Friday, 2nd May 2025 - What kind deeds did I do today?

1. I took my multivitamin pills.

2. I made my bed.

3. I brushed my teeth.

4. I washed my face.

5. I had a shower.

6. I oiled my body.

7. I put on deodorant.

8. I cleaned the bathroom.

9. I emptied the bins in the rooms into the kitchen bin.

10. I emptied the kitchen bin and recycling bin into the big bins outside.

11. I watered the flowers in the garden.

12. I ate fruit.

13. I had breakfast.

14. I washed the dishes after breakfast.

15. I hoovered my room.

16. I had lunch.

17. I washed the dishes after lunch.

Comments

• Buddha taught us that wisdom is about seeing things as they are not as you believe them to be. So instead of having prejudices and biases about a situation or person, see things as they actually are. Go out and seek the truth instead of believing the truth without actually knowing the truth from direct experience of the truth. Find out the truth, the reality not what you think in your head. Our misunderstandings of life come from our biases and prejudices which are not based on seeing the truth. Get off the comfortable couch and go out and see the truth. Don't jump to conclusions based on what you think is the truth without any evidence of the truth.

• Wisdom is understanding that:

  • nothing lasts forever. Everything is constantly changing all the time. For example, people grow old and look different, people grow sick and don't feel as healthy as they used to feel, people die and we can't communicate with them anymore, material possessions are lost, stolen, damaged accidently, burnt in a fire or sold or suffer from wear and tear over time and so don't last forever and people gain or lose money over time. This is the concept of impermanence in Buddhism. Nothing is permanent.

  • attachment to things that change including your self causes suffering. Don't hang on to anything and anyone because both change over time and are unreliable and don't hang on to yourself either as you change over time too.

  • there is no permanent unchanging self or soul.

  • every existence is connected to other existences and interdependent on other existences for existence.

• Wisdom is grown through practice

  • Regular meditation helps you to be more aware over time and helps you to understand reality.

  • Living a life of ethical behaviour can increase wisdom.

  • Understanding the four noble truths and karma is the right view which increases wisdom

• Wisdom is not just about knowledge which is memorising facts from a book or a teacher but it is about understanding and realising the truth for oneself by seeing the lesson learnt in reality if it is true.

• Wisdom is about acting in accordance to how you understand reality to be and acting in the right way which is in a harmless and kind way.

• Wisdom is being compassionate. In other words wise people are feel sorry and feel concern for the sufferings and misfortunes of others.

Today matters not the future or the past. Dwell on the present moment because we are reborn every morning. What we do today is what matters. So what we did yesterday or a minute ago does not matter and what we dream of doing in the future or tomorrow does not matter either. I learnt this from Buddha's quote written down.