The Theory of NOW

[Bogie]

Thanks Bogie.

There's only NOW - past and future occupy the same space which is always NOW
for there is nowhere else for them to go but here.

''Now'' is a mental concept constructed now via the mind. The mind is no-where now-here ever present.

It cannot move. It is silent.

However...

The mind can can never be silent anymore then the wind can be still.

They are their movement.

The natural mind can become quiescent when it is not being used to help the organism survive.

This is the mind in which the sages spend their alloted time.

The conceptual mind, is insane.......and can never shut up.

Yes, one thing leads to another and pretty soon we are remembering and reacting to past nows. Our human equipment must come to know that it is always now but it is not obvious at first. We have to think about it and we couldn't do the thinking if the equipment didn't permit it. Maybe consciousness is as simple a memory of past nows and memory is a function of the equipment. Good thing the equipment is generative and evolvative .

[melanie]

Everything is made of "the stuff," even nothing is "the stuff."

Awareness...the dream that stuff is made of.

Look for that which was never born and will never die.

Between now and now there is no between.

That which lives never dies. And that which dies never lives.

[austintorn@aol.com]

The Bird of Time never dies.