Thanks to wifey, I’ve got to try an amazing Ramen that has thick chicken stock soup, pork bellies that melt in your mouth, egg that is solid on the outside and liquid on the inside, Marutama Ramen - unfortunately I forgot to take pictures of what we had so check out a photo here: http://www.fahrenheit88.com/content/stores_info.php?sid=96
Then we had another fantastic desert - this time at the Cream and Fudge Factory:
Ice cream that is chunky, solid and tasty!
Fortunately wifey reminded me to take pictures:
jars of stuff used to mix in the icecream
more jars
the selection… kinda hard to see in this pics but there are many
mixing our chocolate icecream in marshmallow and walnuts… yum
according to poster, apparently it IS the creamiest icecream on earth!
the result: one chocolate icecream rocky road… yummy
i too believe in the soul as i believe that there must be some force that holds our flesh together and give birth to life. but i too agree with Buddha that is is meaningless to question the existence of the soul as it can neither be proved nor disproved. does it matter if it is made up of muons and quarks or if it is made up of n-th dimension material?
what i like to concern myself is the meaning of the soul, or what is the meaning of life, the purpose of the soul. we come from dust and we return to dust, it is easy for those simple in mind to read nihilistic meanings behind those words. but it is actually very simple, the soul is here to do … nothing. there’s is nothing in this world that needs doing. we are here to experience the ups and downs of life, there is neither good nor bad to both ups and downs. same as there is neither good nor bad to the rain, there is neither good nor bad to something like earthquakes. it is just something that happens to be experienced, how we read into the event, experience triumph and despair is entirely up to our own mind. as in departures, death can be a sad occasion, or it can be an occasion of joyous appreciation of a life lived.
so what is the purpose of the soul. broadly, i read that there are two:
1. to experience giving, the self-sacrifice
2. to experience living, the hedonistic self-pleasure
i myself lean towards the first, it is actually the passion that drives me on everyday. life is suffering, as Buddha says, if i do just one thing a day that brightens someone’s day, isn’t this life worth living already?
