Dung Beetle

If you stop to acknowledge the profound situation that is your

current life from the perspective of reincarnation, you can only

realize that you might not be living it to the standard that it should

be lived.

Consider a hypothetical past life, say twelve lifetimes ago, as a dung

beetle.

Disregard the possible arguments regarding the true

definition of happiness and contentment (i.e., that a dung beetle

might actually be a higher level of enlightenment and could possibly

be a better life) and look at it from the logical point of view that you

have now.

Do you think that all those lifetimes lived and endured while moving

“up” to your current life are duly honored and justified in the way that you are spending this pinnacle life that you have achieved now,

or are you wasting it on trivial matters?

Did you roll dung, hunger, endure illness, labor, get persecuted, etc…

in those past lives, only to achieve this wonderful opportunity at life

and squander it on pettiness?

Watching television, scrolling Facebook, working too much, and

sitting in traffic are probably not what the dung beetle and Indian

peasant were hoping to achieve.

Do better.