(excerpt taken from: Present Moment, Wonderful Moment  byt Thich Nhat Hanh)

'If you look deeply into the plam of you hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors.  All of them are alive in this moment.  Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.

To be born means that something which did not exist comes into existence. But the day we are 'born' is not our beginning.  It is a day of continuation.  But that should not make us less happy when we celebrate our 'Happy Continuation Day'.

Since we are never born, how can we cease to be?  This is what the Heart Sutra teaches us.  When we have a tangible experience of non-birth and non-death, we know ourselves beyone duality.  The meditation on 'no separate self' is one way to pass through that gates of birth and death.

Your hand proves that you have never been born and that you will neve die.  The thread of life has never been interrupted from time beginning until now.  Previous generation, all the way back to single-celled beings, are present in your hand at this moment.  You can observe and experience this.  you hand is always available as a subject for meditation.'

That's my thought and my meditation for today.  What's yours?