No, not this time around. The banks were too steep on the North Saskatchewan, and, well, the feminine side in me just wasn't quite as extreme as I seemed to think it was.
But, I did find a neat Buddhist quote on rebirth:
(Paraphrased):
If a candle exists, is extinguished and is lit again, is it not true that the first flame is the same as the second, having the same basic constituents?
Is it not also true that it is different?
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how is it different?
Well, I can't speak with much authority. As with anything, only one who has experienced a truth oneself can understand it.
It's hard to know exactly what it means. Certainly it means that you are never the same person in any two moments (seconds, hours, years etc.). And yet there is a thread between these moments of being, some consistency that we often confuse with an innate personality, that perhaps is better equated to a mass of "karma" or determining factors from the past, both far and near.
I don't know, perhaps one day I will ... I hope to.
The Buddha was a tricky guy ... he made sure that you could grasp the very basics of something, but could never fully understand it from his speech alone. In fact, he often said words were necessarily untrue, and that all he could do was lay a path.
So I guess a good answer would be:
Nothing stays the same. Emptiness is form, form is emptiness. But emptiness is not by any means empty.
Also, all actions have consequences on some level.
Perhaps this is something. In Buddhism, nothing is understand without years of effort. (But perhaps it is worth it, if the Buddha was right, and we can truly escape suffering while still living in the world.)
New Easter... New Caprica
Both are so tainted with the memory of the old that they cannot find a new identity for themselves.
True, true ... we must create a new day ... like princess day .. no wait, that won't do at all!!
Umm, happy it's spring day? Oh I just don't know anymore.
Ah, yes, no more exams day!!
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