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I had a shower so I don't smell. I washed my hair so that my hair doesn't smell. I brushed my teeth with toothpaste so that my breath doesn't smell. I washed my face with skincare so that my face is attractive to look at. I oiled my body with coconut oil so that my body is not dry. I moisturised my lips with lip balm so that my lips are moist and not dry. I answered text messages. I stayed in contact with my friends by phone. I walked with a Health Care Assistant to the main hospital then back to my ward on escorted leave of 15 minutes max. It was kind of me to accompany her and see more of the hospital. To be kind to the cook who made me vegetarian hot meals for breakfast, lunch and supper, I ate the meals. I read part of a book on introductory Buddhism and my reflection for today is do not be concerned about unexpected changes in fortune. Enjoy gambling through your entire life. In other words, you can take risks with your life because you don't need to be concerned with the ups and downs in fortune with your life.

I made my bed so that my room is tidy for visitors. I washed my face so that my face is clean to look at. I brushed my teeth so that my breath does not smell. I had a shower so that I smell good. I oiled my body so that my body doesn't look dry. I took multi-vitamins to be healthy so that I can be there for people instead of being ill in bed. I had breakfast and fruit so that I am healthy and not feeling faint in the morning. I emptied the bins and changed the bin liners so that the bins don't overflow and there is space for new waste. I watered the flowers in the gardens. I hoovered the floor of my room so that my room would be attractive and clean to visitors. I cleaned the bathroom that I share with other housemates.

I washed the bathroom and mopped the floor. I emptied the bins in the house including a bin in one of my housemate's room (I empty this bin weekly if full) and I changed the bin liners in the bins. I watered the communal gardens. I responded to text messages of friends today and made them feel happy. It made me feel happy to receive their text messages. I answered a phone call from the friend I texted yesterday and was awaiting a response to my text from. It was wonderful talking to her. She would love us to meet up and go for a smoothie and she wants to give me a facial too. Comments Keep doing your daily housework and you will accumulate good karma for the future. It is worth it. Keep being friendly to anyone you meet and you will accumulate good karma for the future. It is worth it hon x. Keep smiling at people when you see them and you will accumulate good karma love. It is worth it hon and it is a pleasant experience too smiling and being smiled back at. It is worth smiling even if the person doesn't smile back. Smiling makes you feel happy and makes the other person feel loved. You can never go wrong with smiling at people. It is a very friendly way of communicating with people. Bee kind to be beautiful and be cruel to be ugly.

I greeted some people I saw today. I chatted positively to some people I saw today when I was outside. I woke up two moths in the house who looked like they were dead and they both moved again. I watered the garden. I emptied the bins in the house and changed the bin liners. I cleaned the bathroom I share with my housemates. I chatted positively to some people in an online chat room. I opened the door for my housemate who had forgotten his key, Comments Let go of negative storylines. Let go of negative thought processes.

I cleaned the bathroom and mopped the floor. I emptied the bins in the house and changed the bin liners. I watered the plants in the back garden and front garden. I hoovered the entire house's communal areas including staircases and the front and back sitting room. I took a large pot upstairs for a housemate who finds it difficult to climb the stairs. I washed after supper for dishes, pots and cutlery for my housemate. Comments When someone is mean to you and accuses you of doing something wrong that you never did, don't get angry at the person or hate the person, instead show love and kindness to the person and remember you get good karma in the future by being nice to the angry cold person. Every good and kind action you do, stores up good karma for you to receive happiness in the future. That is Buddhism. End suffering by being a noble character who is kind and loving to everyone regardless of how kind and loving they are to you.

I washed the bathroom and mopped the floor. I hoovered the floor of my bedroom so that anyone visiting my room sees a clean floor. I washed the dishes. I cut the okra for the soup for my housemate. I watered the front and back garden. I emptied the bins and changed the bin liners. I greeted my housemates in the morning. I bought a pepper core remover/pepper seed remover online for my housemate. I bought a stainless steel egg cracker online for my housemate.

I washed the shared bathroom and mopped the floor. I watered the two shared gardens, front and back. I emptied the the bins in the house and put in new bin liners. Emptied the dust in the hoover's dust container into the bin. Vacuumed the communal areas on the ground floor, on the middle floor and on the top floor and the sitting room, kitchen and bathroom. I decluttered some of my stuff and other people's stuff in my room. Comments Avoid desire because it causes suffering. When you don't desire anything, you don't suffer. This does not mean that you won't get good things through good karma for good actions in the past. It means you don't desire material goods, circumstances and people. Instead you are grateful for what you have at the moment and you utilise your time by being kind and loving to others. Putting other people's welfare before your own is kind and desire is not kind. Examples of kindness is giving things to others including money and gifts, helping others including doing the gardening or housework or cooking vegetarian or vegan food for free for someone, opening the door for someone, giving up your seat in the bus or tube for someone who is standing, carrying heavy luggage for someone, helping with cooking food or/and serving food at a soup kitchen which is providing food for those on low income, homeless or unemployed, donating food to a food bank, donating money to charity, volunteering time to help a charity deliver a service to the community. When you are kind, you get good karma which means good things happen to you. This can include health benefits, getting good housing, receiving material goods, getting a good job, relating better with people, getting more money and living in a nice attractive environment. This is the teaching of Buddha to end suffering. Try your hardest to be kind and do kind deeds everyday and save up a treasure chest of lots of good karma towards you in the future. Good Karma - my blessings - what I have gained from kind actions in the past - What I am grateful for today: A free roof over my head. Somewhere to sleep, put my stuff in, to work in, to live in and to shelter me from the harsh weather conditions. Food everyday prepared by my housemate. Clothes to wear especially in the cold weather. Being alive and able to walk, having my five senses, namely being able to taste, talk, hear, see, smell and feel. Having hair on my head. Having clean water. Having a shower Having a sink Having a toilet Good housemates. Free travel. Benefits. Shops where I can buy merchandise that is useful. Shampoo that has healed the psoriasis on my scalp and hairline.

I emptied the bins When I went for my appointment I was friendly to everyone I met and greeted them with a smile and said goodbye with a smile. I hoovered the communal areas in the house. I watered the plants in the gardens. The plants in the back garden have started blooming which is excellent. I washed the shared bathroom. Comments Smile at people when you meet them. Think positively about any situation you find yourself in. Be hopeful not pessimistic. Things will get better when you are positive. Look at the good in everything. Keep being nice to people, whatever news you get. Don't let any news pull you down. Have goals and try to attain them. When you attain them, you will be happy and you will be successful. Try achieving one goal at a time. Write down each of your goals then make an effort to achieve them one at a time. Keep a journal of your journey towards achieving your goals. The journal will help you achieve your goals by reminding you of your goals every day and your progress towards achieving your goals.

I washed the bathroom. I hoovered downstairs in preparation for guests. I watered the gardens. I emptied the bins and changed the bin liners. I helped a housemate wash the dishes. I helped a housemate get the drinks and snacks from upstairs for the guests because she finds it hard to climb the stairs. I helped a housemate get the serving dishes she needs to put the food in for the guests. I helped a housemate serve the guests drinks and snacks. Comments The aim of Buddhism is to end suffering. That is wonderful. To end suffering you need to know the four noble truths. The first noble truth is what suffering is (dukkha). Suffering is feeling physical pain when ill or emotional pain when treated cruelly or coldly, Suffering is losing contact with someone who was kind to you. Suffering is losing something or things that allow you to communicate with people who are being kind to you. Suffering is being separated from everyone who is kind to you. Human inflicted suffering is cruelty. Suffering is worrying about anything at all. For example, worrying about death. The second noble truth is what is the cause of suffering. The first cause of suffering is attachment to people and things. When you attach yourself to anyone or anything, you suffer when you lose that person or thing. Attachment is a strong feeling for a person or thing. It is holding on to a person or thing. The second cause of suffering is craving things such as certificates, food, money and other things you can buy from the shop and not having your craving satiated. The third cause of suffering is ignorance (samudaya) which is not knowing the truth. This leads to believing lies which makes you sad because you don't know the truth. You are guessing the truth. You are getting worked up because you don't know the exact truth. You guess things that are not the truth and this can lead you anywhere and you can think anything in your made up story. You can end up getting angry about a story you made up to support your guess of what the truth is. The third noble truth is that suffering can end by letting go of attachments and ceasing desire and craving for things and people. The fourth noble truth is the noble eightfold path that leads to the end of suffering. This path is as follows: Right Understanding - Knowing the true answer to why Right Intention - Doing actions and saying words out of kindness and harmlessness and not doing actions and saying words to harm the other. Not being attached to anything or anyone when reacting to an action or words. Right Speech: Speaking truthfully, kindly, and constructively (not destructively). Right Action: Doing kind actions that don't harm oneself or others. For example, visiting someone in jail or hospital to help them feel happy by being friendly and warm towards them. You can bring them a bottle of drinking water and a book on Buddhism to help make them happy. Right Livelihood: Choosing to study a course for work and to do a job that is kind and doesn't harm others. Right Effort: Making an effort to be kind, loving, hard-working, generous and honest instead of being hateful, lazy, dishonest and angry. Right Mindfulness: Thinking about what I am doing in the present moment and focusing my attention on what I am doing in the present moment. Right Concentration: Concentrating on what I am doing and thinking whilst doing it of how to do what I am doing in a kind and harmless manner. If you follow the noble eightfold path then you will be of a very noble character and will end suffering in your locality and possibly throughout the world by being kind, generous, honest, harmless and friendly. Everyone should have a voice including the animals. I will stand up for the animals' rights to live and the animals' right to live a good quality life. Everyone ought to live the life they want to live harmlessly and kindly.

I cleaned the bathroom. I emptied the bins. I watered the flowers in the front and back garden. I took food upstairs for one of my housemates who has difficulty climbing the stairs. I helped pack the food in plastic bags to put upstairs in the freezer. I acknowledged the moth flying in my room and the moth flew towards me. A moth is a person equal in importance to each of us and every moth matters as much as every human matters. Food for thought Buddhism encourages us to be kind selflessly. For example, we are taught to be generous without expecting gratitude from the people we are being generous towards. We are expected to do the right thing to achieve good karma in the future and if still in the cycle of samsara then to obtain a good rebirth and if we reach enlightenment then we are free from the death and rebirth cycle and we reach a state of perfect happiness forever called Nirvana. Once we have no desires and no attachment to anything or anyone in the physical world, we reach enlightenment and hence Nirvana. The point of life is to heap excessive kindness upon each person we meet and to be generous in our kindness. You can never be too kind as a Buddhist. Why eat plants and animals when both are people and sensitive beings. Eating a plant or animal is equal to eating a human. It is gross to eat living beings. There is no food on planet earth. We live off kindness not food. We don't need food we need loving-kindness (metta) from each person we meet. What is loving-kindness shown towards others? Wanting other living beings to be happy. Acknowledging people warmly when you see them instead of avoiding them and ignoring them rudely. Even if they ignore you when you acknowledge them, you are kind and will achieve good karma in the future. Keep on filling up your bucket of good karma by doing kind/good deeds. With high enough karma, you may reach enlightenment, the state of perfect happiness. Keep doing good deeds regardless of the way people react to you. You will be well rewarded in the future. Every good action, you do gives a reward of good karma in the future guaranteed. You can never lose anything by being kind to living beings and you gain so much good stuff in the future such as good health, vitality, beautiful looks, great personality, lots of friends and the constant feeling of ecstasy within. Buddhism encourages us not to attach ourselves to a best friend but to be equally kind and loving to everyone we meet. This means acknowledging everyone we meet with a massive friendly smile regardless of whether they smile first or don't smile at all. Then we can also say 'hi' to them to make them feel welcome. We can ask them how they are doing to show we care about them. We can offer them some comfort by being pleasant, giving them a hug or shaking hands or/and saying I hope everything will be okay to show we want the best for them and mean them good tidings. Money is for giving. Every time you give someone money whether for free or in exchange for something, you are being kind and you will get good karma in the future. Give and you are kind. The more you give, the kinder you are. Every time you give money to someone, you make them happy even if they don't show gratitude. So give money to anyone and make anyone happy today. For giving, you will get good actions back to you in the future, the law of karma.

I emptied the bins today to help out my housemates. I chatted on WhatsApp with friends to be kind to them and to not treat them like rubbish and hurt their feelings. I washed my laundry so that my clothes smell fresh. Comments Today I thought about plants as well as animals being people (living organisms like humans are) and I thought that if humans were nice to plants and animals, they would be nice to humans too and not have wars, fights and arguments anymore. Today I thought that since plants are people and animals are people, there is no food on planet earth because anything that could be food is a person. So to be kind, you can't eat anyone. I have seen plants that were people and seen plant people in my food before and heard a voice coming out of a tomato before too. This convinces me that plants are not food. Also in biology in secondary school, we learnt that plants, animals and humans are all alive as living organisms so there is no food, clothes or things to buy from the shops because everyone is alive. When you are kind to other living organisms, your body is skinny and beautiful because you don't harm anyone. I heard a voice in water too, making me think that there is life in water too so maybe water is not a drink. Also after sipping water, I develop a cough with contains phlegm and I have a pain in my stomach and this is very uncomfortable so I don't want to drink water anymore either. When I don't drink water, I don't have a cough and I don't have a pain in my stomach either.

I washed the bathroom today. I washed the dishes after breakfast so that other people can use the clean dishes. I emptied the bins and changed the bin liners.