224-Woulda, woulda, woulda, please no bike chain- Buddhism in daily life

Woulda, woulda, woulda, please no bike chain Would have, would have, please no bicycle chain What if my wife hadn't left me, if I hadn't quit my job, if I hadn't drunk so much beer yesterday! "Would have, would have, would have!" From a Buddhist point of view, such thoughts are simply nonsense. It always comes as it must come, fate is predetermined, "what if thoughts" lead to no result. Should I have taken this turn, or should I have taken a different direction? If I had not said this and that, would the argument with my son not have escalated? We have to live in the "here" and "now", the past has already passed, the future is uncertain, no matter how we imagine a coming situation, it won't happen that way anyway. "WE ARE WHAT WE THINK. EVERYTHING WE ARE IS CREATED FROM OUR THOUGHTS. WITH OUR THOUGHTS WE SHAPE THE WORLD." "DO NOT DWELL ON THE PAST, DO NOT DREAM ABOUT THE FUTURE." - BUDDHA - Our thoughts correspond to "would have, would have, would have." In retrospect, did it ever do any good, the "would have, would have, would have"? There we should be completely honest with ourselves, not lie to ourselves. Nothing has come of it. These "would-have-been thoughts" were always useless. Buddha's goal in life was to experience "enlightenment". Win big step on the way to "enlightenment" is to banish this "would have, would have, would have" from our thoughts, to really live in the "here and now" and to silence our thoughts chattering away, to experience this "aha moment", if we would at least sometimes switch off the thinking (would have, would have, would have) that our ego produces. Buddha experienced "enlightenment" and I know people who have also succeeded in doing so. Buddha said that all people have "enlightenment" within them, but it has been "buried" but can be rediscovered. I know that this is the truth! The only truth beside which other things simply pale. THE SHORTEST WORDS, NAMELY "YES" AND "NO" REQUIRE THE MOST REFLECTION - PYTHAGORAS OF SAMOS - GREEK PHILOSOPHER - 570 TO 510 B. CHR. Copyright: https://shaolin-rainer.de (Please also download my app "Buddha-Blog English" from the Apple and Android stores) Please rate us on Apple, Google or Spotify podcast to help us promote the show