your eyelids’ flutter which says
we are for each other:then
laugh,leaning back in my arms
for life’s not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis” ee cummings (via human-voices)
Birth and Death is a grave event;
How transient is life!
Every minute is to be grasped.
Time waits for nobody.
- Inscription on a Zen Gong
The often dark and powerful haiku-like sayings and mottos engraved on the side of the old chrome Zippo’s often reflected themes of delusion, death, drugs, or sex. It was a way for the soldier’s to express who they were, and how they felt. Many were like tattoos not worn on the body, but carried in a pocket…Zippo got behind the movement with their massive marketing team, and flooded the PX’s with their lighters to ensure they were easily in the hands of any soldier who wanted one.
One Buddhist's response to the death of a terrorist
This is the thoughtful, well-articulated reaction I needed to read. It resonates. It stills my heart, which trembled uncomfortably at the thought of rejoicing a killing—any killing—no matter the target and reasoning. Thank you, Susan Piver.
A particular excerpt echoes what my own reflection about the situation eventually revealed:
There has been an outpouring of misdirected jubilation, as if a contest had been won. Nothing has been won. Unlike winning a sporting event, this doesn’t mean that our team has triumphed. Far from it. There is only one team and it is us. When those of us (especially our leaders) who now foment violence choose instead to try to create peace, then we will truly have cause for celebration.
One of us is gone, one apparently horrific, terrible, vicious one of us…is gone. I don’t feel regret for him or about this. I’m regretful for the rest of us who are now left thinking that this is a cause for celebration. It is not. It is a cause for sorrow at our continued inability to realize that there is no such thing as us and them; that whatever we do to cause harm to one will harm us all.
and death i think is no parenthesis” e. e. cummings (via welovewriters)
