It has been a while since the last post, have been quite busy with many things especially looking for job. As most will agree that it’s difficult to find a company that like me and I like them, and also not only concentrate on earning money alone. Sounds like a difficult job to find, will keep trying and see what comes.

My Computer – Also spent sometime exploring Linux, tried to swap the two hard disk I have been at the end decided will stick with the old one since both of them are 5400rpm. Finally decided to upgrade from 512MB -> 1024MB ram as the demand from the programs are just too much. It’s a lot faster after the upgrade, well I should say being able to open much more program without worrying that I have to close some of them first. Very happy with the computer and hope it will last for 1/2 more years. Then find out that the graphics card has not been properly set up hence a bit slow when loading google spreadsheet. It was on AGP 1x and with some help online, managed to fix it. After that I tried to fix the boot loader(splash) where the resolution is wrong but after adding some line (vga=791) to the menu.lst under grub it can’t boot into Xserver…

QuGee – The QuGee website has also undergo many changes this week. Thanks to Jac we now have a new logo and the layout & theme of the forum has been improved. Now everything is looking nicer and easier to navigate. Everyone has many updates this week too, e.g. Kamil took some nice photos and Terry come up with something funny.

Time flies, have to use it well.

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Get to try out a group chanting session at ULU yesterday organized by ULUBUDA. With members from ULUBUDA, ICBS and support from AMTB UK members, it was quite successful. We had a 2 hours session where we recite "Namo Amituofo" in walking meditation. It is important to understand what Buddhism teaches and also practicing it. The session was very simple and everyone was very happy and we all have a relaxing and refreshing time, it was good to take some time out from our very busy life. Looking forward to the next session which will be in 2 weeks time, for more details, look out on the ULUBUDA website or the AMTB UK website.
 

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問：佛說萬法唯心，又說非青非紅，無形無相，又說覓心不可得，這是不是矛盾，究竟心有沒有？（沈子良）

答：此非矛盾，實則此事難以形容，故有時說有，是說本性；有時說無，恐著跡相，語皆真實。凡夫多數，泥跡迷本，若再誤會此解，則易顛倒矣。萬法唯心，是顯本性，非青非紅，是掃跡相，明乎此，有與沒有，豈得漫無分限，貿然執一。

問：萬法唯識，六道輪迴亦唯心造，白癡之人不知觀想，超慧哲人不信有六道輪迴，應無（不入）六道輪迴矣？（黎明時）

答：心造之造字，包括造業及現果而言。當造業時，其心雖不希求六道，但其性質與之契合，自然幻現，不以彼知不知信不信，以定標準。譬如平日三業行動，並非希求睡後作一某夢。或不信與不知某夜有夢，而屆時種子起現行，自不作主，忽現忽幻，錯綜複雜，有身有物，或喜或懼；應知此境，即是心念造成，六道大夢，亦尤是耳。

摘錄自《佛學問答類編》(心性第十) ~ 李炳南老居士解答

問：人類之始，據說是由細菌而再進化成人，確否？（張鴻聲）

答：佛法所重之學問，在乎心性，故曰萬法唯心。居士問人之始，佛家亦曾經言之，有「原人論」，即說此問題。本刊問答中，經屢言之，祈查閱。科學家有言人從猿來，或係菌變，均係推測之辭，是耶非耶，固難肯定，縱是矣，請問禽獸鱗介昆蟲萬億種之動物，能皆一一確究其始耶」與其煩瑣不當，不若「萬法唯心」。

問：廣大之宇宙是何原因造成的？（妙元）

答：來函中言，常與朋友談佛，每遭不易解答，故來質問。居士學佛未久，何能先談此等問題，莫若埋頭讀書，到時自能明瞭。就以此問而言，詳細則連篇累牘，簡要恐不能解，只有說出，留待後日明白可也：「三界唯心，萬法唯識」。夢裏明明有六趣，覺後空空無大千。

摘錄自《佛學問答類編》(析疑第二) ~ 李炳南老居士解答

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Just watched the film "An Inconvenient Truth" yesterday, I strongly recommend this film as it bring awareness to the world. It is a documentary on the Earth's climate crisis. While you watch it, remember not to fall to the extremes and jump to the conclusion too early. Do your research and decide what you believe is true and do what you believe is right.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. ~ Buddha

From my point of view, we mankind must do something and no question that we are doing a lot more harm to the environment nowadays then few hundred years ago. Some people do question the data/graphs he presents but that's up to you to decide. Enjoy!

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Today I just realized that my comp is getting very slow when the ram usage is above 80%. As I remember before the upgrade to 6.10, it was able to manage/perform much better than that. So I found that that swap partition is actually missing and so I look in the Ubuntu forum to see if I can found anything. Seems that I'm not the only one, but I guess I can't complain as I have two swap partitions. Anyway this is the solution if you have the same problem.

List your partitions
 - Disk admin does not come with 6.10, can use this to list your partitions.

sudo fdisk -l

Mount your swap partition
 - dev/hda8 is mine swap partition, likely to be different for you.

sudo mkswap /dev/hda8

swapon -a

If these doesn't work, try:

sudo swapon /dev/hda8 

That's it, good luck. view source

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Websites – Have been spending some time on Terry's website which is mainly going to be on File sharing. The idea is that he wants to share his Physic's notes with others. This is because at Imperial College Physics Department, they don't give out notes therefore everything is handwritten so he wanted to upload his notes and share with others. At the end we decided to go for a software call PHPfileNavigator, it took some time to set up but it's a very nice software. It is designed to be a file manager but with some tweaking it can be for file sharing as well. I might install one as well because of the features it supports, I also change my home page vinlai.com to a very simple design. Basically it's just a logo with a few links, have a look and tell me what you think.

My Comp -  Just upgrade to Ubuntu 6.10 yesterday, the upgrade process is very easy and straight forward. All I really need to do is click the upgrade button, took about an hour to download and upgrade the system. Just have to update some installed 3rd party softwares and everything works. So thanks to Ubuntu for their hard work.

Other than that also got MatLab working so I can now start on my FYP. Can't ask for more and I'm really happy with my computer, really don't think I need a new one any time soon. Let's see how long this computer can last as it's 3 years warranty just expired this summer. My flat mates are also planning to bring their old laptops back so may be next term we can have some servers running in QG .

Photos -  Couldn't get Bluetooth to work at the end by manage to get the photos from my phone with the cable on another computer. So uploaded some photos for the visit to Amaravati Buddhist Monastery.

Click on the photos to view the album . 

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