"Your dreams will be realized by your own efforts."
I still have that fortune that was inside a cookie at a Chinese restaurant.
It's true. If you want something to happen in your life, you have to make it happen. It's one thing to have dreams, but what good are dreams if you don't live them through.
In themselves, they bring hope that one day, life will be this way. But why wait. Why not make it now?
Some might save dreaming for tomorrow. Not I.
-Y
Travel update
Someone will pick me up at the airport in Bangalore and from there I will be taken to a Yoga ashram about an hour away from the city. The intent is to spend a few weeks there to slowly get adjusted to India and to ease into the new culture. It might be a couple weeks before I get access to a computer...
April 30, 2005
April 27, 2005
Perspective
Happiness
Where there is unhappiness, happiness cannot exist.
Where there is happiness, unhappiness cannot exist.
Either you are happy, or you are not.
Hold on to things that make you unhappy and you will remain unhappy.
Let go of things that make you unhappy and happiness will remain.
Holding onto requires great efforts.
Letting go of requires no effort.
Why put so much effort into being unhappy?
-Y
Where there is unhappiness, happiness cannot exist.
Where there is happiness, unhappiness cannot exist.
Either you are happy, or you are not.
Hold on to things that make you unhappy and you will remain unhappy.
Let go of things that make you unhappy and happiness will remain.
Holding onto requires great efforts.
Letting go of requires no effort.
Why put so much effort into being unhappy?
-Y
April 06, 2005
April 02, 2005
Mango Lassis and Determinism
Last night I decided to head to Roses Café for a mango lassi.
As it turns out Ashley, the server, is a Philosophy student at Ottawa U who has recently found a love for eastern philosophy. Around the sitting bar, interesting discussion was developing from topics ranging from meditation to fate and free will.
The debate between fate and free will is one which has been going on seemingly forever. The notion of fate says that everything is already predetermined in life and that you don’t really have a say in your destiny. Free will on the other hand argues that we are 100% responsible for our lives and how it turns out.
My take on the whole fate vs free will debate is that they coexist - to some extent. It’s not merely a question of black and white. One exists by virtue of the other in that the options from which you can choose from now, have been determined by all that has happened up until that very moment. What you choose to do next is your responsibility and each choice that you make inherently predetermines what choices will be available for you to choose from next.
Buddhism calls this concept Dependent Origination.
Dependant Origination
At any given moment in time, everything in your life is exactly the way it is supposed to be.
Everything that has happened up until this very moment was necessary to set the stage to determine what will happen next.
Everything that happens next ultimately depends on what has happened just before.
This is dependent origination...at least this is my interpretation of it.
I know it sounds paradoxical, but only if you choose to.
Peace out
-Y
As it turns out Ashley, the server, is a Philosophy student at Ottawa U who has recently found a love for eastern philosophy. Around the sitting bar, interesting discussion was developing from topics ranging from meditation to fate and free will.
The debate between fate and free will is one which has been going on seemingly forever. The notion of fate says that everything is already predetermined in life and that you don’t really have a say in your destiny. Free will on the other hand argues that we are 100% responsible for our lives and how it turns out.
My take on the whole fate vs free will debate is that they coexist - to some extent. It’s not merely a question of black and white. One exists by virtue of the other in that the options from which you can choose from now, have been determined by all that has happened up until that very moment. What you choose to do next is your responsibility and each choice that you make inherently predetermines what choices will be available for you to choose from next.
Buddhism calls this concept Dependent Origination.
Dependant Origination
At any given moment in time, everything in your life is exactly the way it is supposed to be.
Everything that has happened up until this very moment was necessary to set the stage to determine what will happen next.
Everything that happens next ultimately depends on what has happened just before.
This is dependent origination...at least this is my interpretation of it.
I know it sounds paradoxical, but only if you choose to.
Peace out
-Y
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