As I pen down the last 5 pages of my diary, I gather courage to flip back few pages of the year going by. 2013 leaves me with few extremely painful and hard hitting experiences like The Nirbhaya / Damini Case, The Aarushi case, Wars and riots across the world, The Natural Disasters worldwide - flash floods, earthquakes and typhoons / cyclones leaving us with few life threatening experiences.
Looking back makes me sad and leaves me with this despondent thought - how lives can just be lost in a fraction of a second - how vulnerable human kind is in front of the powerful forces around us - how they just paralyze us and we stand helpless :(
I sit on my desk to wonder what should I say to it as a bidding farewell note - Should I thank or Should I charge or Should I allege ?. I just pray that may I never get to meet the families involved in these cases coz I don't know how do I face them and what do I say to them. Should I say - "Life will be fine again" or "Accept Life as it comes" or "There is light after darkness" or "This is Karma and we have to face it" or should i just ignore them, or should i just close my eyes to all this and go ahead to make that hollow or hopeful (depends on how you see it) wish - 'HAPPY NEW YEAR'.
Thoughts like these leave me blank and my question to life goes deeper.
At this point I recall the 4 noble truths that Buddha shared which do not refer to ideas so much as much to experience. "Suffering" in Buddhism refers not only to physical and emotional pain, but also to the existential sense that, life on the earth plane, is characterized by inevitable and unavoidable dissatisfaction, failure, pain, disappointment, rejection, yearning, decrepitude and loss. (http://www.longleaf.net).
While I understand the theory of the subject well enough, I wonder is it humanly possible to believe and accept that we have a deep and true buddha-nature in all of us that can be awakened.
Looking back makes me sad and leaves me with this despondent thought - how lives can just be lost in a fraction of a second - how vulnerable human kind is in front of the powerful forces around us - how they just paralyze us and we stand helpless :(
I sit on my desk to wonder what should I say to it as a bidding farewell note - Should I thank or Should I charge or Should I allege ?. I just pray that may I never get to meet the families involved in these cases coz I don't know how do I face them and what do I say to them. Should I say - "Life will be fine again" or "Accept Life as it comes" or "There is light after darkness" or "This is Karma and we have to face it" or should i just ignore them, or should i just close my eyes to all this and go ahead to make that hollow or hopeful (depends on how you see it) wish - 'HAPPY NEW YEAR'.
Thoughts like these leave me blank and my question to life goes deeper.
At this point I recall the 4 noble truths that Buddha shared which do not refer to ideas so much as much to experience. "Suffering" in Buddhism refers not only to physical and emotional pain, but also to the existential sense that, life on the earth plane, is characterized by inevitable and unavoidable dissatisfaction, failure, pain, disappointment, rejection, yearning, decrepitude and loss. (http://www.longleaf.net).
While I understand the theory of the subject well enough, I wonder is it humanly possible to believe and accept that we have a deep and true buddha-nature in all of us that can be awakened.
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