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famous story. King Pyrrhus of Epirus was asked by his friend Cyneas,'Sir, if you conquer Rome, what will you do next?'
Pyrrhus replied,'Sicily is nearby and will be easy to take.'
'And what will you do after Sicily?' Cyneas asked.
'Then we will pass over to Africa and plunder Carthage.'
'And after Carthage, sir?'
'Greece.'
Cyneas enquired,'And what do you expect as a reward from all these victories?'
'Then,' said Pyrrhus,'we can sit down and enjoy ourselves.'
'Can we not,' suggested Cyneas,'enjoy ourselves now?'
If you can enjoy yourself now, then there will be no mourning, ever. I am not saying that you will not become sad when a friend departs, but there will be no mourning.,And that sadness will have a beauty of its own, a depth, a silence that always comes when you encounter death. That sadness will be very meditative. It will reveal something within you that life could not reveal. Life remains superficial; just like laughter, it remains superficial. Death is very deep, like sadness. But sadness is not mourning, sadness has its own delight; sadness is not sorrow, sadness is simply depth. Sadness means that thinking has stopped. How can you think in front of death? Thinking may be useful in life. Life may need your thinking because cunningness, cleverness is needed; but what is the point of thinking in front of death? If you are sad that simply means that suddenly, the thinking has stopped; the death has been a shock -- you are stripped to your very depth. You cannot laugh, but there is a subtle delight in it, a silence, a sacred silence. The vulgarity of life is gone, and death has opened a new door; the door of the beyond. You will feel thankful towards death, but this is possible only if you live now. If this moment is lived in its total intensity, in its utter wholeness, only then is it possible.
Don't go on postponing. Tomorrow, tomorrow -- drop that word from your vocabulary! Tomorrow does not exist, it CANNOT exist; it is not in the nature of things. Only this day exists.
That is why Jesus says in his prayer,'God, give us our daily bread.' The meaning is: today is enough, we don't
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