Thursday, February 14, 2008

Happy Valentine's Day

hi..Happy Valentine's day for everyone. May love and compassion be always in your heart.

It's not a Buddhist day actually. But I like to mention about it a bot.

Love in Buddhist meaning means much wider than love in our understanding. We always use Metta for love and Karuna for compassion. The scope of love and compassion are much more than we realize. It's common that we love our family, friends, partners, pets etc. But how about the stranger? How about other ugly animals? How about out enemy? How about someone who has different opinion from us? How about someone who ever hurt us badly? Metta and Karuna are also for these beings, no matter who/what they are. If you can love them without any hesitation/hatred, that is a real love.

Personally, today is very very common for me. I still have to work till 6-7 pm. Nothing is very special - some special will come very soon I think. Anyway, I did a good deed this morning. i bought 4 snakeheadfish and 2 turtles from a market and freed them at a canal near my house. For turtrles, it seems they are for a person who wants to free animal. But for snakehead fish, I am sure that I have safed their lives. If I dint buy them, they would be reborn sooner or later. I feel good today...

Happy Valentine's Day ka....

1 comment:

Mike said...

Kai,

Happy Valentine's Day to you too. One of my students thought that it was ValenTIME's Day. I explained that St. Valentine was a person that now represents love.

I hope your week is going well...

Mike