Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Enjoy this moment.

Enjoy this moment. Be present for it. Life is nothing but a succession of moments. If each is enjoyed, then life is enjoyed. Too often we live for the future: for something that we so want to happen, that we forget that even the enjoyment of that instant requires being fully present for it. The past can fill us with regret because we cannot recapture something we enjoyed. But that is also pointless. That past was once the present, and was enjoyed because we were present for it. Enjoyment is anyway merely pleasure of the senses and stroking of the ego. Both are transient and by nature the senses get saturated on satiation, but they then also desire again. Also the same sense object is pleasing in one circumstance and not so in the other. One cannot get too swayed by either pleasure or pain; happiness or sadness. Beyond the two is Bliss, ever present and the source of joy and true love. Once samadhi is attained, one will love all equally, regardless of their behavior towards you. It is only natural.

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