Actual

The actual

Is only actual

In one place

And one time.

When one listens to a barking dog, one might imagine emotion, pain, reaction, anxiety, and self-identification, but actually there is nothing there just sound from a  long and deep corridor, channeled out of nothingness and fading into nothingness  again.

Like that dog, we may all strive, but there is truly nothing to be done. If we look  deeply into our lives, there is only a thin veneer of self-generated meaning over an  immense ocean of nothingness.

What we do only has meaning in the here and now. It will not remain in the next  instant.

Just do what you can for the present, and leave everything else to happen  naturally.

Work, Wash, Meditate, Eat, Study, Urinate, Sleep, Exercise, Talk, Listen,  Touch.

Die each night. Be born again each morning.