WX: Tsangyang Gyatso, This Life
Today PP quitted the job and left us. We have been sitting in the same office for more than 1 year, working, laughig, gossiping, complaining... Now she left.
“There is no feast in which the guests do not part. ”
“Even thousand miles I see you off, we have to face the departure doomed.”
I have heard these sentences since I was child watching the Cantonese martial arts teleplays.
Leaving is eternal. In ancient time, in mordern time… Time changes everything.
Buddha said, I have looked at you 500 times in my prelife, so that I can meet you in this life. So I must have looked at PP 500 times in my prelife, if preflife really exists.
Tsangyang Gyatso said,
That day, when meditating amidst the mist of incense,
I suddenly heard your true words.
That month, I turned all gig prayer wheels,
Not to release my soul from purgatory, but to touch your fingertip.
That year, I prostratored myself and prayed on the mountains,
Not for pilgrimage, but for feeling your warmth.
That life, I walked across all the mountains, rivers, Buddhist temples,
Not for the afterlife, but to meet you again on the way.
So in this life I must have walked across myriad of rivers and thousands of hills, just to meet them on the way.
But they leave.
Perhaps everybody is alone. Come to this world along. Leave this world alone. Meet many people but part with them. The young are trapped by the net of lossing the friends or lovers, but the old will say: Time changes, and you can always move on, in this life.
Yes. The old are right, because when they were young, they experienced the same thing. Now they are old, their whole life has demonstrated that they can move on, in this life. So can the young.
Comments (5)
Hi Ben. Thank you. Yes, new beginning. If no end, how comes the beginning?
I thought you have left this site. now you come back.
Hi Mike. Thank you for your praise.
I never say goodbye. It's always been a habit of mine to say "see ya later" even though I know the chances of that happening in some cases is miniscule. It's amazing though how many times I have bumped into someone 20 years down the track. Sometimes I wish I hadn't; I preferred them they way they were.
The one and only time I got booked for speeding, the policeman wished me a good day when departing. Off course I replied with "Thanks. See ya later". Well I wasn't having a good day and I sure as hell hoped I never saw him again. Two weeks later my social cricket team were playing a police team.... and guess who was their opening batsman!
So.... see ya later.
Ha ha I guess when we were caught by the policeman, we do not want to see them again.
Yes, they come and they go. That's why I find what Buddha said is good.
Perhaps when we leave hospitals, we do not say: see you later. we want to say: I do not want to see you again.
So, see you later!!!