Grasping at Illusions

All grasping is for future or past

All your desires and aversions,

  All your hopes and fears,

  All your remorse and regrets,

Are for things of the future or past

The future and past are not real

  Future is only imaginings

  The past is only your memory

It is now that is real and eternal.

When you realise this then you will know

  You do not need

  To grasp at the now

As now is already what is.

When you realise this then you will know

  All of the things

  You grasp at right now

Are nothing but ghosts and illusions.

Some people hear that the suffering in life is due to desires and aversions.

That is indeed so.

However, they think that to remove the suffering they should remove the things they desire or have aversion to.

If they desire food and excitement and pleasures, then they remove them from their lives and think this will make them happy.

Yet, not surprisingly, they find they are NOT happy.

Instead, enjoy food and excitement and pleasures as they occur, savour each mouthful of food, listen to every note of the music, embrace and accept not only the good but the bad.

If you are fully living in the present moment, then you will have no time to live in the past or future, where all your desires and aversions reside.

Then you will be happy.