Right here, right now. Everywhere, Eternity.

Returning to the present moment. There's an intellectual understanding of it, of sorts. Maybe as a way to keep the status quo, a way to maintain the very falseness we swear that we, as spiritual seekers, try to transcend. There's even a conscious action to do so, when the phrase is remembered. But, can we "do" such a return? What is the relation of a thought that says, "Oh yeah, I must return to the present moment." and the actual return to the present moment. What does it mean anyway?

First we recognize that the mind is by nature, by default, chained to past and future. If we therefore remain as the observer of the discursive mind as well as to the emotional reverberation of the mind, we are effectively shifting to the perspective of now, without otherwise needing the prompt of "OK, time to return to now". The mind also cannot help but focus on "out there", the view. In the same way, sinking backwards into the observer, there emerges a two-way seeing wherein attention is simultaneously directed to the view and to the viewing.

Right here where sensing and thinking emerges. Right now, because there is nothing else.

What is everywhere? Is it far out there, 100 thousand parsecs in outer space? Outer space?  What about subatomic realms -- are they part of everywhere? How do we draw the line, to say, "this is right here and that's over there"? Aren't both intergalactic realms and subatomic nano-spaces contained in the view that occurs, right here?
What is eternity? An innumerable amount of time? A gazillion years? We, who have been trained by schedules, clocks, school periods, seasons, histories and so on, might think that eternity is an interval, albeit infinitely long in duration. What is eternity without these concepts? Without thoughts of recollection or anticipation, isn't eternity contained in right now?

  

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