Thich Nhat Hanh, Our Appointment with Life: Sutra on Knowing the Better Way to Live Alone (Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 2010).
"The Buddha taught:
'Do not pursue the past.
Do not lose yourself in the future.
The past no longer is.
The future has not yet come.
Looking deeply at life as it is
in the very here and now,
the practitioner dwells
in stability and freedom.
To wait till tomorrow is too late.
Death comes unexpectedly.
How can we bargain with it?
The sage calls a person who
dwells in mindfulness
night and day
'the one who knows
the better way to live alone.'"
Id. at 13-14.
