224-Woulda, woulda, woulda, please no bike chain- Buddhism in daily life

Woulda, woulda, woulda, please no bike chain


Would have, would have, please no bicycle chain


What if my wife hadn't left me, if I hadn't quit my job, if I
hadn't drunk so much beer yesterday!


"Would have, would have, would have!"


From a Buddhist point of view, such thoughts are simply nonsense.
It always comes as it must come, fate is predetermined, "what if
thoughts" lead to no result.


Should I have taken this turn, or should I have taken a different
direction?


If I had not said this and that, would the argument with my son
not have escalated?


We have to live in the "here" and "now", the past has already
passed, the future is uncertain, no matter how we imagine a
coming situation, it won't happen that way anyway.


"WE ARE WHAT WE THINK. EVERYTHING WE ARE IS CREATED FROM OUR
THOUGHTS. WITH OUR THOUGHTS WE SHAPE THE WORLD." "DO NOT DWELL ON
THE PAST, DO NOT DREAM ABOUT THE FUTURE."


- BUDDHA -


Our thoughts correspond to "would have, would have, would have."


In retrospect, did it ever do any good, the "would have, would
have, would have"?


There we should be completely honest with ourselves, not lie to
ourselves.


Nothing has come of it. These "would-have-been thoughts" were
always useless.


Buddha's goal in life was to experience "enlightenment".


Win big step on the way to "enlightenment" is to banish this
"would have, would have, would have" from our thoughts, to really
live in the "here and now" and to silence our thoughts chattering
away, to experience this "aha moment", if we would at least
sometimes switch off the thinking (would have, would have, would
have) that our ego produces.


Buddha experienced "enlightenment" and I know people who have
also succeeded in doing so.


Buddha said that all people have "enlightenment" within them, but
it has been "buried" but can be rediscovered.


I know that this is the truth! The only truth beside which other
things simply pale.


THE SHORTEST WORDS, NAMELY "YES" AND "NO" REQUIRE THE MOST
REFLECTION


- PYTHAGORAS OF SAMOS - GREEK PHILOSOPHER - 570 TO 510 B. CHR.


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