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I'm meant to be doing my Computer Graphics assignment but I'm having trouble with the coding, so instead it's time for me to write about what I did on the weekend!
An ex-coworker asked me if I wanted to come to this play thing with him that his friend was in. Since I hadn't seen said coworker for a couple of months I agreed. Turns out that 'this play thing' was actually Bodhi Night, an event that the Buddhist society at my uni puts on every year. I'll gloss over the actual events, except to say that it was all very well-intentioned but amateurish. I think I've been spoilt by the high production values of all the revues I go to.. But that's neither here nor there.
Their theme for this year was 'The Invisible Grasp'. The idea behind this is that unhappiness and suffering is caused by our attachment to material things like money, status, and expectations. These things are both impermanent and reliant on factors beyond our control, and the harder we grasp onto them the harder it will be to find lasting happiness, which can only come from within. This isn't to say that you should stop caring since everything is impermanent, but rather that you should take things as they come and not get too attached to any one thing or state of being. And you should treat everyone and everything with kindness and generosity (I'm not sure why since that's wasn't really included in the show. But I think it's something along the lines of: attachment is cognate with selfishness in Buddhism, therefore I should be the opposite of selfish)
These concepts are finding a lot of favour with me these days. I think I've written before about wanting to be free and unencumbered by all the baggage that most people collect, and the concepts of Buddhism certainly agree with that.
An ex-coworker asked me if I wanted to come to this play thing with him that his friend was in. Since I hadn't seen said coworker for a couple of months I agreed. Turns out that 'this play thing' was actually Bodhi Night, an event that the Buddhist society at my uni puts on every year. I'll gloss over the actual events, except to say that it was all very well-intentioned but amateurish. I think I've been spoilt by the high production values of all the revues I go to.. But that's neither here nor there.
Their theme for this year was 'The Invisible Grasp'. The idea behind this is that unhappiness and suffering is caused by our attachment to material things like money, status, and expectations. These things are both impermanent and reliant on factors beyond our control, and the harder we grasp onto them the harder it will be to find lasting happiness, which can only come from within. This isn't to say that you should stop caring since everything is impermanent, but rather that you should take things as they come and not get too attached to any one thing or state of being. And you should treat everyone and everything with kindness and generosity (I'm not sure why since that's wasn't really included in the show. But I think it's something along the lines of: attachment is cognate with selfishness in Buddhism, therefore I should be the opposite of selfish)
These concepts are finding a lot of favour with me these days. I think I've written before about wanting to be free and unencumbered by all the baggage that most people collect, and the concepts of Buddhism certainly agree with that.
