS IN UNDERSTANDING THE INNER MEANING OF THIS CREATION

The cosmos is the magnificent manifestation of the Divine. When you direct your vision on this vast creation you are filled with awe and wonder. At first sight what we see are inert objects like mountains, hills. We cannot see any sign of
consciousness in these objects.

The seconds category of objects are trees. There is a consciousness in them, but they cannot move from place to place. They are stationary.

The third category are living beings. Besides consciousness, these have the capacity of motion.

Man belongs to the fourth category. He has not only fully developed consciousness, but has another extraordinary, marvellous, quality.

"That is the supreme gift of speech".

Remember! Starting with the inert, we have the conscience, the mobile beings and the human species with the power of speech. If this progression in the creative process is rightly understood we can realize how important is the advent of man.

Please understand the inner meaning of this creation.

One is the (seed) of the universe(cosmos). No seed exists without husk. Because the grain is covered by husk its parts are not visible to us. For the cosmos... nature is the husk.

The seed of divinity is within it (and enveloped by it). We cannot experience the seed of divinity within... as long as it is covered by the husk of Nature. We have to endevour to get at the truth about Nature. We have to seek the truth of every thing in our daily lives. For instance, what for has Nature come into beings?

Nature's role is to help man, the crowning achievement of the evolutionary process, to realize the Divinity immanent in creation.

Mountains help man to build houses by using stone slabs, quarried from them. Trees provide the timber for constructing houses and also firewood for domestic use. Among animate beings, every creature, from an ant to an elephant, is of assistance to man in one way or another.

Cows provide nourishing milk to man. Bullocks are useful for ploughing the fields and helping to grow food crops. All other creatures like birds, fish, sheep and others are serving man in different ways.

Seen in this light it will be clear that all things in creation are helpful to man in leading his life. Even the sun and the moon are serving man.

Thus man is deriving innumerable debts from Nature, and enjoying the amenities provided by Nature in various ways.

But what is the gratitude he is showing to Nature? What gratitude is he offering to the Divine? He is forgetting the Divine who is the provider of everything,

"That is the reason for his becoming a prey to various difficulties and calamities. While he is receiving countless gifts from Providence, he is offering nothing in return to 'NATURE' or 'GOD'.

This shows how unnatural and heartless is the behaviour of man. When we are enjoined to return good for evil, how unbecoming it is to fail even to return good for good?

Man is not learning the great lessons Nature is teaching him.

"The foremost lesson is doing service with no expectation of return".

People ask, "Where is God?" The answer is provided by Nature, by your body, by your breathe. Who is that has created the five elements, the life-breaths, the five sheaths, the five external sense organs and the five internal sense organs.

Which are all ceaselessly carrying on their functions according to their prescribed roles. The seasons in their regular cycle are teaching a good lesson to man.

Therefore Nature is the demonstrable proof for the existence of God. Nature is not any under obligation to any man... It takes no orders from any man, it operates according to the "Will of the Divine".

Do you think life is a result? Life is not a result; It is already there. It is a grace. Nothing is to be done to attain to it...

What have you done to be born?
What have you done so that you can breathe?
What have you done so that you can be conscious?
What have you done so that you can fall in love?
It has happened... It is a sheer grace, a gift.

So please imbibe and ruminate;
"The True Knowledge Consists In Understanding The Inner Meaning Of This Creation...."


From Empty Hands,
A. Rahman bin Mahadi
Labis, Johore
016-6020321

19 JUNE 2010

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