Living in the present and not letting the past or future bother you

Live in the present. There’s no such thing as ‘I shouldn’t have done that’. Whatever you have done has happened already. There is nothing much you can do about it unless you fancy travelling in time or something. All that has happened in the past is experience for you, life experience. If you don’t do much, then you don’t get much experience either. With experience comes the ability to rebound and resurrect. Everything that happens is random. There is no such thing as good luck or bad luck. Living is just taking chances every moment. And there is no way you can decide to take the right path since no path is right until hindsight. Even if in hindsight you feel and others feel that you took the right path, everything that happens from that point on is still random. So what looked right in hindsight at T can look wrong in hindsight at T+1 or T+2. To hell with hindsight then. The best path forward is what your gut tells you is the best path forward. Don’t trust any guru or any consultant or anyone beyond your gut feeling. Don’t spend too much time pondering about anything either. There is nothing that is worth thinking too much about in life really, only because there is so much in life to ponder about and you won’t get time for that if you get stuck on one thing. There is no such thing as following a plan in life then. Take life as it comes and follow whichever path your gut tells you is right.

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bijja said…
Great analysis of karmic philosophy!
August 15, 2011 at 5:38 PM
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