Today I vow to keep the 5th precept and abstain from intoxicants. I dedicate the merit of today's meditation to my dad, who passed away peacefully yesterday after a long and difficult illness.
“This body is not me; I am not caught in this body, I am life without boundaries, I have never been born and I have never died. Over there the wide ocean and the sky with many galaxies All manifests from the basis of consciousness. Since beginningless time I have always been free. Birth and death are only a door through which we go in and out. Birth and death are only a game of hide-and-seek. So smile to me and take my hand and wave good-bye. Tomorrow we shall meet again or even before. We shall always be meeting again at the true source, Always meeting again on the myriad paths of life.” - Thich Nhat Hanh.