I encourage looking at these threads, topics and posts today ...

More on Ritual ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...ll=1#post82900

Question about parents and unattachment
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...d-unattachment

A lovely poem of aspiration and a Bodhisattva's Vow, Be Not Defeated By the Rain - Kenji Miyazawa
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...Kenji-Miyazawa