Spiritual - Time Travelling and The Secret of Life

By: Noel H'ng

What is Life

Have you ever asked yourselves that good question?

What is the meaning of life? What defines life and death?

To some people, living means you are still breathing and your heart is still beating.

To some people, if your brain is still thinking, you are alive.

Some believed that you have never lived if you have not tried the best things in life. This includes owning and using the best things in the world, cars, properties, watches, art pieces.

Some also thinks that living means go around the world, travelling to most places in the world. If you have not been to corners of the world, you have not been to this world.

Another group would say that if no one remembers you after you die, you have never lived. You need fame, admiration, and remembrance.

Also, a fraction of people believe that living means making an impact to the world. leave a legacy to the world and the future generation. A revolution in anything will do, let it be technologies, belief, new drug formula, or philosophy.

All above are right, but something is missing. What is it?

Well, what is living?

First of all, we need to empty ourselves, and let go of all the existing paradigm and difference in cultural and religion belief. Let's explore into the root of life with an open mind.

First, start with our consciousness. This is what make us feel alive. The awareness. Some people call that our spirit, some say it is our soul, the mind, or brain activities.

We have 5 senses. everyone knows that. Lights comes through our eyes and the receptor cells convert the stimuli into brain and the information is interpreted. Sound travels through the ear and the signal is also transferred and interpreted. The sense of touch, pressure, cold, hot, pain etc, eventually traveled to the brain and interpreted. Chemicals stimulate the cells in the nostrils and in our tongues and the brain tells us smells and tastes.

Have you come across an instance that an item is in front of you, but you did not see it? When you have friend calling your name loud, but you just did not noticed? Your skin bleeding but you have not felt the pain until you noticed the would? Our brain is very interesting. The light, vibration, and pain signals are sent to our brain, but how could we not noticed them? This is where the consciousness come into place, how much awareness we have decides how much we are connected to this world.

There is a different between seeing and watching, hearing and listening, eating and tasting. The former is without consciousness, whereas the later do.

At this point of time, some people may have already gotten the idea. Whether we are alive or not, is decided by how much consciousness we have. How aware we are, or simply saying, how mindful we are.

The logical statement:
1. People connect to the world through senses.
2. Conscious awareness is the determinant of how much we are connected. Signal x awareness = connection. No matter how bright a light is, if awareness = 0, the person did not see it at all.
3. How much people connect to the world is determined by how mindful we are.

Why people do not appreciate free things? Why people are dying for one thing at one time, and bored of it after owning it for some time? Why is there a diminishing marginal utility in human behavior? The answer is direct: the conscious awareness in a thing is reducing, or there is no more conscious awareness in the thing.

Why some people owns many luxury cars in the world, stay at the most luxury mansion in the world, have many beautiful wives and kids with them, rich collections of arts and living the life of a king, and still feel emptiness in their heart, just like how King Solomon has described his life as a King to vanity? (Books of Ecclesiastes, Bible) He did not felt content and happiness even though he had the best things in the world with him. What Taoists called "Shen" (神), Buddhist called "Zen" (禪) are not mystical things. There is a reason Jesus said "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom in heaven; and blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see god. (Matthew 5; 3 & 8).

Too much material will divert your attention and therefore your awareness and consciousness. Imagine you have 20 beautiful exotic cars. You only have 2 eyes, 2 arms, 2 ears, but one consciousness. Our brain can only focus on one thing at a time. How are you going to appreciate (build connection) with all 20 of them at the same time? Your "Shen", "Zen", awareness, or whatever you want to call it, will be diverted. When your awareness is diverted, your connection with the world turns lose, and weak. Having said that, the more you have, the weaker your connection is to the world, and you will reach a state that emptiness kick in. You have all the best things, but there is no happiness from them.

Wondered why some kids are so happy? These are kids who don't really own many things. They play with their toy, and spent plenty of time "connecting" with their toys, appreciating them. Why people would never appreciate free things?

Why the most expensive things in the world are the things you cannot get? Why Buddha said that greed is what make people suffer? This is because when we grow greedy, we put all our attention and awareness on imaginations that do not physically exist, something that we labelled as "future". When that happens, we have limited awareness available for "now", or the physical world that we are in. More scientifically, it refers to the stimulus that is coming through all our sensory organs at the very present moment.  When we want a thing so badly, we are living in our imagination and disconnected from the real world. these are two different world, the "now" world is realistic, whereas the "imagination" world is abstract and non-existent.

The phrase "walking dead" describes people with heartbeats and walking around doing things, but with little to no awareness to their surroundings, the changes, the happening around them. These are people who are declared dead when their body is still living. This is what people said, "until the day I die, then only I realized I have never lived". These are the people who live in the future.

Time do not exist

Come to think of it, does future really exist? What is past, and what is time?  Scientists and physicians has always tried to find a formula for time and prove its existence. I may not be a scientist, but what if I tell every one of you that Time do not exist, and it is just a mere illusion of our mind, our consciousness? To scientist who are trying to build a time machine, the biggest challenge to them is not to overcome the speed of light, it is to overcome the time paradigm in their mind that time do not exist.

The moment when we start to ask "what is time?", we have already made a mistake. We have assumed that it is something that exist, and having effect to the universe. We are thinking it as a variable, or a cause. In fact, time is a product of consciousness, a product of human mind - the effect.

Past; is memory, present, is sensing; and future, is imagination.

Things progress in the universe, and things happen relatively. For example, the earth revolved around the sun and goes back to the same position relative to the sun after making 365..25 rotations. For light to travel 299 792 458 meters, the earth would have made a 1/86,400 rotation, or 0.00898 degree turn. Things progress, and time is a result of measuring the progression of things happening relating to each other. In ancient times, people communicate time through the position of the sun. This is to form collaboration and synergy to prepare and overcome the basic living challenges such as when to hunt, when the season changes, etc.

Things progress, but the concept of time is just an illusion from how things progress, and time travelling cannot be truly achieved, even though human are able to travel faster than speed of light. Light travels in all directions. The same waves of light that hits you, your skin, your desk, and your room wall, has been reflected countless of times inside your room and probably the same strand of light has hit all  things you know in your room before your conscious mind even can react. Now, let's say if you have a machine to travel at the speed of light, which direction are you supposed to travel in to observe the you 1 second ago?

Albert Einstein's law of general relativity is based on the observer's perspective, that light has traveled  299 792 458 meter in one second, and if you can travel at that speed , you will "freeze the time", by observing the "same strand of light" before things progress to another stage.

However, what will happen when time freeze? is it really that we are the only thing that moving around and everything else stop? No, when there is no time(progression), means there is no event at all, no light coming to our eye balls, no waves of sound travelling, nothing, nothing at all, and we goes into void. You will not have any conscious, your body do not exist, nothing exist in the time freeze. So, there is no such thing as freezing the time, because simple it cannot be observed, and by logic, then progression stop, it means no event, nothing happen in the universe , and nothing exist as there is no observer.

And time travelling is impossible for the fact that everything is relative. let's see you are between point A and point B, and you are travelling light speed from B to A. Everything is relative, remember? so you are relatively 0m/s faster than the light from point B, and if you turn your head around, your are observing the light from point A at doubled speed. So, the paradox is here: are you supposed to freeze in time or your are supposed to travel into the future?

Everything is connected 

It seemed sidetracked a too much, but if you can see the relationship in all these, it is actually attached. I-Ching recorded that the world is created from singularity, before the modern scientist even realized it. It's said that from none there is singular extreme, and forms the two phenomena. (無極生太極，太極生兩儀，兩儀生四象.....)

To visualize, when there is no event, it is called eternity. there is no time, as there is no progression/ event. From there, there is singular extreme, for example, something called light existed. Since there is light, there is bright and dark. In this case, light is the singular, and the bright and dark are two phenomena, from which one is the present of light and another is the absent of it. It existed from observer's point of view.

Everything around us, is closely connected, there is not a singular thing that is independent. This is how the famous butterfly effect becomes valid. In Abrahamic religions (Judaisms, Christianity, Catholics, Islamics), it is also said that god is the creator of the world and there is only one god. God, is that singularity, or what you may call it, the source, Everything is created by Him and in Him, everything is connected back to him. Hinduism called this Karma, and Buddhism called this Cause and Effect. The singularity is the cause, the world we observe now is the effect.

Golden Rules

Since time do not exist, and the only thing that truly exist is the present moment. The sense of existence come from the stimulus from the sensory organs, multiplied by the conscious awareness. So, in order to truly live, we need to have all our consciousness on the very present moment. That means listen to the sounds around you, look at the things that comes into your eyes, feel the things that your skins are in contact with, taste whatever come in contact with your tongue, and detect whatever smell comes in to your nose.

"Do not have idol", as taught in the bible, is equivalent to what it's said not to be greed. when you focus on a single thing - maybe focusing all your awareness on single thing you see to the extend that you cant hear, cant smell, cant feel your skin; or thinking of a single thing in your imagination all day and night to the extend that you are totally disconnect to the stimulus at the present moment, you are as good as dead. You live where your consciousness is.

Modern Slavery, or is it modern? Wake Up People!!!

By: Noel H'ng

Feel tired of repeating the same routine everyday?

Wake up, breakfast, go to the office with the same old traffic jam, repeating the same task you did yesterday and days before, rushing to finish your lunch, then the tedious job again, and then is the same road home with same traffic jam every day. By the time you got home, you have found yourselves totally exhausted and yet you have lots of chores to be finished.

But life does not seems to have mercy on you.You cannot stop. You need to carry on this life. You seems to have no choice.

When you were little, you were told to study hard and have dreams. When you grow up you realized that was just a white lie by the adults. People literally work like cattle.

This, is modern slavery.

Look what capitalism society has done to us.

Human are born with souls, but today, we live like machines, walking corpses.

We used to think independently, and have opinions. Now, we are trained to be submissive, and follow systems. The society tells us that there must be a standard answer to everything, and there is a standard practice and solution to any question. Our mind are so much pinned to equations. If you are A, then you are B. If you owns a Bentley, then you are successful. If your size is bigger than other, then you are not beautiful. If you do not get straight A's, you are destined to fail. There are much more examples like this in our society, in our daily lives.

People are taught to judge with equations since we are small. We have so much "logic equations" in our brain, as if the more we have, the smarter we are. (here goes another equation)

Hey, ain't we a living person with soul? Our world, our mother nature is kind enough to have variety. We have so many different genres and species of animals. We have different kinds of weather. Our eyes are designed to differentiate 10 million different colours, and our ears 20khz of sound. Who to decide which colour is superior to another, and which sound is sweeter than another? Is there a definite answer to this?

People are just afraid to be different nowadays. 

When we have a different opinion, how many times we have kept it to ourselves just because we are afraid to be laughed at for being different? The world is driven by creativity and imagination. We have 9 times more humans on earth than we were 200 years ago, yet we do not have 9 times more great artist,scientist and philosopher today. The great men in the history are those who do not seems to like to follow the heard. These are people with souls. They are the minorities.

Are you going to attend school, work, retire, and die just like everyone else. are you going to declare your soul dead the moment you enter into the school?

You need to make a conscious decision. You have to ask yourselves, who you are and where you belong. Big cities are not better than small town. Young people, rushing to big cities to find their dreams ended up spending their lives to build other's dream. Beware of the temptations and lies of big cities. By moving to the big cities, you though you were making more, but you did not realize you are spending even more. You do not live the same quality of life you live in your little town in big cities.

This is nothing new. Nothing is new under the bright sun.

In the old days, Chinese ancestors came long way from China and believed that opportunities and gold was everywhere in Malaya Peninsular ended up became labors, miners, and slaves to the capitalist here. What they earned was hardly enough to treat their rumbling stomach and buy some decent clothes to cover themselves when night turn cold. They were not entitle to any welfare. They had a burning fire in their hearts, as they were taught as a kid, that working hard was a good value to upkeep, and there would be one day they could live a good life.  They had hopes in their eyes when they were newly here, and the hope slowly turned acceptance, and despair as they grew old and realized nothing had changed. What have changed before and after they came, was that the capitalist had grown richer than before.

Then you may ask, what about the famous rich and successful in those times? There are a number of them who were quite successful..

Well, there were some who were successful, but there were even more who died below average. Why is it so? They were taught to be accept the status quo and be submissive. They had chosen the common mode of living over the others. They believed that whatever written in the books and taught by their elders were surely right. What they had not realized was that their elders had not been more successful than them in lives. And for those who has succeed in lives, what makes you think that all of them sincerely shared their secret of success with you? They know so badly in their heart that the average men who are "aspired" to live a common lives are their assets. These are the people who they can exploit for more profits. They give advises and false hope to people by publishing books on how they become successful, "inspiring" people to follow "their steps". 

In a way, the capitalist are encouraging the average people to work harder and spend more, so that their capital can grow. They pay you thriftily so that you can spend and maintain the economy. At one point when you run out of money to spend, they encourage you to borrow future money. Then the market is lack of cash, the federal banks print more money, and you thought it is for you. The fact is the money eventually end up in the capitalist. The cycles goes on. Inflation is on the side of capitalist who own business and assets that grow with inflation. Poor wage earners, the make you false dream and eventually you enjoyed a sedative death in their sweet lies.

Now, wake up, and start to doubt. Be courageous to question the status quo, and beautiful lies about the world capitalist tries to portray to you. If you have observed the nature, life has never been beautiful. It is a world where the strong and mighty hunts on the tiny and vulnerable. Know what you want in life. If you want to enjoy life with dignity and with a living soul, know what to avoid - places that will lure you to spend more than you can afford and enslave you to work like a machine for the next 40 years until you die. Spend only on things that you need to stay alive and support your passion. If you want to conquer the world, and be like one of the capitalist, you need to really think out of the box. Think differently rather and blindly accept what the society has given to you. Do not be afraid to challenge the status quo, do not conform. do not resign to what has been provided!

Investing 101: Fundamental Vs Technical Analysis

Fundamental Vs Technical Analysis

There are two major analysis method to assess stocks and predict the future price movement. Fundamental analysis look into the economic factor of a stock, whereas technical analysis studies the history market activity statistics of a stock through charting and uses the data obtained to predict the future movement of the underlying stock price.


Two Different Assumptions

In technical analysis, it is assumed that the market is efficient, that the price of a stock at any point of time has already factored in everything that could affect the price of a stock, including the fundamental factors and the market psychological factors. However, in fundamental analysis, it is believed that the price may be differ from the intrinsic value of an underlying stock due to human emotions and error, therefore the market is not efficient. When a stock price is below the intrinsic value, it is called an undervalued stock, and the reverse is called an overvalued stock.

Technical analysis assumed that the price move in trends. Once a certain price movement pattern has been formed, the chart is expected to follow the trend rather than against it. In fundamental analysis, the price is believed to be affected by the change in the economic, financial and market factors and therefore the future price movement cannot be predicted by studying the historical price.

Technical analyst assumed that history tends to repeats itself and price patterns will repeat the same way to the same market stimuli. The market is thought to be a simple if A, then B equation. On the other hand, the fundamental analyst do believe in another philosophy that past performances does not guarantee future results. A stock that peaked at $104 per share two years ago does not mean that it will go back to $104 few years later.

The Research Materials

The technical analysis looks at the price and volume movements of a stock, and analyze the changes of two data. Data can be presented in the form of charts and graphs. indicators derived from the price and volumes of the stock is also analyzed to predict the price movement. For fundamental analysis, investors has to dip into the financial statements of a company to understand the quality of the business. On top of that, investors also need to understand the macro economics of the business and the nature of the business. Related market info such as the market price of the goods sold are also taken into account. For example, if it is a oil and gas company, the price movement of the crude oil is expected to affect the revenue of the company, and therefore the price movement of a company

The Time Frame

Technical analysis can analyse and "predict" the price movement for as short as minutes, up to as long as years (though it is rarely relevant). On the other hand fundamental analysis often applies to longer term investments. This is also coherent to the fact that the fundamental analysis takes time to perform, and the the fundamentals represent the actual nature of a business. Imagine a company's revenue will not increase right away after, for example, the setting up of a new plant. Even the commodity price surge due to a supply shortage report, it does not guarantee that the earning for the next quarter will increase to the same degree for the commodity company. Generally, technical analysis is used for short term trading whereas the fundamental analysis is applied to long term investment.

How to get the best of both world?

This depends on your investing goals and your financial + psychological strength. Traders buy a stock and hope to sell it to another buyer at a higher price soon. Investor picks the undervalued stocks and hold it until the real intrinsic value has been realized.

If your investment objective is to make fast money and you are willing to take a higher risk, you can use the technical analysis for fast trade, and be ready to perform cut lost when the price is not moving the direction you predicted. Trading is a game of probability. You must be ready to accept losing trades.

If you aim to achieve a long term, sustainable wealth growth, you are advised to study and understand the fundamental of the business. This is because by investing in a company, you must aware that you are in a partnership with the rest of the shareholders of the company. You own the business and therefore you must know what you own. Find a good company by using your knowledge, and buy it at the right price. You can incorporate the technical data into your buying decision, such as whenever the price drop too much and reached oversold position.

More tips to choose the right counter to invest and the right time to enter the market will be shared in a more advanced articles. Please subscribe to us and follow us on Facebook to stay tuned!