The present is just what it is, neither past nor future. If you are always talking about what you are going to do, its useless talk because you don’t truly know that what you talk about you will actually do.
This is because life is snuffed out as quickly as you can blink an eye. You don’t know if you are going to be alive in 1 minute from now so why talk about what is to come when you don’t even have control of it?
You would be talking about something that does not even exist yet and may never exist. Talk only about what is now because that is all that is real; it’s all that makes sense. When you understand that you have no control over your life then you can clearly see that idle chatter is useless and only causes suffering.
When you don’t get what you talked about when it was the future you suffer, if you do get what was talked about then all you want is more and so you are never happy with what you have, hence more suffering.
Either way you suffer because you are just never happy with what you have.
Even if you get what you talked about or do what you talked about as the future you will still suffer because everything you have is impermanent, nothing lasts forever.
So when you realize that what you are doing or that what you have is not yours to keep then that’s suffering due to attachment to impermanent things.
If what one does or says does not serve to further your spiritual progress in this life and all this life is for is another chance to awaken to the truth and reach enlightenment. Then you are simply wasting this life.
Everyone is always running around endlessly until the day they die trying to get what they want and what they feel they need.
They never stop in the present and think of what is going on right now.. breath, breath of life is taking place, a flower is growing a flower is dieing.
If you stop in the present instead of trying to catch the future you would see that you actually have caught up and all you’ve been trying to do is go further, your thought you were trying to catch the future.
So many people don’t realize that they are living in the future IN the present. The future becomes the present so fast that you cannot determine many times what future is and what is present. But you keep moving forward trying to catch what you think is the future.
So you are in an endless battle that does nothing but cause you undeserved suffering, you suffer because you can never catch up (so you think). If one does nothing but talks about the future because they feel it is already present then you are missing the truth.
It takes some waking up to really grasp the truth of mindfulness but when you can learn to separate past, present and future and learn to live in the present you will accomplish more in life.
You will live in peace, you will be stress free, healthier, happier and you will never feel like life is to short or that there is not enough hours in a day.
Be mindful of the present and stop trying to control what you cannot control which is the future and the past. Namaste
Auhtor : Merlyn Seeley
Source : http://www.examiner.com
