moment to moment

Submitted by Mohammed Waza Khiddif Id'ullah (Australia), Feb 12, 2015 at 01:00

"The Moment" is greatly over-rated. It's like a frame in an old celluloid movie. The movie's more interesting than the cell."

I disagree - the 'Moment' is all you have at any one time. What makes a great movie? Lots of great moments. You cannot be in the past - nor can you move a millisecond into the future. The moment is where we always are . The trick is to see the significance of it realise that. We're conditioned to look towards the future - without realising that it is dependent on the present. One has to learn to drop preconceptions and be content/happy now - you cannot experience being content in the future from now, obviously. Like, if X happens and Y happens and I get Z - then in 5 years time, i'll be happy. Pure BS.

"The world we think of as "reality", then, may or may not actually exist; and our perception of it is formed by our senses (and the neuro pathways connected to them) and by our ideas"

Right. We re-create a world we perceive through our senses that we think exists. And then stress to one degreee or another when too much change to that perception creeps in.

We have heard testimony of this "me ____", which approximates to our spirits; and that testimony is that the "little man" doeetc etc etcs indeed continue after the brain has died.

What, then, is true reality? Is it the physical world, this void that is ever-so-sparsely inhabited with extremely small sub-atomic particles/waves/wavicles? Is it the world of ideas that describes it? Is it our brain? All of these things could conceivably vanish one day;

Not just 'conceivably' - but are guaranteed to.

but the "little man" lives forever; and as something eternal is infinitely greater than anything finite, that "little man" merits being called "reality". Is the rest illusion?

'Maya', illusion, the temporal, etc Us, the 'sparks in space' are more 'real'.

We don't know. The Bible speaks of it as one day being "folded up, as a garment".

The world? That would be interesting,

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