Sunday, 4th May 2025 - What kind deeds did I do today?

1. I took my multi-vitamins.

2. I made my bed.

3. I brushed my teeth.

4. I washed my face.

5. I had a shower.

6. I cleaned the bathroom.

7. I oiled my body.

8. I put on deodorant.

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

10. I emptied the kitchen bin and recycling bin into the bins outdoor.

11. I watered the flowers in the gardens.

12. I ate fruit.

13. I went to Sunday Mass.

14. I hoovered my room.

15. I hoovered the middle and top floor.

16. I had lunch (mains, drink and dessert).

Reflections on Buddha's teachings

• Buddhism teaches to let go everything to end suffering. Don't hold on to anything including anger for pain inflicted by others. When you don't hold onto anger, you feel calm, peaceful and understanding of the reasons behind other people's actions and realise harmful actions were never out of cold-blooded cruelty and maliciousness but were out of not understanding what harm they are doing to you. Everyone is the same. What makes us look different is what we believe not who we are. If we have the right belief, we are beautiful and kind and do right actions and if we have the wrong belief, we are ugly and do wrong actions which appear unkind. No one is actually evil but belief varies from person to person. The right belief is that everyone is like you and everyone feels like you feel and you mustn't harm any living being in the present moment. This includes killing any living being. You are not evil so no one is evil. You can feel pain when pain is inflicted on you and so can everyone else feel pain when pain is inflicted on them. In the same way as you don't like criticism, nor does anyone else. You can inflict pain without being fully aware of the other person's suffering when you inflict the pain. This applies to everyone else. So you need to stop inflicting pain, criticism on others and yourself to be kind, beautiful and right. Treat others as if they were you regardless of what they are doing or did. When you hurt someone you hurt yourself because we are all from the same universal whole (body). If you hurt one of us, you hurt everyone because we are all the same body. We are all God, the eternal whole the includes everyone and doesn't leave anyone out of the whole and out of immortality. All humans of every colour, height and looks are all people and all deserve to live forever. If someone said to you, you don't deserve to live forever and that they will kill you and you can't defend yourself, it will hurt you lots. Likewise it hurts any human to be killed.