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after lives

There was a time when I had this question on my mind:

If there are countless after lives, meaning we will come back again and again, until an infinite future, why do we have to practice diligently this life? 

Why can’t we just play around and have fun this life and then in one of our after lives, we start to practice.

It will never be too late because we will have infinite after lives. 


But as I learn more and more about mindfulness practice, I realize that Buddhism practice is not for reaching an ultimate goal to become enlightened. Mindfulness practice is to become happy, and to reduce suffering. 

So why do we have to wait until future lives to start becoming happy when we can become happy right here and right now?


you can be happy right here and right now and when you do that, you are enlightened, you are a Buddha.


# Jill Yang

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