CrankyBuddhist   the learning never ends …

I did something that I haven’t done in over a year … I took some time off away from working on my web sites. Two whole days.

And what did I do with them?

I bought enough groceries to get me through the two days of the weekend and I pretty much stayed in bed, reading the last installment of Harry Potter. I was torn about reading it all at once. It is the last book. I contemplated stretching it over the entire five days of my current housesit and then decided to just hop on the Hogwarts train and spend the entire weekend in another world.

As I read I thought about why these books are so popular. I came to the conclusion that it’s not only the story, but the way it was written. In a way that makes me feel like I am right there, following the kids around or in their room, eavesdropping on them. Actually having their experiences.

One of the passages that made me chuckle, in the way I chuckle at dharma lessons, was when the kids were having a conversation with Luna’s dad. Hermione had asked him how he knew something was real and he replied:

Prove that it is not.

Imagine if we lived in a world where we could believe things until they were proven unreal, rather than the other way around?

We live in a world where things are not believable until they are proven. A world of science. I think our lives would be so much richer and fuller if, instead of saying ‘prove that it is real’, saying ‘prove that it is not’!