"We are visitors on this planet. We are on here for ninety or one hundred years at the most. During that period, we must do something good, something useful with our lives. If you contribute to other people's happiness, you will find the true goal, true meaning of life. "
His Holiness The XIV Dalai Lama
How true that few sentences are! I have this phrase hung in my house, but everyday, we just walk pass it without much thoughts. In the past weekend, I dwelt on it from differently and thought how wise the Dalai Lama is.
Last weekend, was a sad and solemn weekend for all of us in the family, because my dear aunty (who had been battling with cancer for the past five years has lost the battle). She passed away after much pain and suffering on Friday morning. I wished it was much easier for her. But anyway, I pray and hope she has a better after-life now. And the living will always have her in memory.
I really reflected a lot on life in the last weekend. Life, people relations, goals, happiness, karma etc. It may be difficult to put them in writing, but I hope to capture some of my thoughts here.
Our lives might not be even ninety or hundred. It is highly likely to be shorter than that, taking into account the mortality rate in the current years. In the conduct of our everyday life, we might encounter some negative thoughts. What should have been done/should not, like/dislike someone or what someone else does, dwelling on your neighbour's rights/wrongs, gossips on friends or relatives etc. If we can use mathematics to put some numbers to all these, you imagine how much of time or effort they take up from our relatively short time on this earth!
We have also come across many different types of people in the course of our life. Their life story can be lessons to us. Every human being choose to live their life differently. It is not our perogative to criticise or to say, what is right or wrong and we should never dwell on them. Rather, we would reflect on our own life and improve ourselves further. How certain things happened ot turned out for these people around us, are due to their own karma, and how they handle things is also due to their own encounter or experience.
What matters, is our ultimate goal in life, and how we can make this life more meaningful and how we can say, at the end of our life, that we have no regrets for the path we took, for we ourselves are responsible for our own lives.
What matters, is our ultimate goal in life, and how we can make this life more meaningful and how we can say, at the end of our life, that we have no regrets for the path we took, for we ourselves are responsible for our own lives.
