Little tips to a Healthy Diet - From the Books of Robin Sharma

1. 8PM to 4AM- Absorption time. This is the time, our body absorbs food, digest and produces required energy.
2. 4AM to 12PM (Noon) - Elimination time. This is the time our body excretes waste materials from our body. 
3. 12PM (Noon) to 8PM - Feeding time. This is the time where our body requires incoming of food materials(Healthy ones only) 
4. Get up early and go for a morning walk in the woods (Nature in broader sense). Practice mindfulness exercises such as breathing exercises.
5. Start a day with lemon juice or at the most an apple (could be other healthy fruits too) 
6. We should not disturb the process within our body as described above. Eat rightful amount after 12PM till 8PM. It is advised not to take anything (if possible) after 8PM. If you have to take, we can have soup, green tea)
7. Diet should contain "alive natural foods" (green vegetables & fresh fruits) and avoid "dead foods" (Meat).
8. Six hours or five at the minimum of quality sleep is necessary.  Should not sleep more.

This is what I follow after having gone through 3 books of Robin Sharma: "Mega Living", "A monk who sold his Ferrari" and "Who will cry when u die" and currently I am with "A Leader who had no title". Also collected information from other personal development books viz: "You can live successfully in life" by Ben Abbot, "Buddha Body, Buddha Mind" by Thich Nhat Hanh and "Buddhic Essence" by Elizabeth Clare Prophet. These are mostly personal development books which I am mostly interested in. I recommend to all those who have not read it.

What Can Science Say?

Disintegration of Body 

When the great Buddhist masters die they know before hand and they go into meditation and we never know when exactly they pass away. They die in the meditation position and if no one disturbs them, their body disintegrates into air. If someone disturbs them before they disintegrate fully, their body will have shrunk and become small. What can science say about this peaceful passing away of great masters in meditative state and finally disintegrating?

Phowa Meditation

The great Buddhist masters can perform phowa meditation, a meditation which can directly lead them to heaven (Zangdopelri). With the help of this meditation, they can also liberate others from sufferings. The Buddhist practitioners also learn this mediation and there are stories of successful accomplishments. There are also stories that, while doing a phowa meditation under the guidance of perfect teacher, the grass (tsa khusha) that they keep in the middle of their head moves into the head which is a sign of successful phowa meditation. What can science say about this meditation?

Terdag or Shaman

It is a practice in Bhutan from time immemorial but is slowly fading away now. When someone is very ill, in earlier days they often use to perform Terdag. It is a kind of ritual a man performs who is believed to have been possessed by some deities. He performs fiercely and his acts are usually abnormal. There are stories of even stabbing himself and nothing happens to him. He can also drink the boiled oil and nothing happens to him. He can speak any language which he doesn't know otherwise. Once the ritual is over, he remembers nothing about his act. What can science say about this ritual?

Reincarnation

Some great master when they pass away, they are reincarnated as young generation. Some can even predict where will they be born in next life. When they are born, they can tell the whole story of their previous life and most amazingly they can even identify their own belongings in the previous life. When these great masters are reincarnated, they are being known by some other great masters and are identified as so and so tulku (reincarnation of great master). What can science say about this ability? 

Black Magic

It was really famous in olden ways, even today, it is believed by many. People say it is hereditary. The person who performs black magic kills someone whom he/she wishes to kill. When people are sick, they go to astrologer to seek help. The astrologer tells them, someone has performed black magic towards them and it has reached the final stage, so it has to be removed at the earliest. There are also stories when this black magic papers have been removed with the help of astrologer, the paper moves when it is held tightly with our hands. When this paper has been removed and burnt, the person becomes alright. What has science got to say about this Black magic?

Ngoenshey or clairvoyance 

Some great Buddhist masters can tell what is beyond the mighty mountains and can also predict the future. Some can even tell someone's past lives and his/her future lives. What can science say about this power of clairvoyance?

  

Delog or life after death 

Some women especially who are locally known as Delog are considered dakinis in villages. On the auspicious day, these Delogs passes away and after few hours they revive. There are also stories where some can even stay up to a week without breathing. Once they are awake, they tell stories to the people who have gathered there to come to listen to her. She tells stories of hell and how the people are suffering in hell. She also brings messages from the person who has died long ago to be delivered to his relatives in this world. After that, she led a normal life. What can science say about the life of such women?

There are many facts in Buddhism which are still left as unsolved mysteries. But we cannot undermine the power of science. There will be a time when science will have all the answers to these and many other unsolved mysteries. 

No Time?? Use Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard Shortcuts (Microsoft Windows)

1. CTRL+C (Copy)
2. CTRL+X (Cut)
3.  CTRL+V (Paste)
4. CTRL+Z (Undo)
5. DELETE (Delete)
6. SHIFT+DELETE (Delete the selected item permanently without placing the item in the Recycle Bin)
7. F2 key (Rename the selected item)
8. CTRL+SHIFT with any of the arrow keys (Highlight a block of text)
9. CTRL+A (Select all)
10. F3 key (Search for a file or a folder)
11. ALT+ENTER (View the properties for the selected item)
12. ALT+F4 (Close the active item, or quit the active program)
13. ALT+ENTER (Display the properties of the selected object)
14. ALT+SPACEBAR (Open the shortcut menu for the active window)
15. CTRL+F4 (Close the active document in programs that enable you to have multiple documents open simultaneously)
16. ALT+TAB (Switch between the open items)
17. ALT+ESC (Cycle through items in the order that they had been opened)
18. F6 key (Cycle through the screen elements in a window or on the desktop)
19.  F4 key (Display the Address bar list in My Computer or Windows Explorer)
20. CTRL+ESC (Display the Start menu)
21. F10 key (Activate the menu bar in the active program)
22. ESC (Cancel the current task)

Dialog Box - Keyboard Shortcuts

1. CTRL+TAB (Move forward through the tabs) 
2. CTRL+SHIFT+TAB (Move backward through the tabs)
3. TAB (Move forward through the options)
4. SHIFT+TAB (Move backward through the options)
5. ALT+ Underlined letter (Perform the corresponding command or select the corresponding option)
6. F1 key (Display Help)
7.  F4 key (Display the items in the active list)

Microsoft Natural Keyboard Shortcuts

1. Windows Logo (Display or hide the Start menu)
2. Windows Logo+ BREAK (Display the System Properties dialog box)
3. Windows Logo +D (Display the desktop)
4. Windows Logo +M (Minimize all of the windows)
5. Windows Logo+ SHIFT+M (Restore the minimized windows)
6. Windows Logo+ E (Open My Computer)
7. Windows Logo+ F (Search for a file or a folder)
8. CTRL+ Windows Logo+ F (Search for computers)
9. Windows Logo+F1 (Display Windows Help)
10. Windows Logo+ L (Lock the keyboard)
11. Windows Logo+R (Open the Run dialog box)
12. Windows Logo+U (Open Utility Manager)

Windows Explorer Keyboard Shortcuts

1.  END (Display the bottom of the active window)
2. HOME (Display the top of the active window)
3. NUM LOCK+Asterisk sign (*) (Display all of the sub-folders that are under the selected folder)
4. NUM LOCK+Plus sign (+) (Display the contents of the selected folder)

Remote Desktop Connection Navigation

1. CTRL+ALT+END (Open the Microsoft Windows NT Security dialog box)
2. ALT+PAGE UP (Switch between programs from left to right)
3. ALT+PAGE DOWN (Switch between programs from right to left)
4. ALT+INSERT (Cycle through the programs in most recently used order)
5. ALT+HOME (Display the Start menu)
6. CTRL+ALT+BREAK (Switch the client computer between a window and a full screen)
7. ALT+DELETE (Display the Windows menu)

Microsoft Internet Explorer Keyboard Shortcuts

1. CTRL+B (Open the Organize Favorites dialog box)
2. CTRL+E (Open the Search bar)
3. CTRL+F (Start the Find utility)
4. CTRL+H (Open the History bar)
5. CTRL+I (Open the Favorites bar)
6. CTRL+L (Open the Open dialog box)
7. CTRL+N (Start another instance of the browser with the same Web address)
8. CTRL+O (Open the Open dialog box, the same as CTRL+L)
9. CTRL+P (Open the Print dialog box)
10.  CTRL+R (Update the current Web)

My Cup is Half Filled

The most beautiful thing in your eyes may not be as beautiful as you beheld in the eyes of mine and the same could be the reverse. That totally depends on how we perceive things individually. That is why we say beauty is subjective.

Beauty is just one mentioned here but in life there are many things we see differently. We encounter good and bad in our journey of life. Good and bad here could mean anything that we come across: people, things, situation, etc. But it all depends on how we take it. There are no mistakes as all mistakes we make are lessons in life or in other word as the old famous saying goes “failures are the pillars of success”. There is nothing to be dejected when we fail. It is known that to reap the joy of success, we will have to experience first the pain of failure. If we do not experience the pain, how will we know the taste of success? For example if we have toothache and we don’t feel any pain, there will be no happiness when the toothache has been cured. The point here is, only because we suffer the pain of toothache, we get the taste of relief and joy when it has been cured by the Dentist. So mistakes and therefore a failure should not be seen as an unbreakable barrier, it has to be looked as a seed of success and happiness ultimately.

Our perception could sometimes deceive us like the mirage in the desert. We have to see and think beyond. People often say; seeing is believing but even after seeing, it is always wiser to look and contemplate beyond what we see or touch. Our mind is used to perceiving and interpreting what our eyes see and body touches then that has been articulated by our mouth without storing the information and thinking beyond. Although this activity is involuntary, it has to be put into practice that we should give a second thought before anything has been decided or spoken. That will be the wisest decision. Why do we hate people, because we see something bad in them and we love someone because we see in them something admirable. But we have to know that unless we are Buddha or in other words unless our Buddha nature has come out after all the obscuring defilements have been removed, we are never perfect. If not fifty-fifty, certain portion of us will be either bad or good.

People often say a coin has two sides; it is in fact the fact. That is why we have to look beyond what we see and study well before any comment is made. In our Buddhist monasteries, we build statues to be kept in the altar for the visitors to worship. While making the statue, a builder never leave the backside of the statue untouched or unfinished because it will be facing the wall and no one will know; even if the backside faces the wall and cannot be viewed by the viewers, the builder takes into consideration that the statue is built complete from all sides. In a similar way, we as the beholder should not judge anyone or anything just by seeing what can be seen rather like the statue builder; we have to know that there is also other half which has to be taken in consideration though it cannot be seen whether good or bad. Only then decisions followed by action have to be taken.

If we are given a half empty coffee cup, how will we interpret? It is obvious that many of us will see a cup is half empty. This is how we are used to with our brain interpretation. We always fail to enjoy the other side of what we see. If we see the other side of what we see, many of the decisions that we have made earlier and failed miserably could have been a success story. Do not be deceived by what you see and make a hasty decision. See it from a different angle and try to see the other side of what we actually see. Contemplate and meditate over it if you can. Judge everything positively and everything turns out to be positive. Only then when you are given a half empty coffee cup, you will be the one to say “My cup is half filled”.         

G2C Project- A Tool for Good Governance

Bhutan is the land of peace and the people living here does love peace. The main guiding philosophy of all the developmental activities in Bhutan, the Gross National Happiness (GNH) is supported by four pillars. The forth pillar, Good Governance is one important pillar that the government of the day has been focusing. The G2C or the Government to Citizen Project is at its full swing with government's main focus to take the services to the doorstep of the citizen. It is aimed at delivering services more efficiently and effectively without people having to go from office to office in order to avail the services. 

There has been established a Community Centers (CC) in every Gewog where the people can avail basic services through e-governance. The government has been working on putting most of the services online. The delivering of services online is e-governance. This can also help reduce the face to face interaction of the clients and the service provider. In this way some form of corruption like favoritism and nepotism could be prevented. In order to avail these online services, CCs have been established with one or two operators helping the people avail the services. The online services delivery saves time and resources for our people and most importantly, the services are delivered in time. 

The G2C office under the Prime Minister's Office has been working towards digitizing most of the services which can be delivered online and making available for the people. The office also creates awareness among the citizens and also provides hands on training for the service providers. If this project becomes successful, the service delivery will become more efficient and the forth pillar of GNH will be accomplished. It is the responsibility of each and every one of us who knows about the G2C services to abreast our people about the availability of such facilities in their own villages so that, they can make use of CCs and at the same time, the objective of our beloved Kings and the Government could be fulfilled.  

Live the Life, the Best You Can

It is apparently clear, though we all share the same traits of human beings, we do not share the same liberty, pride and happiness in this world. Some are traumatized physically and some mentally. Those happy are the ones who think that whatever they have in life is enough. Happiness is not something we can buy, like many says, money can buy wealth but not happiness. We have to create it. How do we create happiness, give happiness to others and feel satisfied with what we have and have done. If we can bring a smile to someone's face, the emotional feeling that we get looking at the smile of others is the ultimate and the lasting happiness that we can think of. The satisfaction in whatever we possess and whatever we do in life is the happiness. Learn to be satisfied and contented. If every one of us could think about the happiness of others, there is no need for wars investing hugely; it is a pure waste. These huge amounts wasted on wars can be used to elevate the hungers in the world, provide medication and create an avenue for happiness for those who are the victims of poverty: hunger and epidemics. 

Start your day with prayers. Pray for all sentient beings, for their well-being and happiness. Greet with smile irrespective of young or old. Smile cost nothing but rewards double. We should not harm others or feel bad for others if we are not able to give them happiness. No animals should be mistreated as every living organism under the sky wants happiness and doesn't want sufferings. There is no point in regretting of the past event(s) as it is gone already; living in the future does not make sense as it is certain that future is uncertain. So live at present and enjoy what we do with what we have. Thinking about the past and future only stresses our mind. If we have goal(s) in life (it is important to have good goals) and if we are thinking about it, it is a good thing but simply building a castle in the air is wastage of time and energy.

Leading a simple life, respecting others and doing everything with passion and get satisfaction out of doing something is the way to lead a happy life. Start off a day with a smile on the face, light meal; warm greetings and prayers. It will set a good mood with great zeal the following day. Let others say anything about you, be indifferent. Do not look at the cup as half empty rather look at it as half full. That is how we learn and develop to look and enjoy the positive side of everything. Lead a Happy Life.