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Happy New Year! This is the year 2555!

Earth teach me caring as a mother nurtures her young.

Earth teach me humility as blossoms are humble with beginning.

The Buddha told the Kalamas that they should not follow any one path with blind faith or just because someone endorses it, one should scrutinize and experience it them self. This is the only way to know that the teachings are solid. (Kalama Sutta)

Earth teach me suffering as old stones suffer with memory.

If a man is torpid, gluttonous, slumberous and rolling to and fro like a huge hog which has been fattened by pig wash and fodder, that indolent and stupid fool is born again and again. < Interesting concept... ;) >

"One thing, bhikkhus, developed and repeatedly practiced, leads to complete revulsion, to fading away, to cessation, to pacification, to direct knowledge, to enlightenment, to Nibbana. What is this one thing? Respiration-mindfulness." Ekaka Nipata, 16

Earth teach me quite as the grasses are still with new light.

One whose mindfulness of breathing Is undeveloped and imperfect, Remains unsettled in his body, Remains unsettled in his mind, Remains unsteady in his body,... ... Remains unsteady in his mind. One whose mindfulness of breathing Is developed and perfected, Remains quite settled in his body, Remains quite settled in his mind, Remains quite steady in his body, Remains quite steady in his mind.

Mind precedes all phenomena, mind matters most, everything is mind-made. If with a pure mind one performs any action of speech or body, then happiness will follow that person... as a shadow that never departs. See more

If you plant the seed of a lemon it will not grow to be a sweet mango, not even if you pray and supplicate. So much more the deeds you do with your body and mind will grow to be that of the initial seed of the heart. This is the law of kamma (karma).