Dharma in the Dishes: Nurse. Nurse. It's my birthday. Take me to the window. I want to look at the ocean.

Remember your 33rd birthday?

You threw a great big party,

And all of your friends were there for you--

Jemaine, Greg, and me.

We brought you a cake in the shape of a four and a three

'Cause we all thought you were forty three.

Today is my 43rd birthday and I just keep thinking of this song from 'Flight of the Conchords.' I know it shouldn't make me laugh but it just does! LOL

Happy birthday to me. :)

The Metta Sutta

This is what should be done
By one who is skilled in goodness,
And who knows the path of peace:
Let them be able and upright,
Straightforward and gentle in speech.
Humble and not conceited,
Contented and easily satisfied.
Unburdened with duties and frugal in their ways.
Peaceful and calm, and wise and skillful,
Not proud and demanding in nature.
Let them not do the slightest thing
That the wise would later reprove.
Wishing: In gladness and in saftey,
May all beings be at ease.
Whatever living beings there may be;
Whether they are weak or strong, omitting none,
The great or the mighty, medium, short or small,
The seen and the unseen,
Those living near and far away,
Those born and to-be-born,
May all beings be at ease!

Let none deceive another,
Or despise any being in any state.
Let none through anger or ill-will
Wish harm upon another.
Even as a mother protects with her life
Her child, her only child,
So with a boundless heart
Should one cherish all living beings:
Radiating kindness over the entire world
Spreading upwards to the skies,
And downwards to the depths;
Outwards and unbounded,
Freed from hatred and ill-will.
Whether standing or walking, seated or lying down
Free from drowsiness,
One should sustain this recollection.
This is said to be the sublime abiding.
By not holding to fixed views,
The pure-hearted one, having clarity of vision,
Being freed from all sense desires,
Is not born again into this world.

Click here to listen to it being chanted...

Dharma in the Dishes

Wednesday, 27 January 2010

Nurse. Nurse. It's my birthday. Take me to the window. I want to look at the ocean.

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