Selfless Acts

I wanted to say thank you to Michael Prescott first and for most for writting this amazing article on Buddhism. I do not take any credit for him deciding to be come buddhist or for crediting me in his article. I simply showed him what I have learned about Buddhism over the past fourteen tears. Granted I shared the knowledge of the path of enlightenment with him, but I'm not the creator of the path. I had simliar questions just like him when I was growing up that my relgious advisors could not answer. Instead of them having me seek my almighty creator for the answers, they would discredit my ideas and thoughts and would tell me to drop them. After a while, like Michael I started looking other places for the answers to my questions. After a long search I came across Buddhism. I still remember when I read about one of the four corner stone beliefs of Buddhism and how I felt about it. Compassion.. now thats a interesting word. What does compasson mean? Well in the dictionary compassion means to be compassionate towards others. But in Buddism compassion means a lot more. It means to be undertsanding of all human and creatures, regardless of shape, size, type or condition. Without compassion or understanding; how do you expect to understand others? You need to feel and emphasize with others to truly understand and feel compassion towards another. So I ask again, is compassion just another word in the dictionary or is there a truly greater meaning to the word. I leave this up to my readers to decide for themselves. Everyone views things differently and it's up to them to decide fo themselves what compassion trule means to them. Not me explaining it to them.

This article that was written about Buddhism is posted here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fjOkbvNQflPQimdZ7vCjkk46TGARkEHRcExrtqrEFv8/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1#

Thank you for taking the time to read it and I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did.
~Jerry~

The perception of Time

Ok today we are going to discuss time and people's perspective of time. Well in my opinion time is measured by your age. The longer you have been alive, the faster time moves for you. The reason for this is because humans measure time by, seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks and years. But most also forget we base everything on past experiences. So for this blog today I am going to use age. Lets start at the age of four, because I feel that alot of people do not become really self a where tell the age of four an above. When you are a little kid at the age of four and you want something to come like your birthday or Christmas. It seems if like it takes forever and until I really thought about it I never understood why. Thats's because we measure time against how old we are and don't really even know we are doing it. So if a year is three hundred and sixty five days and a person is four they have been alive for one thousand four hundred and sixty days. When you look at time at a young age, the reason things take forever is simple. You are measuring a fourth of your live against when a day in a year will come. As you get older things start to move faster and most aren't sure why either. Again without actually knowing it you are measuring time with your age. As I am slowly getting older I am noticing this already. Days seem to move faster than they use to. I look at the clock sometimes and go wow were did the day go. A year to me can seem like a few months and before I know it, it's already summert to winter and so on. If you use my theory of time and look at it as a whole it's all based on perspective. Keep in mind as you get older things are going to move even faster. Before you know it years feel like weeks and days feel like hours. I feel if we could see time a different way then we wouldn't feel if though it is moving like this. Anyways just food for thought, hope you like it. =P