LIVE THE PRESENT MOMENT, FREE OF PAST AND FUTURE

LIVE THE PRESENT MOMENT, FREE OF PAST AND FUTURE
Living in the present is the only way to live. It is in the present moment that we intimate our inner selves and find salvation. The present enables us to come in terms with outer reality. It is the link between the irretrievable past and the embodied future.
In life, we continuously say ‘goodbyes’ to our past, and in ‘now’, we plan a perfect future. The now is present in all that we enjoy and each moment expands our inner consciousness. In the ‘now’ we can be engulfed by sunshine and rain. The dawn of the day makes the morning a time of peace and tranquility, loaded with positive vibrations and thoughts.
As the day progresses, we go on to encounter the good and the bad. We try to strengthen the good in us and weaken the unpalatable. When we choose to live our lives by dwelling in the past and our attention riveted in the future that hasn’t arrived, we lose the precious ‘now’.
We have many desires and targets. We don’t always get what we want. Some of us are happy with what we get, others remain dissatisfied. Still others don’t give up; they keep trying. Which approach is the right one?
There is another approach. You can have a desire. Put in your best effort to fulfill it. But make sure that you enjoy the effort rather than the fruits. There are those who make an effort grumbling and are happy only when the are achieved. There are others who exhaust themselves making an effort to such a degree that they have no strength or enthusiasm to enjoy it’s fruits. So enjoy the effort, no matter what the effect.
The approach should be to celebrate the march towards the destination. If the destination is reached, we will be happy. If it is not reached, nobody can take away the sense of thrill at having run the race, the delicious fatigue felt along the whole body. The happiness is derived not from reaching the goal, but from the struggle that one wages as part of his attempt at reaching it.