What Is The Point?

[cherydactyl]

So what is the point of waiting? What exactly are you waiting for? Is somebody going to give you what you always wanted? Will a train come from Heaven bringing you goodies? But nothing that could ever happen could be as good, as precious, as who you are. What stops you from being, from being present, is nothing but your hope for the future. Hoping for something to be different keeps you looking for some future fantasy. But it is a mirage; you'll never get there. The mirage stops you from seeing the obvious, the preciousness of Being. It is a great distortion, a great misunderstanding of what will fulfill you. When you follow the mirage, you are rejecting yourself.
--A.H. Almaas, from 365 Nirvana, Here and Now by Josh Baran, Tricycle's Daily Dharma for 11 May 2006

Comments

[sorcycat.livejournal.com]

Hrm... I think I disagree with this quote. Hope is important. Maybe it's about expectations. But, I think you have to know what you want, what you hope for, before you can try to obtain it. On the other hand, hope and waiting, without a plan, is pretty useless.

[cherydactyl.livejournal.com]

I think the quote is more about not waiting for the perfect conditions to fall into place...to work at things wiuthout saying "I will do X after Y happens," when there is no real reason to wait. I was guilty of this myself a lot with stying home with the kids. I will organize the pantry when I am home with the kids. It was more a way to procrastinate than anything else. Anyway, that is my take on it.

[shekkara.livejournal.com]

I have a lot or resonance with this. You have to be active in your present to become the person you dream about being in the future.