Mengubah Tanggal dan Jam pada Sistem Operasi Windows

Perhatikan pada kanan bawah layar monitor anda apabila anda menggunakan windows xp, di sana terdapat beberapa informasi, salah satunya adalah informasi tentang waktu saat ini. Kadangkala waktu yang tertera pada windows berbeda dengan waktu yang ada pada jam tangan atau jam kantor tempat kerja kita, untuk itu perlu diadakannya penyesuaian agar bisa sesuai dengan jam tangan kita, atau disesuaikan

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Menjaga Compact Disk (CD) Player Agar Lebih Awet

Dulu sebelum dikenal adanya compact disk, semua installasi software pada komputer dilakukan dengan menggunakan disket. Namun seiring perkembangan teknologi munculah teknologi yang lebih canggih dan lebih besar kapasitas penyimpanan data serta memiliki kecepatan proses yang lebih tinggi pula yaitu piringan compact disk atau lebih sering disebut CD (sidi) atau orang awam menyebutnya "kaset".

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The Importance of Buddhist Relics

For better or for worse I am not one for superstitions and since becoming a Buddhist 7 years ago I have often been baffled by the Buddhist relics, which every temple from Nepal to Japan seem to have enshrined. There is much superstition associated with these relics. The ones that grab the attention of this skeptic the most are the ones claiming to be remnants from the body of Buddha. First of all how does anyone know that a tiny piece of bone or tooth is that of Shakyamuni Buddha Siddharta Gautama? I guess people just want to believe that they are from his body and that seeing them gives them some kind of blessing.

However, It seems strange to me that some followers of Buddhism would place such attachment to pieces of bone or tooth that may or may not be from Buddha when Buddha taught not to attach to material things. Some believe that being near one of these relics is like being with Buddha as if he were still with us. Yet is that not attaching to Buddha the man, Buddha as seen through the idea that he had a self--a separate identity from us and everything else?

Would it not be just as effective to look at our own teeth as all is Buddha--as we are all one? Is not the essence of Buddha always with us--in fact, within us regardless of whether or not his tooth is resting in some far off temple? Do we really need a material object to convince us of the importance of Buddha and his message? Buddha taught of the impermanence of all things and yet despite this teaching some Buddhists don't seem to want to let go of the Buddha's "body."

I can understand their benefit from a philosophical and cultural point of view. As well as if they inspire a person to live up to the example of Buddha and his disciples and the example of deceased teachers. However, I don't believe the idea that many (not all) Buddhists adhere to that these relics have special powers or can reduce less skillful karma simply by looking upon them. In one exhibit people could receive "blessings" when the relics where placed upon their heads.

This idea that relics can transfer blessings to keep someone from dying or to help a business succeed seems a bit theistic. In that I mean it places Buddha (and notable teachers) in the position of a Savior as in the monotheistic religions. Yet we know that Buddha was not a Savior like Jesus but a man--True, an enlightened man but not a being who can save us from our own karma. Buddha did not even want images of him made let alone want people to basically worship his tooth!!

~Peace to all beings~

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Buddhism, Hinduism, Karma, Fate and Predestination.

Whatever decision we think we are making is actually being made for us, because the decision is the end result of a thought and we have no control over the arising of the thought.

-Ramesh Balsekar

James: Upon first reading this I agreed with it but now that I've been contemplating upon it for awhile I'm wondering, "Do we really have no control over the arising of the thought? Don't we have control over what we think?"

I realize that karma plays a role in our thought process but this quote seems to confuse karma. It rather seems fatalistic and seems to lean toward teaching predestination and from what I've learned Buddhism doesn't teach fatalism or predestination:

It is quite often the case that we find people misunderstanding the idea of karma. This is particularly true in our daily casual use of the term. We find people saying that one cannot change one’s situation because of one’s karma. In this sense, karma becomes a sort of escape. It becomes similar to predestination or fatalism. This is emphatically not the correct understanding of karma. It is possible that this misunderstanding of karma has come about because of the popular idea that we have about luck and fate. It may be for this reason that our idea of karma has become overlaid in popular thought with the notion of predestination. Karma is not fate or predestination.

James: I'd really enjoy hearing your thoughts on this quote, fate, karma, predestination and how it relates (or not) to Buddhism. Part of this could be a difference between Buddhism and Hinduism as this quote came from a daily Hindu wisdom email. And while I don't know Hinduism as well as Buddhism it was my understanding that Hindus don't believe in predestination either.

~Peace to all beings~

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Akhirnya Kembali Juga Nge"Blog"

Sejak mengawali perjalanan wisata dalam rangka liburan Galungan, Nyepi dan Kuningan yang kali ini terjadi berurutan dalam 2 (dua minggu) sehingga membuat daerah bali terjadi libur yang cukup panjang.


Pantai Weru


Meski postingan kali ini agak nyeleneh dari ilmu komputer tetapi karena ini adalah bagian dari mencari hiburan di selah-selah kesibukan dengan rutinitas yang menjemuhkan kita perlu

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