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Zen for today

You are not happy because you are well. You are well because you are happy. You are not depressed because trouble has come to you, but trouble has come to you because you are depressed. You can change your thoughts and feelings, and then the outer things will come to correspond, and indeed there is no other way of working. -- Emmet Fox Afterthought A Japanese warrior was captured by his enemies and thrown into prison. That night he was unable to sleep because he feared that the next day he would be interrogated, tortured, and executed. Then the words of his Zen master came to him, "Tomorrow is not real. It is an illusion. The only reality is now." Heeding these words, the warrior became peaceful and fell asleep.

Make a Lemonde

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One of my favourite cousin once mentioned during our conversation that "The intensity of problems in life keeps increasing with age". This thought from her has stayed with me for a long time, I agreed to it that time as well with her. Infact I correlated it with the fact of computer games we play, each level is tougher to crack to the next one. We solve a problem and convince ourselves that we are capable and the next trouble would be a piece of cake. I kept pondering on that, for it was too true. The problems are all the tougher to crack for your spirit keeps getting strengthening with the past troubles you cracked so anything simpler would be child's play to handle. Yet still do we want really more tougher problems? Honestly I dont, I wish and hope that life becomes easier from there on. And I can bet quite a few people would believe the same spirit. We do fall week when we see the next tough round ahead, however like today while I dont know why when I was comprehending