A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Notice that anything you know is already in the past. We cannot know the present moment. If you doubt this, try to know the present directly. The instant you say you know it, it is already gone. And whatever you “know” is only a fragment, never the full immediacy of what is happening.
We also never experience the past or future directly. Can you ever experience them? It is impossible. If all we ever experience is the present, then time has never existed as a line from past to future. What we call a “moment” is not a slice of time but an open, timeless presence.
Rest in it. Feel its depth. Sense the quiet eternity that is always here.
In an excerpt from his book Shift Into Freedom: The Science and Practice of Open-hearted Awareness, meditation teacher Loch Kelly explains that we can never be in the present moment.
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