Noah Levine is a Buddhist Teacher working within the American Theravaden Tradition. I have found his talk entitled ‘This Lowrider is Already Broken’ very uplifting. It puts forward the position that even when a child is born you know that it will die as you will and that fancy new smart-phone or car or whatever will brake. Every living being will eventually die. Every thing will brake. The universality of impermanence, that is change, is the only certainty we have. So we should enjoy those moments in life and the pleasures we can get from our artefacts, knowing that one day they will be gone, and one day we, our friends, our children and on and on, will be gone.
Take joy in the moment.
Live now not in the past or the future.
NOW
And within a single breath one may experience their own inner truth. A Truth that transcends all eternity. Without holding on, without pushing away, we exhale. No words can describe no face can express, nor thought pass the knowledge of “that which is.” We sit in Bliss. Paul E. Bellah 2012.