Tuesday, May 09, 2006
vesak day
This Friday 12 May is a public holiday, Vesak Day. There will be no yoga classes on that day.
This Friday's 12noon-1pm class will be held on Thursday 11 May.
So how would you be spending this one day?. . .
Better than a hundred years of mischief
Is one day spent in contemplation.
Better than a hundred years of ignorance
Is one day spent in reflection.
Better than a hundred years of idleness
Is one day spent in determination.
Better to live one day
Wondering
How all things arise and pass away.
Better to live one hour
Seeing
The one life beyond the way.
Better to live one moment
In the moment
Of the way beyond the way.
from Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha, translated by Thomas Byrom
mOmentOm yOga wishes all health & happiness and an enlightening Vesak Day.
Pictures of Lumbhini Garden, Birthplace of Buddha, from our recent trip to Nepal:
Could this be where the tree and pond where Price Siddhartha (who became Buddha, "Enlightened One") was born? No one knows for sure. The white building protects the original Maya Devi (Mother of Prince Siddhartha) Temple which was built to commerate the birth of one of history's greatest thinkers. In front of the temple are the bases of former stupas. Inside the Maya Devi Temple, crowds still form lines to view the stone slab which was laid by King Ashoka to mark the place of Birth.
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This Friday's 12noon-1pm class will be held on Thursday 11 May.
So how would you be spending this one day?. . .
Better than a hundred years of mischief
Is one day spent in contemplation.
Better than a hundred years of ignorance
Is one day spent in reflection.
Better than a hundred years of idleness
Is one day spent in determination.
Better to live one day
Wondering
How all things arise and pass away.
Better to live one hour
Seeing
The one life beyond the way.
Better to live one moment
In the moment
Of the way beyond the way.
from Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha, translated by Thomas Byrom
mOmentOm yOga wishes all health & happiness and an enlightening Vesak Day.
Pictures of Lumbhini Garden, Birthplace of Buddha, from our recent trip to Nepal:
Could this be where the tree and pond where Price Siddhartha (who became Buddha, "Enlightened One") was born? No one knows for sure. The white building protects the original Maya Devi (Mother of Prince Siddhartha) Temple which was built to commerate the birth of one of history's greatest thinkers. In front of the temple are the bases of former stupas. Inside the Maya Devi Temple, crowds still form lines to view the stone slab which was laid by King Ashoka to mark the place of Birth.
