Don't be excited. Don't be down. Don't want the future. Don't want the past.

'Its because it reminded me that at the bottom of it all, the source of unhappiness is wanting and desire. And all this other stuff like meditating and contemplating impermanence and inherent existance aren't, on their own, going to help you if you still feel a clinging and desire towards things.'

'These other concepts can be used to bring the clinging out for what it really is, but they need the recognization of the clinging for them to work. Kind of like you need a canvas before you can show the colors.'

'I've been having so much trouble staying in the moment lately, but I realise now that's because I was wanting things. So of course it was hard for me to stay in the moment. I wasn't happy with the moment. And try as hard as i might to stay in the moment and concentrate hard it wasn't going to work without my mind seeing the nature of what was keeping me from the moment.'

Its all so simple. Its so simple. To forget. And think it matters.

'And then you start thinking its hard and you get off on a tangent trying to do the hard when the hard really misses the point. But its simple because it is obvious that nothing really matters except for this here right now and that it doesn't really matter what this here right now is and so clinging and desiring is really a silly thing to do. Its so simple that its easy to forget.'

- posted by Sigurd9/23/2004 11:43:00 PM