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Whatever happened to the great civilization that once dominated the East in the Asian Continent? Once a land of and for the gods. Once an empire that rose to great examplary heights. Once a nation mimicked by others in ingenuity and ideology. Now, it's a nation barely survived. A nation through centuries of wrong-doings is now at an embarrassingly all-time low, trammeled and oppressed by others. What are the wrongs of the children that their ancestors forsake them so? What must the descendants do to atone for their wrong doings? Whatever happened to the gods that once graced the land, who once helped glorify the Kingdom to the wonder that is still an enigma today? Are they gone or are they still here, disguised still in their mortal forms? All these questions and more unasked may perhaps be answered, though this is just my thought as influenced by many references, both reliable and unreliable, as to shape my perception of the world I live in.

According to my master, the Boddhisattva, the Maitreya Buddha to-be, for a nation to be strong and examplary that nation has to act in accordance to Dharma (God law). From the peasant on up, each caste has to have their own virtue. They must all honor righteousness and compassion. Such virtues and more can culminate in the intelligence of individual being. A nation ruled through compassion and intelligence is a nation that is strong with longer-lasting power. A nation lacking intelligence and compassion, no matter how strong and powerful it is, will soon see its demise through time. Sadly, that is the characteristic of a nation that is called Cambodia.

A strong foundation starts from the bottom up. Seldom is any structure not crumble from the bottom. Any king on high cannot remain high if the foundation from the bottom is swayed. Thus, for a nation to be strong and lasting that nation has to have its citizens be strong in education, be free with trade and commerce, be free to choose the course of their lives. With the case of Cambodia, they should have freedom with a certain structural guideline. Cambodia cannot be free in the Western sense of freedom because in the West they have their own unique structural guideline. Cambodia, with its thousand-old tradition cannot absolutely conform to the democratic freedom as exemplified by the West at all, though there are good concepts that can be adopted if to survive in the modern era. However, I am diverging greatly when I say Cambodia needs to adopt Western standards and have them work with their own traditional structure. For Cambodia to be the leader of the world in form and structure, it would not do for Cambodia to adopt the standards of others. They must devise their own standards that will work and work seemlessly as to exude harmony and pervade the world. This is what is called the greatness of Cambodia or any empire.

Thus, I believe Cambodia is slowly treading that path that leads to greatness, though some may not discern it so now. To explain the past is limited for human being is limited in their existence. It can only be extrapolated through a reasonable hypothesis. To rule a nation, he has to rule his own town. To rule his own town, he has to rule his own home. To be the master of his own home he has to have his family in working harmony. Thus is how the Chinese scholars advised. Similarly, to find the cause of destruction of any one nation, look to the root of that nation: the peasants.

The peasants' conditions bely the reputation of its dictator. A dictator neglecting its impoverished poor is a dictator that rules through tyranny. How a person becomes a dictator is through his karma of merits. The duration of any dictator in any office is dependant on the store of his merits. The more he stores good merits, the longer his reign in office. A dictator that reigns for a short span of time attests to his short accumulation of merits. The law of the Nature is that all things are transient. Thus, a person's heart and or mind is less fixed, always transient, always changing. A person if he commits the same action over and over again becomes a habit, where his repeated actions becomes his fate, his destiny. Thus a person who wants power may commit one good action and through his purity of deed his wish got granted. In the next lifetime, he was born in an elite family with great potential to be a dictator. He ran for office and got it. He attained the office of public service, a position of power. If he is virtuous, he earns more merits and thus his reign continues farther. But, if his actions are corrupted, his store of merits get depleted and soon would get ousted.

This is just an example of how action translates to results. The point to take home is that the more one commits good actions, the longer the person can enjoy the fruits of such labor. Thus, with respect to Cambodia, from the peasants on up, they lack dedication in virtues. It is not that they don't have virtues. It is that they do have virtues but just not enough as to appear to have no virtue. Lacking virtue is equated to have no intellligence, no merit. Thus, they are ignorant in their actions and thus their fruits are poor. The fruit of poverty is such that they are poor in heart and wealth and wisdom. It is a chain event of fruits where its source of fuel is deed dedication, karma of virtues. Lacking deed dedication translates to lacking so many resources, so many victuals one can tap into.

Thus, my master, the Maitreya Boddhisattva, always advise one to practice on accumulating virtues for they are all the victuals one must each rely on for sustainance in the hard times ahead. Though I cry for the lost of Cambodia be it through land and resources as well as the educated scholars of old nonetheless, I rejoice for Cambodia for the Enlightened Being presently, for His leadership in the establishment of the New Order, the next Kingdom of Peace that Cambodia shall soon become. Through virtues and deed dedications will one find the key to salvation. Long live the King to-be for he is the world's Saviour, both material and immaterial!

why do we tend to hurt the close ones more than anyone else? I read this story to be close means we will bump to each other more often, but if only we learn to accept one another then we can survive.

I need a long good self pollishment...it is hard to avoid argument with close ones.Hmm......

Like a fog's lifted, I suddenly remembered my password to KW! Whoo-hooo! Thought I'd ostracized myself there for the longest time. But, it looks like it's quite quiet here. Where is everybody? I'd been busy with school and now I'm done. I hope to grace KW more often now that I could access my account again.

I won't forget this site, just because I know I can complain here and it won't cause any harm rather I say it to other people in my life.

Now, I realised I missed my university time. I don't get to sleep in and working a bit extra and doing this training course really gets me. Oh yes plus I am a bit crazy, I am doing a langauge lesson just to burn myself out! I have put on weight a couple of kilos since my sister has been away, maybe it's a sign of depression, lol. I have been cooking so much, and I can feel my waist is a little bigger than usual.


Working is quite stressful especially when you are still training and you are put to run a store in 6 weeks, not my liking but I guess it is a good experience because I will do it later on. Although it's too soon and i feel upset that I haven't been trained properly yet but have put into the position.

I feel so scared and so afraid that I never do a good job, it's a feel of lack of confidence. I know I have little confidence in myself no matter how many times people say I am good enough!! Asking me to boss people is not what I want to do either...If my career is going to be like this for the rest of my life I wonder if I ever be a good primary health care professional. It is not the best position I have imagined and not a great return either (yes I am still training! I should remember that).

So far the good part is that I know each day I can make a difference to someone's life, the not very impressive one is, I don't like to say it but since no one reads it anyway, i will say it silently. I don't like nurses who come in and tell me that they are a nurse. It's not impressive!...doctors never say they are doctors.


Okay, enough spicy....I still wait for a call or text on my birthday! I am not older but aging...feeling old!