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Having a lot to be thankful for
This, on the eve of Thanksgiving day, I sit around a home full of my new family. This is my first year of marriage to my new and wonderful wife and I am enjoying the time with my new family.
My Buddhist path has lead to many changes in my life, but this is a big one. I'm far away from my home town, and my family is on a family vacation without me for the first time. I sit and type this on a couch in my new wives parents home and I'm not shrouded in a sheet of grief and negative feelings.
This is new to me.
My new family is so great, and I am excited that I get to experience all the things I am. This is a truly great thanksgiving that I will remember deep into my old age if I'm lucky enough to get there.
I just wanted to post that this year I am so thankful to live in place that I can practice my new art. That my path has crossed into something that really has changed it forever. In the right mind set we all have things to be thankful for. Maybe we can pause from heavy topics tonight and just post a short something about what we are thankful for in our lives. We are all connected in some way and it does everyone good to be thankful for something.
My Buddhist path has lead to many changes in my life, but this is a big one. I'm far away from my home town, and my family is on a family vacation without me for the first time. I sit and type this on a couch in my new wives parents home and I'm not shrouded in a sheet of grief and negative feelings.
This is new to me.
My new family is so great, and I am excited that I get to experience all the things I am. This is a truly great thanksgiving that I will remember deep into my old age if I'm lucky enough to get there.
I just wanted to post that this year I am so thankful to live in place that I can practice my new art. That my path has crossed into something that really has changed it forever. In the right mind set we all have things to be thankful for. Maybe we can pause from heavy topics tonight and just post a short something about what we are thankful for in our lives. We are all connected in some way and it does everyone good to be thankful for something.
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There are the Grinches and the Scrooges who would try to tell you about impermanence and non-clinging and all that good Buddhist stuff.
Not me: I love the opportunity to set my mind's North towards Gratitude and Giving Thanks.
How wonderful this year's Thanksgiving sounds for you. May it be the first of many such for you, your wife and your families.
Although we, over here, do not have the same Thanksgiving celebrations, each year I take time to recall the generosity of a couple who took me in when I was all alone, in Oklahoma City, on Thanksgiving. Two of the sweetest, kindest guys who rekindle, each year, despite our having lost touch, my deep love for the people of the United States.
Tonight we have gusting winds, blowing the tiles off my roof but they have also chased the clouds away and I can watch Orion do cartwheels across the sky.
Thank you so much for sharing your joy with us.
BUT
there is a saying that, "when things go the best is where you need to maintain the most caution"
....or
a strong practice... because there are negative things out there that can really devastate a guy who is looking the other way..
you know..
But good my man, enjoy it, protect it, !! hooah!
I don't you think you have to be thankful to anyone, I personaly would say I'm thankful because I get to enjoy this, thankful to all those who have taught me how to open my eyes and change my mindset so I can enjoy what is in front of me, and thankful that I woke up this morning.
In my mind you could change the word thankful to happy to express the intent of my original post.
I'm grateful to all who came before me and blazed the trail I now walk on.
I'm grateful to all my before-sisters who struggled and died so I could live with dignity.
I'm grateful to my parents for having me, teaching me, hurting me, disappointing me, and loving me unconditionally.
I'm grateful to all the friends I've had in this life who made living bearable.
I'm grateful to my siblings for the challenges and love with which they've provided me.
I'm grateful to my ancestors who's will to live brought them from a land of oppression, starvation, and violence, to a new land full of hardships but one of opportunity and relative freedom nonetheless.
But most of all I'm grateful to the Buddha for teaching me how to find freedom from suffering.