Living zen retreat / Day 25.

Don’t chase the future, you’re never going to catch it.

While you’re chasing it, you’re missing the present moment.

Look right here, now.

What's missing? 

Really, what’s missing?

Nothing. All that we chase after, is missing in our mind only.

We want the warm sun, so we chase it, head off on our travels, but what if the weather is bad when we get there, and the sun shines in the place we just left? How can we know? 

We can’t. We can’t know the future. 

We can wish, guess, predict and estimate. But we can’t know.

We can’t know anything actually. We just think we can.

What if we just showed up for life in the present moment, the here and now?

That should be enough. Because that is all we truly have.

Learn to see what’s here, no projections, no imaginings, just this, because this is it.

"If we are not totally blind, what we are seeking is already here.
This is it.”
Alan Watts

This is it. 

[image / lali masriera]


ANDO / LIVING ZEN RETREAT / DAY 25 / THURSDAY 30 JANUARY 2014, 09:00.

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