The True Wisdom Of Living Is Living Moment To Moment :
You are sad because you have not learnt to live moment to moment. The mind starts thinking of the future and thus discards the moment. It considers the moment as not valuable, but the future is. So the mind lives in the future and wants the future and in the process feels insecure of the future. This results in sadness.
A person once told me that he is scared of his future. He is afraid that he may lose his job. He is worried what will happen to him. He felt insecure when his daughter did not get a seat in a good college of her choice. His son got a seat in a good college, and he felt happy. He is a chartered account and well qualified. He finds his mind oscillating. “What shall I do”, he lamented.
I made him see how the mind spins stories and how one is caught in such a mind. It makes you create an illusion that your sorrow is truly real. I asked this man, why the mind worries about the future. Is it not that it has not learnt to absorb totally this moment, enjoy this moment and such a mind which does not enjoy the moment is a mind which hopes for the future. Hence, such a mind is insecure, for the future has not happened. To a future which has not happened, how can one be insecure? You have got a job, and that has not eased your mind, but your mind wants to be secure to a job which you may lose. When you are not rejoicing your job, then such a mind is habituated to be miserable and remain unhappy. Happiness is a threat to it. Thus, such a mind will create and sustain misery.
The true wisdom of living is living moment to moment. If you have to plan for the future, plan in the moment. When the mind has learnt to be happy in the moment, then planning for the future will be out of happiness and thus you will learn to create happiness.
Om Namah Shivay
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