Day: December 21, 2025

Sometimes it seems many humans
can adapt to almost anything
bad news, heart breaks, serious health conditions
wars, deaths, poverty, misfortune
some seem to adapt better than others
genetics, psychologies, better physical and mental health
maybe it comes down to luck
born more adaptable than most
what would break others, leaves a lucky one unbroken.

Bob Boyd

I was surprised to learn
there’s a hell in Buddhism
I thought hell was exclusive
to Christianity

never thought Buddhism
would have a hell

but then I read a distinct
difference

unlike Christianity
the Buddhist hell is not
eternal.

Bob Boyd

“A naraka differs from the concept of hell in Christianity in two respects: firstly, beings are not sent to Naraka as the result of a divine judgment or punishment; secondly, the length of a being’s stay in a naraka is not eternal,though it is usually incomprehensibly long.
A being is born into naraka as a direct result of its accumulated actions (karma) and resides there for a finite period of time until that karma has achieved its full result. After its karma is used up, it will be reborn in one of the higher worlds as the result of karma that had not yet ripened.”

Source: Wikipedia

Poor in America
can mean a car
cable tv
rental and heat
assistance
food stamps
food banks
medicaid health insurance
help from social services
in some third world
countries
one doesn’t
get all those benefits
poor is poor
compared to
living here
but sad it is
that anyone anywhere
lives in poverty
often born into it
often nearly
impossible to get
out of it
trapped in a
caste system
or something
comparable.

Bob Boyd