Is absolutely silly. It's the knowledge that someday...granted a looooong someday the sun is going to consume the Earth and  none of this, none of it will exist anymore. Everything will return to stardust. I think that's just lovely and beautiful.

Is full of wish, hope, and love.
I love you.
Yes, YOU.
May you have every happiness and blessing, dear one.

Who made the world ( Read more... )

bit of pema wisdom for my work night.

We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help
others in order to work on ourselves.
                   ~Pema Chodron

Disappointment, embarrassment, and all the places where we cannot feel good are a sort of death. We've just lost our ground completely; we are unable to hold it together and feel that we're on top of things. Rather than realizing that it takes death for their to be birth, we just fight against the fear of death. Reaching our limit is not some kind ( Read more... )

People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they are being punished. That's not the idea at all. The idea of karma is that you continually get the teachings that you need to open your heart. To the degree that you didn't understand in the past how to stop ( Read more... )

Buddhism on the rise

The Buddhas.