Message #3383

[Katze]

It's an illusion that I am not in the now no matter where I am, or doing what I am doing. I am never in the future, or in the past. I am and always will be now.

What is it that you feel you are having a problem understanding, or getting?

hi Amor, I don't think I am having a problem understanding " the now ", that seems quite clear. The confusion, I think is in the illusion idea, just not quite grasping that. The past and the future cannot be illusion, what happened happened, granted it has now become a memory, but fact is ... once upon a time it WAS the now. Same with the future, it WILL BE, eventually the now, we just don't know it at this moment in time, and when it does come, it will be the now.

If I recall, Yogananda also speaks of this life as being just a dream, kind of a similar concept to the illusion idea, as it is not real - we just think it is.

Ok, so if I am understanding the basic concept of the now, WHY is it so important to be in the now ?

other than to be aware of what is going on at that moment in time, and to appreciate all that there is

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