Happy midsummer folks

Remember the future

You can't take a shit, without giving a shit.

The dying.

This body, these beings. Like sculptures of ice in the winter, will nourish the flowers of spring.
My eyes and ears will disperse, just as the impressions they perceive.
Relative knowledge the news of history. Opinions and tastes, like grasping to memories of a dream soon forgotten.
Impermanence is a necessary precondition for learning. The truths accepted yesterday will just as likely become the lies of tomorrow.

The Deathless.

The volition of this avatar. Epigenetic inherited by offspring.
Kind deeds perpetual, soon to be the norm of people.
The teacher lives through the teachings. All ideas realized and shared. Every expression lives on.

If you believe death annihilation, consider this:
Is there any part of this self that has remained from birth?
Is there any part of this self that is unique and not present elsewhere?
is the conditions for birth really absent at the moment of death?
You are the continuation of ever life. Through innumerable lifetimes of ancestors of whom this body is composed, to this moment, they're still drawing breath. Through this body inanimate elements come alive.

The fear of being unconscious is conquered every night. Awareness rise and fall seamlessly. From fixation absorbtion and identification, the observed is (falsely self) aware.

The only thing I've found being truly worth it. Is being of benifit to other people.

You don't know how much you appreciate the sound of someone's voice until it's gone.

Gratitude to Parents - Anguttara Nikaya 2.33

“I tell you, monks, there are two people who are not easy to repay. Which two? Your mother and father.

You would not have done enough to repay your mother and father even if you were to carry your mother around on one shoulder and your father on the other, and if you lived like this for a hundred years, and if you were to anoint, massage, bathe, and rub them; and even if they were to defecate and urinate right there.

Even if you were to establish your mother and father as supreme monarchs of this great earth, abounding in the seven treasures, you would still not have done enough to repay them. Why is that?

Mother and father do much for their children.
They care for them, they nourish them, they introduce them to this world.

Repaying the Profound Kindness of Parents

But you have done enough, more than enough, to repay them if you encourage, settle, and ground unfaithful parents in faith, unethical parents in ethical conduct, stingy parents in generosity, or ignorant parents in wisdom.”

- Buddha, AN 2.33