Lotus...water lilies..stay beautiful and graceful even in polluted waters...

Lotus and water lilies.... what have they to do with health and happiness?

Water lilies and lotus are renown for its beauty, purity and therapeutic values. To most of us Chinese, the lotus are also unique in a way that is connected with heavenly beings like "Kwan Yin", a spiritual Legend of a Lady with pure thoughts and loving heart. We used to see pictures and drawings from Eastern Arts about lotus and fairies and they are beautiful arts....

For our body - food
Lotus seeds can be eaten, yummy yummy... remember the moon cakes? There are cooling and rich in nutrients. The large matured leaves can be used for wrapping food like glutinous delicacies and edibles while the young leaves, delicious as a vegetable dish. And the petals, stamen and roots all has medicinal values of its own. Eastern arts and handicrafts are inspired by the beauty of lotus in too many ways... attracted by its artistic and graceful forms.

Food for our emotion
Since lotus and water lilies are a beauty itself, it soothes our feelings and stabilize our emotion when we gaze at those nice lilies... It is so easily cultivated that one can grow them inside their homes. If you don't believe me, just look at those pictures of lotus and water lilies.... the green leaves are such pleasant, soothing sights to our eyes.... really... a picture can do just such a job, what more if one can touch and really witness the nice lotus? Look for a few seconds at the photo on my homepage..the water lilies...posted by a special friend, Dr. Quek. It relaxes us...

Food for our mind
Always refer to those lotus and water lilies... They blossom so perfectly and so gracefully even in dirtied or polluted environments. Learn from nature.... Feel the peace and joy that radiates from such beautiful plants... Feel close to Mother Nature... Enjoy the serenity and majestic natural resources that can be obtained from plants and flowers... So, learn to dis-stress and un-install senseless, useless negatives that will drag our mental health down. Learn to live right, pure and with inner conscience even though we are in a degraded or polluted environment or situation. Learn to remain untouched from detestable, harmful and negative sources. Don't join the crowd to exaggerate, to criticize, to accuse or hurt and blame anyone.....Be like the lotus that flowers so graceful, untouched and uninfluenced of any form of pollution.


Learn the skill of staying healthy in our mind... Be tuned at Brain Wave A, the optimum level of positive greatness and power. Brain Wave A is a much talked topic where one can maximize its power to achieve one's goals. This brain wave is only accessible when a person's mind is tuned to maximum positiveness and love. And the power gained will be extremely great and unlimited. Brain Wave B is not to be accessed because it is about negativeness and stress.... Brain wave O is a resting mode. this will be another exciting topic.... coming soon..

Spiritual values?
Well, it depends on how one feels towards spirituality especially those who believes in Buddhism. I am not against any religion. Religion itself is a virtue, a belief, it is we, humans who have unstable emotions, minds and lack of genuine spiritual values that distorted the real messages that all religion teaches. Nothing is something, something is nothing.... Everything is nothing, nothing is anything.... quite confusing, right? ok, know this.....nothing is permanent.... Things come and go... People live and die....in such short a time....

Only God is real! Only God is eternal.... Duality that distort a person's learning attitude, character and being misinformed of what is LOVE is a sad thing. Where there is love, there is no sorrow, where there is love, there is peace, where there is love, there is justice, where there is love, there is always an answer, where there is love, there is hope, where there is love,, there is this harmony...where there is love, there is no hurt, no hate, no discrimination, no criticisms, no fights, no complains...... therefore love is the basic ingredient for peace amongst all. TO LOVE AND TO BE LOVED...

God is LOVE.. God is the CREATOR... the small lotus is His creation... so, we should treat it as a spiritual gift... a rare gift of Love, treasure all living things, be it in any form of flora or fauna...