I should becomea full-time blogger methinks - so much to write!I have this list of things I want to write that keeps getting pushed to the next day and on and on..I am a procrastinator after all..
Anyways:
There”s a Pickled Politics thread today highlighting how Buddhism is apparently the USA”s fourth largest religion.
Browsing the net I found this on the Namgyal Monastery”s Institute for Buddhist Studies site and felt like reposting it:
The purpose of our life is to live happily and peacefully. We do not go to a store to purchase the idea that we want happiness and do not want suffering. The motivation that makes us willing to seek happiness and avoid suffering is innate. There are many simple things in our lives that indicate that the very purpose of our life is happiness. We are motivated to work for a living in order to ensure that we have happiness in our life. We may rest for two days after five days of a workweek. We take vacations and sometimes move from one place to another in the hope that our lives will be better. Some people are careful with diet and exercise as ways to achieve happiness. Even the little movements we make in order to get more comfortable stem from our innate desire for happiness. The success of our life is measured by our ability to live happily and die joyfully, not by mere accumulation of wealth, fame and possessions.”
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