It's just another day for me. I was surprised when I looked up Friday the 13th to see the number of people who do have reactions to the date. The only time I think of 13 at all is when I purchase donuts or bagels. Is it a bakers dozen or a dozen for that price?
Dark chocolate is my favorite as well. I agree totally unadulterated chocolate is the only way to go. My husband teases me about a purist. My ice cream unadorned, my coffee black... no sweeteners or creamer for me.
"It would almost be arrogant to assume that out of countless billions of galaxies, each with billions of stars, and an increasing number of confirmed exoplanets, Earth is the only place where life has emerged." I have this argument with my mother constantly
Letters-3-I told you several times that the Absolute Self, based on the limitless ability of eternal life, namely, the Buddha in one's mind, is the original state of a human being, which was discovered and seen by the Buddha.
Therefore, Buddhism is not for the study of the Buddha's teachings, but to return to one's original self, which the Buddha showed us. If one returns to this Absolute Self, the distinction between self and others will completely disappear, and you will find nothing in the whole universe which is different from you or which is not you.
If you develop this True Self, which is beyond both self and others, its great working, free from all obstacles, will eternally unfold. If the very 'self' is not found here, then how can there be 'others'? Here is the place where an absolute religious life begins, which rises above both the individual and the whole world and at the same time, integrates them.
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