Vineeto: Having come this far in your reflections, you might, just for fun (nothing serious), contemplate that now is the only moment one can actively experience being alive – and the ramifications of that seen in the widest most possible context –
Richard: Needless to say, the passage of time (past, present, future) is a localised phenomenon: only this moment in eternal time actually exists … just as only this configuration in perpetuity actually exists here at this place in infinite space. Time has no duration when the immediate is the ultimate and when the relative is the absolute. This moment takes no interval at all to be here: as this form this happening is already always occurring now. Thus it is as if nothing has occurred – nor will occur – for not only is the future not here, but the past does not exist either. If there is no beginning and no end there is no middle: there are things happening, but nothing may well have happened or will happen … in actuality. Only this moment and this place and this form actually exists right here just now. (Richard, General Correspondence, Page 9a, 23 May 2000).
Adam-H: Thanks for the response, at the risk of trying to jump to an intellectual answer – is the essential ramification of this that “All one gets by waiting is yet more waiting. Any change can only happen now”?
In any case, I will contemplate it and see what else comes up! (link)
Hi Adam,
Yes, “any change can only happen now” and recognizing that can be the discover how potent it is when you experience it right now, right here –
Richard: Sensuousness is the wondrous awareness of the marvel of being here now at this moment in time and this place in space – which awareness is combined with the fascination of contemplating that this moment is one’s only moment of being alive – and one is never alive at any other time than now. And, wherever one is … now … one is always here … now … even if one starts walking over to ‘there’ … now … along the way to ‘there’ … now … one is always here … now … and when one arrives ‘there’ … now … it too is here … now.
Thus awareness is an attraction to the fact that one is always here – and it is already now – and as one is already here and it is always now then one has arrived before one starts. Such delicious wonder fosters the innate condition of naiveté (which is the closest ‘I’ can get to innocence) the nourishing of which is essential if the charm of it all is to occur. The potent combination of awareness – fascinated reflective contemplation – and sensuousness produces apperception, which happens when the mind becomes aware of itself (‘I’ disappear). (Actual Freedom Library, Sensuousness)
Cheers Vineeto