The Inner Journey
Getting Off the Roller Coaster

THE CONCEPT OF "THE NOW"

Of all the profound concepts of awareness philosophy I have learnt, the one I continually keep on referring to, the one that is so simple in nature, is the one that seems to have it's beauty and value hidden by its own simplicity.

It is knowing that YOU, along with your reality, exist for just that instant we call the present.

When that instant ceases to exist, a new instant will then come into being. It is knowing that the past is only a shadow of what was. It is knowing that the future is but a dream, it is the unborn child.

In one respect, we could say that our lives are part of an infinite series of Instant Moments, and when they are all strung together it is then given a name. That name is time.

When the instant ceases to be the instant, it is called the past. The instants that are to come are labeled the future, but the past and future do not exist; they are an illusion and all that REALLY EXISTS--is the present.

All that really matters is "THE NOW".

ONLY THE MOMENT LIVES:

To understand the value of the Present when trying to obtain relief from sorrow, you must appreciate the link between the truth of the moment that you live in right now, and the illusion that there might be something good for your peace hiding in a mist of shadows and nothingness.

The reflections of clouds on a still pond are not clouds. Though they have beauty; if you were to reach out and touch them, you would disturb the stillness of the water and lose the peace and beauty you once had. The only reality was the water. The clouds you sought were an illusion; just an image.

This link between the present and the past can now be seen as some form of goodness, pleasure or beauty, and when you reach out to be with those qualities, you touch an illusion. From this, sorrow is then born.

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