Radical Optimism

With due apology to Rev. Joan Halifax, I wish the extract was titled a bit differently because the very word ‘optimism’ smacks of future, implying time, doesn’t it? Merriam-Webster Dictionary, while defining this word, includes the words: ‘anticipating the best outcome’. If I were to retitle it, I would prefer ‘Celebrating this very eternal moment’ or ‘Refusal to budge from Here & Now’ or ‘The ultimate art of living with positivity—about nothing’, etc. What Rev. Halifax talks of is the best form of theism sans God and which is BEYOND all known religious faiths on earth. It reminds me of what J. Krishnamurti calls ‘living from moment to moment while dying to each moment without collecting any residue psychologically’. No wonder he became notoriously famous for maintaining all his life: ‘Truth is a pathless land.’ He talked of a religious mind that doesn’t believe in any religion.