The Butterfly Effect
The Fifth Remembrance: “I inherit the results of my actions of body, speech, and mind. My actions are my continuation.” How do I inherit the results of my actions, and how do those results become my continuation after I die? My reflections on the Fifth Remembrance led me to explore two concepts: karma and continuation.…
Change and Loss
“All that is dear to me and everyone I love are of the nature to change. There is no way to escape separation from them.” The Fourth Remembrance would appear, at first glance, to contradict a core Buddhist principle, the concept of interbeing: the interconnectedness and interdependence of all things. The notion that we inter-are…
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