From: “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying” by Sogyal Rinpoche

Written piece seen in Adbusters, Vol. 27, No. 2.  https://www.adbusters.org/ :

 

“If we look into our lives, we will see

clearly how many unimportant tasks,

so-called responsibilities accumulate to

fill them up. … We tell ourselves we want

to spend time on the important things of

life, but there never is any time.

Even simply to get up in the morning,

there is so much to do: open the window,

make the bed take a shower, brush your

teeth, feed the dog or cat, do last night’s

washing up, discover that you are out of

sugar or coffee, go and buy them, make

breakfast–the list is endless.  Then, there

are clothes to sort out, choose, iron, and

fold up again.

 

And what about your hair and makeup?

Helpless, we watch our days fill up with

telephone calls and petty projects with

so many responsibilities–or shouldn’t we

call them ‘irresponsibilities’?”

7Ss / VV->^^
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