mi cumple / my birday

This morning i read a WONDERFUL blog that made my day, between all the phone calls, texts and emails i had to answer, between el MEGA chocolate cake i baked (oh my gosh) between piking up 50 tamales!!! between wearing my Tibetan dress with my hippie elegant blouse... between etc...  I found this article that really is exceptional.

These are the quotes i like the most:

“Show me a man who isn’t a slave; one who is a slave to sex, another to money, another to ambition; all are slaves to hope or fear. I could show you a man who has been a Consul who is a slave to his ‘little old woman’, a millionaire who is the slave of a little girl in domestic service. And there is no state of slavery more disgraceful than one which is self-imposed.”

           Seneca

“So other people hurt me? That’s their problem. Their character and actions are not mine. What is done to me is ordained by nature and what I do by my own.”

          Marcus Aurelius

“There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.”

Seneca

I found this text so important and so meaningful in my life today, right now, ahorita mismo... 

 I believe that self control is the base of freedom.
That's why i've been with out boy friend or lover or whatever for so many many years, believe me solitude is HARD,  you are alone with your voices, facing <<naked>>  all kind of fears, and there is nobody making noise or distracting you from this fact. 
I do believe that... if this "person" who is destined to be your partner do not show up, better to be alone. It takes time to purify this believe when it's so easy to believe it when we are kids.
I do believe that is good to RESIST  addictions, this is really freedom.
I do believe that we come to this earth, and inhabit a human body car so we can learn and learn and learn and learn and keep learning about Libertad.

Libertad foreva

Today in my twitter:

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." ~Unknown 

tinybuddha

  

RT @JaneF.... The big secret for nonfiction pitches: be reader/story focused. Don't focus on your problems, but others' benefit. #pubt

From my iGoogle:

          Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

  - Albert Einstein

At the temple's discourse....
again  we have a great reminder about the power of cultivating a PURE HEART, an honest pure heart.
It's power is HUGE, IMMENSE!!! 

I can keep writing and writing the many many many things i learned today about self cultivation that confirm my believes.

I love that my friends from all around made their best to call me or contact me today, but what i love the most is that they accept me how i am and even if they don't believe what i do, they keep loving me... And believe me all what i believe is hard to believe and more hard to put into practice.


1ro de Marzo 1978
and I got many presents :)
Tomorrow i'll have a second party at the Tea Lounge
and for sure more lessons.

I love blogs, i love wise people, i love my friends, i love you

Feliz cumple / happy birday natta.

psss
I was driving toward S.F. When crossing the bridge (i love the bay bridge, i love any bridge), with my cake, los tamales and a big frijoles pot, dress like a princess,  i found out i was out of gas,
i started chanting Om Ma Ni Pad Me Hum
and i flew over the sky, over the traffic, over the unbearable slavery of being,
I arrived perfectly fine.
and guess what...?
a wonderful parking spot waiting for me just in front of the Temple's door.


:)