Wine fair in campus today.. and tasted a lot of different types of wine!! To the point I was pretty tipsy (during working hours, ahem). Sampled champagne, sangria, white, red, yellow, chocolate liquer, sparkling, moscato,... all for five bucks! Haha.
At the wine fair, I met the Dean of Students, a delightful man, who was very enthusiastic about sharing good wine and good philosophy. He told us his teacher once told him a 4-word phrase so profound it changed the way he looked at things:
At the wine fair, I met the Dean of Students, a delightful man, who was very enthusiastic about sharing good wine and good philosophy. He told us his teacher once told him a 4-word phrase so profound it changed the way he looked at things:
This, too, will pass.
Everything is transient, so go out and soak up everything at every moment!, so he says. He encouraged us (students who were standing around, drinking with him) to travel far and wide. Go to Mount Matterhorn in Switzerland and soak up the culture! What timely advice, just as I was deciding (or not) to grab the opportunity to go for a meditation retreat in Chiang Rai with Ajahn Brahm. When I contemplated aloud on that, I was pleasantly surprised that a colleague, YL, knew what I was talking about. Apparently, YL is also a fellow Buddhist Fellowship member. The world is small indeed!!