Imagine below situation in your daily life: I plan to cycle tomorrow morning, what if it’s going to rain? I’m thinking to go swimming, what if it’s too sunny and I’ll get sunburn? I’m going to have a test, what if I fail? And guess what, often, the “what if” scenario which I thought of didn’t happen. Which reminds me, Ajahn Brahm used to say, why keep thinking what if things go wrong. What if things go right? *smirk* There are […]
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Future
未来(みらい) the Japanese word for future, the post title Recently, I read one of the Ajahn Brahm writings in his book, Opening the Door for Your Heart, which discusses about fear. He opens the topic with this sentence, Fear is finding fault with the future. If only we could keep in mind how uncertain our future is, then we would never try to predict what could go wrong. Fear ends right there. I’m pretty sure some of us will think very […]