12 thoughts on “Let Me Ask You a Question – 11/15/18”
Could it be because too many people think living in the moment is too mundane, and therefore too boring and not exciting enough? I don’t know. I am just throwing that out there.
I think its because from day one we are conditioned to look to the future, getting married, owning a home, having kids. If you think about it from age 3 onwards its all about education and how what you do then as an effect on junior school, which has an effect on college, which has an effect on uninversity, which has an effect on jobs.
We are encouraged to save for the future, book holidays months in advance.
You also have shops who encourage us to think in the future, valentines stuff coming out in January, Easter stuff coming out after 14th Feb, Halloween stuff coming out in September, Christmas stuff coming out in October, everything around us is conditioning us to think in the future
I believe it is because of two things. The first thing that prevents living in the moment is programming. We are trained from birth to look to the future. The pace of life is to fast and that is the second and most important reason. To live in the moment requires us to slow down. I would bet that most people don’t understand what living in the moment is. They don’t understand because they are programmed not to.
Could it be because too many people think living in the moment is too mundane, and therefore too boring and not exciting enough? I don’t know. I am just throwing that out there.
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I”m not sure. I hypothesize that it has something to do with desire for things and our inability to be satisfied.
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That is a very hypothesis.
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Things get in the way – fear, hope, desires, planning, thinking we can predict and control – that sort of stuff.
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I believe it has to do with the Buddha’s concept of “desire” which robs humans of life.
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We think we’re immortal, so there’s always tomorrow. And, I think the vast majority always believe the grass is greener elsewhere.
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The grass is greener statement (I believe) is the root of it all. We are dissatisfied by nature thus always looking ahead to something else.
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too many people about what’s gonna happen tomorrow rather than what’s going on around them right now.
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This is absolutely the truth. I have to fight my mind at times to focus on now, not tomorrow.
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I think its because from day one we are conditioned to look to the future, getting married, owning a home, having kids. If you think about it from age 3 onwards its all about education and how what you do then as an effect on junior school, which has an effect on college, which has an effect on uninversity, which has an effect on jobs.
We are encouraged to save for the future, book holidays months in advance.
You also have shops who encourage us to think in the future, valentines stuff coming out in January, Easter stuff coming out after 14th Feb, Halloween stuff coming out in September, Christmas stuff coming out in October, everything around us is conditioning us to think in the future
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I believe it is because of two things. The first thing that prevents living in the moment is programming. We are trained from birth to look to the future. The pace of life is to fast and that is the second and most important reason. To live in the moment requires us to slow down. I would bet that most people don’t understand what living in the moment is. They don’t understand because they are programmed not to.
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Reality is painful. Accepting it is even more. We deny it. And find happiness in things we have no hand on
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