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silence shared in words

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presents

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“Now-Here” All the Time?

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Is it really possible to be in the “now-here” all the time?

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Most of my time seems to go in planning for, or worrying about, the future.

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Whether you

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know it or not,

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you cannot be anywhere else than here and now.

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Wherever you are it will be here and now.

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You are given

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only one moment at a time

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and you are wasting that moment

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in planning or worrying about the future;

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and the future never comes.

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What comes is always here, now:

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it is a series of “nows”

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one now,

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another now

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but you are always living in the now.

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There is no future

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so how can you worry about the future?

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It is because of this kind of worrying

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and planning for the future

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that a certain proverb

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exists in all the languages of the world:

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Man goes on desiring,

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planning,

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worrying about the future

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and God goes on disappointing him.

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There is no God to disappoint you.

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In your very planning, you are sowing the seeds of disappointment.

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In your very worrying about the future,

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you are wasting the present;

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and slowly, slowly it becomes your second nature .

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to worry about the future.

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So when the future comes,

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it will come as the present;

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and because of your habit of worrying about the future,

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you will waste that moment also in worrying

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You will go on worrying about the future for your whole life.

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You will stop only when death comes

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and takes away all

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possibility of the future.

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You missed your whole life:

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you could have lived

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but you only planned.

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Live

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intensely and totally now,

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because the next moment will be born out of this moment;

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and if you have lived it totally and joyously,

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you can be absolutely certain that the next moment

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will bring

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more blessings,

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more joy.

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I have heard:

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Three professors of philosophy

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were having a discussion

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at a railway station. The train was

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standing at the platform. There were a few minutes before it was due to leave,

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but they got so involved in their discussion that the train left

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without them then they realized, and they ran….

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In the last compartment, only two professors could enter; the third

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remained on the platform. The train had gone

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and he had tears in his eyes.

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A porter was standing there. Seeing the scene, he said,

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“Why are you crying?

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At least two of your friends have got the train.”

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He said, “That is the problem. They had come to see me off.”

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They must also be crying, inside the train.

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Existence also sometimes plays jokes on people.

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Stop

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this habit of planning.

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Stop worrying about the future.

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If tomorrow comes,

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you will be there;

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and if you know how to live,

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if you know how to live joyously and dancingly,

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your tomorrow will also be full of dance and joy.

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It is the miserable man

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who plans for the future,

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because his present is so miserable

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that he wants to avoid it, he does not want to see it.

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He thinks about tomorrows:

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good days are going to come.

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He is utterly impotent to transform this moment into a good moment.

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A long habit of transferring everything

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to the future, .

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postponing,

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living for the future,

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will take your whole life out of your hands.

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There is no other way.

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You are asking, “Is it really possible

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to be in the here-now all the time?”

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This is the only possibility.

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You cannot be anywhere else.

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You try:

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try to be in the tomorrow.

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Nobody has succeeded up to now

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you cannot be in the

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coming minute.

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Do you think you can jump

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and reach into the future,

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jump out of today

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and reach into tomorrow?

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Even if you are planning for tomorrow, that too is being done here-now;

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even if you are worrying about the future,

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that too is being done here-now.

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You cannot be anywhere else; whatever you do,

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existence allows only

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this space

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of here and now.

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I can say to you

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that I am living here and now.

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I also have tried

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somehow to get

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into the future

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but there is no way.

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You cannot go back

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into the past,

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you cannot go ahead of time into the future.

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In your hands is always the present;

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in fact, the present is the only time you have.

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And now

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is such

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a meaningful word,

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because that is your whole life

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a “now” stretched

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from your birth to your death.

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But it is always now…

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and here is the only space.

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You cannot be

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anywhere else than here;

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wherever you are,

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that place will become here.

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Just be

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clear about it,

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otherwise life goes on slipping through your hands like water.

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Soon you will have empty hands;

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and meeting death with empty hands

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is an utter failure.

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Meet your death

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full of joy

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silence and serenity.

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Meet death

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with your hands

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full of ecstasy.

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In that ecstasy, death itself dies.

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You never die…

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your here-now continues

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forever and forever.

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