Hi There,
I am Yulius Halim, was born in Jakarta some decades ago. Been in IT industry just passed 2 decades and preparing to retire. ( Retire means to do things I enjoy most:) ).
My favorites activities are reading, traveling, do tai chi exercises, and listening to different kind of musics.If I have to choose which one of the genre, the answer is certainly Jazz music. ( but so many musicians to mention, some of them : Bob James and the Gang:), Lee Ritenour, Earl Klugh, etc.
Things that can make me feel really excited is when I do my pet projects, which mostly now are internet related.
This blog consists of a collection of notes regarding how to have Quantum Leap By Integrating Body Mind & Spirit
For me personally, blogging is a way of expressing thoughts in a period of time that I can revisit it in the future and understand more of myself and assess how far my personal progression is.
I hope that we can exchange notes on virtual basis.
Enjoy your stay here!
Note; starting 2010, I intentionally changed the theme to Continuous Improvement Through Better Body Mind and Spirit. All articles will relate to the theme,except some that are on the lighter side of life including songs and music video.
Warmest Regards,
Note: Photo taken on Saturday Jan 10,2009
Tai Chi any where any time:) Foto taken May 16,2009
Foto taken beginning of Aug ,2009 @ sam Po Kong : a multi cultural visit
Hotel Phoenix , Jogja June 2, 2010 joining MS roadshow to 14 cities.
January 5, 2011 in Singapore a corporate photo showed to all IM country managers world wide:
Dear Mr. Halim,
I would like to propose an article for your website, excerpted from the book “The Path to our Essence: Practical Spirituality for our Time” by Selim Aissel, in the hope that it may be of interest to your readers. Perhaps you would be interested in reviewing the book?
Thank you in advance for your attention and with many kind greetings from France!
Sincerely,
Aaron Epstein
YOU HAVE TO BE QUICKER THAN YOUR OWN MIND
Selim Aissel
When you see yourself analysing or negatively judging what you observe in yourself, whether it’s a thought, emotion, or attitude, be more clever than the one who is judging or analysing. Step back into the observer; observe the judge and don’t judge him. The judge becomes the object of your observation. Remember to make every disturbing element the object of your observation; in this way, the observer goes more deeply into observation each time, whereas if you see what comes as an obstacle to observation, it becomes one.
What is more, this is easy; it’s always the same mechanism that is observed, but compared to it, there is the grandeur of the observer that each time steps backward. Nothing can touch it. Observe, for example, the “I’m a wretched observer”; otherwise you’re taken in by the tricks of the mind that foil you every time. Each time, observe what is trying to trick you, with the knowledge that each time you observe, it is going to try to trick you. You have to be quicker than your own mind. It’s a tough game, and for a long time you’re going to lose.
It’s like a game of chess: when you move the first piece, a real chess master already knows exactly how he is going to beat you. Afterward he has to wait longer, and the number of possible combinations decreases. Your mind is a master; he’s going to beat you every time, for a long time. Unless you observe how he beats you, and one day you’ll know his ten thousand ways of beating you. Then there is you and him, and you can use your mind because you know everything he does. With one advantage for you: you are more than he is, you have a soul, a spirit, while he is just a mind.
Your mind is like a chess master; you’ve got to learn his game, and you can only learn it because he puts you in check. Each thought that comes is a new trick of the mind that is trying to carry you elsewhere; but one day the observer is as strong as the mind, both of them watch the game, and you can use your mind, you know what he is going to do, you’ve become quicker than him. Then you’re the one who decides.
The more you are in the observer, the less importance the object you observe has. When you are in the state of the observer, which is not the state of the dreamer, you observe what you decide to observe and are awake to the rest; otherwise this state of concentration leads to emptiness, but to a hollow emptiness. True emptiness is the emptiness of the observer who is detached from the mechanism and capable of taking in everything. Thoughts come and go in your emptiness, and it remains empty because nothing remains attached to it. The observer sees everything, it remains tranquil, there are no negative emotions. Everything is handled rightly. Things pass, the observer can take them seriously or lightly, it is identified with nothing. Judgment belongs to the world of things that pass.
True silence is what can welcome any sound. Immobility is what can welcome any movement, and the movement is always just. Observe by stepping back further and further, or like in Charlie Chaplin’s films, by each time climbing up one more story. In the assembly line down below, there’s bustle and commotion. On the story above, men are drawing the plans. One more story above, the big boss, the one who says what’s going to be done with the plans, is leaning back on a comfortable couch, leisurely smoking a big cigar and watching all this commotion on a television screen.
The work of observation I propose allows you to climb up a story each time. The commotion is going on, but as for you, you watch it. Sometimes the mechanism is already too strongly in motion and you’re not able to enter into the Work; but sometimes you’re quicker than it is. Then a space of freedom opens for you; you know what’s going to happen next, so no need to play it all over again.
Excerpt from the book:
The Path to our Essence: Practical Spirituality for our Time
by Selim Aissel