Today is Good Friday....

Beautiful is not always good but good things is always beautiful.  This is a good way to put things in the right focus. In the real world, not all beautiful girls makes good wives but good natured and kind hearted girls will always make beautiful wives. Beauty is only temporary and the inner beauty is like a good wine, the longer you keep it , the better will be the body, smell and taste. However, most of the time, we are captured by the beauty and after that , we live like slaves. OMG !

Today is good Friday to the Catholic Christians and they celebrate it in humility and they abstain from meal or they fast the day with one meal. .(Day of Fasting :The Catholic Church treats Good Friday as a fast day, which in the Latin Rite of the Church is understood as having only one full meal (but smaller than a regular meal) and two collations (a smaller repast, two of which together do not equal one full meal) and on which the faithful abstain from eating meat. In countries where Good Friday is not a day of rest from work, the afternoon liturgical service is usually put off until a few hours after the recommended time of 3 p.m.) That is how I understand it. But, all Fridays are good and we should be thankful for the day as the following two days are rest days. How wonderful it is after a week of hard days work. Especially, when we are working like a dog. For me, I have an extremely hard week having to juggle between various job assignments , meetings and been audited by our external auditors at the same time. There was some unpleasant moments which have upsets me but I have mellow much and experience enough to take it at a my own pace. These are moments of temporary discomforts and time will solve all these unpleasant encounters. Life have its ups and downs and if we expect and accept it, it will not be a surprise.  It could have been better if the people involved have given more  time , more thoughts and more planning. However, since it was done is a haphazard way, then we cannot expect perfection but a bit of tension and unhappiness.

Like what is taught in the Buddhist teaching , what is given to you but not accepted by you , will not hurt you. If people give us problem or unhappiness, if we do not accept it, these problems and unhappiness will remain with the giver. Well, this is a wonderful concept and we need practice until it is part of our life. Yes, Buddhism is not a religion but a way of life. A way of life to achieve enlightenment and enter into the world of Nirvana. In this religion, we, our self have to practice and go through the path and achieve enlightenment by our own effort and not like other religion which depends on the Creator to lift us to where we should be. It is much tougher in the Buddhist way. I am looking forward to two days of good resting and recuperation. Hooray !

To all my Christian friends, a Good Friday. Every Friday is a good day and TGF !!!

Namaste.