Farewell little snowflake Jan. 22, 2007

I’ve always seen Buddhism as ‘spiritual intercourse with everything’.
An interest in everything by giving everything a bit of thought and narrowing the gap between big things and small things so that every living and dying thing takes on some significance.

The ‘most happy person in the World’ according to a newspaper and to scientific tests carried out amongst thousands of people, turns out to be a long-term Buddhist convert called someone or other. The report suggests his happiness might be down to his religion or Buddhist teaching (Budhism possibly isn’t a religion).

What DOES Buddhism teach us?

For starters, a Buddhist friend of mine has been teaching me to let go and, probably listening to my rant about ‘never seeing a proper winter again’ had this to offer : “Things happen for a reason. It’s up to us to make sense of it. And it’s just totally senseless to try holding on to something that is gone. I keep telling you this. Remember the snow falls, each flake in its appropriate place, and you have to look at it and enjoy it before it melts”.

I had a feeling we were also saying goodbye – never to see each other again.
She most definitely should cope.