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Originally posted by Visitor2012
Now is the only thing that exists, some people choose to live in it. Living in the Now, is a way of returning to reality and sanity
Originally posted by Visitor2012
Not a means to escape reality which is what the sheeple of the World are currently doing and what the idiots in that film have already done.
Originally posted by Visitor2012
'Now' makes you awake, alert and present at ALL times. It doesn't put you into trance like sleep, and it doesn't turn you into a gullible, hypnotized bafoon, which is what most people fear and think it is like.
Originally posted by Visitor2012
Everything else is simply daydreaming, which is ok at times.
Originally posted by Visitor2012
Right now, on Earth. Most people are walking in a day dream. Pretending to be what they aren't, placing all of their hopes and dreams into tomorrow, and burdened with resolving the dead past. That is not living. That's dying.
Originally posted by Visitor2012
Einstein said that yesterday, today, and tomorrow are happening simultaneously. Which means they are ALL perceived in Now. Time is perception..not reality.
Originally posted by arpgme
reply to post by Visitor2012
Originally posted by Visitor2012
Now is the only thing that exists, some people choose to live in it. Living in the Now, is a way of returning to reality and sanity
It's not possible to not live in the now. Now is always happening.
Originally posted by Visitor2012
Not a means to escape reality which is what the sheeple of the World are currently doing and what the idiots in that film have already done.
Not thinking about the future is escaping reality. Because while you're only thinking about the now that's happening. Others are planning for the future for their success and control.
Originally posted by Visitor2012
'Now' makes you awake, alert and present at ALL times. It doesn't put you into trance like sleep, and it doesn't turn you into a gullible, hypnotized bafoon, which is what most people fear and think it is like.
I agree that it makes you more alert and not in a trance, but I think I disagree about the ignorance part. Problem solving is a great way to learn information and solving problems will have to including thinking about now AND the future. Reaching one goal after the next.
Originally posted by Visitor2012
Everything else is simply daydreaming, which is ok at times.
But most times, that "daydreaming" becomes a reality. You think about what you will eat (future oriented) before the actual eating is happening (present moment). You have to "daydream" about the future in order to make goals and achieve them.
Originally posted by Visitor2012
Right now, on Earth. Most people are walking in a day dream. Pretending to be what they aren't, placing all of their hopes and dreams into tomorrow, and burdened with resolving the dead past. That is not living. That's dying.
A dream/goal without action is like a car without fuel. Taking action is the fuel to achieve the goal. Most people have big dreams without taking the action to achieve them.
They don't dare to step out of the daily routine.
Originally posted by Visitor2012
Einstein said that yesterday, today, and tomorrow are happening simultaneously. Which means they are ALL perceived in Now. Time is perception..not reality.
But perception is a part of reality. I'm not arguing with semantics (language) here. Let me explain.
If you are thinking about "yesterday", you are doing it now. So if only "now" exists, and if only "now" is reality - then that thought about "yesterday" is also a part of reality; And when yesterday happened it was "now". Even if "yesterday" is an illusion - it still real.
We can say that "yesterday" is an illusion/perception and only now is reality, but if I hurt myself badly yesterday the pain and wound will still be there today.
Originally posted by arpgme
I wonder, is "being in the now" being used as escapism from the suffering that comes from nature and life in general? Is "oneness" being used as a panacea just a view, another perspective to try to ease the suffering?
I hear people say "Ignorance is bliss" and most people are starting to adapt this view. Ignorance is bliss but in ignorance humanity doesn't grow and learn. Imagine if we were still living like we did back not caring to find out how things work because "God" is doing it all? And we didn't care to invent because "God" made nature and we are to live in harmony with it instead of inventing technologies and cures to make life more pleasant?
What do you think?
Ignorance does not mean to stop learning, it is absolutely necessary that one throws away everything one thinks he knows, only then can one truly learn through observation of what is.
Originally posted by earthling42
reply to post by Visitor2012
People can be absolutely sure of their truth, and they defend it, fight for it at all cost.
But there are also those that keep an open mind, those are the ones that will be capable of seeing because they enquire into the questions of life.
One is sure that god exists, the other one is sure that god does not exists, both have made up their mind and have stopped learning.
Then there is the third one who says "i don't know" and than it does not matter if god exists or not, what matters is his freedom to keep learning about it.
.......it is absolutely necessary that one throws away everything one thinks he knows...
...There is nothing to learn from me, no method of how to. ..
One comes to this realisation or not