Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Samsara

Lately I've been thinking a lot about death. But before I get to that let me aknowledge how I haven't touched this blog in months. And it does feel good to write again.

Samsara makes a lot of sense now. That's a Buddhist name for the cycle of rebirth. We are born, we grow older, sicken, die, and start all over again. The whole point of Buddhism is to achieve a state of total mindfulness to get you ready for Liberation, through meditation. As you meditate, you think with greater clarity and may have flashbacks from a past life... Or a future life.

Enough theology class for today. The thing is they say meditation helps the mind to detach from earthly pleasures and unpleasures, such as cars and expensive lavish items, and also human pain. It may sound cruel at first, but it is better if we're really not attached to amything. Because everything eventually comes to an end. Our cars, lavish items, but also our friends and loved ones.

So yeah, they're gonna offer some free meditation clases in school next semester, which I want to sign up for. Because in my millions of lives, I've seen everything, money, material stuff, friends, loved ones, come and go as I have myself came and went countless times.