Living Now and Here!

Last night was a special night. Jan's daughter; Alicia arrived in KL. Being the wonderful Mum she is, She organized a dinner party to welcome Alicia to KL. Since it was a pot luck thing, everyone chipped in with the food. I bought 'Kai-Lan' fried rice, Alicia made her bolognese spaghetti, someone bought 'Siew Mai', Jan made garden salads, later on, there was 'Kuey Teow' and the dessert was 2 rich creamy cakes, 1 black forest and the other home made cream cake with chocolate layers. 

When Jules and Tracey arrived, those who arrived much earlier had their fill, but everyone came back to the dining table for a few rounds of seconds and thirds. During the break, Jules came out with a riddle which in a way worked up the whole atmosphere. 

"If a person is good at one moment, and bad at another moment, which one is the real moment?"

Thoughts and ideas came about. Everyone was giving it a go to see who's got the right answer, then she supplicate the riddle by adding another riddle, 

"If in the day the sky is blue, and at night it is black, which one is real?"

That left some people astound for a moment. Tracey came up with logical answers and opinions about what she perceives to be the right answer. Truthfully, I agree with Jules. There is no right or wrong. Everything depends on how you perceive things through your five senses and your mind. Ultimately, it is real and false. Everything depends on how we perceive. Duality is a concept that we use to distinguish or discriminate what is right and wrong. Ultimately, the world is governed by such concepts, Evil and Good does exist. But if we take one step deeper and look at these 2 elements at the very core, Then you will see it disappear, like the mist when the sun comes up from the hills. 

I agree with Jules when she explains that our perception is biased in some way. We 'choose' to see things that we want to. All that we perceive are enforced by our mental conditions and environment (the five senses, the situation, the time, and the moment) Based on these sets of conditions and causes, we think this is like this or that. As these conditions are not fixed, It changes. so the truth is altered in the same way. There is no ultimate truth. Thus, all is real and false. I was washing the dishes at the time. This is one of those deep provoking thoughts that made dinners very lively. So, I thought to myself, Live Now! Experience the world in this way.... WOW! What an interesting way to perceive life! At that same time, The tune of Louis Amstrong's 'What a wonderful World' was playing in my mind.... 

'oh.... yeah.....!"