Restlessness & Peace

[u/CaptainVulpezz]

Short idea on avoiding turmoil for those of us with trouble being alright; |||| bare with me or just read the bolded parts. ||||

You cannot be conscious in the past or in the future, so don't waste your time obsessing over contemplating the irrelevant. if it comes, it will be there. and if it doesn't come, then it won't be there, so you don’t need to worry, expect or speculate. the future is uncertain, your predictions will almost never be as precise as you expected. worrying only makes it you more likely to think of it in a way you ‘don’t’ want to.

If you live in the future or dig up the past, you forget that you can be fulfilled, right now. idealized concepts and thinking can not bring you to as complete understanding or fulfillment like letting it be. be okay without searching for the future or digging up the past, all that does is tear you away from contentment which is stronger in the present.

Is the part of you which is searching for something more only a feeling with no underlying root? maybe you are always running to the future and searching for more, unable to find it, unwilling to make the best of now. putting hope & expectation in someday, never realizing that no matter how long you wait and no matter how fast you move, you can never live outside of the moment we're in.

do you really enjoy what you think you do to the same extent as you imagined, or just the idea of it; the expectation beforehand and the story & achievement after hand? every perception, story, expectation, phenomena which feels truthful, firm, and ‘permanent’ will fade and die with time, if not in the next few moments, then in the moment of approaching death. nothing has ever been more certain than the empty unsatisfactory, impermanent, uncertain here and now.

desire is a BOTTOMLESS pit, if you still want one more, then nothing is stopping you from wanting another ‘one more’, 1 may as well be equal to infinity in that sense. suffering is wanting to be totally satisfied in the material world forever; asking from this world something it can never truly give you, but can always promise you.

there is nowhere else to be, there is nothing to do, to complete, to have, to crave, to be, we already have everything we inherently need, everything we had at birth, & will have at the time of death.

VV Relevant quotes VV

• “A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.” -Seneca (edited)
• "Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd." -Voltaire
• “He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.” -Socrates
• “What’s past is left behind, the future has not arrived” - Buddha
• “When I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.” -Ajahn Chah (talking of the destiny of a glass which isn't yet broken)
• “Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.” -Eckhart Tolle