195-Tomorrow - Buddhism in daily life

Tomorrow

Tomorrow is another day, no matter how "bad" the fate seems, even the misfortune is not permanent, it will pass, just as everything will pass.

So why worry so much, why fret, it's not worth it. Everything is subject to change, what appears to be a strong building today can collapse in a few years.

Have you ever seen the buildings in an abandoned city, maybe in pictures? Nature reclaims everything, after only a few years little of the former splendor can be seen, life is a coming and a going.

Just as the philosophy of Buddha tells us, which can be a lifeline for the many people who look confused at things that are so difficult to understand. Do you know the legend of Kisa, who could only be released from her pain by the Exalted One?

Then when you wake up tomorrow, a lot has already changed. Probably you do not notice it then immediately, too much you are arrested in your thoughts, what was, what will be, where will I go? Questions upon questions, to which it is difficult to find answers. At least not if "you" don't like to follow the Buddhist worldview.

Just as with the story of the kisa and the mustard seed, you will not find a household that has been spared from "misfortune." In every home, people have died, or separated.

Which is worse, the parting by death, or that by life? The separated life, far away from the loved ones, the being together with the unloved contemporaries, fears and hardships, worries and sorrows, all constructs in our thought palace.

Because if we make the decision not to suffer anymore, then it will be so. The unhappiness is not lasting at all, what was so important yesterday, is already forgotten today. Other things from the past we carry around with us for years and decades, other things we imagine for the future, we hardly waste a thought on the present.

Yet it is the NOW, the HERE and the TODAY in which we live, man is usually too cowardly to think about the connections, preferring to stick to the old habits, although he knows that even the NOW is an illusion, the past and the future even more so.

Even the misfortune has no continuance, the way remains the goal!

We want to do things in such a way that they are pleasant now and will be accompanied by happiness in the future.

- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero

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