What is Now?

[wildcat]

Why are you alive now?
Because you lived in your own time.

So what is now?

 

[ragashree]

This. Passing. Moment.

No. Longer.

 

[Blown Ghost]

Now is the static existence that the future swirls past.

 

[ThatsWhatHeSaid]

Why are you alive now?
Because you lived in your own time.

So what is now?

Better question: what are you talking about?

 

[miss fortune]

Why are you alive now?
Because you lived in your own time.

So what is now?

we continue living in our own time until we die in our time... all we have to do is realize that the time is ours and put a stamp on it

there is no time but the present, after all... we never live in the future or the past

 

[ragashree]

Better question: what are you talking about?

He is.

 

[JAVO]

Why are you alive now?
Because you lived in your own time.

So what is now?

Now is before you lived in your own time.

 

[ThatsWhatHeSaid]

He is.

Is what?

 

[ragashree]

Is what?

Now.

 

[ThatsWhatHeSaid]

[He is] Now.

That means nothing.

I'm not a fan of hiding ideas in tricky jargon. If you have an idea to express, say it, explain it. And if you can't explain it, which is often the case with mysticism, then explain why you can't explain it. This "I am now. You are what. Why is where." stuff is just aggravating. Everyone pretends to know what everyone else is talking about but no one really knows because no one is actually saying anything substantive. It's such a yawn-fest. This is not Zen, even though it tries to be.

So. What are we talking about again? Time? Reality? Ego? Experience? Can we try having a sensible discussion?

 

[ragashree]

That means nothing.

I'm not a fan of hiding ideas in tricky jargon. If you have an idea to express, say it, explain it. And if you can't explain it, which is often the case with mysticism, then explain why you can't explain it. This "I am now. You are what. Why is where." stuff is just aggravating. Everyone pretends to know what everyone else is talking about but no one really knows because no one is actually saying anything substantive. It's such a yawn-fest. This is not Zen, even though it tries to be.

So. What are we talking about again? Time? Reality? Ego? Experience? Can we try having a sensible discussion?

*Laughs*

 

[ThatsWhatHeSaid]

 

[Blown Ghost]

I'm gonna have to agree with TWHS. If you're trying to be philosophical the least you can do is use complete sentences.

 

[ragashree]

A good sign.

I'm gonna have to agree with TWHS. If you're trying to be philosophical the least you can do is use complete sentences.

I'm not. So, what now?

 

[ThatsWhatHeSaid]

I'm not. So, what now?

Now we move it to Fluffzone, where it belongs. :hi:

 

[ragashree]

Now we move it to Fluffzone, where it belongs. :hi:

Get out of the future, and the mind of others. Inhabit your own space, and be present.

 

[wildcat]

This. Passing. Moment.

No. Longer.

:hi: Yes. A match. Time. Place. Now. Vito. Andolini. Cosa. Nostra.

 

[wildcat]

Now is the static existence that the future swirls past.

Richard III would have said it. The hunchback was right.

 

[wildcat]

Better question: what are you talking about?

This is a lecture about Cosa Nostra.

 

[wildcat]

we continue living in our own time until we die in our time... all we have to do is realize that the time is ours and put a stamp on it

there is no time but the present, after all... we never live in the future or the past

Yes!
Very good, whatever. And we put a stamp on it! Cosa Nostra. Our thing.