Enlightenment Is Hidden in the Now
It is 11:47 PM. You are lying in bed, exhausted, but your mind is a crowded subway station at rush hour. A mistake from 2017 plays on loop. A worry about next Tuesday's meeting cuts in. A memory of someone's disappointed face flickers by. Your body is here, under the blankets. But you are scattered across time. This is what the mind does automatically. It runs. It runs into the past. It runs into the future. But it rarely stays here. The mind replays old conversations, missed opportunities, heartbreaks, regrets, mistakes, and the people we used to be. It whispers: You should have done better. You wasted time. You ruined your chances. And when it is done torturing us with the past, it jumps into the future. It tells us happiness is somewhere ahead. In the next achievement. The next relationship. The next version of ourselves. The next breakthrough. The next level. The mind constantly says: 'Once you become somebody, then you can finally feel enough'. Think about it. Have...