Richard I have never ever heard of momentariness. Do they call it something else? Is it more of a flow? It doesn't seem very central. But I just found out that my brain might be backwards sideways to sideways so maybe it's just me and my challenged neuroplasticity.
________________________________ From: Richard J. Williams <rich...@rwilliams.us> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 10:56 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: to Emily > > > If you are thinking of the past in the present > > > moment, are you living in the now? > > > > > The only thing we have is the past; the present is > > over the instant I typed this; and the future isn't > > here yet. Time is an illusion. All we really know > > is that the earth revolves around the sun. > > Johnjr_esq > We don't have the past. It is over. The only thing > we have is the present moment. It's where the state > of Being is. Even the future will never come. > So, we don't have the past and the future is not yet here, so we don't have that either. And, the present will be in the past in a split-second nanosecond. So, all we have is 'momentariness', the central philosophy of Buddha. Time is an illusion. All we really know, fer sure, is that the earth revolves around the sun and human excrement always flows down stream - 'from this, then that'; motion is also an illusion. Things don't really move about - it's the mind that moves. So just get a day clock and forget trying to figure it out. Just Be. LoL!
