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《🐶大人》(English version below)

一般人都以為唯有人才有過去未來、福報次第，其實不然。動物也有福報次第。

就比如說，狗。

狗兒是很貼近我們人類的一種寵物。狗也有牠的福氣，就比如說，生長在美國歐洲的狗，很多都跟主人一起睡，睡在大房間、大床、享受空調、可以出入很多公共場所，也有廣泛的法律保護權，妳你如果動祂，妳你還會被法律制裁。這些是比較上等命、有福報的狗。

有些專業工種的狗是被政府僱用，負責搜尋爆炸物、非法毒品、失蹤罪犯甚至是屍體，協助破案，現在也加入了新加坡反恐隊伍裡。

牠所執行的是正當的職業，而且還是有「官位」的，牠身上的磁場，也比一般家犬的磁場，來得尊貴一點。這「貴氣」和「富氣」是兩回事，不一樣的，大家不要搞錯！有些是富而不貴，有些是貴而不富。而這些照片裡的狗很明顯是身上有貴氣的，因爲來自於新加坡警察部隊的。

所以說，我們人千萬不要連一條警犬也不如，不要沒有貴氣、沒有忠義，連對社會對家庭的貢獻也沒有。

這些狗因爲這一世在幫助國家執行鋤強扶弱、保家衛國的工作，所積的功德，或多或少能夠抵消墮入畜牲道的業障。那下一世，牠投胎的時候，牠轉投的境界會比這一世更好，說不定還能直接得人身，就能繼續修行。

因爲必須要有人身，才能繼續修行，所以千萬不要失去妳你的人身。大家一定要懂得感恩圖報。好好的修。一句佛號，一句咒語都是修行，報國恩，報父母恩，報師恩，報地恩，報四重恩。四重恩報的話，妳你自然而然不會墮入畜生道裡去。

祝福大家早修早好。

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Most people think that only humans have a past and a future, and levels of fortune rewards. That is not true. The same applies to animals too.

An example will be dogs.

Dogs are a kind of pets that are very close to us humans. They also have their own fortune rewards. For example, dogs born in Europe and USA. Many of them sleep with their owners in a big room, on a spacious bed, enjoying the air-conditioning. They can also go to many public places freely, and enjoy strong protection of the law. If you hurt the dog, you will be prosecuted by the law.

Such dogs have a more noble destiny and higher level of fortune.

Some specialised breeds of dog are employed by the government, to sniff out explosives, narcotics, missing criminals and even corpses. They help to solve police cases and are now part of Singapore anti-terrorism team.

These K-9 dogs hold jobs of decent employment, and official positions. Hence, the energy fields from the service dogs are slightly more honourable than the energy fields from the domesticated dogs.

Now, the aura of nobility and the aura of wealth are two different matters. Don't get it wrong! Some are rich, but not noble. Some are noble but not rich. The canines in these photos obviously exude nobility, because they are from the Singapore Police Force.

Hence, as humans, we must not be beneath a K-9 dog. We should not lose our nobility, our loyalty and righteousness, and have zero contribution towards our family and the society.

In this lifetime, these canines help the nation to fight against violent powers, help the weak, protect our homes and defend the country. The merits accumulated from their work can more or less eradicate their negative karma of being banished to the animal realm.

In their next lifetime, they are likely to have a better rebirth. Perhaps, they can regain their human form, and continue their spiritual cultivation.

Only when one has a human form, cultivation is then possible. So, never never lose your human body. We must all learn to be grateful and seek to repay the kindness we receive.

Cultivate well.

One recitation of a Buddha's name, or a mantra, all account as spiritual cultivation.

Repay the kindness to your country, your parents, your teachers, Mother Earth, and the Fourfold Kindness, and you will naturally not fall into the animal realm.

Wishing everyone an early start in your spiritual cultivation.

NOTES ON CHARLOTTESVILLE:
OR, WHY WHITE PEOPLE DO NOT EXIST AS A PEOPLE

I've heard some several buddies, people I know well and care about (most of them not in comment boxes or in public) asking about the moral equivalency between the neo Nazis, white nationalists, and other white ethnostate type supporters and groups like Black Lives Matter, Antifa (short for Antifascists), and other direct action groups.

I'd like to speak to that comparison a bit and then turn to a more important part of it that I worry about. Before I get to that, I should first say that I've said enough about Trump. Honestly, the guy confuses me. He swings from a nihilistic idiot to a idiotic nihilist. His inconsistencies pile so high that you either get lost in them or you use them wholesale to try and make your point. He wins in the time and toll it takes. He also, I think, has found a very particular niche worldview for his newfound politics and is willing to, at the end of the day, embrace ANYONE willing to give him what he wants the most: affection. Never, at least to my memory, have we had a more emotionally needy president. But that's neither here nor there at the moment.

If you look at most social protests and revolutionary movements you will find a basic set of factions that don't change. They tend to spread between non violent oppositions and even less violent moderates, both winged by some type of pragmatists who are not in principle opposed to violence. Different sides will use the radicals of different parts of this division to throw away the entire argument of one side or another, and this is not an even equivalent exchange in the history of US racial tension. But I want to stay away, mostly, from broad historical claims here.

The point I am driving at is evident when we realize that the Civil Rights activists who practiced non violent acts of resistance were often lumped in with Black Panthers, or others not opposed to violence, although the two groups were ideologically fairly different. But I am not willing to say that they were so different as to not be judged as being on roughly the same side of the discussion. After all, the Civil Rights movement was not just the movement for the passage of legislation nor did it belong to the non violence of MLK Jr entirely. This is not historical. If you don't see that the US institution of slavery was a grave moral evil and that the Jim Crow laws that succeeded it were demonic in their formal and informal application, and that, as a result, those determined to end these things were in principle on the side of justice, then you really have no moral compass. Say what you will of the vast differences between MLK Jr and Malcolm X, but it is hard to argue that their social protest was off key in the tonic.

The more popular -- but equally as appropriate -- comparison these days is to Nazi Germany. (Of course, a great deal of the sentiment of the Civil Rights movement was a direct result of the effects that US wars had for those within its ranks who were not white, but that might be slightly off the mark in this case.) There is a bright and clear moral line between the Nazi ideology and its perverse Final Solution and those who sought to oppose it. This line, by the way, finds its way directly into the symbolism and rhetoric of the neo Nazi's at Charlottesville. Not only were there swastikas, there were Nazi crosses and other niche paraphernalia. There were the salutes, yes, but there were other salutations and insider ways of speaking going on. There were also the tiki torches, the modern Pepe Wal-Mart replacement for the burning torch rallies and burning crosses of the KKK. The grand knight of that sick group was standing by. They brought their own military-grade armed militia to protect those who came in homemade riot gear. This was not the making of a peaceful protest or free speech of the sort that we see the Westboro Baptists practice (not that they are emblems of public virtue, far, far from it!).

As I said earlier, if you find yourself unable to distinguish between Nazism in its original form and neo Nazis, white nationalists, and others like them and those who through what ever means they find useful (which one can disagree with in practice while still endorsing in principle) oppose them, then you are morally corrupt. If you can't quite figure out how the math works in this moral calculus, you are morally mindless and incompetent.

Of course, within any opposition to these (supposedly) easy immoral targets one can find many arguments and even passionate disavowals. But there are real moments when these lines are simply drawn and one must take a side. I have in the past even used the language of "alt left" in an entirely different usage, but I regret it deeply, now, seeing its life-cycle. I will not exchange my allergies to the ideological types of identity politics I have long opposed nor will my more specific critique of the critics settle. All that fuss gets set aside in these events. If I have to choose whether to stand next to a neo Nazi or Antifa, I'll choose the latter on pain of eternal damnation. To those who say you don't have to choose, that risk is one I am not willing to make. I would rather be a black panther than a lynch mob, as much as my truer sympathies lie somewhere else. Despite all my oppositions to modern warfare, I would pick up arms against the Nazis long before I'd "peacefully" cheer on their side. I think most people feel this way.

But something remains and this is what I worry about and even dread most: we are not fighting Nazis or lynch mobs. Most people would never go to march in Charlottesville. And even when you talk to many of the white nationalists they will say something along the lines of "I'm not racist." To them, their present politics is no longer that of the slaver or the KKK. They don't wear hoods and they don't want to own people as property anymore, it seems. They hate the Jewish people for reasons I am still not able to process in my mind, but their argument is more separatist than colonial -- so they claim.

They seem to think that the USA was founded by *their* ethnic ancestors, who hailed from Europe, gathered together in this ancient race called "White" that has recently, especially after the activism surrounding police brutality against African Americans, fallen into a disrepute that is sending the world into a globalist terror to come, in the biggest of the big governments.

Now, these conspiracy theories do not need to be true or believed to find where they hit a live nerve in a lot of people. Some people do ask why white people cannot have rallies for themselves without longing for ethic purity. Some people do think that white folks today are being washed away through interracial marriage, but many more who don't mind interracial romance still worry that white people are on the losing end of public sentiment. Lots of people who try to counter this tend to make it worse by appealing to gotcha replies about privilege or other things. I tend to find that too complex.

I recently commented to one of my friends that I don't think of myself as having very many "white" friends. Some of you might balk since many extremely intimate people in my life are, supposedly, white. And of course if we use one way of thinking about what "white" is, that is true. On the same logic, I would be, in certain real scenarios, white as well. But what I meant when I wrote to my friend was that I see my friends of European descent as from where they are. Those who don't know where they are from share with me a genealogical confusion that I can also understand.

Maybe this weirdness is partly because, on the vulgar ethnic analysis I am used to, I am neither white nor Black. And, of course, as many Africans who are neither black nor American will remind you, things become quite complex depending on what rules we are using to count the deck.

My point is this, and if you read nothing else, please read this: There is no such thing as "white people" in history. Most folks who use the expression were not allowed to use it only a few decades ago. The white supremacy of the KKK of old hated Blacks, yes, but also Mexicans, and Catholics, and Jews (of course), and atheists, and more. Depending on how you see it, whiteness was either more or less ecumenical, but just as ideologically religious.

Let me say it again: There will never be a "white ethnostate" based on European culture because the history of Europe is covered in ethnic feuds and wars. If you've never heard of a guy named Napoleon, check him out. I'm being serious. If you think of yourself as being "white" in some serious ancestral way, you're not. You are wearing a name tag your family was GIVEN at some point but never had by its own right. There are no white people in this familial sense. (Settle down critical race theorists, I am well aware of the whiteness that is real, too, but this ain't it.) There is no such thing as a white European culture or of a white heritage in that sense at all.

Again and again: The most scandalously false part of the neo Nazi mentality is as old as its previous, original half baked idea in Hitler's weak mind. The concept of a master race doesn't work for mastery of people nor does it work for figuring out who you really are. We come from places with names and languages and peoples and legacies that are concrete. Some of us lost a lot of memory at the hands of another, and others lost through the same hands. Today we tend to think that the ancestors of slaves, or indigenous peoples, or mixed-up mestizos are the ones who lack a strong identity and the rest have theirs in bold font. Not true. From your family to your soul, you don't really know who you are if you are using ideological pet words to hang the hat of your self.

I'm not a real Mexican and I'm not a real American -- and I'm no Canadian, either. My father was an orphan, so I've taken his bloodless name as my own, a Portuguese word by etymology. I of course will pass as a white guy at a Black family reunion, just as I passed as an indigenous guy today on the pier (until I produced a fishing license instead of a status card), just as I passed as an Iranian at a birthday party last week, and so on. But the real facts of who I am don't work in the abstract.

This is why if you want to find a better substitute for whiteness find a Greek Festival or an Irish Pub or a German Beer Garden or a French Restaurant. This is food and drink, and it is a set of multicultural cliches, but enjoy an Italian family dinner and tell me there is nothing about who someone is at stake there. The point is that the real identity we can and do celebrate is everywhere and it is not necessarily riddled with guilt, even if sometimes it could use some (or far less). None of it calls itself "white." None. If you are using "white" as your only name tag, then I am sorry to say that you've been fooling yourself. You don't have a people by that name. There is no such thing. Your great-great-great grandmother would mostly likely not answer to "white."

Personal history quickly becomes social, national, and regional histories and we find ourselves, again, at Charlottesville. All I can say for now about it, to my dear and beloved friends who I suspect think that they are "white," is this: We cannot have white rallies because there is no such thing as a "white" people. Black Lives Matter is not a movement for everyone who is of one dark color in the world -- it is about the US experience for those living within the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow over the past three years (some Black activist groups are critical of this aspect of BLM, by the way). If you want a "white" identity, then look to the folk expressions of it that we have and should treasure like music, food, and regional folk ways of being. Poetry, dance, dialect, accent, story. These are not safe or sanitary places -- I tend to think this story of a "white people" got made up there, too -- but they also don't pretend like people are any more or less related than they really are.

Donald Trump is a German-American man, not a white man. His whiteness is an entirely different issue that I am disinterested in getting into right now. If you wonder why white people are seen as bad sometimes, it is largely because of this false assumption: that white people exist as a people when they so manifestly do not.

CÁC ĐỀ THI IELTS WRITING NĂM 2014
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Ngày 09/01/2014:
Writing Task 2: The best way for governments to solve the problem of traffic congestion is providing free public transport in 24 hours per day, and seven days a week. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Ngày 18/1/2014:
Writing Task 1: One line graph and one column about the average price ticket and the average percentage of tickets sale of a theatre
Writing Task 2: Many students find it difficult to concentrate or pay attention at school.
What are the reasons? What could be done?

Ngày 25/1/2014:
Writing Task 1: pie charts
Writing Task 2: International community must act immediately to ensure all nations to reduce their consumption of fossil fuels e.g. gas and oil. To what extend do you agree or disagree?

Ngày 15/2/2014:
Writing Task 1: single line chart
Writing Task 2: Some people think success in life comes from hard work and determination. Others think money and appearance are more important. Discuss both sides and give your opinion

Ngày 22/2/2014:
Writing Task 1: Table
Writing Task 2: Children's education is expensive. In some countries, the government pays some or all of the costs. Do the advantages outweigh its disadvantages?

Ngày 1/3/2014
Writing Task 1: Maps (Mô tả sự thay đổi về cấu trúc của 1 học viện sau khi thiết kế lại.)
Writing Task 2: Living in big cities is bad for people's health. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?

Ngày 8/3/2014:
Writing Task 1: Compare 3 diagrams describing 3 different recruitment procedures
Writing Task 2: Some people say that all young people should have full-time education until they are 18 years old. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?

Ngày 15/03/2014:
Writing Task 1: Bar chart.
Writing Task 2: It is important for all towns and cities to have large public spaces such as squares and parks. Do you agree or disagree with this statement?

Ngày 5/4/2014:
Writing Task 2: An increasing number of people change their career and place of residence several times during their life time. Is this positive or negative development?
Ngày 12/04/2014:
Writing Task 1: Line graph, transportation of goods in Europe via road, water, pipeline, rail from 1980 to 2015
Writing Task 2: Some people think the main purpose of education is to make individuals useful to society; others say education helps them to achieve personal ambitions. Discuss both views and give your opinion.

Ngày 24/04/2014:
Writing Task 1: Bar chart of comparing the number of males aged 16 to 26 watch different sports with the percentage of those participating in them.
Writing Task 2: An increasing number of advertisements on TV aim at children. What are the effects of television advertising? Should television advertising be controlled?

Ngày 10/05/2014:
Writing Task 1: Process
Writing Task 1Nowadays, as women and men have to work full time, household duties should be equally divided. Do you agree or disagree?

Ngày 17/05/2014:
Writing Task 1: Comparison in a city map, between 1950 and current
Writing Task 2: Some children can learn more efficiently by watching TV. Therefore, children should watch TV regularly both in school and at home? Do you agree or disagree?.

Ngày 24/05/2014:
Writing Task 2: Many young people who leave school hold a negative attitude towards learning. Why does this happen? What are the solutions?

Ngày 07/06/2014:
Writing Task 2: Some people believe that if a police force carries guns, this encourages higher level of violence in that society. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?

Ngày 28/06/2014:
Writing Task 1: Bar chart and table combination.
Writing Task 2: With the increasing demand for energy sources such as oil and gas, should people be looking for sources of oil and gas in remote and untouched places? Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages of damaging such areas?

Ngày 10/07/2014:
Writing Task 1: Process: How the sand dunes are formed.
Writing Task 2: Some countries achieve international sports by building specialized facilities to train top athletes, instead of providing sports facilities that everyone can use. Do you think this is positive or negative development?

Ngày 19/07/2014:
Writing Task 1: Process để tái chế battery
Writing Task 2: Some people think that the government have the duty to ensure its citizens have a healthy diet, while others argue it is the responsibility of each individual. Discuss both views and give your opinion

Ngày 26/07/2014:
Writing Task 1: (Table) Data about development of high speed rail networks
Writing Task 2: Some people think that environmental problems are too big for individuals to solve. Others believe individuals can also do some things to solve these problems. Discuss both views and give your own opinion

Ngày 02/08/2014:
Writing Task 1: Two bar charts that compare Germany, USA, Japan, and China's worker ratio in Agriculture and Services industries.
Writing Task 2: In many parts of the world, children and teenagers are committing more crimes. Why is this happening? How should they be punished?

Ngày 09/08/2014:
Writing Task 1: Table.
Writing Task 2: Some people think that governments should ban dangerous sports, while others think people should have freedom to do any sports or activity. Discuss both views and give your own opinion

Ngày 16/08/2014:
Writing Task 1: Maps about fire escape plan for a student accommodation in a college (2 exits, 7 bedrooms)
Writing Task 2: In some countries, governments are encouraging industries and businesses to move out of the cities and into regional areas. Do you think the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?

Ngày 06/09/2014:
Writing Task 1: Bar chart
Writing Task 2: As major cities in the world are growing today, so do their problems. What are problems for young people who are living in the cities as the result of continued growth? How problems might be solved?

Ngày 20/09/2014:
Writing Task 1: Map
Writing Task 2: Some people think that introducing new technology can improve people’s quality of life in developing countries. However, others believe that free education should be offered. Discuss both views and give your opinion.

Ngày 27/09/2014:
Writing Task 1: Table
Writing Task 2: In recent years, more and more people tend to live individually. What are the causes of this trend? Does this have a positive or negative effect on society?
Ngày 02/10/2014:

Writing Task 1: 2 bar charts, 1 chart illustrate the number of people per square km (của 6 quốc gia năm 2003), 1 chart show change in urban population from 2003 to 2005 (của 6 nước đó.)
Writing Task 2: Dạng To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Government funding in university should only be provided for scholarship for the best student. all other funding can find from student fees and private organizations. To what extend do u agree or disagree?

Ngày 11/10/2014:
Writing Task 2: Today more and more people are using mobile phone and computer. Thus, the communication ability is losing. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Ngày 18/10/2014:
Writing Task 1: Process of making smoked fish?
Writing Task 2: Some people think that it is not necessary to go to other countries to study other culture. We can learn from books, films and the internet. Do you agree or disagree?

Ngày 25/10/2014:
Writing Task 1: Map Mô tả 1community centre 10 years ago (đến bây giờ)
Writing Task 2: Some people think that job satisfaction is more important while other people think that a stable job is more important. Discuss both views and give your opinion.

Ngày 01/11/2014:
Writing task 1: Two bar charts. The first is comparison of Australia and China’s imports and exports. The second is Australian goods imported from China
Writing task 2: It is better for people to be unemployed than people to be employed but they do not enjoy. Do you agree or disagree?

Ngày 8/11/2014:
Writing Task 2: Some people believe that a crime is a result of social problems and poverty, others think that crime is a result of bad person's nature. Discuss and give your opinion.

Ngày 22/11/2014:
Writing Task 1: 2 tables about international student ở Canada and the US.
Writing Task 2: In some countries, shopping online is replacing shopping at store. Do you think it is a positive or negative development?

Ngày 06/12/2014:
Writing Task 1: Line graph
Writing Task 2: Some people think that it is best to live in a horizontal city while others think of a vertical city. Discuss both view and give your opinion.

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