The present moment.

Last night, I was going through my FB and I came across a message posted by my friend, SB in Australia. The message is Buddha's philosophy on the awareness of the present moment. I have written a few messages on this wisdom and to relive this message and urge my readers to comtemplate on this wisdom and manage our life in a more meaningful way.

In my past messages, I have posted and written that tomorrow is never guaranteed. This is not to strike fear in everyone of us but to make us aware that fate strikes in a misterious way. It is very logical that if we are young and healthy, there is definitely a tomorrow. This logic cannot be denied and it is a high percentage that this logic will hold. But, there is a percentage that it might not happen due to unforeseen circumstances. There was a yesterday news that a plane clashed on a slum area in the Phillippines and killed many people and a big fire in a Hospital in India killed many of its patient. So, it goes on and on and on.

To focus on this wisdom is also to brushed up our sense of living and make us value every moment. Master Time would not stop for anyone and it will keep ticking and in no time,you will find that your ability to do something is not there anymore or even if you are there, you could do it no more. If we value the present moments, we are living in it and doing the things purposefully and with great intent. If we live in the past, it is wasteful as it had already gone and if we live in the future, it is only a dream or a hope. What we have is only the present moment.

To illustrate this point and I want to repeat a pass article to emphasize this wisdom:

There was a husband and wife. On her birthday, the husband will buy new dress and under garments for the wife. One day, she passed away from an accident and on clearing her cupboards, there were many dress and under garments that was still in wrappers. Her husband remembered that her wife have told him that she will wear them in the future. But, the future never come. You may think that this thinking is very passive and pressimistic but logically, there is nothing wrong to live in the present moment and live as if tomorrow never come. At least our living will be full and meaningful rather than living on hope of tomorrow.

People argued that we need to plan for our future. Yes, I agreed that there is never such things that we plan to fail and it is only fail to plan. We can have plans but we should not stop living waiting for our plan to happen. We should live in the present and work on our plan. How much you want to live in the present and how much you use your mind or your time to think about the future, it depends on you but been aware that you only have the present moment will make you make the right judgement.

So, have a good day and I would like to thank, SB for triggering me to revisit this wisdom and make my day in full awareness of this philosophy.

Namaste.