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The last time I let go, was after I watched 'The Phantom of the Opera - The Movie'.  Though the movie was in some ways quite touching, especially the part where the phantom was to separate with Christine, I cried.  It was not a teary movie, but I cried and in my heart, I cried even louder and harder.   In a way, it was a complete let go.  Watching the movie closed a huge chapter in my life.  The Phantom of the Opera was the thing that triggered our interests together.  She introduced it to me and recorded all the songs in a tape cassette for me and handwritten all the lyrics for me to sing along.  She also had the piano pieces and would often played for me to listen.  Besides Barbie Dolls, The Phantom of the Opera brought us closer.   When she left, I felt a huge gap in my life.  We were still very close by that time but The Phantom of the Opera was a history by then.  She was more interested into congo drums and ...

After going through some turbulence in my life lately and starting the new year with bad news, I have decided, enough is enough and it's time to go deeper. I found that sometimes meditation is not really meditation and sometimes the not meditating times can be really meditative.  Interesting huh? I remember Shri Mataji said 'Meditation is effortless.'   Advice for Effortless Meditation, London 1980 Advice fo r  Effortless Meditation . London (UK), 1 January 1980. - Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi In the same way vibrations are coming, they are radiated. What you have to do is to expose yourself to it. The best way is not to put in any effort. Don’t worry at what point you have a problem. Say, many people during  meditation , I have seen, if they catch somewhere they go on looking after it. You just don’t have to worry. You just let it go and it will work by itself. So you don’t have to put in any effort. This is what  meditation  is....

Malaysians are known to be friendly and always smiling.  Malaysian yogis are always known to be laughing out loud and happy-go-lucky and a noisy bunch. Recently, I found that my husband was facing some culture shock in Malaysia.  To me, it's so much milder than the culture shock I got when I went to China.  He can't understand why people do not bargain to get the cheapest price, why sometimes we give way to others while driving, why when we face with something unpleasant, we don't voice it out loud, instead we just ignore, why we don't fight for our rights openly, why do we say Thank You to the waitress when she brings our food, when it is their job to serve us? Now I see why Mainland Chinese are always known to be lack of social etiquette.  It's either they do not learn this in school or from any adults or any role model for that matter or it's a technique to survive due to the massive population. Not all Mainland Chinese lack social etiquette.  I ...