Planning for the future is like going fishing in a dry gulch;
Nothing ever works out as you wanted, so give up all your schemes and ambitions.
If you have got to think about something—
Make it the uncertainty of the hour of your death.
GYALSÉ RINPOCHE
Nothing ever works out as you wanted...?! Give up all your schemes and ambitions...?!
ReplyDeleteIf all people were thinking like this, we would live in the dark and in misery. If all we were thinking about was the uncertainty of the hour of death, life would be a nightmare!
Todd, you do not strike me as a person who believes in such bitter, desperate statements. What inspired you to make this choice?
This G. Rinpoche does not make much sence. Hopefully, he just had a bad day!
You have to go deeper. The theory is really quite hopeful. You see far too many people waste their lives trying to control what happens and when it happens. The myth is that you can control anything. In focussing on the hour of your death the buddhist principle is that you will be LIBERATED from the illusion of control and LIVE more freely. IF, we accept our mortality we will celebrate life TODAY and forget about tommorow. Peace. T
ReplyDeleteRead, Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment by Deepak Chopra