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Moment & Habits

First written on 15 June 2004 after four days in a Buddhist camp in Taiwan -

Sometimes a life is a day. Things could just repeat day by day which passes like the interlude between dreams… and I believe there is much longer way to go, "eternity before now" and "eternity after" as Nietzsche said (“The Vision and the Riddle”, Thus Spoke Zarathustra). Remember also the film "Groundhog Day"? "Moment" comes and goes which we should have grasped, to make a change for what we value. But I review, myself and some others, how successful or pitiful, admirable or miserable they are, most of the time we just repeat what we have been doing, for days, years or lives perhaps, NOT as a choice, but simply habit(s) - habits of the way of thinking, of liking, of value, and of desire mostly... As a result, our environment (culture) changes, resembling nature but not exactly, and in return affects more and more people.

It is not necessarily religious, I think, through which I am just learning as a process, about the world, people and myself. Maybe more about management so far. More important now, I feel desperate to share, as I never feel so strongly concerned with the people around, as they tide beside me across the platform in the subway… How many of us have given up those aspirations we have had because they seem too far after all? What will make us look at life in its face and seize the moment(s) that will make our lives, the best of ours and the others’? I am practising just to gaze at the moment.

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