Living In The Now

Living in the now without projecting to the future or past maybe Zen, and maybe attainable ever now and then, but to live in the mundane one must reflect upon the past to be able to compare where one is as opposed to where one wanted to be in the past. If mistakes are to be recognized, then the past must be analyzed. It is not being able to give up what never was obtained and never can be obtained, or be consumed by that which once was but can no longer be that one get lost in the past.

To be goal oriented required that one be concerned with the future. Often time the now must be delegated to a less importance then the future for the sake of plans yet realized. I know that we are admonished that the lilies of the field neither toil nor sew bur are closed in the finest of apparel, and that we are to take no thought of the morrow for, as the Lord feeds his birds, he will care for us. But this I know as well, the Lord helps those who helps themselves. If it were not for planning and striving for the realization of those plans where would we be? Still in the caves? A garden, if it is to be planted, a place must be provide for it, the field must be plowed, the seed arranged for, all long before any harvest may be obtained.

What one must realize is that all living is lived in the now, there is no other existence for us outside of now. If we pine away our lives over lost and furlong times, or if we obsess over obtain what is we have set ourselves out to do, then we loss the now in our awareness and our lives are wasted in dreams from which we may not awake until we are at our grave. Looking back on our wishing things were different then they were we will find little joy in the life we lived.

I have no advice, for as a master once told me, “He who tells, can’t know. And he who knows cannot tell.” The best you can hope to do is but point the way.
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