The actual / Is only actual / In one place / And one time
When one listens to a barking dog, one might imagine
emotion, pain, reaction, anxiety, and self-identification, but actually there
is nothing there—just sound from a long and deep corridor, channelled out of
nothingness and fading into nothingness again.
Like that dog, we may all strive, but there is truly nothing
to be done. If we look deeply into our lives, there is only a thin veneer of
self-generated meaning over an immense ocean of nothingness.
What we do has meaning only in the here and now. It will not
remain in the next instant. Just do what you can for the present, and leave
everything else to happen naturally. Work. Wash. Meditate. Eat. Study. Urinate.
Sleep. Exercise. Talk. Listen. Touch. Die each night. Be born again each
morning.
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