I’m 30 Today…

by Danny Fisher

The author celebrating his first birthday on this day in 1980.
…Which I can hardly believe. But, as Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche once said:

    This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds.
    To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance.
    A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky,
    Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain.

I hope that I’ve still got a lot of life left to live, but most of all I hope to wake up at least a little bit. For then, as Rinpoche also says:

    When death finally comes you will welcome it like an old friend, being aware of how dreamlike and impermanent the pheneomenal world really is.