A Momentary Existence

Many people refer to what has now become a cliche', "living in the moment", but few really know what it means on a selfless level.  For most people it means a conscious decision to enjoy life in the now and live without obsessing about the past.  After all the past cannot be changed, it is what it is.  But living in the "absolute moment" is quite different.  It takes an acute awareness of the movement of self both as a defined entity and as one who has realized the undefined.  It is a choiceless and timeless awareness that lays the groundwork for an intelligence that is beyond the mind that is caught in comparison and conclusion.

To live in the absolute moment means that you are consciously aware of the movement of self as a separate entity that is in constant need of a defined image and purpose.  If you are aware, you begin through negation, to realize the illusion of a mind that looks at reality through the known (past).  The absolute reality is this, that we actually "exist" only in the absolute moment.  All else is minds concocted substitution, the illusion of thought as an entity that knows and projects what it knows.  Intelligence and clarity comes to one who lives a momentary existence.  In a very real sense one dies to the past.  A person throws off the prejudicial and incomplete memory of what was as a projected conceptual substitution of what is.  This may be difficult to completely grasp at first.  It is a revolution of sorts.  A revolution in the way one looks and understands.  It is a dissipation of the old so that one can see clearly the new and never before, the unadulterated moment and with that the truth of the self (true self).  With this comes understanding on an entirely different level.  Understanding that is without the angst of position and opposition.

When the state of a persons being is experiencing the absolute moment it is very freeing.  It seems almost euphoric in a sense.  But one realizes as the mind interprets, so the sense of euphoria must be negated and not held onto as something to be repeated.  A person must maintain that sense of "voidness" that allows the moment to unfold untouched by what has been.  This "emptiness" is the key to understanding that which transcends all that has ever been taught by the Sages, Buddha's andEnlightened beings of all time. All is illusion save the absolute moment.