What's life all about?

The Meaning of Life: Buddhist Perspectives on Cause and Effect ~ by Tenzin Gyatso, edited by Jeffrey Hopkins, foreword by Richard Gere, 2000, buddist teachings, 160 pages

The Dalai Lama examines existential questions about meaning, purpose, and responsibility.  Using the traditional Buddhist allegorical image of the Wheel of Life and the teaching of the twelve links of dependent origination, he deftly illustrates how our existence, though fleeting and often full of woes, brims with the potential for peace and happiness.  We can realize that potential . . .

• by cultivating a wise appreciation of the interdependency of actions and experience, and 
• by living a kind and compassionate life.

A life thus lived, he says, becomes thoroughly meaningful both for oneself and for others.

Week in Review

• My Thursday Thoughts, HERE, were about a short story discussion I had attended.
• On Saturday, I shared a bit of joy, HERE, by quoting from a book.

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