Presence, Ever Present, Zero

The Power of Now
Nowness
Present
Ever Present

Exploring these topics, also Shinzen Young's quote: "The self and world arise in zero."

To me, "Being in the now," can be elusive but what I feel it means, there is an infinity of time in the present, simultaneously---all there was, all there could be (limitlessly) are present, but we experience it as process.

Being & becoming as one... Though always using "now" is not the best way to express this... unusual truth!

But nonetheless, it is an Eastern & Western insight by the Christian Mystics (As you mentioned Matt), but also by the Zen masters and so forth. This perennial insight I think has enormous potential to be explored, documented, talked about, communed....

IMO... By being in this ever presence we become an agent of it ourselves, a playful expresser and creator in the levity and compassion of life.

And now for a huge Jean Gebser quote, written towards the end of his life:

The realisation/awaring of the origin is only possible if, when we look backwards and into ourselves, neither the darkness of the magical, the twilight of the mythical or the current daylight of the mentalrational are obstacles (cage bars). Compared to the structure of simultaneity (the ever presence of the past and future in the present), darkness, twilight and daylight are impenetrable and nontransparent walls; where however the three grades of darkness and light of the consciousness structures have become transparent, there also the walls become illusory; a more powerful consciousness, the integral, which life and spirit supporting, transcends and is not overwhelmed by all previous consciousness structures, makes it possible to become aware of the origin, through darkness, twilight and perhaps dazzle, to see the original consciousness, or to use Sri Aurobindos term, the universal consciousness. Where this happens, due to its partaking of the origin, our consciousness changes into the integral consciousness and gives up its barlike compulsive images. (From the chapter entitled The Invisible Origin, v5/2 p113114)

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• eckhart tolle
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[ktorch]

Disconnected jibberish! Would you mind putting this in writing? If you have a voice and are not afraid to speak in a normal tone of voice . . . . SPEAK UP!

[thepathlesspath]

ktorch, I have a blog if you prefer to read this stuff.

[mrkurt13]

nice ktorch. Is it fun having a stick in your ass?

[HaleyMary]

I have The Power of Now, but haven't read the book yet. It seems like one of those positive thinking books from what I understood of the back cover.

[1PostPoMoMaN1]

You have the power of now, yeSSS

[thepathlesspath]

It's like Mind is brought into body, but eventually there is a realization of Mind-Body in all that one does... (For example, there is a link between emotion and a physical area in the body). Eventually, perhaps insight to the Mind, Body *& soul as together.

[thepathlesspath]

To qualify, it seems like "being in the now" or mindfulness practice can allow for insight to deeper states of being (Timelessness, All time as Now, etc). Mystical states of insight.

[thepathlesspath]

I agree... Mindfulness is being conscious of the activities of well, being, thinking, feeling... I liked Shinzen Young's description of "Self as a verb" and not "Self as a noun" Mindfulness is the bringing of awareness on the action of the self arising in the moment. An often unconscious activity b/c we are so "drifting" in thought... Well put mrkurt

[mrkurt13]

So the power of now, to me, feels like its actually the power of being here while things are happening instead of just randomly checking in on your brains memory of them, which is mostly garbage.....I think ;)

[mrkurt13]

(when I say 'you' here I'm just talking in the collective sense)So its not that thoughts are always in the past or future, they are just now like everything else and part of that flow/change. When practicing and you regain mindfulness or the nowness of your body after slipping off into thought, you become aware of the present memory of those thoughts,I think, so it seem like 'you' drifted off into thought, but in reality you just weren't inhabiting your body so it just does its auto pilot thing