NOW HERE MAN
....he's a real nowhere man...
Be Here Now.
There is somewhere we have to get to, yet we are already there: now.
Time divides into three parts as we all know. The past which is the accumulation going back to the beginning of it all, if there was one, which begins for us at birth and includes all memory. It contains all the traumas, abuse, pain and joy that we have endured. We carry all this around, reminding us of all our mistakes and regrets including what we didn't do we wished we had. We constantly analyze and obsess over this history and allow it to condition and taint everything that happens in the present. Then we have a future into which we project all our past and then try to use it as a blank slate to write all the wishes and desires we have never accomplished and as a very clever escape from the now. So then the future is written....
That leaves us with the now. Now is the great wave which we sit upon for eternity, endlessly moving on that continuum which is the present. Yet how much of the memory of the past and our fantasies about the future impinge on that present. If we watch carefully we realise that we drift through life in a dream which we occasionally wake up from and realise where we really are, which is the now. Is it possible to just be in that moment? It appears we need distractions and amusements; or to dwell upon the past which has left us behind or worry about a future which never comes in the way we imagine it, thankfully. We can have no real future if it is a mere projection of our past. What we need to do is sit wide awake in the now. And then figure out why it doesn't seem to be good enough for us as we seem to be escaping from it as fast as we can.
Be a Now Here Man
It might be good for you.
....he's a real nowhere man...
Be Here Now.
There is somewhere we have to get to, yet we are already there: now.
Time divides into three parts as we all know. The past which is the accumulation going back to the beginning of it all, if there was one, which begins for us at birth and includes all memory. It contains all the traumas, abuse, pain and joy that we have endured. We carry all this around, reminding us of all our mistakes and regrets including what we didn't do we wished we had. We constantly analyze and obsess over this history and allow it to condition and taint everything that happens in the present. Then we have a future into which we project all our past and then try to use it as a blank slate to write all the wishes and desires we have never accomplished and as a very clever escape from the now. So then the future is written....
That leaves us with the now. Now is the great wave which we sit upon for eternity, endlessly moving on that continuum which is the present. Yet how much of the memory of the past and our fantasies about the future impinge on that present. If we watch carefully we realise that we drift through life in a dream which we occasionally wake up from and realise where we really are, which is the now. Is it possible to just be in that moment? It appears we need distractions and amusements; or to dwell upon the past which has left us behind or worry about a future which never comes in the way we imagine it, thankfully. We can have no real future if it is a mere projection of our past. What we need to do is sit wide awake in the now. And then figure out why it doesn't seem to be good enough for us as we seem to be escaping from it as fast as we can.
Be a Now Here Man
It might be good for you.
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