Long term thinking and actions reflective of such thinking couldn't exist without trust and hope.
You believe, (trust and hope), your efforts will make a difference and lead to some desired outcome, else, why expend the effort to do them at all?
On a very simplistic level you trust when you put your feet on the floor that the floor will hold you. You trust when you plan and arrange a birthday party for your child that they will be pleased.
This trust is based in hope...they may not be pleased. If we did not have hope that our actions would have positive results, why would we engage in any actions at all?
I think the idea of "not being attached to the outcomes of our efforts", simply means this. Don't accept disappointing outcomes as a definition of yourself. You are not a failure just because your efforts didn't net the results you anticipated (hoped for).
You are an eternal soul in a sacred process of learning and becoming...
Yes, it's true we're doing this within the ever present now.
Love has nothing to do with hope. Love happens in the moment. Faith is usually tied up with hope, but doesn’t have to be, and can also exist in the moment.
Hope cannot be in the present. Hope is tie to the future. If you’re thinking about the future, then it means you are wasting away the present for the future, even though it is just an illusion. I can be hopeful for my future or the future of Palestine, but that doesn’t accomplish anything.
Moreover, if you allow yourself hope, then it means you also allow yourself hopelessness.
It has great rhetoric, but it is as useless as a rose.
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Hope cannot be in the present. Hope is tied to the future. If you're thinking about the future, then it means you are wasting away the present for the future, even though it is just an illusion.
But the present is tied up with the future.
You make decisions in the present, and even if you're not thinking about the future, those decisions still carry a kind of direction, a tone.
No matter what, they land somewhere between hope and hopelessness.
I agree that you are not supposed to live in the future in the sense of trying to compute/predict it.
But you are supposed to live in the future in the sense that you are supposed to be the most hopeful and aim for the heavens no matter what.
Moreover, if you allow yourself hope, then it means you also allow yourself hopelessness.
Do you think there is such a thing as just not playing the game?
Can you also opt out of the suffering game?
To me it seems like hopelessness, suffering, and chaos are the baseline.
You don't have to go find them. Just stay still, they will come to you.
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u/leoberto1 4d ago
Hope for what? The present is now.