Where is Now? The Paradox of the Present

[disastermouse]

Re: Where is Now? The Paradox of the Present

Where is time when you don't think about it? I'm not talking about clock-time - I'm talking about one's sense of time?

Chet

[Rich]

Re: Where is Now? The Paradox of the Present

Where is time when you don't think about it? I'm not talking about clock-time - I'm talking about one's sense of time?

Chet

Agreed, without thinking there is no time or space. Like the dude said, 'Everything is made by mind alone'. But now what do I do?
Besides just sitting the precepts are a good starting point.

[ChrisA]

Re: Where is Now? The Paradox of the Present

Thanks for sharing the article, even with its off-base notion of Buddhism. I think that Taigu linked flux with this "present" in a way that's far more useful:

So this "now" is already past and as soon as seen it is gone...This is the very nature of reality, ever changing, always transformimg. At the same time, the now that we are living from is not something separated from past and future, this now is fully blown being-time in which all times playfully exist.

I got into a conversation with someone at my local sangha about the verb tense of "gate" (as in the Heart Sutra's "Gate, gate"). While most translate that Sanskrit as the past participle "gone," there are those who translate it as the present participle "going." While this is all over my head, the idea that this present is going, going, gone by the time we conceptualize it seems to fit nicely with the perspective Taigu details.

[Shokai]

Re: Where is Now? The Paradox of the Present

And the auctioneer announces, "Going, going, gone; sold to the highest bidder in the blue shirt sitting in the third to last row."

Thank you all but, mostly thank you Rafael (and Taigu) for hitting this nail dead on. NOW is not the present moment. The present moment belongs to time. NOW is the unique NOW; and only ours to share with the universe if we might.