Thank you so much Sattva for filling us in on what you are experiencing - I admire your forthrightness and thank you for your openness.
All of us will have to face medical problems at some time in our lives, and your example will come to mind for me.
May you find the energy to maintain practice in some form, and may you have all the support you need, when you need it.
Much metta,
Chris
Sattva Needs our prayers
Re: Sattva Needs our prayers
---The trouble is that you think you have time---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
Re: Sattva Needs our prayers
Thank you Sattva for your update.
I have no doubt that you are developing great paramitas by dealing with the difficult situation you are in.
with metta,
Ben
I have no doubt that you are developing great paramitas by dealing with the difficult situation you are in.
with metta,
Ben
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
- Cittasanto
- Posts: 6646
- Joined: Tue Dec 30, 2008 10:31 pm
- Location: Ellan Vannin
- Contact:
Re: Sattva Needs our prayers
Good to see you about Satva!
Blog, Suttas, Aj Chah, Facebook.
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
...
He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
John Stuart Mill
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
...
He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
John Stuart Mill
Re: Sattva Needs our prayers
May all living beings
owners of the their action
heir to their actions
born from the actions
related through their actions
be free from all stress and pain
May there be well being without end.
owners of the their action
heir to their actions
born from the actions
related through their actions
be free from all stress and pain
May there be well being without end.
- retrofuturist
- Posts: 27857
- Joined: Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:52 pm
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
- Contact:
Re: Sattva Needs our prayers
Metta,
Retro.
"Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things."
Re: Sattva Needs our prayers
Thank you, everyone!
I heard in Dialysis two nurses talking about a 4 year-old boy who has been given no hope for surviving cancer after fighting it for 2 years. North Korea is loading medium range missiles. There is a new bird flu strain that has the scientific/medical team hopping. There are people hungry, being tortured, raped, and killed.
"Wishing in gladness and in safety, may all beings be at ease."
My biggest wish for myself is that "May I be filled with loving-kindness towards all beings everywhere" and I wish the same for each of you.
sattva/louise
I heard in Dialysis two nurses talking about a 4 year-old boy who has been given no hope for surviving cancer after fighting it for 2 years. North Korea is loading medium range missiles. There is a new bird flu strain that has the scientific/medical team hopping. There are people hungry, being tortured, raped, and killed.
"Wishing in gladness and in safety, may all beings be at ease."
My biggest wish for myself is that "May I be filled with loving-kindness towards all beings everywhere" and I wish the same for each of you.
sattva/louise
http://www.chatzy.com/25904628501622
Re: Sattva Needs our prayers
I think of you each day, Sattva.
Ben
Ben
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
Re: Sattva Needs our prayers
Thank you Louise!
Wishing you well- may you live with ease and well-being.
With metta
Chris
Wishing you well- may you live with ease and well-being.
With metta
Chris
---The trouble is that you think you have time---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---