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**outdog** · 09-02-2011, 09:38 PM

One last point is in relation to "living in the presnt moment" and in the "here and now" what buddhism say about planning? is planning for the future a bad thing according to buddism?

No, I don't think so. But during the present moment, you have control over actions and decisions that will affect the future. When you get to the future, you will experience the results of past decisions, and it will be too late to change them. The actions you take now are conditioned by your mind-state, so inquiring into one's mind state is to get to the root.

To give an example: I have small children. If during the present moment I am irritable and want to do my own thing instead of helping them with their homework, they may not learn. Then twenty years later we may all regret it. So what I can do now is recognize my mind state. Having recognized it I can understand it. Understanding it, I can free myself from it.

That would be different from, say, planning for my child's future while actually spending most evenings in front of the TV with a six-pack.

09-02-2011, 09:38 PM	#2
outdog Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 390 Senior Member	One last point is in relation to "living in the presnt moment" and in the "here and now" what buddhism say about planning? is planning for the future a bad thing according to buddism? No, I don't think so. But during the present moment, you have control over actions and decisions that will affect the future. When you get to the future, you will experience the results of past decisions, and it will be too late to change them. The actions you take now are conditioned by your mind-state, so inquiring into one's mind state is to get to the root. To give an example: I have small children. If during the present moment I am irritable and want to do my own thing instead of helping them with their homework, they may not learn. Then twenty years later we may all regret it. So what I can do now is recognize my mind state. Having recognized it I can understand it. Understanding it, I can free myself from it. That would be different from, say, planning for my child's future while actually spending most evenings in front of the TV with a six-pack.
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