My Favourite Day
- August 4, 2023
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"My Buddhist teacher used to say: 'Yesterday is past, tomorrow is unknown, now is the knowing'. And Pooh got there first." - D G Moody “What day is it?” asked Pooh. “It’s today”, squeaked Piglet. “My favourite day,” said Pooh. Days are where we live; they fly past so fast and they cannot stay or last, the days weeks and years, leaving us always here, Where we are today, the door shut on yesterday and not yet open on tomorrow; and here is now with every second, minute and hour; In the threefold present – the memory of what is past – an expectation of the future – and the actual now which passes even as it is thought; And each dying moment echoed in the ticking clock, can remind us that today is all that we can have, and will be – our favourite day © D G Moody 2023
Allen Ansell
2 months agoA really nice one, Dougie.
Your Buddhist teacher’s saying was almost identical to one that my wife and I had printed an framed just in time for a visit from my mother a few score years ago. We thought that if she read it she might stop dragging up that past. Sadly it didn’t work… I might have said in place of sadly,predictably! Such people should really recognise how they are just wasting so much energy, emotional and otherwise, on something it is impossible to change: The past.
Douglas Gordon Moody
2 months agoWell said Allen. It is so hard to just live in the present. Not that we discount the past or take no account of the future, but it is only in the here and now that we can think and act.