nothing to do with his birthday
I feel quite honoured about being born in the same month as the buddhas birthday. vesak puja day like many other buddhists holidays thais like to go to the temple and make offerings to deities, monks, and favourite gods. Giving an offering to a statue of an religious authority figure is something that i dont really disagree with but i guess im not into it very much. Buddhism is somewhat of an atheist pholosophy, the buddhist philosophy teaches one how to deeal with your self in the here and now. in doing the right action in the current moment will make you a happy fellow. the buddha also preached that there shouldn’t be any idle worship, and he also preached that receiving merit for ones deeds does not come from giving food to a monk well at least not entirely anyways. Why is it that people can only do nice things on a holiday? will that earn you points and make you mad tight with the man above? Yesterday on buddhas birthday i was doing what most people seem to dread, having a bit of a midlife crisis. Well not crisis but i was analysing what was going on in the here and now. Theres nothing more buddhist then being concerned with the “here and now”. I must admit that i was quite scared at somethoughts that that sprung up in my head. If i am going to usse what i learned in all those weeks in the monastary was that i must accept my reality and act accordingly. Bassically in other words i’m 30 years old im a dj, im trying to start up a label and i teach at sae on the weekends. Thats it! What shall i do about all this, bassically do everything that i’m doing with the best possible effort.
