Just a Moment

OK - you are sitting somewhere catching up on this stuff, but should you be doing something else? (Yes, anything but this they think).

I have been reading lots of quotations and the ones that carry most significance for me are those concerning "this moment".

Alan Watts wrote "In this moment there is nothing which comes to be. In this moment there is nothing which ceases to be. Thus there is no birth-and-death to be brought to an end. Wherefore the absolute tranquillity (of nirvana) is this present moment. Though it is at this moment, there is no limit to this moment, and herein is eternal delight."

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When … you realize that you live in, that indeed you are this moment now, and no other, that apart from this there is no past and no future, you must relax and taste to the full, whether it be pleasure or pain. At once it becomes obvious why this universe exists, why conscious beings have been produced, why sensitive organs, why space, time, and change. The whole problem of justifying nature, of trying to make life mean something in terms of its future, disappears utterly. Obviously, it all exists for this moment. It is a dance, and when you are dancing you are not intent on getting somewhere… The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance." (and even those that only know me slightly know that I am definitely someone that does not dance!)

William Samuel (in 2+2=reality) wrote "The only thing you know for sure is that you are aware.

Stop believing that you are a separate ego that is aware and identify as being (part of) awareness itself - which is".

Lao Tzu is quoted as saying "If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present"

Eckhart Tolle wrote "You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself.".

My problem is actually switching my head on to thinking about it (ok, meditating I guess). I keep looking for something that will bring my mind back to it on a regular basis, rather than stumbling into it from time to time. I guess if I was on it all the time I would be totally Zen - instead of my current Zzzzzzz. (ha! - waking sleep!?)

There you are. And you thought you would just check on how we are getting on without the cats, then you find out that YOU are the centre of the conscious universe.

And all for free.

Enjoy the moment.