As IMU students, we would normally relate Life to its structure, functions and many others biological aspects. But Buddhism views Life from another prospective. There are many parts of Life that we have great achievements and success stories, but we often neglect certain minute achievements. Perhaps some of these are not even achievements, for example, walking, talking, listening and so on.
These so-called achievements can be considered as marvels to those who do not have the capacity to do it. Those without limbs cannot walk properly, mutes cannot speak, deaf people cannot hear, but generally everyone in IMU Buddhist Society can do all of this. Ask yourselves, are you grateful for all that?
Unlike other religions who often utter the words "Thank God!" when good things happen, we Buddhist "count our blessings" knowing that we have suitable environmental conditions, emotional and physical competence and ability whenever we have made a great effort by ourselves, thus seeing it as a luxury(through your effort & efforts of other people) rather than a gift. For this week, our theme will be
GRATITUDE
For this week, we will be sharing a very touching video with everyone regarding this topic so that everyone can reflect on the values and try to notice every achievement in Life so that we are grateful and contented all the time, and that makes us HAPPY!
Venue: SR5
Time: 1.15pm-2.15pm
Date: 11 September 2009
As usual, please have your lunch before the event and please be punctual.
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