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Lesson #5: On the Present Moment

Lesson #5: On the Present Moment

The past and the present are real illusions, that they exist only in the present, which is what there is and all that there is. From one point of view, the present is shorter than a microsecond. From another, it embraces all eternity. But there isn’t anywhere, or anywhen, else to be.

  • To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.
  • To understand joy or fear, you must be wholly and undividedly aware of it. So long as you are saying, “I am happy,” or “I am afraid,” you are not being aware of it.

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