The only moment is right now. Hoping for a better future maybe disappointing at its arrival happens. Everything is as it is supposed to be right now at this exact moment, otherwise it would not be what it is. Since the past does not exist and neither the future the present does not exist. You can’t remove left and right while still maintaining a middle.
Who we believe we are is all of our memories and experiences gained throughout life. This keeps us stuck in the past and/or future. This will continuously keep a person out of the current moment and away from now. Our body is made up of a shitload (yes, that is a legitimate term of measurement) of cells, each cell has its own basic consciousness. They only work in the moment and know how to go about their specific function. The many different functions make up your body, it is just cells… just cells. You’re just a shitload of cells that are in the now while your thoughts are keeping “you” in a different time that doesn't even exist. You're so silly.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
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Ah, I am silly!
Thanks for reminding!
:D
I probably should have said "We're all so silly!" :-D
"Y'all are so silly".
So say Americans.
Good stuff, Mr.M.
On a theoretical and philosophical basis, your post resonates with me. That said, I honestly don't know how it relates to the real world.
Could any of us say to a woman being brutally raped that "everything is as it is supposed to be right now at this exact moment, otherwise it would not be what it is"?
Could we make that same statement to a young child going through the final throes of hunger or to a person being slowly tortured to death?
Sometimes I wonder about the things you, I and others write from the confines of the average life in western society. Would we write the same things from a bomb shelter in Baghdad or a refugee camp in Somalia?
I understand completely what you're saying and do question this from my perfectly temperature controlled office where the sun is shining through the window and my belly is full after a fantastic sushi lunch. Would I feel the same way living in a cave in the mountains? I don't know, but what I do know is that humans are a very violent and disastrous creature at times. It would be impossible to sooth a rape victim with "that was how everything is supposed to happen because it happened."
It isn't right that children go to bed hungry or families huddle in a a bomb shelter. It is terrible and I couldn't even begin to comprehend my family living through something so heinous. Sadly, this is how life works. People get cancer because of someone else's pollution, are murdered senselessly, raped viciously, die of starvation, and suffer from war. It isn't fair and is easier to say when not in that situation, but this is life and it is what is... even with my human emotion of sadness that such atrocities exist.
ok, I am doing yippy flips here! You put my thoughts into words and I'm grateful.
I often remind people (including myself) that if they were me, they'd do exactly what I'm doing right now because they'd be me.
We all have what we need right now or we would not be. Suffering is something I don't profess to understand, but I do know that all we have is now and it is sufficient.
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