if you get up in the morning, do not expect to reach the evening. And, and I had a great gift from Houston Smith, who wrote the famous book, the religions of man, originally, and then it became the religions of humanity I was Muslim, you know, his name was Jamala de and he prayed five times a day, but, and I used to visit him, he had a house here in Berkeley. I visited with my wife. And when I came in, he said, Your timing is impeccable. And I like explained, he said, This is my last day of life on Earth. And I was like, wow. And so I called the next day I thought, you know, he probably died. But no, he didn't. He actually died a few weeks later, but the gift he gave me was, that's exactly how you should live your life. You know, like, this is the last day of my life on Earth. And, and that's what our Prophet saw some said, the second thing, the prophet actually had death meditation, which in Buddhism is the very first practice because that gets you on the path. But in our tradition, the Prophet said Ecto, Minh, Dickory had them and let that do much remembrance of the destroyer of pleasure, which is death. And, and so it's very important to keep that in one's mind, not in a morbid way, but in a way where you appreciate if you say goodbye to your wife, in the morning or your husband. Just know you might not see them again, that's just life on Earth. That is the absolute reality of life on Earth, that we have no guarantees about anything, even the next heartbeat or breath. And then the second thing is that the province on a lot is said, when asked perhaps more Asante Bethany Amina and fee syrupy lo kootu Yomi, for Katonah, maciza dunya, though, but you had that video, Imam telling me the releases Hadith, that whoever and I, I learned this outside of Dorian Medina from a great scholar Muhammad hijab, a Syrian who told me that hadith, he said, Whoever wakes up in the morning, and he's healthy in his body. He's secure in his person, like no threats, and he has enough provision to get him through the day. It's as if he has the whole world that it's been given to him. That that's about and Solomon Abdullah was once asked, it's in the resolving or sharing, he was asked metta, your study at INSEAD, when will will the human being be at peace, he said, either Arafa and the laser the whole inland rock them that you will be when he realizes that all he has is the moment that he is in at any given time. And that that's the reality of life on Earth. It's there. These are very simple truths but they're powerful truths. If they're taken to heart they can absolutely alter your experience of life on Earth. In the law, he went in they have it on we belong to God and to God we return we're only here for a very short time. It's it's it's it's a flash in the pan. Many people have been here before us, and I'm sure many will be here after us. And these are our short period of tribulation. And and then and then we move on to a much more real world. The Quran calls it the high land, you know, the afterlife is the real life. So this will be like a dream. And and the person who suffered the most in the world who was a believer, the prophesy said and said God will ask him Have you ever known suffering? And he said now a lie? No, by God. I've never known suffering. And so all of these things that people are going through. These are just very short things. Robert Frost said that the one true thing that he learned, it's only three words. And that is that things pass things will pass. Everything passes including life on Earth.
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