30/09/2024
🍁The Law of the World
"Everything in this world comes and goes.
When it’s time to come, it arrives, and when it’s time to go, it departs.
Each thing arrives precisely when it should, and when it’s time to leave, it does so exactly.
Seasons, day and night, wind, clouds, people, connections, work, money, honor, health— all follow the thread of destiny. And when that connection is fulfilled, they inevitably depart.
This is the law of the world, known as the law of birth and death, the law of arising and ceasing.
Everything that is born must eventually perish— this is the law of impermanence, the law of no-self.
The wise live in accordance with this truth. They allow things to come when they must, and they permit them to go when it’s time.
They don’t suffer excessively when things arrive, nor do they question why something has already departed.
Understanding that everything follows its natural course— they accept the uncertainty of departure.
Therefore, they don’t cling excessively, nor do they grieve excessively when it’s time to leave.
There is no excessive obsession or abandonment, for they know the nature of coming and going.
Even the concept of ‘self’ cannot be excluded from this cycle. I, too, am merely coming and going. Why cling to anything?
The name ‘Thus Come One’, another title for the Buddha, refers to the one who arrives and departs gracefully.
All things in this world come and go, and rather than holding tightly, they allow them to be.
This is the way to live wisely: Let everything be as it is. Don’t strive excessively. There is no need to be distressed by gaining or losing.
When it comes, let it come; when it goes, let it go.
There is true freedom there."
