Go David, go!

Current mood

Praise Allah.

There is one word to summarise the kind of happiness described here: unconditioned.

This is a key concept to understand the nature of suffering in Buddhism. Suffering is any state of mind that is conditioned, resting upon anything that is transient, subjected to change and death, by either attachment or aversion.

So, if suffering derived from a negative state of mind, such as loss, can be relatively easy to understand, harder it might be to comprehend that also a positive one can generate suffering.

For instance, if one were to be resting his or her joy on, let us say, an achievement, then that joy is suffering, because the causes and conditions that generated that state of mind are destined to fade away; the achievement is subjected to decay and death and when it's gone the mind will be left grasping at it as an attempt to perpetuate that happiness (attachment), that is thus conditioned.

Every spiritual path can be said to be reaching for that unconditioned state of mind, whatever it may be called in every single tradition.

word to the wise i guess?

For those who have not yet heard the sad news, Jeff Winston, founder of White Art Collective, passed away under tragic circumstances, leaving behind his fiancée, Hiraeth, and their 3 month old baby.

She is now facing raising their infant daughter alone, her dreams for the future shattered, and her entire life has upended. Those who know Hiraeth know what an unfailingly kind person she is and she and Jeff deserved a better ending to what was a beautiful love story.

No amount of money can ever bring Jeff back, but it can help her rebuild her life and ease some of her financial stress while she goes through her grieving and rebuilding process.

I ask each of you to donate what you can. The link to the fundraiser is below. Please be as generous as your finances allow, as her need is great. If you are unable to donate, consider sharing this with others?

https://www.givesendgo.com/HiraethFund