Life is a neatly crafted admixture of reality and illusion. What is real? And what is illusion? In simple terms, what is occurring in real time, the now, is real. Today, we have pain, we have anger, we have suffering, we have misery, we have grief, we have happiness, we have health/disease...these are very real. The pain that we are feeling in our heads, after yesterday nights bash, is very real. But, when tomorrow comes, that pain is gone. At that stage, it has gone from being real to illusion. And that is why, if we are in pain now, we need to do something about it, down a couple of aspirins, soak our heads in an ice bath or whatever. But tomorrow, there is obviously no pain. And tomorrow, the headache which we had today, is only an illusion. We need to treat it today, but if we were to treat our non existent headache tomorrow, that is believing in illusion and pampering our illusions. Everything in life is real when it is occurring, and become illusion with the passage of time. If we can realize this now, as things are happening, that all that is happening to us is going to join the world of illusion tomorrow, we will be less stressed and miserable, and more hopeful and will be able to tackle the present moment more effectively.
Posted on: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 00:24:39 +0000
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