A Fistful of Sand

Designed by NandanG Whether one takes or advocates a vaccine or does not is irrelevant to the Path to liberation in so far as the physical act is meaningless. It is the attachment or aversion to   the vaccine that actually and significantly matters. No one can say for certainty whether the vaccines are helpful or harmful any   more than anyone knows for sure that   anything happened yesterday. Both are constructs of the mind, many the ego. Most people are not interested in THE truth, they are interested in A truth, one which supports their narrative of an imaginary reality of karmic origin. The Buddha explains that as far as health or the lack of it is concerned is usually based on the fear of death. The fear of death is related to the erroneous belief that there is core essence of   the individual that survives after death. The choice to be fearful is a senseless act of dukkha creation. The true nature of the human mind, the egoic mind, is that   most people do...

  Courtesy Mystic Firs The expression "each one of us is in his own samsara, it is nowhere else to be found" is rooted in Buddhist philosophy and reflects the understanding of samsara, the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth, from an individual perspective. Here's an explanation of this expression: In Buddhism, samsara refers to the endless cycle of birth, death, and rebirth that sentient beings go through. It is marked by suffering, impermanence, and the continual experience of life's ups and downs. This cycle is perpetuated by karma, the law of cause and effect, as individuals accumulate actions and their consequences from one life to the next. The expression emphasizes that samsara is a personal and individual experience. Each sentient being, including each human, is caught in their own cycle of samsara, which is unique to them. While there are shared aspects of suffering and the cycle itself, the specific experiences and karma of each being are distinct. The concep...