Good morning,
today is christmas day. So merry christmas
of course by the time you've seen this video,
christmas will be over and so
merry christmas anyway, even though it's over by the time you
you see this video.
So just as an aside my friends when I do my daily ramblings or
let's call them possibly reflections,
the only purpose is I feel like doing them,
but it also brings clarity to me by sharing my reflections with you
and some of you are very gracious
to respond with your feedback and your agreements and disagreements.
So thank you very much
this morning as was as I was planning to
share with you some ideas, I got a text message from a friend of mine
in India and it was
a query about the nature of what we call now
these days, everybody is talking about being present.
So what is the present moment be mindful
of what is happening now
and that will bring you peace of mind.
So
these are very interesting phrases, be mindful of what is happening now
will bring you peace of mind.
That suggests that if you pay attention
to what is happening,
you will
experience now.
It also suggests that there's something called peace of mind,
I think both of these are incorrect conclusions,
whatever is happening. By the time you perceive it, it's already happened. Okay.
So by the time you hear these words, even if it was in the present moment as we call it,
by the time you hear them,
the words don't exist by the time you register any perception it's over.
Therefore what we call now
can't be a moment in time
now is the transcendence of time.
Now is
timeless being.
All perception
is of the past.
So, as I just said, by the time you process any perception,
it is over.
By the time you hear anything,
those words do not exist or that sound does not exist.
Every person you see
is there for a ghost
and therefore
the world you experience is a collective dreamscape.
The world you experience
has happened
and
you as a body mind that is perceiving the world has already happened by the time you
receive your own body.
It has already happened.
So that's why I keep saying we
are all fictional characters in a collective dreamscape
and
therefore
look around
and all you see is ghosts,
look at your own body,
it's a ghost,
it's the past,
it does not exist.
What about the future?
The future also exists only in imagination,
which is now
the future
is an anticipated dream.
So
now cannot be
a perception or a cognition or a movement of thought.
Now is Samadi.
It's the still point
around which the world turns and re cycles and evolves
that which we call God
is the mystery of. Now.
Now it's nowhere.
And now here
nowhere.
Now here
now it's impossible to perceive.
But present in all perception
now is impossible to conceive, but responsible
for all concepts.
Now, it's impossible to imagine. But the cause of all
that
we can imagine
now is the eternal
in love
with the productions of time, as William Blake said.
Now it's not happening
or a space time event.
It is the basis of all spacetime moments.
Now, it's like the screen on your computer or your
movie screen or whatever
on which the movies play
now is the non changing sphere in the midst of
the changing scenery.
Now is the formless in our forms
and now is the form in all formless nous.
Now is the mystery of God.
The only way to embrace now
is
just being,
as
Ramda said, be here. Now
being,
we don't even have to go further.
No anticipation, no regret, no memory
and
no expectation.
It's called flow
and flow
is the absence of time.
And yet
the experience of all time
when you embrace now,
God is not difficult to find.
God is impossible
to avoid.
So
happy. Now my friends
actually, now
is joy.
It is truth
and it is existence
merry christmas once again