Buddha on Existence

I am the Buddha.

Today, I wish to speak to you about existence.

Existence is a form of life you experience on Earth. It has a progression. It begins when a being is born, lives, and dies. It’s like when a seed is planted, sprouts as a plant with leaves reaching toward the sunlight, grows into a mature tree, withers, dies, and eventually falls back into the earth.

But life is more than that. Existence goes beyond life.

Let us talk about life first. The life you know is just one facade—one version you see. Everything you believe, hope for, care about, and dream of in this life is only a very small fragment of the full life that you truly have.

The reason I am telling you this is so you can have a more fulfilling experience on Earth. I want you to live a really good life—a life without regrets and without being consumed by the future. While many of you think it's important to plan for the future, I wish to tell you: you do not need to do so. The future plans for itself.

The future is not what it seems. It is not simply the sum of your actions today or yesterday. Just as today is not merely the result of all your yesterdays. Today is also shaped by many unforeseen events—so too will tomorrow be filled with the unexpected.

It is far more important to meet each day with gratitude, kindness, gentleness, and with as much spirit-filled love as you can share with the world.

Let today be filled with love. Then let go of your tomorrow completely. Tomorrow will come for itself. It will fulfill itself. It will, like I said, make a promise unto you.

Now let us talk about existence.

Your existence is not your life. They are two different things.

You existed before you had a life. Before you were born, you were already something. After you die, you will become something else.

Life keeps going. But existence is never-ending. There is no limit to what existence is. Even when there is no life, there is still existence.

To wrap your mind around existence, think of a large, ancient tree. The tree has many branches, and each branch carries many leaves. Each small leaf contains life: codes embedded in its DNA.

What you don’t see are the roots buried deep in the earth. The tree is not a tree by itself. Just like your life is not life by itself.

To understand existence, imagine a forest. An entire forest of different trees, each connected underground. One tree speaks to another, and that tree speaks to others until the entire jungle is in quiet communion. But it’s more than just one jungle—it's all the jungles, all connected, all speaking to one another.

That is what existence is.

Why do I bring this up?

Because many of you live as if existence does not exist. This is a mistake.

I want you to reconsider the actions you've been taking on this planet, in light of what I've shared about existence.

The summation of your existence is the summation of all your lives. While your life on Earth is just a drop in the ocean, your existence is the ocean itself—cosmic, eternal, and vast.

So consider your impact. Think about the health, the well-being, the safety, the care, the love that you are projecting into the world.

Are you emitting love? Or are you vibrating in fear? Are you helping the planet heal, or are you disturbing the peace within yourself and others?

Each person is doing one or the other. Some are doing both at the same time. But it is very difficult to live a meaningful life while doing both. It’s like tumbling back and forth, unable to move forward.

I wish for you to know this: be careful of the thoughts you think.