The Buddha said:
"Desire is the root cause of all misery."
let go of the past
let go of the future....
Dhammapada 348
desire is the bane of mankind....
Dhammapada 359
It is this desire that causes us to create a future, projecting ourselves into make believe and causing anxiety.
When we create a tomorrow and start to live in it, that's when
today dissapears.
We cannot see today, when our eyes are clouded by what tomorrow may bring.
So, desire is born out of the past and projected into the future, where once again, we can repeat our mistakes from the past.
This causes anxiety, which causes more desire, to be something other than what, and who, we really are.
We believe that the past and the future constitutes the entire mind.
Should we analyse and dissect our daily thoughts,
we find only two thoughts,
past and future.
We don't find a present.
The present is the only reality,
the only existence,
the only joy.
Present moment can only be found when the mind ceases it's chatter.
When it is stilled.
Silent.
Bliss.
Only then does anxiety cease.
Be still.....
Nathan
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