A New Year's Eve Message

Everything is empty!
Here you have been upon a margin of another year. We can make use of this event to reflect over a past year, or to contemplate a future. This can be beneficial, as long as a thoughtfulness does not spin in to bewail or resentment, as well as as long as a pondering does not spin to fright or worry. Whatever you do upon a eve of 2011, you can do it with awareness. If you act from a state of meaningful rather than nescience, you have a larger possibility of doing it right, as well as even developing some wisdom.

Wisdom is indispensable in this world. Look at a sky ripped open, a still-hungry millions, a near-extinct animals, a war-mongering, as well as a general fear. On New Year's Eve, many of us will get out of a heads upon alcohol and/or drugs, shutting out a pang world, as well as burying a own miseries underneath copious amounts of intoxicants. This, however, will simply leave us with a hangover upon New Year's Day, as well as no deeper bargain of a world, including those you explain to love.

Love is indispensable in this world. Not adore formed upon lust, nor adore which final which people act as well as say a things you want to see as well as hear, but genuine adore which allows people to be themselves, whether straight, gay, hip or nerdy, jovial or solitary, or whatever. In this kind of love, you have been open to a pang both in ourselves as well as others, as well as thus more able to respond appropriately, helping where needed. How can you approach a universe with this kind of love?

Love as well as knowledge have been dual sides of a same coin. According to Buddhist tradition, they have been a dual wings of enlightenment. If you can see a universe with wisdom, you will also rise adore for it, for you will see which it is us, as well as thus adore it as you adore ourselves. If you can feel a universe with love, ! you will also rise knowledge towards it, for you will feel a suffering, as well as with this knowledge know a way out of suffering. We have been enlightened together, as one.

So, after a hangover's ragged off, or a scent sticks have burnt out, you competence take a time to look back at who's living this life, as well as see a void at a heart of all this oh-so changed existence. Seeing this emptiness, you have a means to rise a knowledge mentioned above, for when everything - including a thing called 'me' - is seen to be empty, you see it in a utterly opposite way. And adore is no longer indifferent for this self as well as those tighten to it, but spread out to all you meet.

Anyhow, wishing you all a adore as well as knowledge in a universe for a New Year. Have fun tonight, as well as tomorrow? Take a few moments to see where all this things ('the world') comes from. It's a genuine eye opener!

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