October 2008
2 posts
Being at Home with Our Homelessness →
Why we’re happier knowing our happiness is inseparable from our misery.
A Bailout on Life
NAKHON NAYOK, Thailand — It is the ultimate in second chances: a Buddhist temple here offers, for a small fee, an opportunity to die, rise up again newborn and make a fresh start in life.
Nine big pink coffins dominate the grand hall of the temple, and every day hundreds of people take their turns climbing in for a few moments as monks chant a dirge. Then, at a command, the visitors clamber out...