"The present is the golden gate.Here-now is the golden gate. And you can be in the present only if you are not ambitious - No accomplishment, no desire to achieve power, money, prestige, even enlightenment, because all ambition leads you into the future." Osho Zen master. This is a tough one to swallow isn't it? I go to school with ambitions of tomorrow, I plant seeds with the ambitions of the harvest. What is he saying then? The lesson is a kwan, learn to be here now even as you plant the seeds for tomorrow because you can only BE ALIVE here and NOW! dEtAcH from the AnTiCiPaTiOn of TomOrrOw. The gate is before you now, where are you?
I am really trying to keep my usual positive and hopeful attitude towards our humanity and mankind in general, but recent events have brought the old anger back in me which is really frustration and anxiety about Politicians and the money mongers of the world about which I can take no real action of any significance. I see hunger and destitude in the masses of this U.S. of A, the richest country on earth, I see the very weak and the elderly, the homeless and the hard working class suffer while the political will of some nuts is runnning amock! God help me to accept what I can change and that over which I have no control, and please God give me the wisdom to know the difference. It is nothing new, just different land, different time in the history of the ignorant man and the greed of the fools!
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