The ever-changeful nature of life is the reason why those who're the least attached to their possessions/ relationships/ circumstances are generally the happiest and healthiest of the lot.

I say, be fully engaged wherever you are and in whatever you do. Enjoy what is in front of you with 100% intensity/ focus. BUT, but, but, don't fool yourself into thinking that it's YOURS.

NOTHING IN THIS WORLD IS OURS!

Even our minds will perish at the moment of our deaths, so not even our thoughts or our memories are really ours, they're just "borrowed from time". Body? Same.

The root of suffering and sorrow is a concept: mine; have; become.

Total freedom from desire (to possess, to become) is the only way to sustain peace and joy. If there's one desire that will allow for fulfillment it's the desire for EVERYONE to experience total freedom (a sustainable state of peace and joy). A competitive (resource hoarding) mindset is a kill-joy, by design.

This isn't to say that we should strive for inaction/ passivity. Rather, that we should give 100% of our energy/ focus to doing right by ourselves and all that entails (people and environment) by removing attachment to things that can, and WILL, be taken away from us.

Freedom from desire is the most pristine mental clarity. It's achieving maximum creative potential. It's the ability to be 100% present, undistracted by the truly inconsequential.

In this state of total freedom (from desire), should a moment come that threatens to harm something or someone that's connected to us, or others, by real love (not "attachment love", rather a non-possessive quality of love and, therefore, far more powerful and important), then we WILL give everything we have to stop it.

We will give our lives, because it's not even ours to begin with. It's just borrowed. What do we give it for? True love - the one thing that we can never lose - the one thing that we always are.

The one very important message that we all have to give one another is that "oneness" (true-love) is real and that it trumps life in every way (a million lifetime's worth of happiness can be experienced in one moment) and transcends time. Only the truly desireless will come to know this.

{ all imo, of course :) }