The days between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day are filled with good will and good wishes, get-togethers and feasts and idle chats. For most people, its the time to wind down and enjoy life. For me, I am thankful for the life I have had for another year.
This year like the past many years before, I celebrate without alcohol, smokes, narcotics,… and hold strictly to the Five Sīla. This also means (to me) no meats of any kind -no killing for my sake (I will not celebrate my life with suffering of other lives), and other things that the sīla implies. I spend most time view and listening (as in doing something, I would create or destroy some other things.) So, that I would not so much add kamma to myself and others. I hope that by doing what needed only to sustain myself, I share with the rest of the world.
[A moment of sharing good will is quite uplifting for both of us.]
We know that there is dhamma everywhere, in all religions and faiths. People are different by their own heritage and environmental factors. What good and what bad may vary with circumstances and ways of reasoning. Universally, we see peace among human and other lifeforms. We see kindness as a means to rise up higher in our mind. We see giving as letting go of our holds on things - selfishness.
How do you celebrate your life?
