Living Now!
Do not pursue the past.
Do not lose yourself in the future.
The past no longer is.
The future has yet to come.
Looking by deeply at life as it is
in the very here and now,
the practitioner dwells
in stability and freedom.
Even today we must be diligent.
To wait until tomorrow is too late.
Death comes unexpectedly.
How can we bargain with it?
The sage calls a person who knows
how to dwell in mindfulness
night and day
"one who knows
the better way to live along."
The Buddha
URL: http://www.quantrum.com.my/bwc/vtribune/vt1n2p2.html
"Live Now." Vipassana Tribune 1, no. 2 (June 1993): 2.
Published by Buddhist Wisdom Centre.