........to the next moment

Parinirvana day, a day where we reflect on the final libberation of the Buddha and on those we have lost. I would say also those we may lose but I tend to count everyone in this and sometime this can be hard. Its reality, and reality, or the seeing of reality, is the name of the game. Yes people die but this shouldn't be the only passing away we should consider, the losing contact with a friend, the changing of a job, the splitting up from a partner all to me count as a lose. We can look even closer than this at the smaller events in our everyday experiance, the finishing of an interesteing book, the end of a plesent journey or getting better after a cold all indicate the flow of the arising and passing away of experiences. So tonight we will celebrate the passing from samsara to nirvana, from the ordinary to the extraordinary from the sad to the happy, from this moment to the next moment, to the next moment............