My birthday's wish

This Saturday 1st March is going to be the last birthday that I will celebrate.

I arrived to the age where it's enough, no need to keep counting the years. I've been waiting for so long the peace of antiquity. I welcome wrinkles and silver hair with dignity and hope for wisdom.

:)

I thought many ways on how to celebrate this birthday and I thought a lot about the wish that I was going to ask for.

I'm going to celebrate my birthday at the gorgeous Buddhist Temple of Hua Zang Si in San Francisco, where I intend to prepare some holy burritos. If you live close by San Francisco, please come see me, I'll be there from 11am to 5pm. If you would like to eat a burrito, please let me know so I can have it ready. The temple's time for lunch is at noon (12:00p). At 1:00p I will stop my burrito crusade out of respect for the Temple's rules.

3126 22nd St, San Francisco, CA 94110

My wish:

From the bottom of my heart I wish YOU to ask a wish.

Please ask for a wish, and please think big. 

For example, I had the big wish that this terrible drug leader "el Chapo Guzman" were captured, and three days ago finally they got him!, I know is not the most romantic wish, but it became true.

It is my deepest intention that whatever hurt you, any worry, problem, fear, sickness, difficulty, turbidity...may anything that distress your happiness disappear.

If you need good luck for your exams, money for a business, good energy for a trip, or love for your marriage or future marriage; may all the good luck, all the money, all the energy, all the love and health be with you.

May your happiness boost

May your energy increases and jump and run. Swim, go have long long days

May your heart be flooded with compassion and forgive that old old old resentment

May you find gold and pearls in a corner of your closet

May you feel beautiful and act beautifully

May a magic umbrella appear in a rainy day

May you achieve a holy state in your meditation

May the peace in Syria, Egypt, Sudan, Central Africa, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Ukraine and beyond... be absolute and abundant

May the Christians fall in love with Muslims and Muslims fall in love with Christians and may we all become Buddhist!

(allright.. I stop here)

oh one more... 

may all your projects come true and may you wake up been hugged by a baby koala 

:)

Natta

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On being small

Para leer en español AQUI

I've learned that most of the time when we get into troubles, it's due to
the subconscious search of needing recognition and the habit of finding
pleasure in thinking that we are "better" or "superior" to our neighbors,
brothers, colleagues or whatever we can compare ourselves to.
This silent search to be "superior to others" is one of the causes of
taking things very personally--resulting in our own suffering and in
generally making others suffer.

It is true that a master degree, a phd, a recognition from a great school,
work, president or guru and having a lot of money will make our life better
and easier, but it won't make our hearts more sincere, pure and
compassionate. 
The most powerful work of the heart is based in the small job of its humility.
Basically, the main message on this thought is that WE ARE NOT
BETTER, BIGGER or SMALLER than anyone else or anything else. Underneath all
this (flesh and bones) surface stuff, we are made of the same original matter; 
we are all floating in this great mystery, and we are all equal cells.

Only by accepting and embracing our smallness do we become a great whole;
it is easier to walk as tribe of humankind. It's the fundamental pillar to create happiness at work. And it's the best antidote against feeling inferior... How?
if we are already small. Because feeling tiny against the sun is the greatest feeling.I wish you a beautiful (and simple) protection, a shield against the firey
flames of grandiosity, superiority, pomposity, pretense, and all kind
of paraphernalia. This shield will protect us and make us reflect on how to
aspire for big dreams, great goals, wonderful state of minds without
falling into the silent belief that we are "better than..."

Such a huge work to be small...

Happy happy new year!
This year is the year of the horse in the chinese calendar.
I am horse, but... since I'm in my "campaign on being small"
I found prudent to become a pony.
:)
sending you all my light

natta

Pss...If you want a copy of the painting "shield", send me an email
and I can share a PDF file ready for print.