Saturday, February 12, 2022

Children Ask About Life

Children Ask About Life

My Granddaughter and I were talking the other day, and the subject of cooking came up. She observed at how you go through all the effort to prepare a meal, then eat it; and, after all that, there's nothing left. 

To my ear the implicit question was about how things are transitory and immermanent. While she didn't state that in those specific terms as a question she's holding, the question is a good one to ponder. And, the answer, worth realizing.

Those Buddhists have something to show us in that regard: 

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