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Thought layers :

1. That action or result won't bring me happiness
2. I should not be thinking of getting happiness from external things or completing projects or shipping products or getting good results because it is not permanent, and the state is something i bring about or have within irrespective of the external
3. Even if i do get happiness and satisfaction, what is the use when death comes and things all change?

Responses :

1. David Burns tells depressed minds to keep a note of activities. Note down activity and guess their happiness bringing potential. Then record the satisfaction or happiness after the action is done. Most of the time, one just has to start doing something and it will bring satisfaction and happiness contrary to what habitual depressed thoughts and patterns of the mind would make us believe. Procrastination of a depressed mind is countered best by just doing something. The exercise of checking if real happiness from the action was as guessed before in fact gives a glimpse into the needlessness to give too much heed to the depressed mind.
2. This can just be let gone. No big deal. Breathe. Coming back to the physical action of breathing. It is just a need for the logical mind to be engaged and not let go of its anxiety and attachment to the thought of impending doom.
3. One can come to terms with death of this person.

This whole thought process has been supportive to why one should go ahead and do things while just checking that the basic satisfaction bringers like being good to others and the self, having good relations etc are taken care of. When we are trying to convince a side of an argument, that side is anyway the one we should go with. So even if we are not convinced at all times about how we can and should and are free to go ahead and keep busy with what interests us in the world, we can remember that we would like to do it.

These days point number 3 occurs clearer to me. Anyway death will give permanent rest to body and mind. Till then let me run. Buddha said life is precious. When i thought life is meaningless, i did not really think Buddha meant what he said. Now in a very weird way it is starting to make sense.

We will rest when we are dead; till then let us run.

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