Your energy is very much like fire. In fact, you use anger
to fuel your fire. When it gets too hot, you brazen and lose your wits. Calm
down to a quaint amount and fire will come to good use.
Miss Chin was not quiet for those five minutes after. Life
is but samsara, she said, so why bother stating the obvious? If one accepts
that we live to suffer, we won’t make a hullabaloo about our ups and downs. If
you know that you are going to die soon and it is the ultimate fact, what do
you do? Sit and being upset about it won’t change a thing. For example, if we
are going to lose this game of Scrabble to your lovely eight year old niece, does
it matter to get freakishly emotional at all? So we would move on playing the
game and enjoying the time spent, relishing in the present.
The philosophy of Buddhism works around that core. Miss Chin
emphasized the idea of not calculating loss or gains, instead to be actively
neutral about issues in life and be generous to all that matters. You only go
to Alaska once in a lifetime, is it a good thing to be tightfisted about
spending? Thus, you live your current life once, do you have to withhold the
things you have? This is why Miss Chin lives in a one floor terrace house with
no air-con and a small patch of home grown vegetables. A good percentage of her
salary goes to charity and to others. I had a share of it from time to time in
a form of lunches, tho I honestly felt guilty about it. So each time she buys
me lunch, I pass it on to a friend or the stray dog and her four brown puppies
at my dad’s office.
A simple life,
Vonnie S.
Vonnie S.
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