Just a little revelation. Master Oogway said something like “Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift! That is why it is called the present.“. I find as I get older that regret eclipses more of my thinking. I realized in order for me for me to break my addiction cycle I needed to remove my focus from the past where regret lies. This leaves me with the present, and future.
Should I stop thinking about the future like Master Oogway is telling Po? Does this mean I disregard future consequence? Is present consequence a thing if the future is an illusion? Clearly I can’t act on the past anymore than I can act on the future. Ain’t I affecting the future and the past by changing the world in the present?
There’s no measure of planning that can amount to anything without physical execution. Acting on thought in the moment is the only way to affect reality. Deciding to do what’s right this moment is the only thing that matters. Sometimes the right decision is to stop, sometimes the right decision is simply not to stop, but’s mostly about taking the middle path.
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