{"id":355,"date":"2018-08-03T21:10:02","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T21:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meanreversion.org\/?p=355"},"modified":"2018-08-03T21:10:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T21:10:02","slug":"now-is-all-there-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meanreversion.org\/index.php\/2018\/08\/03\/now-is-all-there-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Now is all there is …"},"content":{"rendered":"

The idea is as simple as it reads. But, we are all guilty of obsessing about some past decision or being anxious about a future event. Both the past and the future do not exist, now is all there is.
\nIf the above thought is philosophical, today, I read a passage from\u00a0Jiddu Krishnamurti (here<\/a>) that helps me put that thought in daily life (and connect it with another).<\/p>\n

Man lives by time. Inventing the future has been his favourite\u00a0game of escape. We think that changes in ourselves can come about in time, that order in ourselves can be built up little by little, added to day by day. But time doesn\u2019t bring order or peace, so we must stop thinking in terms of gradualness. This means that there is no tomorrow for us to be peaceful in.\u00a0We have to be orderly on the instant.<\/em>
\nIt is only then [when the mind is completely still] that the mind is free because it is\u00a0no longer desiring anything; it is no longer seeking; it is no longer pursuing a goal, an ideal\u2014which are all the projections of a conditioned mind. And if you ever come to that understanding, in which there can be no self-deception, then you will find that there is a possibility of the coming into being of that extraordinary thing called creativity.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Connecting them, I would conclude:\u00a0There are no failures (past), no goals (future), there is only doing and exploring (now) for the sake of it.
\nThe bit that stuck me was how much the past and the future “colour” our choices and take our freedom away. Then, it is in the now that we can attain positive freedom<\/a>.
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The idea is as simple as it reads. But, we are all guilty of obsessing about some past decision or being anxious about a future event. Both the past and the future do not exist, now is all there is. If the above thought is philosophical, today, I read a passage from\u00a0Jiddu Krishnamurti (here) that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[54,60,73,91,96],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/meanreversion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/pexels-photo-859895-1.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meanreversion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meanreversion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meanreversion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meanreversion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meanreversion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meanreversion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meanreversion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meanreversion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meanreversion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meanreversion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}