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- How and When to Be Your Own Doctor (2)
- By Steve Solomon, Isabelle A. Moser, Dr.
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- The Digital Fortress (1193)
- By Dan Brown
- Finished on May 10, 2013
  
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The Digital Fortress

Don't!

At around Page 70, it is obvious that there is no unbreakable code. It is a virus. But I expect the Commander is cooking something really big, like getting the Japanese trust in order to blackmail US government, etc. But he turned out 'hotly in love' with the goddess Susan, only tried to put a backd ... (continue)

At around Page 70, it is obvious that there is no unbreakable code. It is a virus. But I expect the Commander is cooking something really big, like getting the Japanese trust in order to blackmail US government, etc. But he turned out 'hotly in love' with the goddess Susan, only tried to put a backdoor to the unbreakable code before it is released.....

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- The Story of My Life (73)
- (1905)
- By Helen Keller
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- The Upside of Irrationality Intl (16)
- By Dan Ariely
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- Deception Point (1137)
- By Dan Brown
- Finished on May 10, 2013
  
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Deception Point

What you would expect from the writer of DaVincii Code, clever, fast-pace, a lot of twist and hanging...
But it was written before 911. After the total failure of intelligence on terrorist attack, and the decade-long huntdown of Bin Ladin, it is now very difficult to convince people these intellige ... (continue)

What you would expect from the writer of DaVincii Code, clever, fast-pace, a lot of twist and hanging...
But it was written before 911. After the total failure of intelligence on terrorist attack, and the decade-long huntdown of Bin Ladin, it is now very difficult to convince people these intelligence are mastermind who can cook up some big conspiricy.
And, killing NASA to save money for education?? Who will believe it?

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Excurs-
ions Into the Though…
- Excursions Into the Thought-world of the Pali Discourses (1)
- From Craving to Liberation / from Grasping to Emptiness
- By Anālayo
- Finished on May 6, 2013
  
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Excursions Into the Thought-world of the Pali Discourses

Old topics, but with rare and very eye-opening interpretations

1. Just was when two oxen are yoked together, neither of the two oxen is responsible for the other being bound, so too neither the sense-organs nor the sense-objects are responsible for bondage, since desire and passion are what fetters.
2. Ill-will
a) Ill-will involves the wish for other beings to ... (continue)

1. Just was when two oxen are yoked together, neither of the two oxen is responsible for the other being bound, so too neither the sense-organs nor the sense-objects are responsible for bondage, since desire and passion are what fetters.
2. Ill-will
a) Ill-will involves the wish for other beings to be killed, slaughtered, annihilated, destroyed, and come to be non-existent. This series of wishes reflect the degree to which ill-will can narrow down one's perception of someone as the sole culprit responsible for a problematic situation, leading to the assumption that to eliminate this person is the only viable solution.
b) Prominent cause for the arising of ill-will is unwise attention to the sign of irritation. Once ill-will has arisen, the mind tends to return again and again to the particular issue, event or person that has occasioned the arising of ill-will. In this way, the "sign of irritation" can become quite literally the "nutriment" for ill-will, in that it nourishes the continuity of ill-will.
3. Sloth-and-torpor can arise due to discontent, boredom, laziness, overeating, and because of a depressed state of mind.
4. At times, worry can also stand for uncertainty in regard to the teachings.
5. To overcome doubt, it requires a process of investigation, in the sense of "investigating" with awareness the true nature of "phenomena".
6. To speak of a "bodily feeling" must refer to the source from which such feeling has arisen, namely the body, not to the nature of the feeling itself, which by definition has to be a mental phenomenon.
7. Instead of getting carried away by the individual content of felt experience, awareness should be directed to the general character of experience in terms of its three possible feeling tones. Pleasant, unpleasant or neutral, these three types o feeling are mutually exclusive.
8. The implication of this dictum is that the ability to feel is not a compact unit, not something stable that at times feels pleasure and at other times displeasure. Instead, feelings are a process that consists of a series of mutually exclusive moments of felt experience.
9. Pleasant feeling is pleasant as long as it lasts, but causes displeasure once it changes. Unpleasant feeling in turn is displeasing as long as it lasts, but its change is experienced as pleasant. While neutral feeling is pleasurable when known, but unpleasant when not know.
10. Neutral feeling, though in itself hedonically neutral, during actual contemplation can e experienced as a pleasurable object of meditation, a pleasure derived from the presence of knkokwledge. Outside of a meditative context, however, neutral felings may be experienced by someone without awareness as simply "boring" and such boredom can become a strong motivating force to search for sensual diversion.
11. Due to their affectively bland nature, neutral feelings are the most difficult to contemplate of the three types of feeling and may easily be mistaken for a continuously present background against which pleasant and unpleasant feelings manifest.
12. The Buddha emphatically proclaimed that, if it were not possible to develop and do what is wholesome, and if developing what is wholesome would not lead to happiness, he would not ask his disciples to undertake such developmnt. But because it is possible and does lead to happiness, he instructed his disciiples to develop and od what is wholesome.

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- Body Energy (1)
- Discover the Secrets of the Chinese Body Energy Clock
- By Matthew Harrigan
- Finished on May 4, 2013
  
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Body Energy

Clear introduction on the Chinese qi flow.
1. It is said that wearing white helps nurture our lungs and allowing us to express emotions helps strengthen the lungs.
2. If you are feeling sluggish first thing in the morning you can apply pressure to Governing Vesseel 26 for about one minut with the ... (continue)

Clear introduction on the Chinese qi flow.
1. It is said that wearing white helps nurture our lungs and allowing us to express emotions helps strengthen the lungs.
2. If you are feeling sluggish first thing in the morning you can apply pressure to Governing Vesseel 26 for about one minut with the tip of your finger.

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- The Da Vinci Code (4284)
- By Dan Brown
- Finished on Mar 30, 2013
  
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The Da Vinci Code

I watch the film first so spoil the fun of riddle cracking... But it contains so many interesting facts. Nowadays we tend to forget that Christianity is actually a Eastern religion. I think it could have deep connection with Hindu believes, very possibly deep rivalry. Remember how mant times the Old ... (continue)

I watch the film first so spoil the fun of riddle cracking... But it contains so many interesting facts. Nowadays we tend to forget that Christianity is actually a Eastern religion. I think it could have deep connection with Hindu believes, very possibly deep rivalry. Remember how mant times the Old Testement take bull, the Hindus god, as devil?
Also, I dont understand what does it matter if Jesus marrried and had a kid. Does it make him less saintly? When he was tortured to almost dead, what did hensay? He said, 'Father, forgive them. For the know not what they do.' His dying wish is to ask god to forgive his torturers！This fact alone makes him a saint！
And the author is kinder to Christianity in the book than the film. The priest did not know killing would be involved. The monk died in peace. Pope has totally no ideas on it....

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- The Style Checklist (1)
- The Ultimate Wardrobe Essentials for You
- By Lloyd Boston
- Finished on May 6, 2013
  
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The Style Checklist

The best of its kind!

This one is the best of its kind!
Many good ideas and essential staple items for wardrobe - white jeans, safari jacket, white denim jacket....
Of course floral and animal print are not the cup of tea for every women, take the advise useful for you.
And, how come it does not contain straw bag?? Wh ... (continue)

This one is the best of its kind!
Many good ideas and essential staple items for wardrobe - white jeans, safari jacket, white denim jacket....
Of course floral and animal print are not the cup of tea for every women, take the advise useful for you.
And, how come it does not contain straw bag?? What else to carry in the summer... huh??

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The Manual of Insigh-
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- The Manual of Insight (1)
- Vipassana Dipani
- By Ledi Sayadaw
- Finished on Mar 26, 2013
  
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The Manual of Insight

Book Title: A Manual of the Dhamma

The right name of this book is "A Manual of the Dhamma". I cannot add this entry in Anobii. Anobii request all ebook must have ISBN (the same does not apply to printed book).
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"Shamelessness is impermanent. In other words no such individual as a permanently shameless monk e ... (continue)

The right name of this book is "A Manual of the Dhamma". I cannot add this entry in Anobii. Anobii request all ebook must have ISBN (the same does not apply to printed book).
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"Shamelessness is impermanent. In other words no such individual as a permanently shameless monk exists." "It is possible that within a single sitting, a monk may become shameless or scrupulous ten times alternately."
And the story of a monk go fishing, but upon seeing the king coming, he drop the fishpod and sit under a tree quietly. I would have see this monk as "pretentious and with desperate attempt to cover up his mistakes". But the wise king see the quality of "moral shame and dread", the virtues praised by the wise!... This is such a fantastic example of what "skillful thoughts" means. We can choose to concentrate on other's faults or their good qualities, and get affected by what we see.
"The real culprits are greed, hatred, and delusion, headed by self-view. Such latent evils still exist in me, and will bear fruit sooner or later, so I am in the same boat as shameless, wicked and immoral persons." "Temporary moral achievement is not reliable. This type of morality soon disappears like a firework display."
"One must reprove the evil acts, or unwholesome states only. One should condemn bad actions without personal grudge, without hatred."
His Venerable keep using the term "deep and subtle" in this discourse. And I understand now why Ledi Sayadaw could have such a wide popularity in Burma lay society. He is so skillful and compassionate in explaining the subtlety and nuance of dhamma, and once he gauge for laymen, we are able to understand the profoundity of the teachings!
As explained by Sayadaw, "Living in these rare circumstances, with the greatest of opportunities, no one should blame others' wickedness and failures. No one should pay any attention to others' faults, or waste time blaming the evil actions of others. One must live steadfastly practising the Dhamma oneself, thinking only of one's own rare opportunities, which must be seized with strenuous moral effort."

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- Chic & Slim Encore (1)
- More About How French Women Dress Chic Stay Slim -- and How You Can Too!
- By Anne Barone
- Finished on Mar 25, 2013
  
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Chic & Slim Encore

Some of it we all know: avoid processed food, eat slowly and chew well, more fruits and vege, exercise...
Other part is, well fat is not such a toxin. Fat make dishes tastes much better, providing more satisfaction. Fat also fill us in little amount and keep us full for longer time. So if eaten in ... (continue)

Some of it we all know: avoid processed food, eat slowly and chew well, more fruits and vege, exercise...
Other part is, well fat is not such a toxin. Fat make dishes tastes much better, providing more satisfaction. Fat also fill us in little amount and keep us full for longer time. So if eaten in small portion, high fat food is quite ok. This goes well with very FAT pasta like carbonara. Just a small dish makes you really full for a long time and feel so well fed!
But I think the most important is our attitude toward food. If you eat but at the same time criticize food, like counting how much calories it means and need to work out for extra hour, etc, food won't treat you nicely. But if you eat with gratitude and appreciation, I am quite sure the alchemy inside you would be totally different. It is only until recently we could have this abundant of food (for some, obviously, while still many human remain in starvation). We forget the virtue of food. We lost our gratitude for food that keep us alive. We forget food and grown by the hardworks of farmers. We are ungrateful. When we take food as the enemy that make us fat, is it a surprise that food does not work well with us??

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- Your Inner Fish (68)
- A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
- By Neil Shubin
- Finished on Apr 1, 2013
  
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Your Inner Fish

It is very interesting to see how the author find fish bones in the polar-bear infested, sub-zero artic circle. And to see how our bones, ear, eyee, etc evolved from fish... I find that it only brush the surface.... maybe because we do not have a lot of solid and proven evidence on it... but, we'll ... (continue)

It is very interesting to see how the author find fish bones in the polar-bear infested, sub-zero artic circle. And to see how our bones, ear, eyee, etc evolved from fish... I find that it only brush the surface.... maybe because we do not have a lot of solid and proven evidence on it... but, we'll see.... see how we were evolved from fish.

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- 為什麼有錢人都用長皮夾？ (245)
- 年收入200倍法則！改變25萬人的錢包增值術！
- By 龜田潤一郎
- Finished on Mar 23, 2013
  
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為什麼有錢人都用長皮夾？

換個錢包就能徹底改變對金錢的態度，這也是我的實際經驗。要用長錢包唔駛摺起d錢，要整齊保持清潔不要當垃圾桶．．．每檥都是反映自己對錢的態度吧！問題是你有没有珍惜的心囉。
另，要多謝誠品，没有誠品是絻不會看到這書，也不會打書釘啦。本來擔心誠品在香港做唔住，你坐地鐵只會見人玩電話睇雜誌，幾時見過有人睇書？？？但竟然誠品銅鑼灣營業額仲高過台北24小時店。是自由行嗎？昨天打書訂的經驗是，唔覺好多自由行喎，雖然唔講野實情好難分．．．又，昨晚都見到型男行來行去，有台灣see and be seen的感覺。
在依度行來行去好過去老蘭啦！

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- Man Alone with Himself (10)
- By Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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- 斷捨離 (1038)
- 斷絕不需要的東西，捨棄多餘的廢物，脫離對物品的執著，改變30萬人的史上最強人生整理術！
- By 山下英子
- Finished on Mar 13, 2013
  
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斷捨離

只有口號，欠缺方法．．．真要斷捨離，還是讀讀另一個日本人寫的砰然心動人生整理法吧！

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