TheExaltedRonin

What's the easiest way to live in the present?

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long time no see freeform, hope you are well :)

 

Thanks man - I am well. I do still pop in once in a while :)

 

good to see some lively discussions

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>easiest way to live in the present?

 

I've been contemplating this question myself, OP. Living the future is too addicting and enjoyable, and it can be difficult to keep oneself tethered to the present.

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When you walk, feel the feelings in the feet. When you sit, feel the stomach or chest rising and falling. Come back to the feet or stomach when you get distracted. Repeat all day.

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Can you even escape the present?

 

escape to the inside place that is presently available?

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Don't dwell on the past or stress about the future.

Just be in the eternal now.

HTH

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Nope. Even if you're thinking about stuff in the past or worrying about the future, it's still happening now!

yes, but what's happening in the NOW is that you are off in the future NOW!

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especially if you have a bad case of gout!

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it is the job of the mind to fabricate, while it is the job of the master to control that fabricator...

 

I wish the hell everyone would quit parroting the word empty!

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it is the job of the mind to fabricate, while it is the job of the master to control that fabricator...

 

I wish the hell everyone would quit parroting the word empty!

 

wishing is not being in the present, it is attachment to form. Acceptance of what is equals equality. Unless of course you are accepting your dis-acceptance and being free flowing...that is fine by me!

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Living in the present

 

Start with a morning practice.

 

Do some practice throughout the day to bring you back to yourself.

 

See everything as alive and with memory - the cement, the air, the bugs and the chair.

 

Drop every cause, drop your interjection, your insistence.

 

Breath in the cement, the bugs, the space you feel around you, your car, the road, the buildings, the air that becomes the sky.

 

Fill your evening and the last moments of your day with higher thoughts, fine music or practice.

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3bob, I don't think I would wish a gout stubbed toe on anybody. :D

Well...

 

Maybe on someone stuck on the idea that "it's all just illusion."

 

 

But just once.

 

 

;)

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