This Moment
On the surface it seems that the
present moment is only one of many, many moments. Each day of your
life appears to consist of thousands of moments where different things
happen. Yet, if you look more deeply, is there not only one moment,
ever? Is life ever not ‘this moment’?
It's Always Now
This one moment - Now - is the
only thing you can never escape from, the one constant factor in
your life. No matter what happens, no matter how much your life
changes, one thing is certain: It’s always Now.
Welcome It
Since there is no escape from
the Now, why not welcome it, become friendly with it? When you
make friends with the present moment, you feel at home no matter
where you are. When you don’t feel at home in the Now, no matter
where you go, you will carry unease with you. The present moment is
as it is. Always. Can you let it be?
Only Now Is Real
The division of life into past,
present and future is mind-made and ultimately illusory. Past and
future are thought forms, mental abstractions. The past can only be
remembered Now. What you remember is an event that took place in the
Now, and you remember it Now. The future, when it comes, is the Now. So,
the only thing that is real, the only thing there ever is, is the
Now.
Make It Easy
To have your attention in the Now
is not a denial of what is needed in
your life. It is recognising what is primary. Then, you can
deal with what is secondary with great ease. It is not saying,
"I’m not dealing with things anymore because there is only the Now."
No. Find what is primary first, and make the Now into your
friend, not your enemy. Acknowledge it, honour it. When the Now is
the foundation and primary focus of your life, then your life unfolds
with ease.
Prioritise
Putting away the dishes, drawing up
a business strategy, planning a trip - what is more important: the
doing or the result that you want to achieve through the doing? This
moment or some future moment? Do you treat this moment as if it were
an obstacle to be overcome? Do you feel you have a future moment to
get to that is more important?
Honour The Now
Almost everyone lives like
this most of the time. Since the future never arrives, except as the
present, it is a dysfunctional way to live. It generates a constant
undercurrent of unease, tension, and discontent. It does not honour
life, which is Now and never not Now. Feel the aliveness within your
body. That anchors you in the Now.
Excerpts from "Stillness
Speaks", Yogi Impressions Books.
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