Koan #5...

By Vichara


Hey boys & girls it’s Koan Monday. Pull up your cushions, get comfy, here it comes…”Immersed in water, you stretch out your hands for a drink”. No matter what part of the world you are reading this I believe that you are surroundsed by all that we could ever wish for either physically or spiritually (sometimes without knowing it). The greatest of these is just being alive. There are some belief systems that will say that reaching ahuman life has taken many lifetimes in other forms. This is the pinnacle. But as usual we humans desire so much more when we have so much and this causes so much suffering. The message here today of course is to develop a little more appreciation for what we have. It’s all relative but to others we would be considered very rich but I believe the greatest wealth we posess is the ability to love with a compassionate heart.

quaff • \KWAHF\ • verb
: to drink deeply
Example Sentence:
"'Respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore! Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!' / Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'" (Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven)
Did you know?
Nowadays, "quaff" has an old-fashioned, literary sound to it. For more contemporary words that suggest drinking a lot of something, especially in big gulps and in large quantity, you might try "drain," "pound," or "slug." If you are a daintier drinker, you might say that you prefer to "sip," "imbibe" or "partake in" the beverage of your choice. "Quaff" is by no means the oldest of these terms -- earliest evidence of it in use is from the early 1500s, whereas "sip" dates to the 14th century -- but it is the only one with the mysterious "origin unknown" etymology.

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