Good morning!
The days are getting longer and warmer. This week’s issue of Time Magazine
featured longevity. Its cover showed a baby’s picture with the caption “This baby
could live to be 142 YEARS OLD: Dispatches From the Frontiers of Longevity.”
The section GET YOUR HEAD IN THE GAME, with a picture of a baby in half lotus,
with a juzu (rosary), talks mostly about mindfulness, meditation, relaxation, and
optimism. The portion “Putting Out Fires” says that meditation reduces
inflammatory cytokines, revitalizes genes, Telomere gene and gray matter.
Nirvana (nibbāṇa) is almost universally believed to mean “putting out fire,” following
the traditional interpretation, taking the prefix nir as “out.” The often used stock
phrase “ni-vāte padīpa” (lamp in no-wind) clearly illustrates the nirvana state of
light (awakening) in no karma wind blowing.
The magazine feature toward its end notes that not only longevity but also lifestyle is
important. Nirvana is the key to a paradigm shift of lifestyle, civilization system,
ecology sanity, and life system sanctity into crucial cultivation and culture with
wholly wholesome way and world.
Our cold-blooded world on fire, of stresses and sufferings with small, short-sighted
sinful karmas blown into hungry ghosts, fighting devils, and hell beings, must shift to
a warm-hearted world in holy harmony, health, and happiness in limitless light,
liberation, love and life.
2/15/15
