I came across a profound quote written by Hugh Prather today.
"When you get knocked down and you lay there and you say, "It's pointless. None of this makes any difference." And because it is pointless, that truth comforts you and gives you time to heal. But once you have mended, the very futility that gave you rest now impels you to even greater effort. The impossibility of it all: the certain deterioration and death, the preponderous broom of history sweeping away all traces of individual lives, motivates you more than the hope of ten thousand golden statues or trumpets or coins. It is because it will eventually mean nothing that you must do it."
How true. It seems like a response to both my post "Ride THIS Rambling Train of Thought" and it's continuation in Kalsang's post "Possible Conditions For Ego/Samsara to Arise"
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How great... :-)
"It would be wisest to regard life as a desengaño, a delusion; that everything is intended to be so is sufficiently clear.
Our life is of a microscopical nature; it is an indivisible point which, drawn out by the powerful lenses of Time and Space, becomes considerably magnified.
Time is an element in our brain which by the means of duration gives a semblance of reality to the absolutely empty existence of things and ourselves."
This is not from a Buddhist teaching, you can read it more about this emptiness of existence here
Nothing is quite meaningless, isn' it? :) Maybe because of this...
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