chilung

Went up to Kinglake on Sunday to celebrate Buddha's Birthday with Charles and LIz (his ex). I was mistaken for Charle's boyfriend for a second time (funny cuz we're both basically hetro), and then later on for a brother. I don't see it. Other than the fact we're both asian, have long hair, deep voices and entered wearing trench coats (its cold up there).

Anyway finally got to meet the korean zen nun who remembers meeting me (I don't remember meeitng her), and spent the afternoon making laterns for the latern ceremony. Meditated for the first time in a long time in a more peaceful rather than chaotic way, and drank a lot of good green tea. Korean Zen is something I've wanted to learn more about since I encountered it at the Buddhist symposium last year. I'm not buddhist anymore, nor do I think I ever could be, but there are things I could learn, and I found one of the most important things that I could not tolerate about theravada buddhism is not viewed the same way in Korean Zen. I could not tolerate the acceptance of the suffering of others. If I can do something to ease someone's suffering and I want to, I don't feel as though this is wrong, yes it is involvement in this world, but we all are in this world, and whilst this may either be all/nothing/something it doesn't matter to me. I have a choice and I want to have that choice rather than desire not to have that choice. Anyway no longer buddhist at this point in time so this is me merely learning practices and beliefs for my own path.


and because I was tagged

edited to add thanks for the birthday comments, and to tag a couple of people in relation to above

kimberleyfantasy, radiobirdman and mattscope , do it as a birthday gift so Blacklamb's list post-tagging benevolent dictatorship may extend its reach a little further.