How’s it going everyone? I had a couple of experiences recently, which I thought I would share, I hope that’s okay 
The first one was on death. I recently watched this video, mainly for entertainment. The footage around the 18 min. mark really struck a cord with me though. It reminded of what the Buddha said:
SN 15.10 (A single individual)
I was imagining that those bones, though they were clearly from different individuals, could have easily been from me, from all my transmigrating in samsara, and I thought “Wow, imagine that!”
I had a feeling of disillusionment at the time. It also struck me, the similarity with the number of estimated human remains, which is around 6 million plus….
And I remembered the Holocaust, and thought “Oh this is what 6 million human remains looks like”.
So many lives lost, so much suffering.
It was calming in a strange way. I thought about how I tended to take things too seriously sometimes, and make much of things, trivial things, and then you see something like this, and you think “What’s the point of all this, of life?”
The second reflection I had was, on how our existence is so conditioned. I went on a bushwalk recently and I saw a lump of foam in a stream. And I stood and watched it for a few minutes, I was kind of mesmerised by it. It was so obvious, how it was being ‘fed’ constantly by the flowing water around it. But even a slight change in condition/s, and it could all of a sudden, come undone. It seemed so fragile, just like our lives, and our existence. Any change in conditions and it can all go pear-shaped 
Anyway, let’s not take ourselves and our lives too seriously, that way we can hold things lightly, and by holding things lightly, we can have a better perspective on things, and we don’t suffer as much.
Easy to say……..hard to do 
Take it easy
