Reincarnation Blues

by Michael Poore

“The trouble with problem solving,” Aldrin often complained, “is that too many people are making money off the problems.”

The Buddha people didn’t have this unhappiness. They seemed to have a way of doing rather than fretting. Doing what was in front of them at that moment, whether it was talking to you or stitching a wound or drinking a cupful of water.

“Don’t search the ends of the Earth looking for your happiness. Perfection is being happy with what you are right now.”

The small things, Milo thought as he died, were really the big things.

There was this one idea going out to all the people on all the planets that maybe you couldn’t get people to stop being predators, but you could get them to stop being prey.

All good parents taught their kids this same lesson: If everyone agreed to suffer pain or death rather than be treated unjustly, greedy people could never again gain power.