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emails from mom:: best thing to start my day forreal..

‘애들아 사~~랑~~해  꼬옥안아줄께.뽀뽀도 쪼~옥..’

It says..’children, I~~love~~you. I will hug you tight and kisses too MU~AH’ 

happy korean new year!

::I love this

taken from Melvin Mcleod’s book…

“This is the great divide between Buddhism and the world’s other major religions —— Buddhism is a non-theistic religion: it is a religion with no God. The buddha was a human being who practiced and achieved enlightenment, and if we follow his example and practice as he did, we can wake up too. In buddhism, the starting place is a very human problem: suffering. Some people have accused Buddhism of being negative and obsessed with suffering. Buddhist call it realism. Life has its obvious sufferings, such as illness, loss, and death, and beyond that, all lives even the most pleasant and privileged, are marked by an underlying sense of fear and unease. 

If working with such sufferings is the challenge, then the bad news, is that buddhism doesn’t offer us an outside refuge or savior. It would be great if there were one but the truth, at least according to Buddhism, is that we’re on our own. The good news is that we can do it. We have the inherent resources- the intelligence, courage, wisdom, and love - to handle our problems. ”