Hi All
I was looking at the 'benefits of meditation' and it got me thinking. A lot of people I meet/talk to / read around the subject of meditation talk about being in the 'now' or the 'present'.
My question is to ask people from their own observation, not from what they have read, been told or believe, but their own observation.
Meditation, exercise, sex and entertainment are all common subjects that get mixed in with being 'present' or in the 'now'.
Is it possible to register and realise simultaneously? Physics would say not possible, as would Neuroscience.
So I am coming from a place that can see it is possible only to be aware of the moment before the next moment. The 'Fore-Future'. The brain is an instrument of registering the past and fantasising/terrorising about the future.
The 'Now' does not exist, it's a nice idea but trying to be in 'it', personally I would give 'it' up.
What say you?
It's great to read about meditation on lush & seeing all the perspectives it brings up that reflect where people are in their lives and how they deal with it. I don't know if anyone has tried the technique as follows.., usually in meditation the mind is used to focus on an object - say a mantra, image , even on the breath itself as in 'vipasana'. That's a tried & tested method/s. I became introduced to exactly the OPPOSITE way of doing so, and wondered if others had also. It's where the mind's attention is 'space' orientated as cpw 'object' orientated. For example if breathe was used, the focus is on the 'gap' between an in breath & an out breath and an out breath & an in breath. This aliens the brain with space & if you think about it the nervous system is interfaced in the brain by 'gaps' between neurones. Anyone using London Underground would also know 'mind the gap' is a tube meditation in itself!!
Thanks for getting this party started Liz, like it.
