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Repentance is the thought and action to correct a wrong and seek forgiveness from a person who is wronged. Often in religion, it is labeled as a sin and we look for ways to ask for forgiveness from the other party.

With different religious practice and belief, the way which religious believers ask for forgiveness also varies. At individual level, people ask for forgiveness directly from the person and are recommended and most effective and beneficial to individual mental and spiritual well being.

As for religious practice, there was a news article which talks about Pop Benedict XVI breaking the silence on child-sex abuse which was dismiss by victims who wants actions instead of remarks. While I was reading that news article, I remembered the informational show on Channel News Asia that showed how a Christian believer go on a holiday to walk and get a feel of what God went through in Israel the birth place of Jesus Christ and talked about how he was crucified.

The reason for crucified by the other religious leaders was partly due to the fact that he failed to respect other religions who did not at any point of time provoke him nor his religion at all and there he is going into a Muslim and Jewish religious nation and trying to spread his own belief and faith disrupting other people’s belief.

I’m not sure if it’s right or wrong, but one must be responsible for their personal mistakes which he did, and I respect him for that. Than going back to the news article, the phrase which states “must repent for sins and recognize mistakes” and when I think of the actual practice currently, it isn’t doing what they are saying. When a confession is made, believers were told that by welcoming God into their lives, their sins will be washed away and seek enlightenment.

I will agree partially as enlightenment that part, is same with all respective religion but when it comes to washing the sins away, that is neither practical nor realistic at all. Instead it is misleading people into thinking that they can continue to do bad things and yet ask for forgiveness, its identical to saying oh Law and Justice, I believe in law and will not commit the crime of robbing/kidnapping a person again, please pardon me of my wrong doings, don’t sentence me to jail please.

That to me sounds so wrong. What I understand of religion is whereby we should help one another, and not by expecting other people to carry the mistakes and be pardon without taking responsibility of our own actions. Perhaps it is precisely this misleading or misunderstanding of the true intention of God which caused the Pope sex scandal to keep on surfacing.

I do believe in religion but the moral, ethics and individual responsibilities still holds regardless of what we believe in, be accountable for our own actions.

Religion is what holds us to our own beliefs; it is like a moral light house guiding our way from dangerous costal shores.

So no matter what you believe in, make sure you are doing the right thing and be responsible for your own actions.

What kind of relationship do you want to have? Positive or negative relationship with people around you, are you going to force your way in and get killed in the process or approach with caution and respect for your competitors?

Think of the consequences before doing anything.

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Faith is the belief that is not based on truth or proof. It is the trust in ones ability. It can be a system of religious belief, thus people are willing to trust their respective culture.

Actually the reason why religion works is more of like a sanctuary. Some place where they can attain enlightenment and peace.

Different people trust different religion solely because of either influence or it suits their personality. Years back, there was once such an article that shows people are more superstitious when the crisis are bad and thus more temple offerings are made.

The actual truth is, in good times, people rely on themselves more than religion, only when times are bad than they turn to the backup which happens to religion for comfort purpose. Those are people who are fakes.

For real religion believers, they will sense and feel peace in any religious place, where they will feel at peace in the heart, able to speak to their soul etc.

Faith is a blind belief which people these days mixed up with the truth and reality due to modernization and technology. Belief is good, but it cannot be made blindly and just follow the leader.

Do not allow the blind to lead the blind. Free thinkers have their own ways to search their souls, just go on traveling, get back to nature, with the river, forest and temples, even if you are not a believer, just being in any empty natural place without electronic gadgets will do the job.

You do not need to believe me or my words, you just need to do it and test it out yourself. It will never fail on you. Electronic gadgets emit waves that just disrupts and increase our tension, thus we cannot focus and is unable to find peace, thus people go to their religion practice regularly for peace.

Look around those places; no way will you see it filled with electronic gadgets all over the place, with the exception of the minimalist of mike and speaker plus lights.

For best results, natural place, with fresh air, water flow and indulge in the gentle morning sunlight if you have the time to learn and appreciate nature.It is free, but not many really know how to appreciate the beauty of nature knowing there is somebody who you can share the joy with.

Let the sea breeze blow in your direction and that might be a smoothing and relax sensation to anyone, as long as you take time to slow down your pace, and empty your thoughts.

Enjoy and indulge at that moment of silence with the wind blowing in your ears and the sound of sea waves hitting against either the stones or the beach.

Belief in success, everybody deserves an equal chance so never discount yourself from it.

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Festival is an event staged by local community centers on the unique aspect of the community.

There are many types of festivals across the globe, from religious to arts, food, entertainment and seasonal festivals. The most talked about regardless of nationality will be the various religious festivals of respective countries.

Time and time again, religious festivals have being board cast on television shows numerous times and showing different types of religious cultures and festivals. Christianity and Buddhism are the most commonly featured on the media due to the yearly festival across the world.

Media telecast of religious festivals is to neither a good nor bad thing, it’s just another piece of news and allow people to get updates for people to follow up with.

Buddhism has quite a number of religious festivals that has being shown on television and in other media channels. With its deep roots and influence from all around South-East Asia, all the way from China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Iran, Afghanistan, India, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and in Singapore. With different religious practice and worshiping of different gods, generally we are all from the same roots, Buddhism just that our way of celebrating festivals might deter from among ourselves.

The scale and magnitude of how a country practice their own religious goes to show how united they are actually. I’m not trying to promote any religion here, but just that I was watching a Chinese show this afternoon and it help me understand the importance of culture, generations, unity,

Celebrating festivals is good way to build bonding, unity and getting to know one another of the same belief. Example like what I watched in the show, the dragon boat festival also known as the 端午節(Duan Wu Jie) is a good way to let people among the community interact with one another.

Dragon boat festival is especially successful in this aspect. Due to the involvement of lots of people, competition among respective dragon boat teams (different communities pit against each other) thus getting to know and understand respective cultures thus encouraging mutual understanding.

With a common celebration, it is not limited to a small group but it is done a big scale. Making of the dumplings in the kitchen increase the family bonding when the cook, and the assistance on a small scale.

Within a community, the village will work towards preparation for the dragon boat festival, all the festive practice; beliefs will be passed down to the next generations with participation and involvements thus strengthening the bonding among them.

Beyond community level, they cheer each of their own community to spur each other community to fight for the dragon boat championship thus increasing the tolerance for other communities with a common goal united as one.

Organizing a festival is hard-work but the rewards far exceed the cost of the festival strengthening themselves with their own country’s identity, culture and unity.

That is something which we all can learn from, to understand each other’s religion and practice instead of condemning and trying to stir up conflicts which results in only more signs of trouble etc.

Tolerance and mutual understanding is the way which we all should work towards together as a whole. Like wise in business, instead of trying to cut each other’s throat with reducing profits, getting into a price war competition, why not work together, spilt profits, and have win-win situation?

At times, when I read and watch news and getting to know businesses trying to fight for a bigger slice, it just amuse me to know how much they lack in terms of mutual respect and cooperation.

Most businesses outside are just dumb in my personal perspective, why can’t they learn a simple thing like cooperation like the politicians, government, helping one another? Although it’s true that businesses are making much more money than politicians, but they are killing each other instead of helping one another.

Businessmen should instead learn from entrepreneurs who are successful than businessmen themselves.

Festival is the way to go, respect, tolerance, and understanding is needed to build a relationship and a mutual beneficial business for profits and not losses seeing red figures.

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Confidence is to have full trust or belief in oneself and one’s abilities, it is the assurance that a person display that the audience believed the person/speaker completely. It is the trust and the faith in a person or thing.

It is a belief and trust of self-confidence that helps individuals complete any task at work, in school or in business. In the world of animals and man together with other living organism, it is all about survival and confidence. Without self-confidence, life will not be passed on.

Man animals and other organisms are similar in various ways. They during the mating season/period will display their respective own skills, strengths and beauty to ward off other competitors to attract a mating partner. Fending off competitors means to display their strength first and gauge the possibility of winning before making getting into physical action.

Like a monkey, first accessing his rivals before fighting, the winner who emerges victorious will have the rights to mate with the female. The loser will either stay within the group of the monkey than helping to keep a look out for any external treats as a scout if not leave or find another group to find a mating partner.

How man mate is whereby both the male and female shows confidence of themselves via their own respective abilities. For male, standard guide will be wealth, home, money, financial security which will never get out-dated.

Females on the other hand display that they have the figure, motherly instincts like care and concern or interest plus developed assets both mentally and physically.

Mating is a showcase of easy way of displaying self-confidence via actions, speech and other factors. Business profits and deals are made based on their previous credentials, success rate, relevancy and return on investments before striking a deal.

In a presentation, if the speaker is weak in the sales pitch, soft voice, unable to help his audience share the same vision and dreams as the speaker to sing in the same cord, the speaker than fails the presentation giving the chance to his business rival.

The way we speak, talk, look, conduct ourselves, even walking display the level of confidence that we have ourselves. There are two types of confidence, first is inner confidence, a self belief and next is external confidence, the way you dress, how you walk and communicate shows how confident you are.

Having inner confidence, self-belief in you is far more critical than having external confidence. Clothes, body language can be faked, but inner confidence cannot and be faked unless they are trained in that area.

Often it is those with strong self-belief in themselves, when people are confident, even if they (guys) are outside walking in shorts, slippers and t-shirt ladies will still turn their heads and follow you as you walk pass them. I have tried it out on and it works. Inner confidence can be sensed by others even in the same gender, if you have strong inner confidence, the odds of winning is stacked with you against someone who only depend on external confidence like relaying on buying branded clothes putting on a false mask on a daily basis.

If you walk with confidence, you will feel wind as you walk even if there’s no wind on the streets. Don’t believe me, try it.

For starters, first wear office attire, put on a tie for guys formal attire and walk on the streets, be neat and tidy, don’t drag your shoes, and you’ll feel something different. That is when you feel the difference between the choice of clothes you wear and walk, than only will ladies start turning their heads slightly.

As for people with strong self-confidence inside themselves, they know very well how it feels like to have looked upon.

There is a common saying “Fake it till you make it” but I would prefer to say “First you fake it, second you network with successful individuals, third get the results your desire by doing what they do and fourth you have made it.” That is the real process of the common saying, but people just take it at face value without looking at in deeper into the meaning.

Confidence can be trained, built and taught but it must be used on the right things without harboring any ill intentions in exchange for some temporary gains as to permanent gains.

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