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Woke limber enough to go down the stairs and weigh myself before breakfast and am chuffed to learn that I've dropped four pounds (1.8 kilos) in the last three weeks. Heat has its uses after all.
I googled the plot of Spring Snow to see if it was all going to end in the disaster the narcissistic protagonist seemed to be taking it towards. Evidently not-- kind of Tale of Genji whose end I cheered loudly at-- so I may keep on with it in my listless fashion. Also have a book about a western recluse Buddhist nun in Tibet which is cheering. I'm not sure how I feel about reincarnation. Is it reassuring to think you'll somehow go on, or is it the doors slamming 'You don't get away from here that easy'?
Continue on with Pratchett's witches. The first two Tiffany books were more fun than I remembered, the third is proving oddly resistant. Sofa and fan weather, and my copy of Wintersmith has very tight binding that makes it hard to keep open.
I googled the plot of Spring Snow to see if it was all going to end in the disaster the narcissistic protagonist seemed to be taking it towards. Evidently not-- kind of Tale of Genji whose end I cheered loudly at-- so I may keep on with it in my listless fashion. Also have a book about a western recluse Buddhist nun in Tibet which is cheering. I'm not sure how I feel about reincarnation. Is it reassuring to think you'll somehow go on, or is it the doors slamming 'You don't get away from here that easy'?
Continue on with Pratchett's witches. The first two Tiffany books were more fun than I remembered, the third is proving oddly resistant. Sofa and fan weather, and my copy of Wintersmith has very tight binding that makes it hard to keep open.
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Technically, there is no such thing as reincarnation, if that helps (that is my understanding of the Theravada position anyway). Each existence is temporary and merely a derivation of the karmic momentum left over from the the previous existence. There's nothing else that carries over. Like waves and water molecules.
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I suppose the idea is that, since there is no true self, by definition there can be no self to be reincarnated. I just have problems with the first term of the proposition. There may be no permanent Me, because I'm always changing, but there's a core person with certain core attributes that don't. I will never like eel or natto or thunderstorms no matter how much everything else alters.