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There's a somewhat contemporary meditation master, his name is Budhadasa.

And he was once asked to describe this world and his response was,

lost in thought.

I've always loved that response, it really resonates.

In fact, most of the wisdom traditions, the contemplative paths, describe our suffering

in terms of a trance or a dream that we spend huge swaths of our day, either planning and

worrying about the future or remembering the past.

Some way we're time traveling and we're in kind of a virtual realm and we're not here.

Usually it's that we're waiting for something or we feel like we're on our way somewhere.

We're living in a map of time and now's not so much what matters.

It's something around the corner that's either threatening or exciting or whatever.

So there's a little essay I like that's called Reverse Living.

I'll read it too.

The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends.

I mean, life is tough, it takes a lot of your time, all your weekends.

And what do you get at the end of it?

A death.

What's that? A bonus?

I think the cycle's all backwards.

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