Seems like I'm finally getting over the long cold I had. I got it twice in a row with about only a day or two in between. Glad it's finally over. It's going around at work too, so I hope I don't catch it again. I doubt I will because I've probably built up immunity to it by now.Hi Matthew:
I am doing pretty good actually. I got rid of that long spell of intermittent sickness, I think my CPAP breathing mask and tube just needed a good clean. I think I was reinfecting myself with whatever it was through the mask, so I gave it a good wash and no problems since.
It finally gets through my thick skull after all these years, that I can for the most part do nothing at all about the condition of the world. Heck, I don't even consider it my world, I am just passing through. I can do a few things, and what I can do I will. If I could relieve the pain of the whole world, even if I were to remain in pain myself, I would do it. But I cannot, so I am trying to relieve the pain of the one person I can affect, which is myself. And it is working pretty well.
I just reached a point in life where I said to myself, it is time to stop doing whatever this is, because it isn't working out very well for me. ;P
I am finding myself in my heart and affections a Christian, but in practical matters more like a buddhist in the most original and basic and down-to-earth sense of the word. The four noble truths: life is suffering, it has a cause, it has a cure (for the most part), this is what it is. To me there is no conflict, because this sort of buddhism is not really a religion, it is a prescription for a disease. A disease we all suffer, suffering itself.
Peace
Yah, I think I can understand at least some of what you are talking about there regarding life and all it's troubles and suffering. I"ve sure suffered enough already. That's for sure! Not sure about the Buddhist part though. I am 100% Christian and that's all I need. I see the bible has all the "philosophy" from God's viewpoint that I need, but it seems that some other religions or philosophies border on similarity to it. Still though the bible has way more than what anyone can ever completely exhaust in it's wisdom, so I don't feel the need to dabble with anything else. I'm not saying you're wrong or anything, Robert. I'm just offering my own beliefs is all... for what that's worth to anyone else.
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