Christmas is over! While some people here forbid it, some Buddhists in America embrace it. Lion's Roar presents seven delightful stories in Have a Very Buddhist Christmas and in all these stories, there is goodness in the form of joy, giving, family and peace valued by humans; that is if they care to see and admit it. As pointed out by Bhante Suddhaso in his take, A Time to Perfect Our Compassion - Thailand's famed monk, Ajahn Chah had said, Anything that inspires us to see what is true and do what is good is proper practice. Christmas, is proper to Buddhists then I suppose and the human race too, if you don't mind; unless of course, the mind twisted as can be, see and focus just on negativity in others. That would not be reason to say, Shame on you! if Buddhist compassion is to come by but rather Pity you, for in this short life where everything is fleeting, there goes a moment of goodness and you just missed it!
Christmas in Melaka, Malaysia...
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