2 thoughts on “MINDFULNESS: “Why Run From the Present?” ☮”

1. As Schopenhauer says in “On the Vanity of Existence”: “Our existence has no foundation on which to rest except the transient present,” and that life is a “succession of transient present moments.” Enjoying the ‘moment’ is the correct prescription but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to do. Takes a lot of practice.

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   • Interestingly, I was reading Schopenhauer’s “On the Indestructibility of our Essential Being By Death” today, and, speaking of transition, Schopenhauer penned, “Whatever you will be after your death—even though it were nothing—will then be just as natural and suitable to you as your individual organic existence is now: thus the most you have to fear is the moment of transition.” In other words, we do not necessarily fear death; we fear dying.

     In Reason,
     Madison

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