Green onion bread

 

Xmas 2020

 

曹洞宗的開山祖洞山良价禪師決意出家時:

 「載生死之愛河，越煩惱之苦海，報千生之父母，答萬劫之慈親。」抱著如此心志修行，一日不敢或忘，這樣的洞山良价禪師方能成為一代祖師。

Meliorism

 "An old truism holds that the pessimist sees the glass as half-empty while the optimist sees it as half-full. But active and engaged people don't bother to measure the contents of their cups. They savor what they've got, drink it down, then go looking for a refill. One name for this approach is meliorism. Meliorists want to make things better—to ameliorate them." — Andrew Fiala, The Fresno (California) Bee, 10 Nov. 2017

Will we ever trust crowds again?

People aren’t cringing around strangers and crowds because of pre-existing senses of fear or loathing. Instead, many people in these times of COVID-19 are simultaneously learning a new emotional experience, neuroscientists and psychologists say. It’s normal—and we might work through it once we get through the pandemic, writes Philip Kiefer. “Feeling nauseous at the thought of a dish that once brought on a bout of food poisoning is essentially the same thing as the squickiness you may now experience when someone gets too close in a crowd.”

IN A FEW WORDS

 

As we pass through this portal into another kind of world, we will have to ask ourselves what we want to take with us and what we will leave behind. We may not always have a choice—but not thinking about it will not be an option.

Arundhati Roy

Indian writer, novelist; from What Lies Ahead?

Happy birthday to mommy