One more U.G.

[Guest guest]

Questioner: So, it is possible, in the here and now, to brush aside the demand

for perfect, permanent relationships, and deal with our actual relationships. Is

that it?

 

U.G.: No, sorry! All this talk of " here and now " , much less a " here and now "

within which you can solve all your miseries, is, for me, pure bunk.

 

All you know is separateness and duration, space and time, which is the `frame'

superimposed by the mind over the flow of life. But anything that happens in

space and time is limiting the energy of life.

 

What life is I don't know; nor will I ever. You can say that life is this, that,

or the other, and give hundreds of definitions. But the definitions do not

capture life. It's like a flowing river. You take a bucketful of water from it,

analyze it into its constituent elements, and say that the river is the same [as

the bucketful of water]. But the quality of flow is absent in the water in the

bucket. So, as the Zen proverb says: " You can never cross the same river twice. "

It's flowing all the time.