The hungry ghost in each of us howls for recognition and craves what it cannot have and needs more than it has. Without mindfulness, we are lured and seduced by fantasies, promises, and the future. Believing the release from suffering is just a breath away, is the ectoplasmic energy that feeds the starving phantom.
The future is not real, and does not exist. It is not a physical place that we travel through time and space to reach. Now is all that exists. Craving what I do not have does not make now better - it nullifies it. How can I be mindful of now, if my thoughts keep me spinning in circles somewhere in a future that does not exist?
The struggle to be patient with now is an isometric mental exercise. The constant battle of thoughts force their energies against each other in the demilitarized zone within me (where no thing rules). While there is awareness that now is all there is, I can't help but desire something more or better. Believing that I would be more peaceful without desires, it seems absurd to continue to want.
The only solution is to find harmony in now, whatever that my entail. If desire stirs within, recognize it as desire and let it be part of now. Monitor closely the feelings that arise and fall within each moment and accept them. The ability to mindfully separate what is now from what is not is a path to harmony in distress.
LGR
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