Friday Night Zen #21
I’ve missed two Friday nights in a row. I’ve got excuses lined up, but I’ll tell the truth: Half Life 2 ROCKS!!
You can thank my nephew for nudging me this week without even trying. Yesterday he sent me two links to a blog from Iceland: Everyday Wonderland. Specifically, this article entitled 5 Ideas for Stressful Living. In a word: wonderful. I’m not entirely sure if the author intended it as gentile sarcasm, parody, or he is serious. I guess the latter, but the message is spot on and quite Buddhist although he doesn’t use the "B" word.
So, you want your life to be stressful? Didn’t think so, but it’s amazing how many people consistently apply habits and actions in their daily lives that guarantee stressful results. They repeat the same things over and over again, expecting different results, which is, if I recall correctly, the textbook definition of insanity…
To cap that off, my nephew links another article entitled Becoming Free of Your Parents and Social Conditioning. All the while reading this, I thought, "How does this guy know me so well?" Soon this weblog was linked to my favorites and my blogroll. I will indeed read all Helgi Páll Einarsson has to say. You should, too