The “Now” Clock . . . Live everyday like it is your last!

Many of us get wrapped up in things and continually have issues with time and our management of it in our lives.  There are so many different items to be sorted and dealt with as one walks along our timeline in this life.

Is it easy, probably not, and how you deal with things will make you either totally stressed or worked up or as things become a little clearer in our thought process we may start seeing that calm that comes with a Zen-like living or lifestyle.

Everyone has stresses and sometimes it seems like the waves of Life keep crashing in on you but do not be dismayed . . . you have the power to change things.

“You can’t control the waves, but you can learn to surf”

Challenges are going to come . . . but we’re not supposed to get sucked in.  We shouldn’t let them be too “heavy” and weigh us down because we have been given the amazing ability to surf.  We just have to choose to do it.

Osho teaches us, once you have tasted the juice of the present, you don’t care about dangers.  Once you are in tune with life . . . then nothing matters.

Freedom from mind is real bliss . . .

The mind exists in time; it exists in the past and the future.  And time consists of the past and the future.  The present is not part of time; the present is part of eternity.

There has been a great misunderstanding between life and time.  Time is thought to consist of three tenses: past, present, future . . . which is wrong.

Time consists only of past and future.

It is Life which consists of the present.

So those who want to live, for them there is no other way than to live this moment.  Only the present is existential.  The past is simply a collection of memories, and the future is nothing but your imaginations, your dreams.

Reality is here & now.

Those who want just to think about life . . . about living . . . about love . . . for them past and future are perfectly beautiful, because they give them infinite scope.  They can decorate their past, make it as beautiful as they like . . . although they never lived it, when it was present they were not there.  These are just shadows . . . reflections.  They were continuously running, and while running they have seen a few things.  They think they have lived.  In the past only death is the reality . . . not life.  In the future also, only death is the reality . . . not life.

Those who have missed living in the past, automatically, to substitute for the gap, start dreaming about the future.  Their future is only a projection out of the past.  Whatever they have missed in the past, they are hoping for in the future; and between the two non-existences . . . is the small existent moment which is life.

For those who want to live . . . not to think about it; to love . . . not to think about it; to be . . . not to philosophize about it . . . there is no other alternative. 

Drink the present moment’s juices, squeeze it totally, because it is not going to come back again; once gone . . . it is gone forever.

But because of the misunderstanding which has been almost as old as man . . .  and all the cultures have joined in it . . . they have made the present part of time.  And the present has nothing to do with time.

If you are just here in this moment . . . there is no time.  There is immense silence . . . stillness . . . no movement; nothing is passing . . . everything has come to a sudden stop.

The present gives you the opportunity to dive deep into the water of life . . . or to fly high into the sky of life.  But on both sides there are dangers . . . past and future are the most dangerous words in human language. 

Between past and future . . . living in the present is almost like walking on a tight rope . . . on both sides there is danger.

But once you have tasted the juice of the present, you don’t care about dangers.  Once you are in tune with life, then nothing matters.

And to me life is all there is.

Ice