30 September 2014- Maintaining your composure and momentum through hard times by Brother tai wee

Last Saturday, we had the pleasure of inviting Bro Tai Wee to give a talk about maintaining your determination through thick and thin. Bro Tai wee begun his talk by highlighting how goal-setting can serve as a strong point of motivation and encouragement in spurring one forward. However, when one is able to achieve success, failures still come despite having the best plans laid. This has the impact of creating doubt within one’s mind. Instead of doing so, one should look out for potential mistakes and issues which were done in the process. He then went on to give an example of the Buddha’s determination to continue on his practice despite the difficulty and problems in it. In many of our failures, 2 mistakes tend to be the most prevalent – going through the ascetic path (which as many of you will know led to failure in the Buddha’s case) and not going through with the planned schedule. For laymen like us, application and intention are key in executing these plans since they can be applied anywhere and synergises well with diligence. By focusing on these key factors, our actions will be subtlety changed by our worldly view and it can change for the better in the long run. In short, keeping a positive uplook and maintaining one’s determination in things will help us in achieving our goals, despite them being difficult ones.