EM Forster –the English writer – said: “ We can
spend our whole life preparing to live” . And John Lennon said “Life
is what happens when you are busy making other plans” . In other words the
urge to control life and make it secure and comfortable can lead us to miss out
on actually living our lives. We can spend a lot of time and energy trying to
create an imagined future or trying to protect ourselves from a feared future
and in the meantime our life is almost on hold.
But as Sangharakshita puts it in his poem of
the same name – Life is King.
Hour
after hour, day
After
day we try
To
grasp the Ungraspable, pinpoint
The
Unpredictable. Flowers
Wither
when touched, ice
Suddenly
cracks beneath or feet. Vainly
We try
to track birdflight through the sky trace
Dumb
fish through deep water. Try
To
anticipate the earned smile the soft
Reward,
even
Try
to grasp our own lives. But life
Slips
through our fingers
Like
snow.
Life cannot belong to us.
We belong to Life.
Life
Is
King.
The great Albert Einstein is quoted as saying:
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is
as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
Mindfulness is the Buddhist way of living
your life as though everything is a miracle. For Buddhists it is not the
walking on water that is a miracle, it is the simple fact of walking. When we have mindfulness and when we have
love, we have everything and without needing to control, we are able to connect
to the pulsing heart of life.
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