Baddekaratta Sutta (Majjima Nikaya)

An Auspicious Day !

The Lord Buddha expounded:

You shouldn't chase after the past

or place expectations on the future.

What is past

is left behind.

The future

is as yet unreached.

Whatever quality is present

you clearly see right there,

right there.

Not taken in,

unshaken,

that's how you develop the heart.

Ardently doing

what should be done today,

for — who knows? — tomorrow

death.

There is no bargaining

with Mortality & his mighty horde.

Whoever lives thus ardently,

relentlessly

both day & night,

has truly had an auspicious day:

so says the Buddha.

[Adepted from Bhaddekaratta Sutta: An Auspicious Day translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu]