Well, after spending many weeks exploring the Five Great Fears of Buddhism and of aging, I thought it might be time for a more upbeat theme. How about the Five Great Joys of aging? I don’t know of a succinct Buddhist teaching like this comparable to the Five Great Fears (Buddhism tends to focus on [...]
Archive for the ‘Beauty’ Category
Still Here
Posted in Aging and Buddhism, Beauty, Gratitude, tagged Aging and Buddhism, aging and gratitude, aging and happiness, Illness as gift on March 27, 2010 | 10 Comments »
A Real Flower is Beautiful
Posted in Aging and Buddhism, Beauty, tagged aging, Beauty, buddhism, joy on February 20, 2009 | 4 Comments »
A reader from Israel writes, ‘It is hard not to notice that most of the material one can find about aging is all about illnesses and sickness. However, I am trying to find more of the positive angles of old age.” I think he is right, and that is one of the reasons I started [...]



