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An online marketplace for selling and buying all things handmade!

It's like shopping at the artists market, but from your own home. I discovered the website just in time for Christmas and along with my trip to Blue Banana Market in Toronto, have managed to get almost everyone on my list home made gifts.


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Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. The Question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We don't have to travel far away to enjoy the blue sky. We don't have to leave our city or even our neighborhood to enjoy the eyes of a beautiful child. Even the air we breathe can be a source of joy.

We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive at the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment. ... Thich Nhat Hanh


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Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Do You Have A Soul and R.I.P. Krishna

Interesting article sent via newsgroup ...

Unlike Hindus and Christians, most Buddhists believe in some mysterious and poorly defined personal karma that survives death. I never believed in the Buddhist concept of immortal personal karma without soul, because when you reject soul you lose the vehicle for the transference of karma from one life to the next. To my mind, if soul goes so does any possibility of immortal personal karma and reincarnation ...
Read more here ....

In other news, since I've run out of my self-medication for sleeping soundly at night, sleepless nights invade again as do the dreams.

In other other news, Krishna the Fishna has passed away. Quite possibly due to the wretched inferno of a house I live in. Poor fella. Funeral arrangements have been made.

posted by I Am This at 9:41 PM

Comments on "Do You Have A Soul and R.I.P. Krishna"

 

Blogger CE said ... (3:48 PM) : 

If you can't sleep, don't try to sleep. Don't sleep! If positive psychology doesn't work, try something else. Or just observe your thoughts. Don't push them away. This is meditation.

Anybody who aims at nothing will surely hit it.
--unknown

 

Blogger I Am This said ... (10:59 PM) : 

thanks imemine for the advice :)

 

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