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Discover your voice. you and you. Un-opened Birth-Gifts. Organiser: Buddhist Society Speaker: Mr. Chia Fah Choy Date: 16 Aug 2006 (2:00pm-3:00pm) Venue: SE102. Acknowledgement. There are so many gifts Still unopened from your birthday, There are so many hand-crafted presents

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  1. Discover your voice you andyou Un-opened Birth-Gifts Organiser: Buddhist Society Speaker: Mr. Chia Fah Choy Date: 16 Aug 2006 (2:00pm-3:00pm) Venue: SE102

  2. Acknowledgement

  3. There are so many gifts Still unopened from your birthday, There are so many hand-crafted presents That have been sent to you by God. The Beloved does not mind repeating, “Everything I have is also yours.” There are so many gifts, my dear, Still unopened from your birthday. Hafiz

  4. Principles (Natural Laws) • universal • timeliness • self-evident (inarguable) Un-opened Birth-Gifts Freedom and Power to Choose • The 4 Intelligences/Capacities • Mental • Physical/Economic • Emotional/Social • Spiritual

  5. Principles (Natural Laws) • universal • timeliness • self-evident (inarguable) Un-opened Birth-Gifts Freedom and Power to Choose • The 4 Intelligences/Capacities • Mental • Physical/Economic • Emotional/Social • Spiritual

  6. “…It is our light, not our darkness, that most frighten us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?...” Marianne Williamson

  7. Who are we?

  8. Spirit Whole-Person Paradigm Mind The mental The physical/economic Heart Body The spiritual The social/emotional Almost all philosophy and religion, both Western an Eastern, from the beginning of recorded history, you’ll basically find the same dimensions:

  9. Four Needs of People Mind To learn Growth and Development To leave a legacy Spirit Meaning and Contribution Survival Heart Body To live Relationship To love

  10. Principles (Natural Laws) • universal • timeliness • self-evident (inarguable) Un-opened Birth-Gifts Freedom and Power to Choose • The 4 Intelligences/Capacities • Mental • Physical/Economic • Emotional/Social • Spiritual

  11. Integrity Principles/Natural Laws Respect Kindness Fairness Honesty Service Contribution

  12. All actions have consequences When we pick up one end of the stick we pick up the other.

  13. Values are social norms You jump, I jump. Are your value based upon principles?

  14. Principles (Natural Laws) • universal • timeliness • self-evident (inarguable) Un-opened Birth-Gifts Freedom and Power to Choose • The 4 Intelligences/Capacities • Mental • Physical/Economic • Emotional/Social • Spiritual

  15. Make an obscene gesture. • Insult the intelligence of the driver. • Add to the insult by adding a wide smorgasbord of expletives. • Raise their own blood-pressure, adrenaline, heart-rate and stress levels. • Pound furiously on the horn. • Engage in a lengthy conversation with any passengers in the car, focusing on the imbecilic nature of the other drivers. • Carry the experience on to work, explaining in righteous fury to their coworkers about the moronic nature of the driver, and expanding on the possible consequences. • Store the story as a constantly-to-be-reviewed example of the irresponsibility of other members of the driving community. !@##$^*%^&*()&&*()&*()*#@&^@#$#&^*$%#$

  16. The other driver had just discovered that his wife and child were in a serious accident just down the road. • The other driver was in the process of suffering a heart attack. • The accelerator of the other car had become jammed to the floorboards. • The other driver had been on a drinking binge, and was ‘smashed out of his mind’. • Hiding behind the other driver’s seat was an escaped criminal with a gun, who had threatened to kill him if he did not drive flat-out to aid in the escape. • The other driver was your own brother. • etc., • etc., • and etc.

  17. Any time your emotional life is a function of someone else’s weakness, you disempower yourself and empower those weaknesses to continue to mess your life up. Stephen R. Covey

  18. Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. Stimulus Response Freedom to choose In those choices lies our growth and our happiness.

  19. The history of free man is never written by chance but by choice – their choice. Dwight D. Eisenhower

  20. Discover his voice

  21. The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail tonotice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds. R.D. Laing

  22. If we have given away our present to the past, do we need to give away our future also. Stephen R. Covey

  23. The End Thank you

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