A
technique I use when I wish to experience the "here and now" is the
verbal phrase "What is this?.”
[“This” means everything in this moment” ]
It
makes me stop mental rambling and focus more tightly on what is in front of me
both mentally and physically. [It detaches you from metal specifics and you
can see the ‘Whole’]
I can then go easier into mental control [does this mean widening your view
of the moment?]
over "this moment".
Something
I have found helps too is to realize that time is really not linear, but an
event that is infinite. [This
idea is expressed in other works that I am reading]
I
then realize that any portion of time..a second, a minute, or a
"moment" is, in and of itself, infinite. I cannot see either end of eternity [my readings suggest
there are no “ends”,]
but I can more easily see "all of everything, everywhere" as a
moment..not "moment in time" but a "moment in realization".
[This is alluded to in a number of the sources I have ]
I
guess I am trying to see time as a bubble..a bubble where all the parts touch
all the other parts all the time.
Then I try to "see" that bubble. [are you inside the
bubble? Perhaps it is easier
to look at it as a bubble than eternity ]
[what
do you think of sitting or walking meditaition?
[what
do you think of paying attention to your breathing?]
[When
I am not doing something like driving, I can briefly look at the “world around
me” like I imagine Ella my cat see’s things, she sees the same things I see but
there are no labels and no conceptual “meaning”]
Paying
attention to my breathing is a key focus. It is always there
Love
Larry
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