EP158 - Don't Lose Hope

WEBVTT 1 00:00:09.669 --> 00:00:15.869 Good Day, my friend. Welcome to a moment with modes. Thank you 2 00:00:16.109 --> 00:00:21.109 so much for downloading the show. I am so grateful to be here with 3 00:00:21.230 --> 00:00:28.620 you again. I hope that you are having a wonderful day. Buddhist Monk 4 00:00:29.859 --> 00:00:39.369 Tick Not Han, who very recently passed away, joins the show today and 5 00:00:39.570 --> 00:00:45.850 the teacher tells us hope is important because it can make the present moment less 6 00:00:46.049 --> 00:00:52.079 difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can 7 00:00:52.200 --> 00:01:00.560 bear a hardship today. Hope the last thing left in Pandora's box, and 8 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:08.069 a kind of feels like Pandora's box has recently been reopened and, like the 9 00:01:08.269 --> 00:01:17.709 first time, hope remains. Since I was sick, I feel like I've 10 00:01:18.030 --> 00:01:25.980 become more hopeful, and I truly feel that because I was hope full during 11 00:01:26.099 --> 00:01:32.620 my treatments, I reacted to those treatments and I reacted to the side effects 12 00:01:33.450 --> 00:01:40.049 much better than if I took a less hopeful attitude. Did I have a 13 00:01:40.290 --> 00:01:48.319 couple dark moments, sitting awake at three o'clock in the morning wondering if I'd 14 00:01:48.400 --> 00:01:53.079 be here to see the new God Zilla movie? We yeah, yeah, 15 00:01:53.120 --> 00:01:57.040 I did have a few of those nights, but I can tell you this, 16 00:01:57.239 --> 00:02:04.790 my friend, there weren't many of them and they didn't last too long. 17 00:02:05.909 --> 00:02:12.669 Hope was the glue that I used to put myself back together before the 18 00:02:12.870 --> 00:02:20.099 sun came up. The world is a challenging place right now, but if 19 00:02:20.139 --> 00:02:27.699 we look back through history, when wasn't it a challenging place? I've recently 20 00:02:27.819 --> 00:02:32.569 lost some friends who who've given up hope that things are going to get better. 21 00:02:34.530 --> 00:02:39.449 But not me, not me, friend. I'm not given up hope. 22 00:02:40.330 --> 00:02:46.159 All things passed and these things are going to pass to these times will 23 00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:53.639 pass too. If you take a moment and think back throughout your life, 24 00:02:53.800 --> 00:03:02.789 there have been times where troubles and problems that you had you thought you would 25 00:03:02.990 --> 00:03:08.750 never get past them. You thought you'd never get another partner, you thought 26 00:03:08.789 --> 00:03:13.139 you'd never get another job. You didn't know what you were going to do. 27 00:03:13.740 --> 00:03:21.780 But, my friend, here you are. You survived all the worst 28 00:03:22.099 --> 00:03:30.729 days in your life. Change requires action. The real power of hope is 29 00:03:30.810 --> 00:03:38.930 that it motivates US despite disappointments and heartbreaks along the way. It allows us 30 00:03:39.650 --> 00:03:53.039 to find one last drop of strength to take just one more step. Don't 31 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:57.669 lose hope, my friend. You can get through this. You can do 32 00:03:57.949 --> 00:04:08.030 this. Just one more step. Carpe momentum. I'll talk to You Tomorrow