I focus my attention on some important for me elements and stories, that are part of life.
The birth of the man is the birth of his sorrow. The longer he lives, the more stupid he becomes, because his anxiety to avoid unavoidable death becomes more and more acute. What bitterness! He lives for what is always out of reach! His thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable og living in the present. CHUANG TZU
Let's Sogyal Rinpoche speaks.
Most of us do live like that - we become unconscious, living corpses. We live according to a preordained plan. We spend our youth bein educated. Then we find a job, and meet someone, marry, and have children. We buy a haouse, try to make a succes of our business, aim for dreams like a country house or a second car. We go away on holiday with our friends. We plan for retirement. The biggest dilemmas some of us ever have to face are where to take our next holiday or whom to invite at Christmas. Our lives are monotonous, petty, and repetivive, wasted in the pursuit of the trivial, because we seem to know of nothing better. (...) We smother our secret fears of impermanence by surrounding ourselves with more and more goods, more and more things, more and more comforts, only to find ourselves their slaves. All our time and energy is exhausted simply maintaining them. Our only aim in life soon becomes to keep everything as safe and secure as possible. When changes do happen, we find the quickest remedy, some slick and temporary solution. And so our lives drift on, unless a serious illness or disaster shakes us out of our stupor. (...) Think of those people who work for years and then have to retire, only to find that they don't know what to do with themselves, as they age and approach death. [page 17-18]
Everything the Rinpoche is saying, seems so well known to me.
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