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Our lives are guided by our hopes for either the past or future. We hope to change or hold onto people and events in the past, or gain something new and important in the future. This focus often blinds us to so much that is going on now. What we actually have and what we do and do not need. Not only do our hopes filter out what's going on now, but cause huge struggle and upset when our wishes aren't met. An incredible question arises, however, to question this way of life.  "Do you have the right to hope for that?" This itself is a koan. Of course the feeling of hope arises naturally. The question asks however, to look at what is here now and see what the particular hope we are clinging to is doing to our life. Is it a denial of reality, a refusal to let go? It is something that will ultimately be harmful to ourselves or others.  Plunging into dreams it's easy to forget and deny this moment and all that is waiting for us, right here, right now.

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