So here is a jazz tune from me. Violin and Keys with slight blues influence
Nothing else to report. As you were.
Its Jazz But Not as We Know It Jim
Category Archives: Musings
No Rain Today
Yep, it’s actually stopped for a while! Remarkable. It’s very, very cold though. Hits you in the bones. So it’s a day at home again. A day to muse on the world in general and the winners and the losers in particular too. And fairness or lack of it. Sometimes there is nothing to be done it seems. So what is good luck then?
The dictionary defines luck as ‘believing that whatever happens, either good or bad, to a person in the course of events is due to chance, fate or fortune.’ The Buddha denied this belief completely. Everything that happens has a specific cause or causes and there must be some relationships between the cause and the effect. Becoming sick, for example, has specific causes. One must come into contact with germs and one’s body must be weak enough for the germs to establish themselves. There is a definite relationship between the cause (germs and a weakened body) and the effect (sickness) because we know that germs attack the organisms and give rise to sickness. But no relationship can be found wearing a piece of paper with words written on it and being rich or passing examinations. Buddhism teaches that whatever happens does so because of a cause or causes and not due to luck, chance or fate. People who are interested in luck are always trying to get something – usually more money and wealth.
We can find if we dig deep enough some causation for much of what happens to us most of the time. Sometimes we abandon ourselves to hope but miracles are still rare enough.
Other religions are of course available 🙂
A relative has had recently in almost equal measure good and perhaps bad fortune. It may be that for them this is as good as it gets. But at present to resolve their particular situation they look for a remedy that may or may not exist. Should they wait to see if a better hand is dealt them or cut their losses?
Gosh is it getting that late already?
Times flown by again and another year is almost past.So here’s another tune for you. It’s a quiet weekend again. In the silence if you listen carefully you can hear my bones clicking. But perhaps you would rather not and I respect that 😆
The Best That I Can Do For You Now
I do find christmas a difficult time. It just doesn’t do much for me. I have no objections to others getting jolly and all jingle belled up if they must of course as I am not really scrooge, or am I? To be honest I have both good and bad memories’ of Christmas as a child but strangely now I can’t relate to it much at all.
This time of year in preparation for the next I am being drawn, almost forced into doing a lot rethinking and adjustment in my attitude to my life generally. I find comfort in being in control but often joy and delight visit when I am in those moments in flow (creatively )and perhaps out of control. I have a rich and vivid imagination at times and whilst I do not act out some of my wilder thoughts and fantasies now I don’t fear them. They are passing ghosts usually, phantoms that disperse like smoke or mist. Better to wave hello and deal with them safely than let them get behind the egos steering wheel and set course for heaven knows where.
A few tunes for you.
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