The Living Present: NOW is the Time

[Guest guest]

The Living Present: NOW is the Time

 

Standing at the crossroads of Time, we must make a

firm resolve to do better from day to day.... As

there are landmarks on earth, so there are landmarks

in Time. The past and future are like sealed books

to us: the one is in the limbo of oblivion, while the

other is in the womb of uncertainty. It is only the

LIVING PRESENT that is ours, and we must make

the best use if it, ere it slips away through the fingers

and is lost forever. Human birth is a great privilege

and offers us a golden opportunity. It is for us to make

or mar the same, for it is given to each individual

to forge his or her own destiny as best he may.

 

-- Master Kirpal Singh

 

Experience While You Are Alive:

 

Love of the dead does not last,

because the dead will not return.

But love of the living

is in every moment fresher than a bud,

both to the inward and the outward eye.

Choose the love of that Living One

who is everlasting, who offers you

the wine that increases life.

Do not say, 'We have no entrance to that King.'

Dealings with the generous are not difficult.

 

-- Rumi

 

Some persons, relying on the promise of 'tomorrow,' have

wandered for years around that door, but 'tomorrow' never comes.

 

-- Rumi

 

My friend, the Sufi is the son of the present moment: to

say 'tomorrow' is not our way.

 

-- Rumi, all from, "Rumi Daylight," Shambala Books

 

THE GOSPEL OF THOMAS SAYING 59: CONTEMPLATE THE LIVING ONE:

Yeshua said, "Contemplate the Living One as long as you live,

otherwise you might die and then try to see the Living One,

and you will be unable to see."

 

A Poem of Kabir

 

Found in:

 

"The Kabir Book,"

 

By Robert Bly,

 

Beacon Press:

 

Friend, hope for the Guest while you are alive.

 

Jump into experience while you are alive!

 

Think...and think... while you are alive.

 

If you don't break your ropes while you're alive,

do you think

ghosts will do it after?

 

The idea that the soul will join with the ecstatic

just because the body is rotten --

that is all fantasy.

 

What is found now is found then.

 

If you find nothing now,

you will simply end up with an apartment in the City

of Death.

 

If you make love with the Divine now, in the next life

you will have the face of satisfied desire.

 

So plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is,

Believe in the Great Sound!

 

Kabir says this: When the Guest is being searched for,

it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that

does all the work.

 

Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity.

 

-- Sant Kabir

 

 

_________________

To get your own FREE ZDNet Onebox - FREE voicemail, email, and fax,

all in one place - sign up today at http://www.zdnetonebox.com

[Guest guest]

 

James Bean <santmat

Tuesday, February 20, 2001 2:23 AM

The Living Present: NOW is the Time

 

>The Living Present: NOW is the Time

>

>Standing at the crossroads of Time, we must make a

>firm resolve to do better from day to day.... As

>there are landmarks on earth, so there are landmarks

>in Time. The past and future are like sealed books

>to us: the one is in the limbo of oblivion, while the

>other is in the womb of uncertainty. It is only the

>LIVING PRESENT that is ours, and we must make

>the best use if it, ere it slips away through the fingers

>and is lost forever. Human birth is a great privilege

>and offers us a golden opportunity. It is for us to make

>or mar the same, for it is given to each individual

>to forge his or her own destiny as best he may.

>

>-- Master Kirpal Singh

>

 

The LIVING Now.... Very good indeed! I use to the word "STILL Point" - the

ever evolving IS, which is not static, but "still"!

 

According to some physicians, particles move forewards in time,

anti-particles move backwards in time; when they meet, dissolution take

place, energy is released. And they meet in the NOW. This is AUM.

 

When living in the LIVING Now, the Still Point, we do have two allies when

past experiences and thoughts about the future prevents us from beeing free.

These two allies are the Attention and the Breath. Thoughts and feelings may

come and go... they become released, transformed into living energy. The

ever present attention of what's in mind, without prefering one thought or

emotion and denying another. Then thoughts and emotions can come and go...

the attention and the breath (prana, the life) still is, and allways are.

This mental-emotional release is Jnana Yoga - in the LIVING Now.

 

By the way, what do you think Wim Borsboom?

In the Diamond Sutra there's a passage which clearly express Jnana Yoga:

 

"Therefore then, Subhûti, the Bodhisattva, the great being, should produce

an unsupported thought, i.e. a thought which is nowhere supported, a thought

unsupported by sights, sounds, smells, tastes, touchables or mind-objects."

(10).

 

This is the attention which is like a mirror - it reflects but doesn't

participate in phenomenas.