Reflections - Pohdintoja
Suomeksi alempana! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I had trouble sleeping last night. Too many thoughts running through my mind, so fast I could barely follow. It was one of those times when I wished someone had invented a neat little gadget that would "capture, document and save" thoughts as they came. Ahoy, all you inventors out there! Before going to bed, I was thinking about a verse from the Buddhist Dhammapada. The verse goes: "Let us live happily hating none though others hate. Let us live without hate among those who hate." It hit me. I haven't seen any form of hate since I left Australia. I haven't detected or witnessed any form of it here. Not the tiniest, most minuscule trace of it! I haven't met any young people who'd be full of angst and hate. I haven't met with the bitterness and regret that comes from prolonged years of hating, the marks of torturi...