The only thing we can control is what’s happening right now. So why worry about them? Why allow our perception of them to make us unhappy? But we can’t control or change the past or the future. More often than not, it’s our perception of things that happened in the past or things that may happen in the future that drives negative thoughts and emotions. The key message here is: When your mind rests, the world rests. It’s our perspective on the situation that’s creating those feelings. It isn’t the situation we find ourselves in that’s making us happy or unhappy, anxious, or relaxed. Our reality consists only of what our mind chooses to focus on at that moment. This, for Buddhists, is just one example of how much our mind controls the world around us. But our perspective has focused with such clarity that the project in front of us feels like the entire universe.
Have you ever become so engrossed in a project that everything else ceases to exist? The rest of the world hasn’t gone away, of course.
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