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letter to M, my friend who practises Zen Buddhism · ~rogbeer's corner
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<h1 class="post-title">letter to M, my friend who practises Zen Buddhism</h1>
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<time datetime="2023-10-23T00:00:00+00:00" class="post-date">23 Oct 2023</time>
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<p>Hi M:</p>
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<p>I am writing on a sunny but cloudy morning in Singapore.</p>
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<p>I’ve
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taken your sugggestion to observe the rhythm of the sun. One of my
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favourite times of day, when I am working at my part-time job (at a meat-free
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restaurant), is - can you guess it? - twilight; I like to watch the
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sunlight fade to blue darkness outside the windows, while the electric
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lamps indoors provide a warm orange glow.</p>
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<p>The fading light, day after
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day, night after night, reminds me that my busy-ness with myriad
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operational tasks at the restaurant, is just a small puff of vapour,
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compared to the vastness and ancient-ness of the Sun, not to mention the
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galaxies in the emptiness of the Space beyond Planet Earth; the Sun has
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been rising and setting since the time of the dinosaurs, and what
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creature am I to presume that I am the centre of the Universe?</p>
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<p>But I
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need a spiritual belief to be my compass in this vast emptiness, and I
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have found that through a personal relationship with King Jesus,
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resurrected Son of God, who is alive, active and powerful (even today,
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at this hour). But I ken that not everyone uses the same compass, and I
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have been growing in my acceptance of that.</p>
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<p>One good thing in my life is
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like-minded friends who share edifying information with me, through the
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wonders of the Internet. For example, Jill wants to find out more about
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the Quakers, so she looks that up on her smart-phone, and tells me about
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them, reading from her smart-phone, while I sit across from her on a
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comfortable couch, marvelling at the ease-of-access of such information.
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In other situations, my Buddhist brother sends me Buddhist Scriptures
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that is free-of-charge to view at a Web-page.</p>
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<p>(For example:
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https://accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an11/an11.016.piya.html )</p>
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<p>It is
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true that the Internet can harm us if we let it, but I believe a rich
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inner spiritual life can steer us towards a more constructive use of the
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Internet.</p>
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<p>Well, my shoulders ache from typing out this email with an
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awkward posture at my keyboard, so I shall stop writing here.</p>
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<p>Yours
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sincerely,
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<p>On this day, the 23rd of October, 2023 Anno Domini</p>
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