“Zenfully Quool Quotes”
Currently featuring “The Art of Living”
By Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh
Often the joy of knowing that we are still alive
contains within it
the deep fear that we don’t want to face:
our fear of dying.
Although we don’t want to admit or think about it,
deep down in our hearts we know that one day we will die.
The day will come when we will be laid out, our body stiff.
We will no longer be able to breathe,
we will no longer be able to think,
we will no longer have any emotions or feelings,
and our body will begin to decompose.
We may be uneasy every time we think about death.
We may have a tendency to brush it aside.
We may be in denial.
This fear may be silently haunting us,
driving our thoughts, words, and actions without us knowing it.
Maintaining awareness in our daily life of our eight different bodies
helps us transform our deeply rooted fear of dying.
We see that our physical body is just a tiny part of who we are,
and we see all the many ways in which we are being continued.
We should not be in denial about our physical body’s impermanence.
Keeping this awareness alive in our daily life
can help us see clearly how to make good use of the time we still have.
The Buddha taught the Five Remembrances—
a contemplation to recite at the end of every day—
as an exercise to lessen our fear of death
and remind us of the preciousness of life.
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Zenfully Quool Quotes Quommentary
by rog
Dying is easy…
Living is the hard part.
In a perfect world, we should always be happy and content.
This world already has more than enough resources
to sustain everyone in an abundance of everything needed
for us all to be happy, safe, and content.
But…
Collectively,
We still worship those with bigger egos than our own.
We willfully support those that mislead us to believe what they say
is keeping us from the inherent Happiness that we seek.
But, we work hard, toil endlessly…
And when we find a place to rest for a bit and take pride in our efforts…
A wee bit of “happy” naturally sets in.
But,
Not long after,
Some asshole will come along and find shit to fuck with you…
And there goes the “happy”.
So,
We repeat this endless cycle of toil, suffer, toil… a wee bit of “happy”…
And repeat.
The conundrum of the Spiritual perspectives, of which
True happiness does not come from materialistic pleasures…
This is only partially true.
If one is facing eviction, homelessness, loosing their income, and or
can’t find enough to eat, can’t afford medical care…
Those are indeed all material things…
Our bodies are material beings…
To cheerfully waste away and die a miserable death…
Even if one is “spiritually happy”…
Is not true to our being.
When the Buddha taught “The Middle Way”.
He learned by experience that one must at least have
the bare essentials to sustain the body.
Even though the body is not our True Eternal ‘Self’…
It is necessary to carry ‘us’ through this life to fulfill our creative Being.
He also taught how to deal with assholes.
He said:
“Learn to instinctively treat everyone like an honorable professor.
Some will teach you how to be… while
Others will teach you how NOT to be.”
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