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Fresh! Unstained! A brand new year ahead of us!

January 1, 2011 By Atalwin Pilon 1 Comment

Today’s post is actually one of the first posts I ever wrote for this blog. I like to repost it today because I feel it fits the occasion.

We can think of plenty reasons why we should suffer. Another year has gone and we are yet again a year closer to our death. The fact alone that we are getting closer to our death every day is pretty hard to swallow for the most of us. And there is no guarantee that we will die old, worn out and sick, we might as well die a lot younger and quite unexpected. I mean, let’s be realistic.  We spend so much time trying to avoid or deny our upcoming death and nothing really works. We are still afraid. We try to keep our minds busy and distracted, fleeing into entertainment, procrastination, tranquilizers, anti-depressants, fashion, plastic surgery, clinging to the illusion that our suffering will stop if we just deny our mortality.

But how about accepting what we cannot change?

“Before you die, please live a little”. It is a quote from Hojo-san, the younger brother of my Dharma grandfather Maezumi Roshi and also a zen master. It is very good advice for the new year, I think. Sometimes we forget that our existence has created for us the opportunity to celebrate life. Yes, celebrate it! We have a brand new 2011 ahead of us, fresh and unstained. This is your chance, this is your moment! You are here on this planet, you are breathing, it’s an amazing miracle to be alive. And because a YouTube video says more than a thousand words:

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Filed Under: Basic Goodness Tagged With: Death, Joy, Life, Wisdom, Zen

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  1. Karen says

    January 1, 2011 at 11:17 pm

    copy paste! Thanks darling, x

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