Wir haben zum Ewigen keinen anderen Zugang als durch den Augenblick,
in dem wir leben. Herbert von Hoemer
Worauf konzentrieren wir uns? Auf Vergangenes, auf Künftiges? Oder auf den gegenwärtigen Moment? Es dürfte kein Zweifel bestehen, dass wir am meisten bei uns selbst sind, wenn wir aus der Gegenwart nicht abschweifen. Dann nehmen wir unseren Körper wahr, dann sind wir offen für sämtliche Geräusche, Gerüche und Eindrücke um uns herum. Dann fühlen wir. Dann sind wir erfüllt. Wir sind auch eingebettet. Wir sind – sofern wir dies annehmen können – geborgen im Hier und Jetzt, auf diesem Fleck unseres blauen Planeten im Universum. Inwiefern hat das etwas mit dem Ewigen zu tun? Nun, dieser Augenblick ist einer von unzählig vielen, die es seit Entstehen unserer Erde gab, die es auch künftig geben wird. Man kann diese Milliarden von Jahren und Erdumdrehungen eine Ewigkeit nennen.
Im Kontinuum der Menschheitsgeschichte haben wir als Individuum unseren eigenen Platz. Das darf uns mit Ehrfurcht für die ewige Lebenskette und zugleich mit Demut erfüllem. Während alles, woran wir denken, weiter nichts als Vorstellung bzw. Erinnerung ist, pulsiert das wahre Leben im jeweiligen Augenblick. Im Jetzt spüren wir es – und uns.
Quelle: @Imulse
No postures, contortions, exercises or routines – just relax, feel nice and easy with yourself. In that silence, sitting peacefully, all happens by itself, understanding arises of its own accord. When the moment is enough, there is no goal, no desire to be elsewhere, no turbulence.
Then energy has another dimension, the dimension of celebration in the moment.
How does one empty the mind? Not with effort, by watching. By becoming a witness. Watching passively, as one watches a river; not actively, as one waits for a lover. In this silence and ease, thoughts recede on their own, one’s mind becomes empty effortlessly.
Tilopa
Written by Bruce Sanguin (For German translation see below)
Theologian John Haught suggests that the best name for God, and one that is grounded in the scriptural narrative, is The Future (1).The idea of God inhabiting the future is harder to grasp than God inhabiting the past or the present. We have history books, our own personal history, and memory to assure us of the reality of the past. It‘s stuff that happened already. The present is not a problem for us either. It seems undeniable, if only by our apparent incapacity to dwell fully in it, as Eckhart Tolle and other gurus of the “now“ remind us. The present is this moment and we’re able to experience it by breathing deeply, stopping our chattering mind, and inhabiting our experience. It‘s stuff that is happening now.
But this moment is also always about to intersect with a future that’s always in the process of arriving. There, it just arrived again. But we have difficulty granting full, existential status to the future, because the future, by definition, doesn‘t exist yet. Unlike the past and present it has no content. Yet, it just arrived again. And in the moment of its arrival, it’s no longer the future. The future is always just beyond our grasp, yet always in the process of arriving.
In the Biblical book of Revelation, God is referred to as Alpha, the beginning, and Omega, the end. We’ve tended to privilege God as Alpha“Creator. But we haven‘t done much thinking about how God is present as Omega“”the end. Fundamentalist religion does think about God as Omega, but to these folks it means that God has fixed a predetermined end time when “He“ will bring history to an abrupt and violent end. This way of thinking renders the past and the present as little more than filler. It‘s just what happens while we‘re hanging around for the real action“”apocalyptic action“”to take place. It diminishes the role of history and our personal role in shaping the future.
by Autumn Antal
Soft driven, slow and mad like some new language. Reaching your head with the cold, sudden fury of a divine messenger.
„Jim Morrison
Knowing what we call reality is a holographic expression of infinite consciousness playing „and knowing you are That consciousness „here are some words about words,
just for fun:
English language demands duality to exist.
English is a language built on a foundation of opposition. This can result in unique mental dysfunction for native English speakers. [I know whereof I speak.] First among them is our profound fixation on judgement. Everything is black and white in a mind that thinks constantly in polarized English words. As a culture, we are close to losing the capacity for subtlety.
In reality, opposites are complementary. This nondual vision is known to the East and to some extent in Western culture. Yet, its simplicity is often its cause for dismissal by minds desiring complication. Not to fault the mind; the mind‘s job is to measure and to divide input into little bits it “thinks“ it understands. However, it does further to put the tool down when not in use. Human thought is not the speed limit of consciousness we think.
It‘s time to update Darwin‘s theory of Natural Selection with the far better theory of Natural Connection. Natural Selection, and its corollary, Survival of the Fittest, has too long been used to rationalize selfish behavior. We need a new theoretical lens.
The theory of Natural Connection posits that the engine of evolution is not the selfish drive to survive, but rather the innate impulse to connect“the impulse to be part of something bigger than ourselves. It‘s a far better explanation for evolution since everything that exists must figure out how to stay in balanced relationship with the greater whole of which it is a part.
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