Greetings from the Forest Hermitage

I am back in England for a few days -- and I am loving it! I soaked up the rain for a day before suddenly on Thursday it turned to snow. That didn't stop me getting to the temple though! Yesterday we had a beautiful clear day which meant the snow did not last long, but I snapped this photograph before it disappeared. Last night during the sitting Luangpor talked about a specific verse of the Dhammapada that goes something like:

Others know not that in this quarrel we shall perish,
Those of them who realise it, have their quarrels calmed thereby.

I will let you chew it over.

On the subject of our own death, in the ghost room where I am staying (which I may add has failed on the ghost front so far), there is this sign on the wall that I think is a good thing to remind myself everyday:

"Every day I get older. One day I will get ill. One day I will die."