Goodbye 2020

 

"All compounded things are impermanent." – from The Four Seals of Dharma

One of the basic principles of the Buddhist path is that everything changes. Everything. Even the year 2020! There is only 2020, because of 2019. And there will be 2021, dependent on 2020!

And now let us welcome the new year, full of things that never were.  Rainer Maria Rilke

Poet, author; Letters to a Young Poet

素綠豆椪

 

Xmas cookies

 

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