Amazing and Blessed

Saturday was a good day for me. It was good reconnecting with some friends. It was good being a spiritual day. It was good being in the presence of really sincere and wholesome people. It was good being in the presence of people who only wants the best to happen. It was good to be the catalyst that put the factors together to get all those people to get together. It was good to have family and friends who helped get the event in shape.

The house dana turned out amazing. I had worries aplenty before the event. Would there be enough food? enough plates? enough utensils? enough cups? enough room? Would I get the events to go smoothly? Would everyone come? Would they be on time? Would they have a place to park their cars? Find my place? All in all, everything went smoothly. The number of people who turned out was just nice to fill my house but not too many that it was crowded and uncomfortable. The kids tended to get rowdy but I thought it was not too bad. At the very least, they were entertaining.

I think everyone got a dose of spirituality and hopefully left, after the talk, with a sense of what would be good to do to make their lives happier. I am very glad that Bhante agreed to grace this event and gave a thought-provoking talk. The responses he gave to the questions raised were really impressive. They really gave some points to ponder without being patronizing. I felt that he has really progressed exponentially since I last attended lessons with him. He really has a way of presenting his views in a way that is subtle but halfway through hit us with the realization that 'omg! that's it! that's so true! that might just be the way!'.

What a day!

Meeting old friends

Met an old friend who has gone on to live a really good life. A friend who had been a part of my growing up stage. Who had gone through uni together. Who had gone through some life changing courses together. Who had been and I'm sure still is a very giving, and wise person.

But now that his status has changed, I find that I felt awkward. The status as in, I'm a layperson, he is a venerated person. I'm happy that he is liberated, atleast from the more worldly stuff. I'm happy that he has gone beyond the typical paradigm of life. Just that, I now can't call him by his name. And I felt that I have to be more mindful of my speech. I can't just blurt out anything.

Anyway, it's all me. My issues. I just need to work them out. And working them out will only do me a whole world of good.

Blessings

I have been going through things that I have in life and seeing all the blessings I have. Wondering if I appreciated them enough, or I was taking them for granted, unconsciously. Wondering if in trying to keep my appreciation, I was happy doing those things. It's such a tough balance trying to keep things in perspective. Keeping people who matters in my life happy and keeping myself happy in the process.

Then, to me a simple life should be happy, but it's an effort to keep life simple. We had a whole life of conditioning of acquiring things and possessing things and this and that, that keeping a minimalistic style is an effort.

Just work...

My life has been work for the past couple of weeks. Hence, no blogging. To compound all things, my notebook crashed last weekend. Or rather, it was before that even.