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Wake Up And Celebrate
Buddha’s Last Instruction
“Make of yourself a light,”
said the Buddha,
before he died.
(Fragment of a poem by Mary Oliver)
We are here to wake up and then to celebrate. That’s all we are here for.
Leonard Jacobson
“In music, we discover ourselves as minds recognizing the work of something like ourselves. Music is not the product of unintentional forces, but of souls. When we hear it, we know that we hear it because someone first felt, thought, wrote, and played it. In it, we recognize not only the movement of another soul, but also the intention which devised the system and the ordering power that created the possibility of harmony. It suggests to us that the universe is not — could not be — cold and indifferent, but is shot through with intention, feeling, and purpose.” Dvorak
How do we wake up, how do we make a light of ourselves, become true and real?
Meditate? Follow a guru? Join a cult? Do art?
It’s not easy, because we’re on our own. It seems that if anyone shows us a well worn path, it’s the wrong one. It’s not made for us. Imitation of Christ, Buddha or anyone else covers our uniqueness so we can’t see it.
