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Aug 28, 2020
"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
" --Thomas Merton
Lucky Man: Life Lessons from William Segal
"How can we find balance and peace in the midst of pain and turmoil? A legendary Zen Buddhist master once sent this startling note to a friend: "Lucky man," wrote Soen Nakagawa Roshi, the abbot of Ryutakuji monastery in Japan. "One accident like yours is worth ten thousand sittings in a monastery!" The accident the Zen master mentioned was a devastating car crash. The "lucky man" was William Segal, 67, a magazine publisher, artist, and spiritual seeker. Segal received the message as he lay in a hospital bed in New York. Both hips were shattered, his skull was fractured; and all the bones in his face were broken." More about William Segal's life and spirit in this thoughtful piece.
BE THE CHANGE
What is your framing of happiness and misfortune? Do you find this framing fosters your transformation, or keeps you stuck in certain patterns?
