024-Which "now" would you prefer? - Buddhism in daily life

Which "now" would you prefer?


We often hear that we should live in the NOW and in the TODAY.


But when we hear the complaints of our fellow human beings, most
of them do not like the NOW and the TODAY at all, one gets the
impression that almost all of them would like to have another
"now".


Life is becoming more and more complicated, keeping track of
events seems very difficult.


The earth races with abnormal speed through the universe, the
universe is so unimaginably large, the stupidity of mankind
likewise.


We cannot grasp things with our intellect, never. The "now" and
the "here" are incomprehensible, cascades of energies, which are
superior to every understanding.


No complaints help here, the world keeps on turning, no matter
how unfairly we were treated, we have to accept the "now", no
matter if it suits us or not.


And how terrible would the world be, if every person was allowed
to build his own "now", if everyone wanted to become king,
everything would be only chiefs, no more Indians existed?


But could it be that we can influence the "now", because the
"now" is just a reflection of our thoughts, we de facto make our
reality ourselves?


Today is always a really special day. Precisely because every day
is special, even if we cannot (or do not want to) really
appreciate this fact.


To mourn the past in the "now", or to digress into a
(hypothetical) future, what good would that do?


The stupidity of mankind is becoming more and more violent,
mental stress disorders have become the norm, psychiatry is
seeing more and more patients, drugs and tablets against
depression of all kinds are being prescribed more and more
frequently, drugs and alcohol appeal to all those people who
don't like it in the "now", who don't want to be "here" either.


As long as words like "charity" and "humanity" remain only empty
shells, as long as the escape from reality (which according to
Buddha does not exist anyway, at least not in the way it is
commonly imagined) will remain the state to strive for, with all
means and aids the illusion is tinkered with.


Which "now" would actually be preferred by all those who get high
every day and shoot themselves into an artificial nirvana with
intoxicants?


Could it be that the "now" is already nirvana? And needy people
are running in the completely wrong direction?


Who believes that there is a better "now" than it is already now,
he misjudges the life in this universe.


Anyway, the way is the goal!





If you want to know who you were, then look who you are. If you
want to know who you will be, then look at what you are doing.


- Buddha - honorary name of the Indian philosopher Siddhartha
Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero





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